Crawfish? Crayfish? Crawdads?
Mudbugs!
Late summer meals for us when I was a kid would be chilled shrimp. Big and fat and lots of 'em. Or cold chicken salad that my mom made by the vat.
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Barb - Aug 29, 2009 8:52:47 am PDT #6078 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Hil R. - Aug 29, 2009 8:53:12 am PDT #6079 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Grilled corn on the cob, grilled veggies, pasta salad, hot dogs.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2009 8:55:22 am PDT #6080 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Late summer meals for us when I was a kid would be chilled shrimp. Big and fat and lots of 'em.
Yum.
Being Jamaican, we don't have those. Never really thought about food that way.
I am completely unfamiliar with this concept.
Furriners.
Jesse - Aug 29, 2009 8:58:05 am PDT #6081 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fresh corn, for sure. Lobster rolls (not for me). Whatever meat/fish/chicken grilled on the back porch.
sj - Aug 29, 2009 9:00:59 am PDT #6082 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Dough boys, clam cakes, and chowder. And if I was lucky my grandfather would take me out for lobsters and make a pasta sauce with the leftovers.
Jesse - Aug 29, 2009 9:01:34 am PDT #6083 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Clam cakes! I have a wicked craving for clam cakes. I have to make them take me next time I go home.
sumi - Aug 29, 2009 9:01:43 am PDT #6084 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Very happy to hear Grace's good news.
I did watch a bit of Ted Kennedy's funeral - the bit where the "youngests" in the family came up and read bits from his speeches (Prayers of the something?) - I liked that. Plus, it was interesting to see the young ones.
Hil R. - Aug 29, 2009 9:09:29 am PDT #6085 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My mom told me that her synagogue held some sort of reception for Ted Kennedy shortly after he was first elected senator, and the youth group waited tables there, and she was president of the youth group so she got to serve the head table. She was totally mortified to serve Senator Kennedy the dish that the synagogue Men's Club was immensely proud of and served at every function -- individual meatloafs, with a peeled hard-boiled egg baked into the center of each one, which they thought was really clever because it made the meatloafs look bigger but only used cheap eggs, instead of more expensive meat.
sj - Aug 29, 2009 9:10:05 am PDT #6086 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Now I have made myself hungry for things that I doubt I can find in Worcester.
-t - Aug 29, 2009 9:17:43 am PDT #6087 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Late summer was usually when we'd go on vacation, so meals would be salami and cheese and crackers at rest stops or reconstituted dehydrated food at a campsite (Loch Ness soup is a stand out memory - it got scorched so my mom and I were the only ones who thought it tasted good - mmm, burnedness, yum), barbecued salmon or oysters on occasion, whatever restaurant Road Food turned up along our route. If we were home, I remember churning a lot of ice cream, but I have no memory of hot weather food. Whatever my dad wanted to put on the hibachi, probably.