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As Mardi Gras approaches I've got the Quarter on my mind. Well, actually I always have the Quarter on my mind, but I'm cooking like I'm in the Quarter tonight. First course is New Orleans Barbecued shrimp. I have embarrassingly large shrimp for this,too! Second course is flank steak stuffed...

Lou is hanging around today to watch the Eagles/Giants game. I say Eagles first because he's from Philly. Ivan, on the other hand, my ex husband, is a Giants fan, so is my son. But, since the two of them will actually be at the game I don't imagine they need my support for their team...

So, since mid summer, a stray cat has been hanging out in my yard. He (and I use that term lightly, I really have no idea) would come around if we were out back, cooking on the grill and make goo goo eyes till we fed him. He was gutsy enough to chill with us so I had no problem letting him...

Sadly, this is almost the last night of my holiday break. Back to work on Monday after 11 days off:sad:... Admittedly, however, I'm tired of the holiday by now and am ready to get back to some semblance of normalcy around here. First course tonight is pork and plantain tamales with pico de...

So, most years since my husband and I seperated christmas has always been spent the same way. I always do a big christmas eve dinner, and then, on christmas day the kids and I would go to his girlfriend's home for dinner there. It was fine enough, but, honestly....I don't really care for...

Lou and I woke to a very quiet home today. After a nice brunch of eggs, bacon and cranberry and orange breadpudding (ah, accompanied by two glasses each of eggnog with bourbon:angel:)we're about to take a walk to clear the cobwebs. Then it's back in the kitchen for preparations for Christmas...

Sure, I signed on to be an employee of the service industry so I have no one but myself to blame for sitting here at work at 11:46 on christmas eve. However, if the people at the joint I service would just go home already, I could close out my books and get home before I have to eat Rudolph's...

We just got back from Rutt's Hut in Clifton. My parents grew up with Rutt's Hut and they always took us kids during our childhood, too. It's nothing fancy, just a really great fried hot dog with a killer tasty relish. I know my mother was wishing for one and this was the last thing on our to...

Apparently my parents have reached saturation point with food. Lou and I came down this morning with my intent to make pancakes for breakfast. I caught them quickly finishing bowls of cold cereal with fruit. They held up their hands beseechingly saying 'no more, please, no more food'...

Marianne and Jim are still here and I've been so busy with the new job that I come home and crash immediately. It's nice to find the house full, but I'm going to enjoy a bit of solitude as well. He completely redecorated the basement. All that vacuuming he did a couple of days ago... the...

I have no idea how long they've been here. Feels like a month already. I got home about 5:15. I heard the somewhat unfamiliar hum of the vacuum cleaner rising from the subterranean portion of the house. My dad, the one who would prefer to move windows from one wall to the other, slide the...

Good evening all, and please accept my apologies for being so tardy with this installment. If you recall, I went to work today:w00t2:. So happy was I to be employed again that I went shopping on the way home, spending $400 on clothes I really don't care for. I am working on convincing myself...

Like little Wishniks from the 60s, my parents have turned out to be good luck charms. I am officially no longer living off the government teet:whistling. Instead I am once again gainfully employed. I am the new Director of Dining Services at a mid size and very charming college campus in...

Hi All! Ah, the city last night was beautiful. The ride in was fine, no traffic on the helix into the Lincoln Tunnel. That's because everyone was already creating massive amounts of grid lock on 48th street. It took 20 minutes to traverse one city block in the car. After witnessing the...

First, let me thank each and every one of you who has posted previously that you are enjoying my parent's visit. That means so very much to me. They suffered a horrifying experience this past October and I could have lost them both in the blink of an eye. Seeing them for the first time since...

Mom just called from the airport. I mentioned she was concerned with the new price regulations regarding checked luggage. Can't say I blame her. Didn't they impose those fees to help the airline (poorpoorairline) because the price of fuel was so high? Apparently, Mom, squeaky wheel that...

Strange dream last night... I was working in a hospital, on the maternity/delivery floor. Seems a woman was going into labour, but it was dangerous for her and the baby. She needed emergency surgery. Doctor shows up, nurses show up, and I'm there as well, about to assist. We manage to get...

T-minus 30 hours and counting. My mom was completely packed on Monday. I suggested she start walking and by the time she got here, her luggage would have arrived. I understand her excitement prompts her packing frenzy. Having been safely swaddled in the womb, I can only imagine what her...

If anyone is looking for a free way to usher in the holiday season without the huge crowd the Rockefeller Center tree lighting brings, head to South Street Seaport on Friday evening, the evening after Thanksgiving. They have a very nice tree in the commons and have an hour or so of caroling, a...

Film at 11:rofl: Seriously, my parents are coming for a visit on the 5th of December. You just know I'm going to have lots lots lots to say about that. If my mother mentions the word 'stew' one more time, she might not make it out of the airport alive. Gotta get back to my sazerac, but...

Okay, so it's 6:51am, I've already done a load of laundry, changed the linens on my bed, had coffee and a banana muffin (it was a bit stale but a pop in the microwave fixed that....waste not, want not we say on the dole). I was up at 5...:ermm: Lou is taking Friday off so he'll be up tonight...

When someone tells you they are a guest of the state, it could mean they are enjoying involuntary confinement for a specified period of time in the local pokey....or it could mean they are enjoying involuntary free time as they weigh prospects of new employment on the state's dime, also known as...

Brrrrr, it's officially chilly today. Definitely a day to keep the oven on, warming the house. Cocktail hour this evening is Knob Creek bourbon with a drop of water. First course is shrimp with sage butter in puff pastry. Dinner is lobster medallions and mushrooms over angle hair pasta with...

So far, today, I've made Breakfast At Tiffany's (yes, I'm working at Tiffany's on 5th Ave this week!) and am in the middle of making Lunch at Tiffany's. Lunch just doesn't sound as glamourous, does it? Dinner, however, is at home. Cornmeal blinis with mozzarella cream cheese Spicy jerk beef...

On the dinner thread, I lamented about my dinner menu of Thursday which consisted of potato chip and dorito dust. We all know what the dust is...those last few particles of pencil point size chip that you find at the bottom of the bag when anything larger than a dime has already been consumed...