Today, after sleeping in all the way until 9 AM, Kim and I did some running around. Falling for the “product placement” (if you can call it that) from Top Chef’s promotion of Whole Foods, I coerced Kim into driving with me to St Paul to check out their location there. To me it was very similar to Burnsville’s Valley Natural Foods except that they have a much better meat section. We’ll be back in the future when I am looking to make a really nice meal with meats that the local stores around here don’t offer.
After Whole Foods we went to Cub and picked up some Vidalia onions to make tomorrow on the grill at Chris and Laura’s. Craig showed me this awesome recipe where you bore a hole into the onion, add a beef bullion cube, pack it with butter and grill it in tinfoil to make it like French onion soup! We got a pack of provolone to melt over the top to finish it off, should be awesome.
After that we took a nap (me on the couch, Kim in the bed) and then headed over to Half Price Books (for the second time this week) so that we could take advantage of their 20% off sale for Memorial Day Weekend (if anyone has any South Metro used book stores they recommend, please let me know). I had been there earlier in the week to pick up another book suggestion, also given by Craig, for any book from Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” series. I got The Enemy and am halfway through it since I picked it up on Wednesday night. While it’s not as good as what I’ve read from Sandford’s Prey series, I am enjoying it enough to want to pick up the rest of the series after I finish Prey. Tonight I picked up three more Prey novels for half price and one other Sandford novel for $1. I guess that the $20 they paid Aaron today was immediately refilled by us.
Now we’re watching a terrible movie named P.S. I Love You which “stars” Hillary Swank and Lisa Kudrow. It’s a massive chick flick, it’s terrible, it’s mushy, and it makes you cry — especially after you’ve been drinking lemon furniture polish.
What are you doing this holiday weekend?
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May 27th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Bill turned me on to the Vidalia Onion recipe both verbally and also via this blog entry, and I tried it out tonight using the oven instead of the grill. IT ROCKS. Try it with some garlic as well…here’s an online version of the recipe that I found:
http://www.grouprecipes.com/4775/vidalia-onions-and-beef-bouillon-on-the-grill.html
Thanks, buddy. :-)
May 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Dave, no problem — actually thank Craig. All I did was add the provolone to the mix to make it more authentic. We tried it with the cheese this weekend and everyone seemed to enjoy it. We even made Laura’s with vegetarian bullion as she doesn’t eat beef and she didn’t seem to have any issues with it.
The only problem *I* have with the recipe is the aftereffects, you know…
May 27th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Well, (1) I still have to work on my melted cheese technique - I think I left mine to melt too long - it got down onto the foil and when I served I had to peel it off and into the bowl, and (2) I’ll get back to you and the readers with a full report and/or confirmation on the aftereffects. Or maybe I won’t. ;-)
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
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