As summer winds down, heat induced ennui has dulled the creative juices and resulted in a lack of blog postings lately. For same reasons, a slowly evolving piece regarding food has languished in preparation, but perhaps soon. So to alleviate any withdrawal symptoms (on both our parts), here are a few things to think about on your Sunday – hopefully not during more torrential downpours.
Speaking of weather, we had a “red in the morning, sailors take warning" sunrise the other day
Which portended Saturdays results of:
It also resulted in ye olde editor dashing outside during the height of the storm, risking life and limb, to drain water from the gray lagoon as it almost reached rim full. It’s always something.
Friday, the cast from MFO’s left arm came off to be replaced by a welcome splint affair that allows it to be removed for a time. A welcome change. Anyway, on the way back from the doc’s digs, we stopped off at Staples to get some boxes for the record collection project. It was fun to see several groups of kids of varying ages with their Moms wandering around the store with very official looking lists of paper, pencils and the like, mostly with Mom with a look of grim determination and the kids resigned to the fact that summer was over. Get that Number 2 Husky (bring back any memories??)
Then we spent an enjoyable Friday evening, first by attending the lecture series at Sotterley to hear the Patuxent Riverkeeper talk (and talk and talk and talk….) about the river and sources of pollution and some of his views on remedying the situation. It wasn’t by just picking up the beer cans. I won’t emulate him by belaboring the point. After that we drove cross county and had a pleasant light dinner at Corbels, meeting several friends. Those kinds of evenings are nice. Crab cake sandwiches, a Halibut dish and some “tuna towers” were all nice. Friends and food are a great combination.
Speaking of food (which we often do here - and this is a bit of a stretch), any thoughts of grilling outdoors last night were washed away (see rain gage) , so we opted (okay, okay) a quick trip to our McDonalds to be ignored by the service staff at the drive through, eventually leaving with a pair of their new “third pound Angus” beef burgers. They are indeed different from the usual quarter pounder with cheese (although the little yellow square is still evident) and we also got one with the “bacon” option. I didn’t deconstruct same, but the “bacon” didn’t seem like it just came off the pan. Had that odd stiff texture instead of real pork fat floppiness (a technical term). Taste was okay, size definitely bigger that the qpwc and it had fresh pickles not the soggy version of the qpwc. Something different. Instant food like material.
Speaking of burgers, all you Red Robin fans can rejoice, and get out your sawbuck per burger, the said chain has obtained it’s permit for the new Waldorfian shopping center across from First Colony. Yippee. Oh well, it will give another chance for yet another burger review. You can’t always eat Foie Gras..
Hang on HoGo, maybe we'll someday get that In N' Out
And speaking of permits, one was also issued for the local construction of……Neiman Marcus?......Nordstroms?..............Macy’s? Nope. Wrong culture. We’re going to get a Kohl’s. we just don’t seem to break the mold do we….
And don’t succumb…ALWAYS
DFD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOJTY!!
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