Update on the vacation food situation
This has been such a good vacation that I haven't been food once, which is some sort of record here. Not for a mosquito, deer tick, chigger, spider or copperhead.
Actually we had lunch at the Blue Chair yesterday, and I had a hard time choosing between these two items on the menu:
Maryland Crab Cakes -- handmade wild-caught crab claw cakes served with red pepper ranch and capers $10
and
Lunch Croissant -- ham or peppered turkey with cheddar and dijonnaise on a plain bagel, multi-grain toast or croissant $6
Comments
What did you finally decide on? And how else could a crabcake be made, if not by hand? I shudder to think (minced crab, pre-formed crabcakes ...?)
Posted by: Dahlink | July 4, 2009 8:48 AM
Red pepper ranch? *shudder*
Posted by: Lissa | July 4, 2009 8:59 AM
Lissa, ranch dressing wards off copperheads.
Posted by: jl | July 4, 2009 9:02 AM
This has been such a good vacation that I haven't been food once, which is some sort of record here.
Sorry, EL, but is a word (or more) missing from the cited text? If not, then what do you mean when you say, "I haven't been food once"? (Or is it the evil new blogware?)
Posted by: hmpstd | July 4, 2009 9:33 AM
Hmpstd, I think EL is saying that she hasn't been bitten by any bugs.
Posted by: Stacy | July 4, 2009 10:06 AM
EL, i understood exactly what you meant, the second time I read the sentence. Do you ever really eat crab cakes outside of Maryland? I had the misfortune once of ordering them in a restaurant in Williamsburg, VA a few years ago and they were unlike anything I ever tasted. (not good to be specific). I also tried them at a restaurant Called the Crab Trap on the west coast of FL. Sorry for me!! I prefer to make them and eat them at home.
Posted by: MDtopdad | July 4, 2009 10:12 AM
The horror. The horror.
Posted by: mistah kurtz | July 4, 2009 11:26 AM
Imagine how hard it must be to catch crab cakes in the wild.
Posted by: Hal Laurent | July 4, 2009 11:42 AM
What you should be eating right now are the tomatoes out of Grangier County, TN. And you should be chasing it down with a Dr. Enuff out of Johnson City.
Crab Cakes? Bagles? You're in Tennessee for Pete's sake.
I didn't actually have either one. I just thought they were funny. My cousin tried to say, "I'll have a Lunch Croissant on a bagel," but she got to laughing so hard she couldn't get it out. EL
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | July 4, 2009 1:25 PM
Agree with Robert
Posted by: Anonymous | July 4, 2009 7:54 PM
Finally, people are agreeing with me.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | July 4, 2009 11:57 PM
While me and the neighbors were outside Thursday afternoon, watching (nervously) as the out-of-control "controlled" forest burn raged just several hundred yards away, I learned that black snakes and copperheads were now mating, so the seemingly harmless black snakes that are around here may be poisonous.
A girl that lives upstairs, who was raised on a farm in NC, says she killed one in the parking lot just last week.
I need to move.
Posted by: PCB Rob | July 4, 2009 11:59 PM
For years black snakes and copperheads didn't mate, but now they are? What would cause this all of the sudden? Did they just now get word of the Loving v. Virginia decision?
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | July 5, 2009 9:52 AM
I think we need a biologist to step in here. Anyone? This snake mating business sounds fishy to me. But having read the recent New Yorker article about escaped exotic pets flourishing in Florida, I am never moving there!
Posted by: Dahlink | July 5, 2009 11:21 AM
PCB Rob I didn't like the snakes here either after moving away from N.E. Balto.
But, I have to say, I have never seen any cat-sized rats running around here (like were all over my alley in B) so I have come to accept, and yes, even welcome the ecological food chain of FL ;)
Posted by: Lone Lady | July 6, 2009 5:34 PM
I see a snake or a rat and I am SO outa here! Myabe into some apartment on the 20th floor somewhere!
Posted by: Joyce W. | July 6, 2009 6:41 PM
Unfortunately Joyce, snakes and rats can both climb however many stories it takes to get what they're after!
Posted by: Lone Lady | July 6, 2009 6:47 PM
Oh, thanks a LOT, Lone Lady!
Posted by: Dahlink | July 6, 2009 7:44 PM
Sorry Dahlink but facts are facts. Maybe I watch too many National Geographic shows.......
Posted by: Lone Lady | July 6, 2009 9:04 PM
for me, Lone Lady, ignorance was bliss...sigh.
Now I'm going to start checking the toilet before I sit down in case there's a python in there. Like I used to when I was a kid...
Posted by: Joyce W. | July 7, 2009 8:19 AM
It isn't the pythons in the toilet you have to worry about, Joyce....
Posted by: Lissa | July 7, 2009 8:27 AM
Oh, Joyce W., I used to worry about that, too. Was it something in the air way back then?
One of my friends had a rat get into the house through the basement toilet. The rat control guy from the city matter-of-factly said that it happened all the time--just keep a brick on the lid. Wonder if that would stop a big snake?
Posted by: Dahlink | July 7, 2009 2:35 PM
Dahlink, if I remember right, I think in the 60s or 70s there was a whole group of episodes of rodents/snakes & other reptiles coming into peoples homes via their toilets. I also think it was in NYC - which would make a lot of sense. Considering that there is no where that one
can dig in NYC without hitting ancient plumbing, subway and electrical fittings that don't go to anything anymore.
Lissa, point well taken.
Posted by: Joyce W. | July 7, 2009 2:48 PM
Dahlink, if I remember right, I think in the 60s or 70s there was a whole group of episodes of rodents/snakes & other reptiles coming into peoples homes via their toilets. I also think it was in NYC - which would make a lot of sense. Considering that there is no where that one
can dig in NYC without hitting ancient plumbing, subway and electrical fittings that don't go to anything anymore.
Lissa, point well taken.
Posted by: Joyce W. | July 7, 2009 2:53 PM