Happy Birthday mate!
Yesterday was Chris’ birthday, and we were both so chicken-fried that we decided to stay home and celebrate instead of schlepping out to the old house to continue the nightmare known as Operation Peel The Furking Wallpaper The Previous Owners Glued Directly Onto The Sheetrock Dumbfuckers.
For most of the day I had a savory beef stew simmering on the back burner in my orange Le Creuset Dutch Oven that Chris ganked off the floor at the outlet for 60%. I made corn chowder with fresh, organic corn on the cob from the farmers’ market, and a bunch of Spinach Rice Casseroles a la Moosewood Cookbook. Two for a neighbor whose mother died this week, one to eat and one for the freezer. A huge salad. Beer. Friends dropped in to eat and drink and make merry.
Chris wanted Blueberry Lemon Poundcake, so I made one of those as well. All told yesterday I used 27 fresh eggs because we started off the day with a big omelette and bacon. Everything that had egg in it turned the richest gold I’ve ever seen. Nearly orange pound cake!
Yesterday was about the food. We even got to enjoy a few siced Juanne Flammee tomatoes with coarse salt and pepper from our very own garden. And organic roasted red peppers from the market. Mmmm, served with crackers and fresh mozzarella.
Now we’re heading out to deal with that wallpaper.
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September 17th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
We are smacking our lips! Happy birthday to Chris! Sound slike a great day to me!
September 17th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
We are smacking our lips! Happy birthday to Chris! Sounds like a great day to me!
September 17th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
. . . tell the CM happy b from me!!!!! big hug and smooooooooch
September 18th, 2006 at 8:34 am
“Furking!” You’ve made my day! My week!
You have also made me hungry, and I don’t grocery shop till tomorrow. Damn.
September 18th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Jaune Flamme tomatoes from your own back yard must have felt like garden balm after this years garden difficulties. I have grown Jaune Flammes and those suckers are so amazing!!!!!!! (Can I add a few more exclamation points just for fun?)
I love reading about what you’re cooking. I don’t eat meat so the beef stew did not have me salivating, but every other damn last thing did! I’m so glad you got to spend time cooking and hanging out with friends after all the hectic activity you’ve been up to lately.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Oh! Oh! No! Not attempting to remove the wallpaper on the sheetrock! We got sucked into that in 2001 AND WE GOUGED HEAD-SIZED HOLES IN THE WALL! @#$%! We wound up paying an ex-jockey to repair it and paint over the remaining mess.
If I bring you an ex-jockey, will you make me some beef stew? Please. I beg you. My family begs you.
September 30th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Well that made me want to go buy a Le Creuset Dutch Oven, and some fresh eggs. Happy birthday Chris!
October 11th, 2006 at 1:02 am
…what made me smile was the first, presumably conscientious, use of “furking”… followed by the more emphatic, less genteel “Dumbfuckers” once you’d dwelt on the wallpaper situation a bit.
Very telling.
October 11th, 2006 at 11:23 am
That sounds delicious!
October 17th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
I hold a firm view that anyone using wallpaper in such circumstances should be stabbed in the forehead with a fork. In our house the previous owner wallpapered the ceiling, and then painted it. some of it’s even on plain sheetrock, not primed. I use lots of swear words.
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