Shrimp Wrap ~ Smoked Corned Beef ~ Oatmeal Cookies

Good 34º foggy morning. Sun was out yesterday. Nice.

I think I'm going to rename the feral cat that I feed.. the black and white one.. I started calling him BC (black cat) and since he comes and goes and the food disappears and I NEVER see him, his name will now be Casper!

 

I forgot to tell you that when I was at Costco I saw the wraps back in the meat department. I was happy! But then the meat guy said they were shrimp wraps.

BUT I LOVE the Asian Chicken Wraps!!! Nope, they switched them out for the shrimp... cilantro lime shrimp. They are just barely OK, Jeannie and Bill didn't even like them! Not near as good as the Asian Chicken! I'm going to write Costco a letter.

This from yesterday... Thanks JudyD for the laugh! Also JoeK, thanks!

And here is my Tommy Brady's St. Patrick's Day post that was on FB...

I love it!!!

The appearance of corned beef in Irish cuisine dates to the 12th century in the poem Aislinge Meic Con Glinne or The Vision of MacConglinne. Within the text, it is described as a delicacy a king uses to purge himself of the "demon of gluttony". Cattle, valued as a bartering tool, were only eaten when no longer able to provide milk or to work. The corned beef as described in this text was a rare and valued dish, given the value and position of cattle within the culture, as well as the expense of salt, and was unrelated to the corned beef eaten today.

I prepared my corned beef by washing it and soaking it in water to remove as much of the salt as possible. Then I put a thin coating of mustard on the meat and liberally sprinkled on Tuscan Seasoning... www.vgourmet.com (garlic, spice, toasted sesame seed, lemon peel, red & green bell pepper, sea salt, scallions, toasted sesame oil)

 

and some garlic powder. The aroma of this seasoning is unbelievable. Heaven! And into the smoker it went........

 

 

 

Historically this date...

1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

How sad the case has not been solved nor the art recovered!

2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.

And births this date include....

1837 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)

 

1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)

.. Thanks to him we have those horribly noisy smelly trucks that most men love!

1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)

.... Do you think he ever heard a Who?

1926 – Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)

 

My sister, Marion, knew Peter. He had a house at Tahoe and her real estate office rented it out for him. He told Marion lots of Hollywood stories, especially ones about Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, with whom Peter socialized. The stories were always whoppers!

1938 – Charley Pride, American musician

.... love his voice!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIRTQ_k-Sg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2rEqLtpl8g

1970 – Queen Latifah, American singer and actress

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die and find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't and die and find out there is.

Albert Camus

born

November 07, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria
died

January 04, 1960

Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime), but Camus himself rejected this particular label. Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he became the first Africa-born writer to receive the award, in 1957. He is also the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award.

 

I removed the beef from the smoker, and was surprised it had shrunk so much!

 

I mixed in the Boursin cheese and some bacon with the mashed potatoes and the sauteéd cabbage .. cooked some carrots, and it was dinner!

The corned beef tasted like pastrami. It was good, but I think I'll stick with the traditional cooking of the corned beef next time. The potatoes were AWESOME! The beef will now be put on deli rye bread for sandwiches. So ends another St. Patty's marathon.

Next we prepare for Easter, in three weeks.

 

Funny, nobody mentioned the kayaker in yesterday's blog.

 

ALWAYS welcome and so appreciated are comments left either here or emailed to me. Thanks! ox (hint hint hint)

All I know. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

March 18th

 

Drooling..................................................