The Hard Boiled Cook

Archive for June, 2009

Soon to join salad bowl and fruit dishes.I hope.

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Hi, Charles!

Please sign me up.

I had a moment of hesitation at first: I googled hardboiled.com; forgot to add “cook” to it. I couldn’t figure out what they had to do with cooking…hmmm.

We finally had some rain Wednesday & Thursday afternoons. A real frog- strangler on Wednesday. Total of 2-3/4 inches for the two days. The pond still needs a lot more, but the deluge settled a lot of the scum that was on top of it. I think the fish are happier now! And the turtles.

By the way, we had two mornings when there was a big (dinner-plate size) turtle, up in the yard digging holes and burying eggs! The amazing thing is that you absolutely cannot find the spot where the hole was dug. I’m afraid the ground was so hot that they’re now hard-boiled, but they’ve been doing this for a long time, so they must have the program pretty well figured out!! And we have baby turtles every year, too. A good thing.

Anyway, that’s our big news here: rain and turtle eggs. How far I’ve sunk..

Stay in touch. I’ll look forward to hbc.

-Georgia

Today four of us descended on Java Noodles and had a most satisfying experience. There’s a small café in a strip mall on East Oltorf where you can get genuine peanut sauce ( I compare to some fine foods in Singapore) over any meat or tofu, or you can have what I had which was scrumptious, perfectly cooked eggplant served with a spicy red sauce. Some vegetable egg rolls and fried rice rounded out the experience for me, but Lydia had ginger sauce on patiently simmered and browned chicken that looked and smelled more like a work of art than a food dish…she didn’t let me taste any, just growled and raised her fork in my direction.

The hot and sour soup was excellent, though not quite as good, in my opinion, as Miss May’s Fongs in New Orleans. Rita reported that the coconut-based soup was on par with the best she’s had…and she should now after 20 years overseas.

Add to that the sparkling cleanliness of the place and you have a top notch experience.

Onions, beets, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, and squash grilled over charcoal and peach wood, then washed down with cucumber martinis.