Text 11338, 95 rader
Skriven 2008-07-29 22:43:06 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 11309 av Carol Shenkenberger (17582.cooks)
Ärende: cooking echo Picnic Fri. night Dinner out on the town?
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Hi Carol!

>> 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.

Wow, that is something if you've been able to make such progress that way..
Still sad that it happened, but what can you do..

Ron has a lot to do with the finishing 'touches' of the center isle but it
looks great right now, and everything is working.. so that's fine by me..
later, when he has time, he can put some finishing touches on it (just
appearance stuff).

> 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.

I figured that would be the case..  that air would be more.. and more limiting
I'd bet.. I've read about charges for carryons, etc.. if you have more than
one.. we rarely fly unless the company Ron works for pays for it.. they do for
most of the conferences we have to go to.

> 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

I truly don't know what we spend a month on food.. I try to stock up when we go
because it's so darn tiring... and when you buy grass-fed meats, they typically
only come frozen because of Federal and State laws, inspections, etc. (so I buy
a lot (grin).  Most of the small farmers we go to aren't allowed to sell fresh
meat.  Doesn't bother me.. I cook the hamburgers frozen, and let the steaks
defrost (g).

> actually.  I'm quite efficient with raw produce.
> Ok, rant off.

I don't think I've bought veggies at the store in a while since I've had a
decent garden most years.. this one was the pits though comparatively
speaking.. Lots of small tomatoes.. I probably planted the plants too close..
it was during the time when the darn Tomamax the dr. had me on, was doing in my
legs..I had trouble even standing out there for 5 minutes early in the spring
:( Oh well.. maybe I'll pull a couple plants out tomorrow and move them to a
 pail or something.


>> >> 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).

yep, sounds good.. some nice people there.

>> >> 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!

Yeah, I think so :)

Take care,
Janis

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