None of us had been there ever, so we went over to the crab-fest at Magnolia’s restaurant in Inman Square, all agog at the prospect of some fine crab-tastic eats. And the crab was good but not great, which made us all sad. Smallish portions, which we all liked, and they have shandy, which is always fun. But nothing grabbed us — the flavors were okay, the preparations were okay, the decor was okay. We felt bad to dis a place for being merely adequate, but life is really too short to waste time on anything less than spectacularly delicious. Sigh.
Month: August 2004
carrot-buttermilk-dill soup
What to do with that cup of onion juice? Use it to steam up a bag of baby carrots with salt & pepper, then stick the immersion blender in there and whiz them up with buttermilk. Mix in snipped dill, serve cold. Yum yum. Low fat, low maintenance, highly tasty. It would probably even go nicely as a first course with the kebab kubideh, though if you haven’t so generated onion juice you could probably just steam some onion in with the carrots.
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Dude, I have GOT to find me a White Castle. Tiny little burgers with fried onions, in a cute white castle. Never been to one, but yum. And cravings aside, this movie’s awesome — love it, quoting it already.
PickleFest 2004 (duuude)
Another armload of cucumbers this week, so in addition to the 4 jars of russian horseradish-dill pickles, I just made another big batch of pickles using my uncle’s special pickling-spice mix. They smell awesome. (His mix is mustard seeds, dill seeds, broken-up bay leaves, allspice, cloves, and hot peppers, from what I can tell.) So I’ve got pickles up the wazoo — good thing I really like pickles. Also palming a few off onto pickle-loving friends…