I’m infamous for my sarcasm. And rubbing things in.
How-some-ever, I grew up in Michigan. There are 2 kinds of people there. Memorial day you either go camping/boating or plant your garden. Labor day, you either go camping/boating or you harvest. Humidity index? We called it the humissery index.I’m betting you know what swamp butt is, too.
Don’t recall the names, (Classic Antique brain) but we plant special drought resistant tomatoes. At 81, my hip tends to hurt so we haven’t used the garden in 5 years or so.
After that we started paying the guy that mows our lawn to fill the Topsy Turvy’s.
They used to work very well, but the last 3 summers have been so brutally hot, we’re lucky to get 10 tomatoes, out of 6 containers. Several times before all this damn heat we’ve had tomatoes year around.
We used to get a “Delta breeze”. It’d hit the triple digits for week, then cool air would swoop in from San Fransisco and cool things down to the upper 80’s, which is beautiful with such low humidity.
Last few years I could count the time the delta came in on 3 fingers. Triple digits used to mean 100 to 107 degrees. Last few hears we’re talking 110 to 115!
Now let’s talk pasta! I’m half Italian and the rest of me is a mutt. I’m an Adams. We’re not prejudice, we’ll screw anything! If ma made pasta it was awesome. But I DON’T think a New York strip belongs in an oven. I still have pit bull jaws.
Went to a so called prestigious cooking school that was a joke. Took us to a slaughter house to teach us which part of a cow a specific cut of meat comes from. How is knowing what part of the cow a fillet mignon comes from going to change how I grill it?
First day of sauce making classes the chef says, "Today we’re going to learn to make an authentic Alfredo sauce. I piped up and said, “Ah yes. Good old American cuisine!” Man tells me it’s an Italian sauce. I said, “Really? I have a daughter in law that moved to America at the age of 25. We took up to Italy for 3 weeks so she could show us around. I had asked her why I didn’t see any Alfredo sauce on any menus, and she said that’s an American dish.”
Man told me she’s wrong.
