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My colonoscopy went well: there were no polyps nor wee beasties nor squatters so it is good-bye for five years. Friday afternoon I see The Good Dentist for my crown. I am getting it at both ends as it were. I forgot this upcoming weekend is Memorial Day Weekend. I must ask Someone if he is working. He usually does, downtown at the Comiccon or whatever it is called these days. I’ve never gone to it. He describes it as quite colorful and full up with folks in costume, many of them haven’t been out of their parents basements since the last convention. But I digress. The point here he works all weekend and I will be home alone. I use the time to cook, a combination of traditional (for me) Memorial Day foods and a few new recipes.
I will make a big bowl of macaroni salad, which is made once a year and eaten with relish. I’ve figured out the ‘best’ so it’s very good. I enjoy ribs so this will be made as well. The grill doesn’t work (worse luck) so all my cooking is in the oven. I will make the first batch of ‘Windex’ the official summer cocktail, which I put is a cerulean glass bottle for easy access.
As for new dishes I have lots of proposals. Given all that macaroni I probably will postpone any pasta possibilities. There is some logic to make a few things I would like but Someone wouldn’t. Eggplant parmesan comes to mind. I love it so yet I am often disappointed in what I get in restaurants. I have a few recipes that assure me I will have a proper one, crisp and not soggy, nor drowned in sauce. It looks like a lot of work. Perhaps I will ‘practice” at something like making oven fries or onion rings – I’m certain the first tries won’t be so good.
Maybe I won’t cook much at all. We have some meal kits to use and it seems silly to shop for ingredients when these are there are already paid for. They have the advantage Someone can eat his serving when he gets home. Yes this sounds more practical (and less caloric) although I will make that macaroni salad. After all it is Memorial Day.
37 comments
May 23, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Moving with Mitchell
Great news on the colonoscopy!
I’ve never eaten macaroni salad with relish.
May 23, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Urspo
Mine has chopped celery, carrot, scallions, poblano pepper (in lieu of bell), and red pepper. Sometimes I add cubed cheese or SPAM out of whimsy. All is eaten with relish.
May 23, 2024 at 4:02 AM
loriahawkins
So glad everything went well. I am making your macaroni salad this weekend also and I can’t wait! Have a great day.
May 23, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Urspo
I will think of you as I make mine.
May 23, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Anonymous
glad your procedure was concluded successfully. Memorial Day was formerly called Decoration Day when all the families went to and cleaned up and spruced up their family cemeteries . Another holiday appropriated by the military. I know it’s when the Atlanta Gays used to Flock to Pensacola Beach. I don’t recognize it in its current form. I do respect and honor the military , which used to be November. So much division and treachery. I am at wits end with why the former isn’t convicted and in jail. Rant over. Nothing special for me. DwightW.
May 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Urspo
It is indeed amazing and depressing how such a sociopath only grows in popularity. In some ways it isn’t surprising: people do not like to admit they are wrong and history is full of narcissistic psychopaths people turn to
May 23, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Debra She Who Seeks
Enjoy your macaroni salad!
May 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Urspo
It is certain I will.
May 23, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Sluggy
I make a pan of mac and cheese last week to accompany smoked bbq ribs we did in the smoker. I had a bottle of milk that was going off soon so that was the impetus for that dish. We still have tons of the mac and cheese though I do make a mean macaroni salad that my kids use to rave about and devour. Summer surely calls for macaroni salad. What is your recipe for it? I never wrote mine down and just sort of “winged” it.
Enjoy your long weekend!
May 23, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Urspo
My recipe for it is via The Tube of Yous “Food Wishes” best macaroni salad. He points out he makes the dressing first, and adds the chopped vegetables to it to pickle some. While that marinates, he makes the macaroni – he has precise directions for this – and when they are combined let sit over night before adjusting. I must say it comes out well – not ‘mayo slimy’ as some of my relations used to make it.
May 23, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Sluggy
Well do what works for you. I found the secret to good mac salad is to add chopped up bread and butter pickles. You get the brine but also the sweet, just like in life. 😉
May 23, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Urspo
In one of my upcoming essays I talk about how folks have different versions of the same thing – and sometimes have ructions over the recipes. 🙂
May 23, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Old Lurker
Outside of COVID precautions and perhaps the smell, I don’t understand why you would not attend a ComicCon? You could cosplay in something appropriate for a Dungeon or a Drragon and find people who might like to roleplay with you.
May 23, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Urspo
I ought to if only to help out. Someone says people there regularly have panic attacks and with poor social skills often become unhinged.
May 23, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Steven
Great news on the colonoscopy! Macaroni salad with relish is the best. We also add that to potato salad. Enjoy the Memorial Day weekend. Eggplant parmesan is our favorite and when it comes to restaurants, maybe 75% of the restaurants get it right. We don’t like soggy either.
May 23, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Urspo
I will report to you how well mine comes out. I want it crispy no rubbish.
May 23, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Steven
Don’t forget to use kosher salt (no rubbish) to help drain the excess fluids from the eggplant.
May 23, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Urspo
I have heaps; I plan on using it whenever possible.
May 23, 2024 at 6:54 AM
jefferyrn
Mom made a great macaroni salad. I remember being outdoors at a park somewhere enjoying it with hot dogs and baked beans.
May 23, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Urspo
Ah the delights of summer eating! Outdoor grilled meats, mac salad, beans, fruit salad and such.
May 23, 2024 at 7:46 AM
David Godfrey
Good to hear all is clear on the southern front (or should that be rear?) It may be a great weekend for extended napping.
May 23, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Urspo
When in doubt get horizontal.
I spent most all of Wednesday sleeping a combination of no sleep on early Wednesday AM and the anesthesia. Colonoscopies are slimming – I was down to 78 kilos!
May 23, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Robzilla
I’m glad to hear there’s great news on the medical front. Yes, please make that macaroni salad. Even I will soon disclose what special thing I’m having twice this Memorial Day Weekend.
May 23, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Urspo
I will drop by to have a look-see anon.
May 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Anonymous
It sounds like you are needed at ComiCon. You could set up a booth with Dr is in and make a nickel a pop for screwing heads on straight.
Isn’t macaroni pasta?
I give up on your english measurements. Some bloggers put a conversion app on their side bar. Maybe you could.
I cannot be looking them up all the time. I hate the procedure.
Practical Parsimony
May 23, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Urspo
Hey, it’s Memoria Day weekend last thing I want to do is shrink heads ho ho ho .
Macaroni vs. pasta: a lot of ink has been spilled on the topic is macaroni a type of pasta or are they synonyms. I think of macaroni as a type of pasta, the ‘elbow’ type used in most macaroni salads.
I recently noticed in my side bars there are no favorite links. I wonder what happened? I can’t seem to put them back either. I must consult with Hugh, who is Blog Master.
May 23, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Anonymous
Good news on your colonoscopy! Mine is next month, June 12th. I hope I get good news like you did. Ah, Eggplant Parmesan. It’s always been a mystery to me why so few restaurants get it right. Crisp on the outside and a delicate, slightly bitter soft flavor on the inside. One restaurant down here gets it right but their ambiance leaves a lot to be desired. At one time they advertised themselves to be “Family Friendly” which here in Gayland means folks like me would not be welcomed. The Greek family that owned the restaurant (still in operation today as The Rehoboth Diner) got the message that discrimination affects their bottom line and thus dropped that “Family Friendly” code word crap. However, I have never felt welcomed in there the several times I’ve been there since that fiasco. Ironically the last time I was there was after my last colonoscopy. I was famished after the test and wanted to devour a delicious properly prepared Eggplant Parmesan with fries. And I did. It was perfect. Perhaps I will take Pat and Glenn with me after next month’s colonoscopy. As I said, the restaurant is still there although the parking lot is rarely full (they’re on Route One, not Rehoboth proper). We’ll try not to “gay it up” while we’re there because I truly would like to devour another properly prepared Eggplant Parm. Thanks for reminding me.
May 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Urspo
A dilemma indeed: bad ambience but great egg parm. It is hoped they connect the dots you are a valued customer and over time they soften up and not the eggplant.
May 23, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Anonymous
Oh by the way, it’ me on Retired In Delaware. For some reason Google doesn’t want to recognize me.
May 23, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Ron
Let’s see if this works.
May 23, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Ron
Ah ha!
May 23, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Urspo
Not to be worrying! I guessed it was you!
May 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Robert
I could often be described as living under a rock. I had to look up Memorial Day, now I know. Well done US government in marking the significance of it with a public holiday.
May 24, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Urspo
Officially Memorial Day is to commemorate the dead who served in the military. Veterans Day is for living/retired military.
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer in the USA. Many hit the road to weekend destinations. Mostly with outside cooking BBQ that sort of stuff
It is also International Leather time in Chicago.
Around here it is also Comic-con weekend.
For me it is three days at home to myself, cooking.
May 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Robert
Thank you for elaborating. It sound like blissful cooking especially since the recent tests are clear.
May 25, 2024 at 7:44 AM
larrymuffin
What no BBQ, no fireworks, no singing God Bless America by Ethel Merman. Invite the neighbors for a brewski around the pool. Do your Daddy Spo thing.
May 26, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Urspo
What is sad is the far right has turned all American holidays into their own, making them a Nazi-like celebration and then accusing others who won’ as un-American traitors.