MARCH - 2023 MARCH TO THE STOVE AND GET "COOKIN"

From Lore:

"Dinner Tonight. Super large shrimp, calamari steak and a big salad. Costco had these calamari steaks. Package of 10 for $19.95. They are almost half inch thick, about the size of the palm of my hand. I put a little oil , spiced them and fried them at very high heat in my old grill pan. Soooo good done in about two minutes per side.

I have never seen them in a grocery store. I’ve had them twice in a restaurant, and once a friend who works in the grocery industry and he brought some to a party. Shrimp are Argentinian wild caught, really big, but they were both head and shell on and a PITA to prep.

Salad was pretty well standard. Lettuce, tomato, cuc, red pepper, scallion, parsley, avocado."

bethk wrote:I know what you're saying about the huge, head-on shrimps.....tasty but a real pain to clean.  They're big enough to deal with but trying to keep the head attached and still slit them down the back to remove the vein is difficult to say the least.

I've only done it once and that was enough for me ~ fresh shrimp off the 'day boats' so the shrimp were just iced on the boat and not frozen.  And they were $$expensive!  So I've done it and don't need to do it again.

I've seen the calamari steaks on TV but never have I seen them for sale.  That's really interesting.

The calamari steaks were absolutely amazing I knew that it would be easy to overcook them and they would be tough, so I had my salad already on my plate, my wine poured etc. when I put them in my old grill pan. Both times when I had one in a restaurant, it was served with a cream sauce on an egg noodle. I like mine better, as I had the spicy flavour and seafood taste. These will definitely be in my freezer as long as I can get them.

From Lore:

"Dinner Today. Went out to son’s brew pub with him and Lisa, her dad, her sister and cousin from Toronto. I had a yummy pork belly on waffles and salad. Pork belly was great, can’t say the same about the waffles. Nothing wrong with the waffle if it would have been a breakfast waffle with blueberries and whipped cream. Next time I’ll order it on a better product, like a ciabatta bun or a multigrain toast. I had a great time, so no problem."

[quote="bethk"]From Lore:

"Dinner Today. Went out to son’s brew pub with him and Lisa, her dad, her sister and cousin from Toronto. I had a yummy pork belly on waffles and salad. Pork belly was great, can’t say the same about the waffles. Nothing wrong with the waffle if it would have been a breakfast waffle with blueberries and whipped cream.  Next time I’ll order it on a better product, like a ciabatta bun or a multigrain toast.  I had a great time, so no problem."


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THis was definitely enough for a meal, pork is not showing up well.  Sitting down for the Oscars now.  My late daughter had a gig shooting on the red carpet for the Academy in 2008.  I have her ID hanging in my place.  Will send a picture. Thanks.

My beautiful daughter’s ID from the 2008 Oscars.

bethk wrote:How fortunate you are to have her ID ~ a great memory of a life lived well!  ((Hugs))

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Thanks, yes, I see it every day. She was working for the Academy, first on the red carpet, then in the back, photographing the recipients with their Oscars. She was so thrilled to meet a German man who received one for something in photography, and she was able to speak to him in German. She was surprised that at the time, the photographers had to use film, not digital. "Film has been around for over a hundred years, and will be here another hundred," was the Academy's reasoning. And, the fact that had they used digital, it would be so easy for the photographers to duplicate, or send off images to make their own money from the images. They were issued one film for their camera, and there were runners who would pick up a film when full, and issue another one.

She had to wear black tie, pants/jacket and at first was told to wear high heels. My daughter, never afraid to speak up, asked "And what kind of shoes do the male photographers have to wear? Running backwards in a crowd, holding a heavy camera is not the time to wear high heels." They agreed. But, she was not able to keep any of the pictures she took!

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bethk wrote:Neighbor Jim called to ask if we wanted to go out tonight.  I already had a couple pieces of fish thawed so I suggested he come over for grouper ~ and it must have sounded good because he didn't hesitate saying, "OK !"

I did make a baked potato for him ~ he's not on the 'starch-less' diet Dane is following.  Dane had salmon, Jim & I had grouper and there was asparagus and home-grown green beans.

My tastebuds start me salivating every time you mention grouper, Beth, 'cause we don't get it here very often. But, I'm going to Costco today and will really scour their shelves, freezers to see if they have any. They seem te be getting unusual seafood lately, so who knows. found the fabulous calamari steaks on my last trip, and they also had sea bream that looked really nice.

From Lore:

"Dinner Tonight. More seafood stir fry with cream over egg noodles. Yumm!"