It's like this. On Thursday I bought beautiful slicing tomatoes at a farm stand, also plum tomatoes. And two poblano chilies. Continuing down the road - two rotisserie chickens from Costco. Annoying - they no longer come in clamshells. They're in plastic bags. I made potato salad.
Our daughter, son-in-law, and their oldest daughter arrived for three days / two nights on their way from Massachusetts towards Texas and Colorado. Himself's sister arrived from Manhattan. That evening I cooked shrimp to go with the other food..
Then on Friday daughter and I went to local farm stand and bought 8 ears of just picked corn. I made 3 bean salad - red beans, chickpeas, cut green beans, diced Vidalia onion, Ken's country French salad dressing.
A niece and one son arrived for the day.
Let the cooking begin!
Midday meal - broiled a 5 pound beef flap steak. Let it rest. Granddaughter is fabulous on slicing, dicing, cutting. She prepared corn cut off the cob with diced tomatoes, onion, sweet red pepper, poblanos - but the medium Hatch chilies were merely diced and in a separate little bowl. Boiled 4 cobs of corn. Three bean salad. Potato salad. Sliced chicken. Sliced steak. Warmed tortillas.
To drink - Negra Modelo or Dos Equis beer. Water infused with sliced limes, cucumber, and sprigs of mint. Homemade lemonade concentrate with water or sparkling water. Plain water.
And we ate. And we ate. And we ate.
And Mr Poe, ever hopeful, was disappointed.
And then, late in the afternoon the day trippers departed. Eventually we had an evening meal. Lightly toasted rolls with steak or chicken or both, with sliced tomatoes, with Vidalia onion, with whatever folks wanted to pile on. It might even have been even better!
Our daughter, son-in-law, and their oldest daughter arrived for three days / two nights on their way from Massachusetts towards Texas and Colorado. Himself's sister arrived from Manhattan. That evening I cooked shrimp to go with the other food..
Then on Friday daughter and I went to local farm stand and bought 8 ears of just picked corn. I made 3 bean salad - red beans, chickpeas, cut green beans, diced Vidalia onion, Ken's country French salad dressing.
A niece and one son arrived for the day.
Let the cooking begin!
Midday meal - broiled a 5 pound beef flap steak. Let it rest. Granddaughter is fabulous on slicing, dicing, cutting. She prepared corn cut off the cob with diced tomatoes, onion, sweet red pepper, poblanos - but the medium Hatch chilies were merely diced and in a separate little bowl. Boiled 4 cobs of corn. Three bean salad. Potato salad. Sliced chicken. Sliced steak. Warmed tortillas.
To drink - Negra Modelo or Dos Equis beer. Water infused with sliced limes, cucumber, and sprigs of mint. Homemade lemonade concentrate with water or sparkling water. Plain water.
And we ate. And we ate. And we ate.
And Mr Poe, ever hopeful, was disappointed.
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