KELLY * DINNER * July 25
Okay, this is a day late (but hopefully not a dollar short), but we just made it back to town today and I had a serious baseball game to watch with my mom last night. As many of you know, we were in Granite City this past weekend for my 20 year high school reunion (at which we discovered the blog has many lurkers. Thanks for that and keep reading.). The reunion was a hoot. I enjoyed seeing Liz briefly abandon the CSA box and eat the following: Popeye's chicken, church BBQ pork steaks, White Castles, a Taco Bell meximelt, caramel rolls from a tube, and a margarita in a pool (thanks Aunt Ginny). Anyway, we did try to balance it out a bit while we were there. We brought produce with us to Granite so we could cook for my mom. Yesterday--after stopping at Fournie Farms in Collinsville, IL--to pick up some corn, okra, hot peppers, etc. that will be featured later this week--we (okay, largely Liz) made a lovely red curry with shrimp, skapes, sweet peppers, and squash (based loosely on this). She also made (less than aesthetically successful but tasty) vegetarian spring rolls. It was a little bite of Vietnam and Thailand right in the Granite City kitchen (if Vietnam and Thailand had really dull knives). Anyway, I thought the dinner was lovely. My mom and my Aunt Ginny were quite pleased with the entire meal (and enjoyed having someone cook for THEM). Liz was less than pleased with the shrimp that we bought at Schnucks, but what are you going to do. Anyway, I thought it was a swell end to the trip home and hope so much that my aunt enjoyed her dinner (as we THOROUGHLY enjoyed swimming in her pool in the idiotically hot Southern Illinois heat and being served margaritas). Anyway, Liz is going to talk some smack about the meal when she posts her half of the blog at a later time (as she's now too sleepy), but believe me instead. It was tasty if a bit shrimp-y. I think she may have still been turned off as a residual effect of the previous night's White Castles.
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