DD’s In Marseille
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What's for dinner #396-August/2021
Comments (100)Everyone's meals look great. Today I made a vat of spaghetti sauce and an apple crisp - both put a tiny dent in our apple and tomato harvest. I'm also trying some spare ribs that DH bought by mistake - he meant to get back ribs to smoke) started in the instapot and then broiled with sauce. So ribs and spaghetti and garlic bread tonight. My daughter who is an RN is staying with us for a couple of days and works the night shift tonight. With all the garlic in the meal, she won't have to worry about treating vampires! I told her I'll give her a pack of TicTacs to put in her pocket. Tomorrow will be Annie's salsa and some apple pie filling for the freezer. Then (not tomorrow!) I'll do slow roasted tomatoes and a batch of applesauce to freeze. Apple butter after that. It is hard to give away produce here as everyone I know has a plethora of produce. At one point our food banks did not take produce from "unkown" producers, but I should check again. There's also a church in our small town that does free "take-away" (since Covid) dinners, so I will contact them too....See MoreWhat's for Dinner #397 Sept-Oct 2021
Comments (104)Post 100! FOAS, as you can tell I am a dog person!! Love your Octoberfest meal. We went out the other day and shared a sausage platter and some pretzels in honor as well. As Zac was with us, we ate outside with him under the table. The waitress commented on his self control as platters of sausages were passed by him (we never feed at the table) and brought him an entire to-go portion of sliced meats. He was one happy dog! Sleeve, I love all those vegetables. You definitely inspire me to add more to my cooking. I took a look at butcher box. I really like the convenience of having things delivered and how you can customize your box, but the prices are a lot higher than we can buy locally. I can imagine that the shipping costs add up. I am on the fence, but may give them a try if local quality or supply diminishes. Jasdip, your cast iron chicken looks delicious and healthy. My schedule is slowing down and will thankfully stay low until the end of the year. So, I am back to cooking more. I made this baklava for Garrett's Halloween party today. It is his favorite and we got to have the extra pieces for dessert last night. We also had one of the best lamb roasts we have ever made a few nights ago. I forgot to photograph it. We've been using the wireless probes and an App which tells us exactly how long to cook for our desired level of doneness. I hadn't thought we needed to step it up, but apparently we did. I've noticed that it tells us to take it out of the oven before it hits the target temperature and then rest while the internal temperature continues to rise. We served it with a freshly made mint sauce. Yum! Last night was more sushi, in honor of the last homegrown cucumber of the season. This was Ahi from Hawaii and Ocean Trout from Scotland. The free delivery is a game changer for us, making it easy to have for a mid week dinner. I worked all day, but had the fish delivered at 5pm and we were eating dinner by 6pm....See MoreDD's in Marseille
Comments (166)Houzz has such bizarre quirks, as a forum. If you look around, you’ll see this thread and another thread with the same title. This one is the replacement thread that I started after the first one vanished, shortly after I’d made the initial posts. This thread got to 163 posts or so. Then the original , truncated thread reappeared, a few days ago, with only 8 posts. I was very confused until I hunted around and realized WHAT had happened. WHY it happened, I just can’t figure out. Anyway, rather than get confused about which thread is which, I think I’ll start a new thread, titled ”DD Is (Still) In Marseille”. Look for it in a week or so [I’m writing this on March 28, 2022]. Why a week? Why, because I’ll be back in Marseille and will be seeing what DD is cooking and eating . . . first-hand! Teaser - we won’t be just in Marseille, or even just in France :-) John HU123456789 Liu...See MoreMarseille . . . Again
Comments (92)Some last bits and ends. Some friends took us to dinner. We had a sea bass, skeleton extracted through the back and roasted. Elegant technique; does anyone do this at home? There was also a very nice roast beef, antipasti and primi piattis. And desserts. Back in Marseille, DD has joined a gym and started a diet, and I may have to do the same in Portland. “Have to” and “may” are independent articles. Here is a dish of, I forgot the Italian term, “baccalo”? - basically creamed cod in four varieties, at an osteria in Campo Santa Magherita. We stopped in this square often because it is large and sunny with two good bookstores at one end. Fish, cream, and flavor. I could eat this stuff all day long. Have done. Hence, the diet. We liked seafood so much in Venice that our family sign language even has a sign for “fish”. We started developing FSL on our first day here. There are hand signs for the key beverages, “coffee”, “wine”, “beer”, and “spritz”. “Croissant” (any pastry really), “gelato”, and “fish” have signs. The sign made palm out means “want” the thing, palm in means “have” or “found” it. The left hand’s digits indicate quantities. There is a symbol for “bathroom”, where the left hand denotes “number one”, “number two” and number three means either, urgently. Some signs are either verb or noun, such as “sleepy”, “home”, and “market/shopping”. There are signs for “eat” and “hungry”, and there is even a sign for “HANGRY”. We can sign “and”, “or”, “you got it”, and “you are / that is totally wrong”. To sign “fish”, open your hand, place it behind your ear, and flap. Palm forward means you want (are seeking, require) fish, palm rearward means you have (located, secured) fish. Such as, perhaps, these marinated and fried sardines. I did finally ride a water taxi, taking DD to the airport for her too-early morning flight. The “motoscafo” was speedy, traveling at least twice as fast as a ferry, and effortless, like hopping in a New York cab and being whisked uptown in a Manhattan magically free of pedestrians or stoplights. The interior was more elegant than any Lincoln Town Car. Having a 30 foot speedboat all to yourself feels and is luxurious. For a group of six or ten, it even makes economic sense. Or, if you’re rushing to get your daughter to her inconsiderately early flight, you just splurge. I wanted to see DD through security because of her Jackery portable battery pack, which SWMBO brought from Portland. Flying with larger lithium ion batteries is iffy. They are banned in checked luggage and may be hand carried only if under 160 watt-hours, if the security officer knows that rule. I was to stand at the outskirts of the security queue. If Jackery was rejected, DD would walk it back to me to figure out what next. VCE security pulled Jackery aside for inspection, but let it through. We don’t have a FSL hand sign for “passed security” so the little dot that was DD just waved and walked off. I watched it go and was sad. DD arrived in Marseille to find her apartment’s electricity completely out, so Jackery will be Useful After All. Good practice for the blackouts that I expect in Europe this winter. Returning to Venice, I sat in the open stern of the empty ferry and watched the sleek motoscafos bounding past. On our trip to the airport, we had been the only boat, riding smoothly on sleepy dark water. Now the lagoon was awake and its channels were churned by boat traffic. The water taxis leapt through the ferry wake like porpoises as their drivers pushed on their throttles to overtake us before oncoming taxis closed their chance. Any passengers must have been enjoying a sporty ride, but not an uncivilized one, for the Venetian motoscafo is as evolved for its environment as a tuna. They are narrow beamed, with long vee hulls and agile V drives, and handle their home waters with the same assured panache as their drivers. I left the ferry at Fondamenta Novo not long after daybreak. It was Sunday morning with plenty of time. Empty alleys and quiet canals in the Cannareigo, the more familiar streets of San Marco, Calle dei Assassini and Rialto. A last little treat. See you again, soon, Venice. Fifteen years is too long to stay away. I won’t take you for granted any more....See MoreHU-455869934
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