daugen
Epic Contributor
real downpour last night, almost two inches of rain.
I just knew if i ran the sprinkler in the garden this would happen...
up early, fresh fruit salad made, kitchen finished cleaning up from last night.
Oh my did we have a good dinner if I may say so myself. Garlic, butter and white wine cooked fresh ocean scallops and shrimp we bought
at the docks yesterday. My friends remarked, this shrimp has no smell at all. Yup...not what you get in the supermarket.
But the scallops were awesome, $14 a pound for large scallops, just delicious. We ate so much we couldn't do dessert.
Extra large shrimp between 5 and 6 dollars a pound.
I asked the fish lady why the shrimp was so cheap, same price as four years ago. (thinking about Farmer's chickens and the price of chicken never going up) and she sort of groaned and said competition from overseas. Didn't look like these fishermen were real flush, this is hard work for not much money. We brought home extra shrimp and froze it.
Made a take home goody bag for my friends, including leftover candy grapes. Had never heard of them until I saw them in the store. The most amazingly sweet grapes I've ever had, talk about bioengineering the "sweet gene". My buddy has a sweet tooth and better he eat grapes than something with white sugar in it. Also packed a bottle of Eastern Carolina barbecue sauce, the peppery vinegary stuff so prevalent here. And lastly, I gave them the two largest sweet potatoes that we dug up yesterday. Now that was fun, never done sweet potatoes, some were large and oddly twisted around, some looked like my red regular potatoes. But I bet all good. Now that the garden is soft from the rain, I'll start digging up more.
Hope you all have a nice Sunday. I'm definitely planning on a nap today.
I just knew if i ran the sprinkler in the garden this would happen...
up early, fresh fruit salad made, kitchen finished cleaning up from last night.
Oh my did we have a good dinner if I may say so myself. Garlic, butter and white wine cooked fresh ocean scallops and shrimp we bought
at the docks yesterday. My friends remarked, this shrimp has no smell at all. Yup...not what you get in the supermarket.
But the scallops were awesome, $14 a pound for large scallops, just delicious. We ate so much we couldn't do dessert.
Extra large shrimp between 5 and 6 dollars a pound.
I asked the fish lady why the shrimp was so cheap, same price as four years ago. (thinking about Farmer's chickens and the price of chicken never going up) and she sort of groaned and said competition from overseas. Didn't look like these fishermen were real flush, this is hard work for not much money. We brought home extra shrimp and froze it.
Made a take home goody bag for my friends, including leftover candy grapes. Had never heard of them until I saw them in the store. The most amazingly sweet grapes I've ever had, talk about bioengineering the "sweet gene". My buddy has a sweet tooth and better he eat grapes than something with white sugar in it. Also packed a bottle of Eastern Carolina barbecue sauce, the peppery vinegary stuff so prevalent here. And lastly, I gave them the two largest sweet potatoes that we dug up yesterday. Now that was fun, never done sweet potatoes, some were large and oddly twisted around, some looked like my red regular potatoes. But I bet all good. Now that the garden is soft from the rain, I'll start digging up more.
Hope you all have a nice Sunday. I'm definitely planning on a nap today.
