Sunday, February 17, 2013.
More Home Cooking.
Mary Ann said that she liked dinner so much yesterday that we had to do it again today. Fine, I said. Menu suggestions, please?
"How about a pork butt, like the one you did for Christmas?" Mary Ann said.
If I started right then and there, it would be ready tomorrow, I told her. Guess again. "How about chicken?" I knew the boyfriend would go for that. Or anything else we came up with. This young man knows something I didn't at his age (and still don't know, according to Mary Ann): happy wife, happy life. He's not married to Mary Leigh or anyone else, but he already understands the program!
We wound up with chicken and a variety of sausages, all roasting at high temperatures on the Egg again. Which still had charcoal left over from yesterday's steak cookery. (You can actually turn off the charcoal fire in the Egg, by closing all the vents.)
Mary Leigh was trying to make guacamole with the cheap avocados the store was trying to clear out at six for a dollar. They were garbage. So she took a hard turn in the direction of salsa, and made as fine a version as we ever had.
Also in use two consecutive days was Mary Ann's Kitchen Magician, a 1970s Ronco product she and her siblings bought for their mother, and which MA inherited. In thin-slices everything. Yesterday we used it for fresh-cut fries. Today, onion rings--thin, the way we like them, and they way they do at Charlie's Steak House. These were exceptionally good rings, and I ate far too many of them. They also smelled up the house pretty well. But we don't mind cooking aromas over here.
No dessert! We rarely do have sweets around here. At my age, that's a good thing.
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