Food
Posted By matt on May 13, 2007
Just so folks don't think that I've been letting my culinary skills wane, we have had a few interesting gastronomic events lately.
Last weekend my folks came up for a “see the house and early Mother's day”. Ribs were had. There was what purported to be traditional South Carolina style barbecue style, which consisted of a dry rub and a tangy tomato-based barbecue sauce. We also did another style, which had a spicy pomegranate glaze. The Carolina style was quite good and worth having again. The pomegranate ones were interesting, but were probably just a one-off. We also had grilled sweet potatoes brushed with a honey-lime glaze (very good), grilled peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes, and a green salad. My folks brought cake for dessert.
Today Liz and I made a brunch for Liz's Mom, which consisted of crepes with a tangy yogurt/cream cheese/orange filling and topped with a strawberry sauce, an fruit salad with melon, banana, mangoes, kiwi and strawberries, strawberry bellini (strawberry puree and prosecco, which is a sweet Italian sparkling white wine), a melon puree “shooter” topped with crispy prosciutto, a smoked salmon and cream cheese fritata (yes, it was some of our Alaskan salmon, yes I smoked it myself, with applewood). There was also some leftover melon and prosciutto, so I wrapped the melon with the prosciutto (because what else would one do?). Liz also made some chocolate orange mini cheesecakes which, as always, were quite good.
In other news, I pulled out the old, mostly broken bathroom vent and light and replaced it with a new one. Of course, this one dates from when the house was built, which means that they put it in, then put in the ceiling and the floor. This means that I can't actually get at where it was screwed into the floor joists. Of course, I don't want to cut through the floor to get at it from the top, so I used the sawzall to cut the screws and pull it out of the ceiling. The other one went in quite easily, although it doesn't quite fill the hole, so I need to pick up some drywall, furring, joint compound and fill around the hole. It won't match, but we're going to redo that bathroom anyway.
I'm also working up some gun-related political stuff (the laws here in NY are especially brain damaged, and the Democrats basically lied to get themselves back in power, and I suspect that they've basically cost themselves the next election, just like back in '94 with the old AWB). I will link to them here when they are complete.
Anyway, so that's pretty much what's going on right now.
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