Another young couple setting up their first household.
About to discover the joys of shopping, cooking, cleaning, putting away.
Oh! What a lucky pair they are.
Kat and Will, twenty-year-olds, both love this.
And why not?
It’s easy, nutritious, inexpensive, and delicious.
A sandwich or a salad.
Recipe in q and a
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Commentary
Thursday, May 30, 2019
“Dad, be sure to send me your recipe for tuna salad.”
My twenty-year-old daughter has spent a lifetime successfully avoiding learning how to.
Cook.
I am a terrific cook and housekeeper so why should she learn?
She had other interests.
In fairness to myself, I early recognized that her genius lay elsewhere and never pushed it.
And, indeed, her genus did assert itself in academics and in extra-curricular school activities.
Times change.
We adapt.
So Kat is setting up a household with a terrific guy whom I much admire and love.
The couple must learn to shop and prep in very short order.
Must learn food budgeting.
They know little but, both being very smart, will learn a lot, quickly.
They are comforted by the knowledge that it isn’t sink or swim.
It’s worse.
They want so much to prove they’re ready.
They want to avoid at all costs the call home that they are short of funds.
They are ready, whether or not the phone call comes.
I am driving her to NYC on Friday with her new cookbook in hand, at the ready.
She has a lot of food questions.
I don’t provide many answers except of the most general, reassuring sort.
Too many details might be intimidating.
Will definitely blot out the big picture.
It’s odd, isn’t it?
How idiosyncratic we all are?
I’d prefer to show her how to make a Marinara Sauce.
How to roast a chicken.
Not to be.
“Dad, be sure to send me your recipe for tuna salad.”
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Announcements
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Continuing a check of our new delivery system.
Please bear with us.
love you
2. Also: the blog is growing fast enough to warrant a request for volunteer help.
From writing to mailing list enrichment to research, something fun for someone looking for a hobby related to the written word. Contact Dom: domcapossela@hotmail.com
Today is the start of a week of temperatures not falling below 62* and only one day of rain.
Let’s make sure we enjoy each day coming.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Our 419th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 419 posts we’re at the 8.38 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 4.01am.
On Thursday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 70* with a feels-like of 73* with a chance of a shower.
Dinner Wednesday night was a simple two-pound porterhouse steak with broccoli rabe and potatoes in garlic oil, salt, and crushed red pepper.
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Question of the Day:
Thursday, May 30, 2019
What is a good Tuna Salad recipe?
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Chuckle of the Day:
Thursday, May 30, 2019
AA man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment.
The man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5.00 am for an early morning business flight to Chicago.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he finally wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5.00 am."
The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9.00am, and that he had missed his flight.
Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed ... "It is 5.00am; wake up."
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Answer to the Question of the Day:
Thursday, May 30, 2019
TUNA FISH SALAD
Serves Two
5oz, sashimi grade raw, or can or jar of tuna fish.
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AROMATICS
gather in a blender
1 TB lemon zest
1 TB lemon juice
1 TB chopped dill pickle
½ t salt
¼ t freshly ground pepper
½ t mustard, Dijon (if using sashimi-grade tuna, substitute wasabi for the mustard)
2 TB extra virgin olive oil
2 TB mayonnaise
Fresh parsley-basil-mint, coarsely-chopped
and blend into a dressing.
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DRESS FISH
In a medium bowl, crumble the fish with a fork (if using sashimi-grade raw tuna, chop the fish to a medium dice.)
Mix thoroughly with the blended aromatics.
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ADD GREENS
Small dice and stir into the dressed fish:
1.5 oz celery, leaves are nice
1.5 oz red onion
1.0 oz lettuce
CONSTRUCT SANDWICH
Moisten bread with olive oil or mayonnaise.
Cover slice with a lettuce leaf.
Add the tuna mix
Add a tomato slice
Add some sprouts
We’re good to go.
Shopping lists?
In the past I wrote them out.
Today, they are notes in my smart phone.
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Good Morning on this Thursday, the thirtieth day of May, 2019
Our commentary talked about a first household.
We posted the weather report and calendar, and tracked the number of our postings.
We’re continuing the testing of our delivery system and asked if anyone would like to be involved in the creation of the blog.
We posted another chuckle and our q and a dealt with a tuna salad recipe to help out our friends setting up their first household.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.