Text 11309, 62 rader
Skriven 2008-07-29 19:32:57 av Carol Shenkenberger (17582.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 11294 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: cooking echo Picnic Fri. night Dinner out on the town?
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 > > Hehe i have eaten the fancy end of the hog a few times, but cant do it oft
 > 
 > Us either :)  This center island ended up costing a bit too haha.. oh well..
 > wait til you see it.. Man, I picked out such GREAT Italian Marble tiles <gri
 > I mean everything just "goes" so well, it's incredible and really we were so
 > lucky to find some of the parts of it as mark downs, etc. like those tiles a
 > the stove .. :) Anyway, I wanna cook in it Lol

Me too on expenses.  It;s added up to an astounding 25,000$ worth of either
outright damages or just wear and tear from folks who didnt maintain
diddley-squat.  I've paid off a shockingly 20,000$ of it just by being frugal
with a mere 5,000$ to go.  Not at all bad on our income but means I'm careful
to get a good deal when at home.

Thats also why we are driving vice just flying up in a few hours.  Cost of
tickets for us 2 was too high to fit in the budget.  Gas though even at
current rate works (will be less than round trip for 1 person).  Paid for the
hotel room already.

Side diatribe, I cant *believe* howe silly some grocery shoppers are!  They
spend as much as 400$ a month per person for (excuse my french) crappy foods
adn they dont eat nearly as well as we do!  By budget *does* stretch to grain
fed organic meats if I want, but we actually pay a little more for quality
seafoods and our bills per person run closer to 200$ each and a little less
actually.  I'm quite efficient with raw produce.
Ok, rant off.

 > >> Dinner reservation is set at Cortese's Italian restaurant (best food for 
 > >> price) and it should fall within those limits for everyone.. no problem w
 > >> Charlotte, obviously.  For Thursday night we ran into a problem with Lupo
 > >> spiedie restaruant because they don't take reservations. Rather than go t
 > >> Thursday I figure to have a bunch of stuff for us all to eat.. some deliv
 > >> some made by me.. that way we can have something here no matter what time
 > >> people get here.
 > 
 > > Sounds good!  If I dont make it to your place that Thrusday evening, mea
 > > culpa.  Long drive.  I wouldnt have too much delivered, someone might just
 > > raid your kitchen and start to cooking early!
 > 
 > yep, there'll be stuff here for sure.. and if someone needs something for wh
 > they want to make, the food store in Windsor is really just down the street.
 > crummy steak, but fresh veggies, etc. are good. Then again I don't usually b
 > any steaks there since we went the grass-fed route - I'm going to try to pic
 > up a few of them before for sure.

Sounds good to us!  I still plan to hit the farmers market up your street,
mostly because it sounds like *fun* to us.  (just tucked my pull cart by the
door to remember to load it).

 > >> The Spiedie festival is only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so what I'm
 > >> thinking is we'd all go over to the Spiedie festival on Friday for 'lunch
 > >> etc... hang out there a while to catch some of the shows (antique car sho
 > >> etc.), eat some spiedie's then go to Cortese's at 8:45PM for 'dinner'.  W
 > >> got reservations for 20 at Cortese's so we should be fine with the number
 > >> people.

It will work fine!

                xxcarol
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