“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
The morning is chilly at 64°. It is also cloudy. It is a day to stay close to hearth and home. Luckily my dance card is empty for today, but I still have a to-do list of the chores I didn’t do yesterday because I got an e-mail telling me about a uke mini-concert not on the schedule. I had to dress quickly and get on the road. The concert was at an assisted living facility. They were a wonderful audience clapping and singing along. We are still singing bluegrass. I have a concert tomorrow if the rain holds off, my fifth uke event of the week.
Cats throw up. My cat has an uncanny ability to throw up exactly where I walk. Before I go to bed, I go into the dark room to give Jack night pats and food. I walk to the table to turn on the light. I walk on something squishy.
I like pasta, but I am not fond of spaghetti though I’ll eat it if it’s served to me. Spaghetti just takes too much effort. At my aunt’s house, the aunt whose husband owned a fish market, I tasted spaghetti with clam sauce for the first time. I was surprised I liked it. I never thought clams and spaghetti could be a thing.
Though I love seafood, I don’t like salmon. A pink fish just seems wrong to me. My mother told me that when she was a kid the traditional July Fourth dinner was salmon and peas. She ate it poached in an egg sauce. Once on a British Air flight to Germany from London, I was upgraded to first class. Dinner was salmon without the peas. I didn’t eat it.
When I was a kid, they took my field and swamp away and built what my father called wrinkle city, apartments for the elderly. I remember a fire in one of them. We kids all gathered and watched the firefighters. We watched them put out the fire and bring a lady out on a stretcher. She was burned. I can still see it in my mind’s eye.
Henry just scared me. He was sleeping then jumped up and barked. He had heard a dog on TV. I patted him and thanked him for saving me. I didn’t explain about the TV.
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September 29, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Hi Kat,
Today is just a hotter version of yesterday, a few clouds and a predicted high of 95°. The weekend is supposed to be even hotter.
I love spaghetti as well as almost all pasta. The other night my better half made rotini with a marinara sauce that she bought at Costco. It was only made with a few ingredients, tomatoes, basil, and olive oil. It was fabulous. I’m not a fan of spaghetti with white clam sauce because once I ate some that made me sick to my stomach. Otherwise eating seafood with angel hair pasta with white wine sauce is a favorite dish. I do like grilled salmon but not the stuff from the can. The best airline meal I ever had in economy class was on Emirates Airline going from Dubai to London. They served grilled salmon steak with wild rice. It was served on a plate with real silverware along with a fresh shrimp salad.
When I used to fly internationally for business I always ate a real meal at the airport before departure. Then, when American Airlines served their crappy economy meal, I just ate the salad and the desert. I put the good meal I bought at the airport on my expense account.
On my last trip to São Paulo Brazil, they had just opened their new international terminal. The only sit down restaurant was, Olive Garden. It was the first Olive Garden outside of the United States. It was exactly the same crappy menu as here and the food was just as disappointing. 🙂
September 29, 2023 at 10:08 pm
Hi Bob,
Right now it is raining, but we are late to the party. My sister, north of Boston, has had rain on and off all day.
I love shells and the like. I have bought marinara sauce similar to what your wife bought. I think it was absolutely delicious. If I served it, I think my friends could believe I made it. I usually serve pasta with a meat sauce or a white sauce. I have made lobster pasta, but thhat was back in the day when I could afford lobster. Yikes, I haven’t ever heard of such a good meal in economy. The last three flights I’ve taken were in first class, and the food was excellent.
I usually have a cup of coffee and maybe a pastry before my flights unless it is a long wait then I have a light meal.
I don’t think I have ever seen an Olive Garden in a terminal. In some of the African terminals there were no restaurants,only a place for soft drinks. I would have thought the food interesting in one of those terminals.
September 30, 2023 at 10:55 am
Neither had I.