Dinner tonight - or last night.

Aha! so, you've informed me that I've eaten eel....not a fish? Verrry interesting. explains a few things about the texture. The description I see calls it cusk eel.

well, it just seems like an eel to me. Same thing with snakehead.cusk was pretty firm fleshed an a bit dense no?

You'd love London. Jellied eels and liquor. Not my cup of tea though.

whats that green ****?. I gotta know fist ifn Im gonna eat something

Eel is great if first lightly rotisseried or grilled and sauced with something like a Mirin/soy /garlic thai ketchup mix qnd then lightly broiled. Served with sticky brown rice its a meal fit for epicurean survivalists

Liquor, I think it's mostly made up of parsley, but I'm not brave enough to enquire further.

I'll take your word for it.

Now I'm hungry and want some smoked eel. Yum.

I'll make do with the smoked salmon I've got. Not as good but it is more easily accessible.

And Schillerlocken. I want some of those. (smoked dogfish belly)

when I was doing mine contamination source work for Environment Canada, I taught the crew how to build and set eel traps. Wed easily catchs several a day(sometimes a dozen or more. Wed clean and strip em and cut em into sausage like chunks and grill em with my "Cmp sauce" which was mostly ketchup (or anything with tomato) garlic, soy and sometimes bacon/ I was the paqrty chief but often Id cook when I tried to get em to thrives in the wooods. Course, qnything goes if wed chopper in enough beer >Camp smoked eel often had bad results if we didnt have a stable cook. Id set up a field smoker made like a tipi made out of canvas duck that qe used to cover fire wood. OOne (or more) times the camp cook 'd be hammered and let the damn smoker catch fire qnd by the time the crew got bqck to douse it the thing was all burnt up and the eel was ruined. SO we didnt smoke it too much even if we hqd a few weeks to work there.

I had to look it up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/traditional_pie_n_mash_76469



yum

we had that on mash in Hamburg. No jellied eels though (for us). Smoked eels all the way.

LAST NIGHT:
Four small slices of leftover grandma-style pizza with mushrooms, reheated in the oven.

Lasagna. I am not a fan of lasagna. I do like though all the ingredients, in different ratios and forms. Oh, I wanted to dismantle the slab of cooked pasta dough, and suck the insides out. Table manners prevailed.

We had a nice Sunday brunch in Laguna.

Tonight I’m cooking Sunday dinner. I’m making grilled chicken with lemon basil pasta. I’ve made it before, simple recipe and everyone likes it.

Grilled Chicken with Lemon Basil Pasta

folks doin ok out there"
Good ta hear from you all .(try working on getting about 100 more federal electors in Cali)
I like the way the cheicken is seared. I love it that way

Yes sir, doing wonderful here in Cali. Busy busy busy. Dance lessons, softball, PTA, shoot me now!

JC, mad glad to see you.

Sounds great, natch.

Meanwhile, my nursed basil on the window sill is on the limp side as basil goes. I need to pay more attention.

So nice to 'hear' your voice again. Sounds like you've had a busy busy year.

Pioneer Woman is one of my favourite recipe sites. Always simple and tasty options there.

ditto.

I'm closed to giving up on people, almost entirely newcomers, calling California Cali. Language invaders.
This is a bit like the old Frisco aggravations.

I'm not the only one, as it has taken for a long time as newbies descending. I still hate it.