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Got home the other day from shopping to find a bag of lemons hanging on the door - they turned out to be from my new neighbours from Madrid, who own a holiday home here. There are 11 of them, and they are HUGE. (The lemons, not the neighbours)

My builder arrived today with a bulging bag of oranges. There must be 30 of them.

I don’t currently have a kitchen until said builder finishes strutting his stuff, which at this rate could be February or March, so making orange juice and lemonade is problematic.

Suggestions?

I saw a recent advertisement for Jim Beam bourbon
that states "There's no I in bourbon".



For some odd reason, I had to laugh.

While alphabetically correct, there can be a lot of "I" associated with drinking bourbon.
Such as;

I will have another.

Oh man, I am drunk.

I shouldn't have drank so much.

I don't feel too good.

I think I'm going to puke.

I love you, Mr. Toilet.

I see the room spinning.

I am NOT drunk osssifer.

I know it is 4 am, but I just wanted to call and see how you are doing.

I don't remember what happened last night.

Add your own, if you like.

Ok, all hands to the plough here, the challenge is to create an East meets West breakfast.

So ................ easiest is to say

(a) what you like for breakfast (not necessarily what you have, but what you would like to have) and
(b) the name or type, or at least whether East or West


These are the only ones I know - probably have variations you know or prefer - and all are West

Full English - bacon, eggs, toast. sausage, grilled mushroom, grilled tomato and sometimes steak

Full Scottish - bacon. eggs, square (Lorne) sausage, potato scones, black pudding and sometimes haggis
(Both of the above often served with baked beans but not when I make them ) (whistle berries)

Continental - fruit, pastries, croissants, cheese, at least one type of charcuterie (usually ham)

American pancake heaven - stack of pancakes with bacon and maple syrup. I have no idea what other breakfasts are popular in the US, for the whole 10 days I was in the US I ate pancakes

I've been out with Jewish friends who had kippers with fried egg (in place of bacon)



Oh and by the way, to keep it topical and related to CS, the difference between being involved and being committed can be demonstrated by bacon and eggs. The hen is involved, but the pig is committed.

I ate so much sushi at Mother's Day luncheon today that it impaired my breathing! Happy (belated) Mother's Day to all the women and Happy Mutha's Day to any of you who never had a mother.

I make cheese with macaroni

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Does anyone want some soup? ........

The Jewish holidays mark the season for Mondel Loaf. Basically, it's a soft version of the Italian Biscotti. I was at the bakery of the farmer's market last week and found some Fruit Mondel Loaf. Okay, so half of it is gone and I said I was avoiding sugar this month.

Some recipes call it Mondel Bread and they taste and resemble hand made bread. The variety found around the Jewish communities in South Florida is more of the semi-sweet style.



If you Google it, you will find many have sliced almonds or almond paste in the recipe.

Once or twice a month, we used to go to an Asian market in Miami. A competitor with a much larger store opened about a mile from the first one. They have better selections and we started going there. Now that I'm more than 40 miles away, with no other reason to go to Miami, we skipped those hour-long trips each way.
Today we visited another store (by the same owner) in Fort Lauderdale. It's less distance but it takes longer driving through city streets and not highway like the Miami trip. The selections are the same and this trip we got a fish that looks like something of pre-historic origin that Jacques Cousteau would have brought up from the deep ocean floor.
Nearly 3 feet long like an eel, it was coiled up in the bag.

I'll know in an hour or so if it was worth the trip!

More than a decade ago, when I wanted an English muffin, I would split it, lather on some real butter, toast it so the butter drips off the edges and then drop a slice of Provolone cheese on top. I could eat a few a week.
Times have changed and I'm consuming less than one English muffin a month, toasted first then adding butter substitute made from Canola oil and lightly sprinkling Parmesan cheese on top.
Options would be a slice of tomato or a few pieces of Hass avocado.
Dinner tonight included sauteed Chinese eggplant (we call them purple airplanes due to their long skinny shape) with celery and it's been a while so I topped them to the English muffin.
A healthier way to butter my bread.

Tag. } Ideas to be enjoyed. ) While they remain Legal.

The standard baked potato may be Engineerd into main course status as follows..
Chopped peppers { your choice
Parsley
Pre sauteed mushrooms
Liberal addition of olive oil
Chopped celery & garlic clove
Pink Himalayan salt.
...drink pairing: Tequila, obviously.

McFunger Option..} just 2 tiny home grown 420 buds
Tossed into the center of said potato w/ butter..
Quickly become Force multipliers in the enjoyment of Flame-- the great jazz LP of 1978.