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davemerrill) wrote2021-02-08 11:13 pm
davemerrill) wrote2021-02-08 11:13 pm
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february 2021
It's almost Valentines Day and I've been trying to find a local restaurant that's doing a special takeout meal, and a lot of them are, but all the meals are various beef things. We quit eating beef in the summer of 2019 back when the rainforests were getting torched, and apart from whatever grade-Z leftovers are used to make the chili that goes on top of the Oasis' chili dogs, we haven't had any beef since. Anyway, it's making it hard to find a special Valentine's meal. We might get schnitzel from Chopin's, or Hawaiian food from Miss Things, maybe.
Sunday we went for a walk up at York Regional Forest, which remains a popular destination for entire families to get their fresh air during these pandemic times. It's hard to maintain distancing when Bob and Mrs. Bob and Bob's brother and Bob's mom and Bob Jr are all standing in the middle of a trail discussing something loudly in a Slavic language. One side or the other, guys. Anyway, it's pretty out there in the snow.
Today at work we found out our former general manager passed away; he'd been sick for about two years. At one point it seemed like he'd had it licked but it came back. It's a tragedy; he was really fit, energetic, put in a lot of hours, walked the plant twice a day (unlike the guy he replaced, whom I never saw). So it's been kind of a bummer. On the other hand, today I heard from a friend I hadn't heard from in a while and he seems to be doing OK, which is a relief. These days when I don't hear from anyone in a while I get a little worried.
Watched recently: the Fritz Lang serial-killer/newsroom drama WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, the Australian suspense thriller NEXT OF KIN, Disney's THE RESCUERS, Cusak/Robbins/Nesmith in TAPEHEADS, the lurid Blaxploitation film where Yaphet Kotto is the good guy ACROSS 100TH ST, and the fake BBC documentary GHOSTWATCH, and the first episode of the 1979 anime series "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair" - no, not the Nippon Animation series, but an EARLIER series by a completely different studio, set during the Civil War as depicted with various degrees of accuracy. WANDAVISION is way more entertaining than I expected. ATTACK ON TITAN is delivering the goods. And YURU CAMP is also delivering completely different goods.
Sunday we went for a walk up at York Regional Forest, which remains a popular destination for entire families to get their fresh air during these pandemic times. It's hard to maintain distancing when Bob and Mrs. Bob and Bob's brother and Bob's mom and Bob Jr are all standing in the middle of a trail discussing something loudly in a Slavic language. One side or the other, guys. Anyway, it's pretty out there in the snow.
Today at work we found out our former general manager passed away; he'd been sick for about two years. At one point it seemed like he'd had it licked but it came back. It's a tragedy; he was really fit, energetic, put in a lot of hours, walked the plant twice a day (unlike the guy he replaced, whom I never saw). So it's been kind of a bummer. On the other hand, today I heard from a friend I hadn't heard from in a while and he seems to be doing OK, which is a relief. These days when I don't hear from anyone in a while I get a little worried.
Watched recently: the Fritz Lang serial-killer/newsroom drama WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, the Australian suspense thriller NEXT OF KIN, Disney's THE RESCUERS, Cusak/Robbins/Nesmith in TAPEHEADS, the lurid Blaxploitation film where Yaphet Kotto is the good guy ACROSS 100TH ST, and the fake BBC documentary GHOSTWATCH, and the first episode of the 1979 anime series "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair" - no, not the Nippon Animation series, but an EARLIER series by a completely different studio, set during the Civil War as depicted with various degrees of accuracy. WANDAVISION is way more entertaining than I expected. ATTACK ON TITAN is delivering the goods. And YURU CAMP is also delivering completely different goods.
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A heavier dish? Calamari rings with calamarata pasta in browned butter with diced tomato, pepper, and basil leaves (char those veggies in a skillet). The salad is spinach with a rose vinaigrette (or raspberry) and a white Bordeaux. This can also pair nicely with roasted zucchini or yellow squash and thyme is your friend here.
Once we get into poultry, I suggest roasting on a bed of carrots and parsnips with herbs de Provence and a Chardonnay. Bacon wrapped asparagus give it more depth.
If you do a soup course, I'd go with broccoli cheese, vichyssoise, and Italian wedding, respectively.