We met some friends, Vicki and Wayne, for lunch this day at the Lemon Grass Thai Restaurant in Maryville to celebrate the sale of our apartments as she is also the realtor who sold them. The restaurant is not particularly fancy from the outside but the inside is very nice as we got to see by being the first of the lunch customers.
Our RV club has been the Tennessee Travelers Chapter of FMCA (Family Motor Coach Assoc) but this summer we decided to dis-affiliate with FMCA and just be a group of friends who like to travel together. So, our last official chapter event was a Christmas lunch at the Chop House in Knoxville attended by 13 members – here we are around the tree.
If you’ve been following, you know I’ve had lots of fish while Bev is in Florida – I didn’t even post about my batch of hearty and delicious Manhattan Clam Chowder – but I decided it was time for a break so I opted for some chicken to use the rest of the package from making dog food (previous post). When I want baked chicken, I often look to “Closet Cooking” blog. I really like Mediterranean flavors and in looking for lo-cal meals in my recipe file, I discovered the recipe for Greek Skillet Chicken from Kevin – not baked but only 319 calories per serving. I was cooking for myself and didn’t want too many leftovers so I cut the recipe in half to get the one below.
Our dogs are getting fussy about their normal food of a little chopped chicken mixed with kibble and I had seen a spot on TV espousing the benefits of homemade food over store bought kibble, so I made up a batch using this recipe.
While picking up the seafood for the cioppino, I noticed some good-looking dressed fresh trout in the case and since this is another fish that Bev won’t eat, even fried, I bought a couple that weighed 10oz. each.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and got home safely, especially if you got caught up in the snow.
Beverly and her sister, Pat, did not grow up in a seafood/fish eating family and to this day they only eat a limited variety of fried items, except salmon for Bev, so while they were in Marco I cooked fish for Cindy and me including a dish I really like but rarely eat - Cioppino.
This seafood stew is basically seafood boiled in a tomato broth so it doesn’t fit my girls desires but it works well for Cindy, good buddy Joe, and me. I used the recipe for Easy Cioppino (Seafood Stew) from “Damn Delicious." The site says this about the dish - “The BEST ever seafood stew, loaded with clams, mussels, cod, shrimp and scallops. So cozy, so hearty, so easy.” The recipe is for four servings which I followed for the broth but I just used enough seafood for three servings.
My girls go to Marco Island each year for three weeks and I went the first week this year to help with the drive down then I flew home on after a week. My suitcase stayed in Marco and I used an old Lands End bag to bring home my important stuff so it contained my laptop, charger, and mouse; my hearing aid charger; my phone charger; a container of pills; my sandals; and I was able to cram in my coffee cup. I can only imagine what the TSA screener thought of my unusual collection.
Before going to the airport, we went to Punta Gorda’s
Fisherman’s Village for lunch. The village
is a pretty long wharf full of shops and with several restaurants. They are getting ready for Christmas.
