I'm helping her out after she shattered a kneecap.

Hopefully not against your "groan area".

orange chicken, of the not-so-good breaded variety

Oh, well.

Watermelon. I love watermelon, one of the few things that makes the summer tolerable for me.

Beer.

Mini ice cream cones about 3 inches high.

I've had four.

Hopefully not against your "groan area".

Nope. After thinking she could ride a Harley. She may yet, but not this year.

On topic, I had a pepperoni & jalapeno pizza from Gino's East.

Bananas. I love bananas.

I would just like to say that Old Pa is owning this thread.

Me: Lamb red curry chili paste w/green beans (or is it string beans?) from Pilin

Dogfish crab soup

mango

Arby's

Grilled Italian Sausage on a bun with onions and sweet peppers.

I would just like to say that Old Pa is owning this thread.

You are too kind. BBQ baby back ribs with seasoned oven fries and seasoned steamed fresh green beans with EVOO/seasalt and fresh cracked black pepper/pinon nuts:

Oh yeah, and a glass of Cab.

Cheese and crackers.

Revisit the pizza thing; almost as much fun as the omlette deal. Homemade pizza with cracker whole wheat crust, EVOO, minced garlic, diced red onions, fresh mushrooms, fresh tomatoes and green peppers, herbed turkey breast, crumbled bacon, italian herbs, four stong hard italian cheeses, fresh spinach and mozarella. Pretty much all your basic food groups. Oh, yeah, glass of pinot grigio. B*tchin'.

Tater Tot Hotdish, long a school cafeteria favorite, is basically browned ground beef seasoned with S&P topped with condensed cream of mushroom soup under tater tots and yellow cheddar, baked and browned. This can be improved.

Here some nearly finished browned ground chuck and lamb seasoned with seasalt and fresh cracked black pepper, garlic, italian herbs, cumin, sweet Hungarian paprika and worchestershire sauce await draining. On deck are chopped homegrown tomatoes, homegrown green and red pepper, chopped white onion, chopped celery (including tops). and fresh sliced mushrooms. Whenever I get the celery/green pepper/onions together, I feel a little like the Big Guy and the other end of the Old Muddy.

'Ello, 'ello, what's this? A different kind of pepper? Sweet? Spicey? Yes. Chop it up; throw it in.

Sauteed green and red peppers, onion, garlic, celery, and mushrooms now meet up with the fresh homegrown chopped beefsteak tomatoes to cook and reduce. The Lodge porcelain coated three quart caserole was essentially the only pot.

The assembled hotdish (previously cooked meat and vegetables topped with one can of Campbell's Healthy Choice Cream of Mushroom Soup (A/K/A mushroom white sauce in-a-can) under thawed onion seasoned Tater Tots topped with shredded mozarella, cheddar, and monterey jack cheese). Seasoned asparagas toasted bread crumbs and toasted pinon nuts. The glass of Moo is for SWMBO.

The served plate. Plenty of Heniz 57. Glass of cab. Yum, yum, yum!

homemade chicken soup

Grilled ham, fresh roasted (on the grill with olive oil and Rebel Yell) brussel sprouts and steamed fresh white corn, slathered with olive oil.

I love those.

Have never seen those but now I need to find them. I love olives almost more than any other food.

Just ordered a Gino's East Meaty Legend pizza. Pepperoni, Italian sausage, Canadian bacon and regular bacon.

Chop't Jamaican Jerk Chicken salad sandwich

Pimento cheese. Crikey!

Whole wheat pasta with homegrown yellow and red cherry tomatoes and bacon sauce and homegrown marinated cucumber salad.

Homegrown vine ripened yellow and red cherry tomatoes roasted with EVOO, sea salt, fresh cracked black pepper, flaked red pepper and balsamic vinegar get cozy here with fresh homegrown basil, thyme and flatleaf Italian parsley.

Here minced garlic sauteed in EVOO with fresh chopped white onion, fresh sliced mushrooms, homegrown green and red pepper, crumbled bacon, and pinon nuts relax in the pan.

Adding the roasted tomatoes and their pan juices to the hot tub to get cozy and reduce after dropping the whole wheat pasta.

Fresh homegrown burpless cucumber marinated with dill in the Svensk style. And with apple cider vinegar, balsamic vinegar, sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper in the decidedly non-Svensk style.

Here the whole wheat spaghetti has been united with the roasted cherry tomato sauce and some good hard Italian flavor cheeses.

The served plate. Roasted homegrown yellow and red cherry tomatoes with whole wheat pasta. Glass of cab. The candle is lit. The spaniels are drooling. SWMBO is impressed in spite of herself. Magnifico!