What are you doing today?

Finished my biannual dental checkup (who the hells schedules an appointment at 9am!) All good this time after a small cavity and having wisdom teeth pulled during the last year or so.

Already got about 4 miles walking. Plan on a long-ish walk+hike through the local park and trail later. Aiming for 10+ miles for today.

Really craving pasta. Don't have a replacement spot since the local pizzeria-restaurant abruptly closed a few months ago.
 
It made a nice change working from home today. Especially as it means I get to have a longer evening. Already had dinner and seen to my fantasy team for the weekend.
Off to the car dealership in the morning with Mrs AFB to get her opinion on it. She’s not one to embrace change though! Probably why she’s put up with me for 26 years!
 
You know those days when you strip the bed in the morning, put on a wash, and then, idly, while waiting for the kettle to boil prior to making your first cup of (real) coffee, (much delayed, see aforementioned Ukrainian distractions), proceed to open your computer, get distracted by news from Ukraine, and further distracted by responding to news about Ukraine, and then....

....hours later, as dusk falls, and the lowering sky gets lower and darker, you belatedly realise that you had never put the clean sheets on the bed before descending the stairs to engage with the world.

Irksome, irksome, to put it mildly.
 
ronntaylor said:
Really craving pasta. Don't have a replacement spot since the local pizzeria-restaurant abruptly closed a few months ago.
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Yeah, we try to keep the carbs down (especially bad ones), but sometimes when we get a craving and have to track down pasta (if we're not making it at home). There's a local place called Black Molly Grill (like the fish, and they in fact have a big tank with them), who have some amazing pasta dishes:

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Their seafood is amazing, great bar, excellent service and atmosphere. Stellar crab cakes too, so their pasta incorporating them is *chef's kiss* :D
 
I will never give up pasta. I've put a lot of things in the rear view over the years, but not that. I regard pasta as the thing that clears out clogged arteries through the miracle of my imagination. I mean it's the right shape and all, isn't it? #9 pasta works just like a plumber's snake, I'm pretty sure.
 
lizkat said:
I will never give up pasta. I've put a lot of things in the rear view over the years, but not that. I regard pasta as the thing that clears out clogged arteries through the miracle of my imagination. I mean it's the right shape and all, isn't it? #9 pasta works just like a plumber's snake, I'm pretty sure.
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Oh yeah, it's not given up, we just make it a more special type thing, hahaha, it would be easy to eat it every night since it's good, cheap, easy, but I need to be able to make it up the stairs without assistance :ROFLMAO:

The wife makes a simple, but sit-down-and-eat-a-5-pound-bowl-at-midnight pasta salad, you know, mayo, onions, celery, eggs, served cold. We usually have that when we have a nice big ham. :)
 
Oh, this is fun news we got today: a pretty notable artist paid the little G's art class a visit this week, she talked to her after class a bit, wound up showing her some other work and something still under production - and wow, she's going to use something from the little G for an exhibit scheduled for November.
 
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We've literally sat down at midnight and pounded a huge container of it, hahahaha, one time I woke up like 1-2am, it was on hand, I grabbed the whole container, two forks, glasses and a bottle of wine, ran back up to the bedroom (wife was up at this point), we went to town while watching some kind of rando horror movie.

I found a pic!

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DT said:
Oh yeah, it's not given up, we just make it a more special type thing, hahaha, it would be easy to eat it every night since it's good, cheap, easy, but I need to be able to make it up the stairs without assistance :ROFLMAO:

The wife makes a simple, but sit-down-and-eat-a-5-pound-bowl-at-midnight pasta salad, you know, mayo, onions, celery, eggs, served cold. We usually have that when we have a nice big ham. :)
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I've been known to step into the kitchen at midnight and cook a decent grab of linguine fini and serve it with nothing more than a little good olive oil and some salt. I try not to do that often, but when the impulse arrives, I don't even pretend to resist.

And yeah, I've been known to cook up some ditalini or rings on spec and figure out what to do with it later. Mayo does usually land in that picture, sometimes with tuna and egg and celery. "NO ONE'S WATCHING". I don't do that as often as I used to, though, because I'm not quite as active out in the gardens any more, and I don't ever want to actually end up having to "diet" my way back from too many pasta escapades.
 
Something I used to do (back years [and years] ago when I was with this "hippie chick" :D), pasta, anything, doesn't matter, a little EVOO, toast some walnuts, the preshelled , chopped ones from like the cake/cookie aisle, a good strong cheese, usually blue, and some fresh chives (from the garden ... next to the, umm, other herbs ... o_O )
 
An American academic - handsome, gay and Catholic, with Johns Hopkins and Harvard in his background - (this was at a time when life was not easy for people who were gay, though the German depart was exceptionally liberal and a welcoming home), whom I knew in my undergrad and postgrad days (he taught Middle High German - among other things - in the German Dept, and I was friendly with the prof and his wife - and very close to their son - about whom I have written here) introduced me to this strange concept of a pasta salad (and his - which he seemed to have on tap, in his flat, whenever impecunious, hungry (for debate as well as food) and thirsty students turned up, was amazing).

I seem to recall that spiral shaped pasta, tuna, mayo, red onions, sweetcorn, loads of black pepper, celery, tomato, all made an appearance; he invariably served it in large bowls with German wine. Delicious.
 
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My fruit and vegetables were delivered (though they seem to have forgotten to include the garlic...grrr...)

Never mind; I shall be in the farmers' market tomorrow and shall remedy this deficiency.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
My fruit and vegetables were delivered (though they seem to have forgotten to include the garlic...grrr...)

Never mind; I shall be in the farmers' market tomorrow and shall remedy this deficiency.
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Stay safe! Gotta keep the vampires at bay. Did you at least remember to order holy water and a pound of stake?
 
Pumbaa said:
Stay safe! Gotta keep the vampires at bay. Did you at least remember to order holy water and a pound of stake?
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Garlic isn't to repel vampires; rather, it is ordered because I am a greedy gourmand, and it is a core ingredient in absolutely (well, almost) everything I cook.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Garlic isn't to repel vampires; rather, it is ordered because I am a greedy gourmand, and it is a core ingredient in absolutely (well, almost) everything I cook.
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For sure. I love to add garlic to most things I cook as well. Repelling vampires is just a welcome bonus. 😜

Should you find yourself in this part of the world and want to take things to the ridiculous extreme for fun, consider visiting Bröderna Olssons Garlic & Shots. Let’s just say that the menu is … interesting.
 
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