Category: food & drink

Gaelic is diffcult for EFL speakers

June 18, 2013

food & drink

So, actor Brian Cox has done what he can to help.

Esquire’s guide to Scotch pronunciations.

Lagavulin is my husband’s favorite, too.

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Care and feeding of me

March 4, 2013

a day in this life, food & drink

I don’t eat mammals or fowl. I do eat seafood.

I don’t like Chinese food. I do like most other ethnic food.

I like to taste beer but I don’t drink it.

I drink bourbon, not Scotch.

I drink gin with tonic, not vodka.

I am willing to put on my sneakers and walk anywhere.

I like monster movies, but don’t usually care for slashers like Michael Myers and Jason. Freddie has been an exception.

I see a difference in disliking cucumbers and not liking cucumbers. I will eat them if they are intrinsic to a dish, but tend to eat around large pieces.

I am pre-diabetic so I try to limit eating white stuff. When I eat too much white, I get headaches. Corn is the worst offender to date.

Goat cheese tastes nasty to me and you cannot hide it from my taste buds. Don’t try. It is a waste of your time.

I dislike beets and canned asparagus.

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December 30, 2009

family, food & drink

After Bill and before Chuck, Carolyn and I spent a New Year’s Eve together. Neither of us really wanted to get out in Drunk Driving Amateur Night but we did want to take the day-off opportunity to be self indulgent.

We went shopping for treats, on the day, came back to my house and began the year as we hoped it would continue. We had happy mouths and had enjoyed company we enjoyed thoroughly. I don’t recall if we bothered to watch the ball drop.

We decided that was a damn fine way to start the year so we declared it our tradition.

When Chuck joined our family, we included him. (I really am fortunate that those 2 genuinely like each other.)

Tomorrow, I have to work. They will go shopping without me and I will come home to treats.

We are planning to watch Big Night, I will make pasta with tomato sauce and we will eat cheese, chocolate, scallops, red grapes and I have no clue what else. There is a bottle of cava in the fridge next to another bottle of chardonnay. There is red wine in the rack, including a bottle of Lambrusco I’ve been itching to open for months.

I will not be able to get through with work soon enough.

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Damn, I’m tired! Tom walked my feet off!!!

It was GREAT!!!!!

Had FABulous Indian food.

Walked all OVER the Art Institute of Chicago. TWICE. I have seen more of Georgia O’Keefe’s stuff. I am still a fan.
There was a little Dali that really rocked my socks, too.

They had a photo exhibit with 5 different artists entitled “So the Story Goes”. I liked one (Sally Mann). One was disturbing (Nan Goldin). One didn’t touch me at all (Philip-Lorca diCorcia).

The other 2 …. I have mixed feelings about. (Tina Barney and Larry Sultan).

We saw Redmoon Theater’s Twilight Orchard, which looked like a Cirque du Soleil audition. And a damn good one.

I have had a Chicago-style hot dog. Two of them, actually. And Chicago Pizza at Lou Malnati’s.

I’ve forgotten the name of the Greek restaurant. It was delicious, though. We had a choice of calamari and broiled octopus. We went with the octopus.

We spent an afternoon at the Shedd Aquarium, too. (I did like the shrimp with the go-go boots.)

OH. I almost forgot and that would be really silly.

Millenium Park.

I don’t know if I enjoyed Crown Fountain or the Bean the best.

We stayed with Tom’s aunt and uncle, who are delightful. And we took buses and subways all over the place. (Subways are still a novelty to me.)

And that was my weekend.

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Gaelic is diffcult for EFL speakers

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