Monday, January 17, 2005.
Eating At Home, For A Change.
It's Martin Luther King Day, and the children are off school. So while the day got off to a quieter start than usual (I know for a fact that Jude was up till at least two in the morning talking to his harem on line), it wound up being a noisier day, with everyone wanting to use my computer.
Mary Ann made salads for us using leftover ingredients from the big dinner I cooked Saturday night for the people who bought me at auction. It was spring mix greens with dried cranberries and pecans (this would have been considered the city's most beautiful salad if served in a restaurant ten years ago; now it all comes in a bag, cranberries and all), with a scattering of lump crabmeat. Fresh (not pasteurized) Louisiana (not generic Gulf or Vietnamese) crabmeat. I tell you there is a flavor uptick to the stuff, but I'll bet many people pass it by because they take it as that dread "fishy" flavor. I love it.
I am beginning to believe that Mary Ann likes no meal as much as one made out of leftovers.
