There's a Place for Us

Want a bunch of meal opportunities?  Slow roast a pork shoulder at night while you're sleeping!

Homemade Roasted Hot Sauce

Pork & Rice bowl 

 I like variety and bowls.  Rice, beans, lettuce, pork and hot sauce to make us strong like bull.

Lilac Bushes

Brooklyn is its own Botanical Gardens in spring.  Many of the neighborhoods have the trees we flock to see in the park.  And it's all free!   However, walking around right now post COVID, I have the constitution of about an 87 year old.  I'm moving faster but when someone comes up behind me quickly like the hundreds of runners do on the street right now, I feel fairly vulnerable, crackable.  If I fell right now, my body might just break apart like a Nature Valley granola bar.  I've had a few missteps taking the curbs, misjudging distances, still walking more wonky then I'd like.Corona screwed with so much of my equipment.  Reactions times are a little off.  It's as if my knees aren't talking to my leg muscles or operating on a 7 second delay. I'm unsure if it's all gonna click back to normal but I'm counting on it. Again, can't imagine how hard this would be for someone compromised.  I've always been sensitive to the old folks in the city, walking to get groceries hunched over, wondered how they must feel so unguarded.  I had a peak into that world today while walking and please, no thank you!  At least for 30 years or so, God please if you're listening.

Graham Home for Old Ladies

Nigella Lawson's Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

Could It Be It Was All So Simple Then?

Shrimp and 'Grits'

Okay, I took several liberties as I didn't have grits but I did have a medium course corn meal.  I thought to do a Cajun-y style dish after work but it had to be super quick.  P actually helped in the kitchen for the first time in 4ever! by constantly stirring the meal.  And that really is the secret to the smoothest polenta and corn meal masa.  Maybe it's just in your mind but something about a constant stir incorporates flavor in that SOB. While he did that I seasoned the shrimp in Old Bay Seasoning. I small diced a piece of mango chicken sausage and jalapeno.  When the masa was finished I added a pinch of cayenne and some EVOO, a little white cheddar grated on the plate. And for a quick finisher, I added some leftover frozen corn.  I cooked the corn, shrimp and sausage in my wok.  Wok's are great for making it happen.  I get a rush, sort of like you're performing a live show.

I bought a bag of frozen shrimp from Amazon Fresh and really for the money, you can stretch more than a few meals out of this bag, so it's worth it as a little treat here and there.  There was a time I'd walk over and get fresh shrimp from the market on Court Street on my day off.  It's about a 45 minute walk there and back. Its funny how little things change slowly like this.  There is no way in hell I'd walk all the way over there just to get shrimp for dinner now. Not only that but waste the time in my day off to do it.  How was it once all so manageable even just 5 years ago?