“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”
Last night it rained hard enough to be heard on the windows, but it didn’t rain long. Today is cloudy again. Rain is a possibility. It has been raining so much I swear my feet are webbing.
I have a couple of events on my dance card today. My teeth are getting cleaned, and I’m heading to Plymouth for a uke concert. We are playing for their Friday open streets. We’ll play an hour, take a break then play a second hour. We’re singing from our songs of the 70’s books. We have two of them.
When I was a kid, my mother made tuna salad for our Friday school lunches. The only other seafood she served was fish sticks for some Friday night dinners. She served them with French fries. I loved those fish sticks. I don’t know how old I was when I started to love steam clams. My mother would prepare them then she’d leave the room. She couldn’t watch us eat them. She found them disgusting. She loved shrimp, any shrimp dish. She liked lobster but only baked stuffed. My father would go quahogging, and my mother would make stuffed quahogs and freeze them. She’d surprise us with them. She made a fish casserole dish which was extraordinary. It had not only fish but also shrimp, of course it did. I still make that dish.
My father had a sweet tooth. He used to hide his candy under the couch. We all knew it, and we’d sometimes steal a few. My mother would buy him a large package of Hershey miniatures, and those he’d keep on the table close at hand when he watched TV. He always sat in the same spot on the couch next to the side table. On that table, his candy was in a small bowl, pewter I think, beside the lamp and an ashtray. He had a calendar on the table to keep track of special events or appointments. My dog Shauna used to sit in front of him or beside him on the couch. He always shared his goodies with her. He hid them from us, but he shared with her.
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May 3, 2024 at 2:20 pm
Hi Kat,
Today is partly cloudy with a chance of rain later and over the weekend. Today we will hit 83°
Last night we had salmon for dinner. My wife found frozen salmon steaks and it was excellent. I remember that you are not fond of salmon. I remember the fish sticks that came frozen. I have no idea what kind of fish it was or if it actually came from the same fish. When my wife grew up in Chicago, she thought that seafood was Lake Michigan Whitefish. The Great Lakes are not seas and whatever you catch in them is a fresh water creature.
I also have a tremendous sweet tooth. My spouse says that I eat like a five year old. Hershey miniatures are among my favorite. I’m also a big fan of Milky Way bars. I’m addicted to milk chocolate regardless of the shape. What a way to go. 🙂
May 3, 2024 at 9:47 pm
Hi Bob,
I would love a warm day, not an almost 60° warm day but a real one. Today by late afternoon was chilly. Yesterday parts of the state got high 70’s. We, on Cape Cod, had the coolest weather.
I never knew what kind of fish was the sticks either. I figure it must have been parts of fish or garbage fish. My father used to go smelt fishing. I love smelt, but there are people who won’t eat it. They use the derogatory description calling them bottom feeders.
I don’t usually eat fresh water fish, and I never thought about what to call them. They are not from the sea as you said. I decided to find out what to call found this on Wikipedia:
“Seafood is any form of marine life regarded as food by humans. Seafoods include fish, molluscs (octopus and shellfish), crustaceans (shrimp and lobster), echinoderms (sea cucumber and sea urchins).”
May 3, 2024 at 11:53 pm
Hum? I don’t like that definition. Maybe lake food? No that would imply feeding the lake. No maybe fresh water sea food? That’s too many words. How about seefood? Or, sawfood?
May 4, 2024 at 4:28 pm
I got quite a laugh from sawfood! Freshwater fish?