Supper

[small h]

In compliance with local regulations, we grilled our food on Saturday, probably the last time this season. The garden was reasonably generous, providing us with enough lettuce, carrots, cucumber and basil to make a respectable salad. I supplemented with some greenmarket produce, shrimp, halloumi cheese from Trader Joe's, and balcony-grown sage that I used on some steelhead trout from Hudson Valley Fisheries.

Et voila.

[small h]

I didn't start a new Supper thread when there was one already, I hope.

[small h]

Fried okra.

which I did not just buy based on someone else's post, but rather have had in the house since last week. With the last of the ranch dressing.

Cucumber soup with feta and avocado. The avocado is from the fruit guy outside the Citibank, and his stuff is shit, and this is the last straw: an avocado that blackened before it got any significant kind of ripe. This is literally all I could salvage from it. This fruit guy is dead to me. Mark my words.

[Sneakeater]

I made fried okra last night!

Cosmic!

[small h]

Hence my disclaimer!

[StephanieL]

Chicken curry with cashews and butternut squash, over basmati rice.  N was pressed for time and used premade curry paste, a rarity for her.

[small h]

Miso-glazed eggplant, oyster mushrooms and shrimp. Balcony kale salad. Maybe should've pulled back a little on the soy sauce and ramped up the vinegar, but not bad, not bad.

 

[Wilfrid]

I feared I'd never eat again after last night's baccahanlia. But  just pulled a rack of ribs out of the oven. I will nibble on one or more of them later.

[small h]

It's hot, so I gotta eat cold stuff. Zaru soba with okra, ikura, nori, carrots and pickles (both from my garden), silken tofu and scallions. The nori sogged up a little 'cause it's humid, but everything else was fine.

dinner1920×1440 297 KB

 

[StephanieL]

A Tanya Holland recipe: steamed mussels with fennel, pancetta, and "three onions" (onion, shallot, leek).  Crusty sourdough to sop up all that good sauce.

[Diancecht]

hubby being from ohio and texas decided to whip up a batch of chili. this version has homemade chili powder from some dried chilies we bought from tierra vegetables, and is topped with scallions, cilantro, sour cream and cheddar.

there’s salad and ranch dressing (1:1:1 ratio of buttermilk, mayonnaise and sour cream) on the side.

[StephanieL]

N made a kind of soup with RG Royal Coronas, the remaining small tomatoes from our garden, lots of garlic and herbs, and shavings of Romano cheese.  It felt very end of summer.

[Diancecht]

minestra dell’orto (soup from the garden), served with a heaping tablespoon of pesto 

macedonia di frutta (italian fruit salad) for dessert

[MitchW]

Zucchini and yellow squash, cooked to shit in olive oil, marinated a bit in its own stuff and red wine vinegar, chili pepper, etc. Good.

 

Penne marinara. (Not my) balcony basil. Very good.

Edited September 17, 2023 by MitchW

[small h]

The balcony provides! Red Anaheim pepper, chard, sage leaves. I was gonna do something fancy, like stuff the pepper, and then I said to myself, Sylvia! you just got your hip replaced. Make an omelet. So I made an omelet. Needed more feta, and that pepper! Kapow.

Edited September 17, 2023 by small h

[voyager]

Just keep listening to yourself.   You're getting good advice.

[small h]

Sometimes! But I might also tell myself to have a third martini, which, no. Don't do that.

[voyager]

(Is this the second hip?)

[small h]

This is the first hip, again. After I dislocated it for the third time, I and my surgeon decided to swap out the implant for a more stable model. The ER doesn't give you 10th-visit-gets-a-free-upgrade punch cards, or I'd have kept going.

[voyager]

From (4 dislocations) experience, I can attest that there is one singular very specific movement, the angle of which causes dislocation.   A slow learner, it took me a while and not a few misadventures to get this.    And sadly, it isn't specifically described in the "precaution" instruction.    Much good luck!

My last one was late afternoon in Paris and the ortho specialist in ER said something to the effect, "Merde!   This is my 5th relocation today.  My shoulders are shot.   I was hoping to go home without another."   

[small h]

🤣 H has been present for all three of my reductions and seen the strapping young residents shoving my femur back where it belongs. It is a workout! He says it's a good thing I'm pumped full of ketamine and/or fentanyl and/or propofol, because it's not a pretty picture.

Sheesh, four dislocations. My second two came from pulling my knees up and flopping them over to the right, which is a comfortable way for me to sit (or it used to be). My first dislocation came from a half-split, which - since I can do a full split - seemed like a moderate choice. Guess not!

I'm so sorry you went through this so far from home. I could've easily had trouble in Lima, or worse, on the flight back. My "blessing" is that it was on my couch the night we returned.

[voyager]

The only problem I had with my foreign adventure was keeping our weekend hotel staff from freaking out.    I kept telling them "Just call the pompiers!", knowing that once they came I'd be in good hands.

[Diancecht]

hope you’re feeling better 

======
baked black cod; matsutake gohan; sautéed green beans and zucchini with onions and parsley 

 

[Sneakeater]

5 hours ago, voyager said:

From (4 dislocations) experience, I can attest that there is one singular very specific movement, the angle of which causes dislocation.   A slow learner, it took me a while and not a few misadventures to get this.    And sadly, it isn't specifically described in the "precaution" instruction.    Much good luck!

My last one was late afternoon in Paris and the ortho specialist in ER said something to the effect, "Merde!   This is my 5th relocation today.  My shoulders are shot.   I was hoping to go home without another."   

VOYAGER:  Doctor it hurts when I do this. 

DOCTOR:  Don’t do this.  

[Sneakeater]

Yeah I’ve told that joke here before.

You think Henny Youngman only told it once?