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Skriven 2007-08-13 11:15:24 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Saturday 11 Aug
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Road trip to eastern Mass. for errands and visiting.  First stop was
in Waltham to pick up an older but still decent Whirlpool gas cooktop
for our kitchen renovation.  Central downdraft ventilation and four
burners; one pair of burners is swappable with an indoor gas grill 
surface which will be nice for burgers and steaks and stuff when the
weather is too snowy for real grilling.

Next, south on I-95 to Dedham and Maryanne's sister's place.
She wasn't home, so we jumped on the VFW parkway and followed the 
Charles River into Cambridge to the Garage Mall near Harvard Square.
There's a Jpop store in the mall called "Tokyo Kid" where Lynn and her
cousin Drew did some shopping.  Food related: they carry a lot of
Japanese snack foods and candies, but Lynn is savvy enough not to buy
any from Tokyo Kid because the price is about double (or more) what
she'd pay in a real Asian grocery like Dong's.

From there, we hooked up with Michael for lunch at Kelly's Roast Beef
on Revere Beach - nice little clam shack (well, not really a "shack" - 
it's a real storefront take-out place) with gazebo seating across the
street overlooking the beach.  Surprisingly, I'd never been to Kelly's
before.

Fried clams (whole belly) - excellent, sweet, plump whole clams,
good crumb coating if a little underseasoned.

Fried scallops - Large but not jumbo, cooked a little too brown
for me but Maryanne was pleased because she gets a little 
squicked about shellfish that she considers "underdone."  But
they were of good flavor and, while not the best scallops I've
ever tasted, still quite superior to many flavorless blobs
that have been sold as "scallops" over the past few years.

Clam and scallop plates came with heaping mounds of onion
rings (a little greasy but thick and obviously hand-cut)
and fries (crispy outside, mealy inside, very good.)

Chicken tenders - thin filets of white-meat chicken, same
coating as the clams and scallops, Lynn said they were 
delicious.

The kids got frappes, which were also top-notch: Lynn's
strawberry frappe kept clogging the straw with the big chunks
of strawberries.

Of particular note was the world-class clam chowder.  More
clams than potatoes, vey simply seasoned, no starchy thickeners,
just milk with a kiss of cream.  Almost exactly as I would make
it at home. It puts restaurant clam chowders to shame for about
a hundred miles around.

Finally got ahold of Maryanne's sister, so we dropped Michael
back off at the People's Five Year Plan Commemorative Residence
Block and went back out to Dedham, where we chatted and teased
her parrots before heading home.

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