Monday, July 2, 2012.
Pre-Vacation Dinner At Acme.
At the end of the radio show, I all but ran outside to see whether charging the lawn tractor's battery overnight would allow it to start. It did! I cut all the grass before the sun went down, in about an hour and fifteen minutes. There's something nostalgic about cutting grass at the Cool Water Ranch, and I'm glad I'm doing it myself again.
The Marys were starving by then. We went to dinner at the Acme, which seems to be returning to grace for us. The grilled oysters were very buttery, ML was happy to see. The oysters themselves have entered the part of their life cycle in which even very large ones shrink alarmingly in even a delicate cooking. If there's a reason not to eat oysters in summer, this is it. But it's not a bad enough problem to make me quit.
A seafood salad I didn't remember seeing here before caught my attention. It's a big one, and at $15 it better be. Many grilled shrimp, piles of white crabmeat and crab claws covered it. Better than I expected, even with two small problems: a) those big white cores of outer iceberg lettuce leaves should not have been used here, and 2) the dressing wasn't tossed with the salad, but brought out in a little plastic cup. However, this allowed me to start off with Italian dressing (not as good here as in other places I know) and finish with the excellent pink remoulade.
Mary Leigh wiped out her usual wedge salad. Mary Ann had a cup of red beans, and that was all. Between the grilled oysters and the salad, the stuffed artichoke soup came my way. It sounds weird, but think about it and it becomes as inviting as it is good.
This will probably be our last meal together before the Marys head west to visit Jude for a week and a half day after tomorrow. I had been thinking about going, but by the time MA made up her mind about the itinerary, there were three Eat Club events over the time span.
Acme Oyster House. Covington: 1202 US 190 (Causeway Blvd). 985-246-6155.
