Things to Recommend doing on your Day Off
Watching Tortilla Soup or Eat Drink Man Woman.
Making a dinner as beautiful as the food in the movie.
If Tortilla Soup: then Squash Blossom Soup (with zucchini substituted for the hard-to-find squash blossoms) and Yucatan Fish Tacos from Rick Bayless' Mexican Kitchen.
Shopping at Nature's Best, this wonderfully diverse ethnic market, where you see both customers and ingredients as multi-national as the plastic flag banners hanging above you. The aisles are so narrow and crowded with products that you are best off using a basket carried in your hand rather than trying to navigate around all the obstacles with a shopping cart. My favorite part is talking to the person in front of me in the line for checkout, asking her what she is buying and how she is going to cook it. The United Nations could take a lesson from people from different cultures finding common ground through food.
Cooking while sharing an icy-cold Corona with the other cook and listening to Beliza Tropical.
Eating with your family, having good conversation.
Lime juice in everything: beer, tacos, a fresh salsa made with tomatoes still warm from the back yard and parsley from a big planter on the back porch full of Italian basil, Thai basil, flat-leafed parsley, and rosemary (which I grow every summer and never use). I also grow the tomatoes in big pots on the porch and by the garage, so that the critters (I suspect the dog, who is a Lab and will eat almost anything, including an entire stick of butter in one snatch) don't get too many.
Drinking your first Mojito.
Feeling relaxed.
Making a dinner as beautiful as the food in the movie.
If Tortilla Soup: then Squash Blossom Soup (with zucchini substituted for the hard-to-find squash blossoms) and Yucatan Fish Tacos from Rick Bayless' Mexican Kitchen.
Shopping at Nature's Best, this wonderfully diverse ethnic market, where you see both customers and ingredients as multi-national as the plastic flag banners hanging above you. The aisles are so narrow and crowded with products that you are best off using a basket carried in your hand rather than trying to navigate around all the obstacles with a shopping cart. My favorite part is talking to the person in front of me in the line for checkout, asking her what she is buying and how she is going to cook it. The United Nations could take a lesson from people from different cultures finding common ground through food.
Cooking while sharing an icy-cold Corona with the other cook and listening to Beliza Tropical.
Eating with your family, having good conversation.
Lime juice in everything: beer, tacos, a fresh salsa made with tomatoes still warm from the back yard and parsley from a big planter on the back porch full of Italian basil, Thai basil, flat-leafed parsley, and rosemary (which I grow every summer and never use). I also grow the tomatoes in big pots on the porch and by the garage, so that the critters (I suspect the dog, who is a Lab and will eat almost anything, including an entire stick of butter in one snatch) don't get too many.
Drinking your first Mojito.
Feeling relaxed.
Comments
Ellen sent me the pictures from your reunion and I was amazed to see how great all the women looked, and how I could not seem to recognize any of the guys. . .
I may be out your way this fall. If so, maybe we could meet for coffee?