Claude Clemmons » Food and Drink

Fried Chicken

Claude — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:34:06 +0000

When I was a kid, we had fried chicken on Sundays. It was just what everyone did. We got up early, went to church, and then we all headed to Grandma’s house for Sunday dinner. All the adult women brought food with them or spent time in the kitchen preparing a big meal for the whole family. While dinner was cooking, us kids would play outside or, if it was raining, we would run around in the basement.

Sunday dinner was usually the best fried chicken you would ever taste, along with home made mashed potatoes and a variety of fresh vegetables and salads. I loved dessert, too. It was often a big slice of pie, but sometimes we would have thenmost wonderful cakes made from scratch.

Ahh. Those were the days of great food and family time.

No Coffee – It’s an Emergency!

Claude — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:12:31 +0000

Coffeemaker broke this morning. It didn’t have the decency to make my morning pot of coffee before breaking. It broke as I was closing the lid over the coffee filter. So no coffee for me this morning. It’s going to be a very long day.

Breakfast for Dinner

Claude — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:20:48 +0000

Sometimes I just have a hankering for breakfast foods at night. I’m not much of a breakfast eater during the weekdays. But tonight I decided I wanted to have hash with scrambled eggs and toast. So that’s dinner for me tonight.

Grilling

Claude — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:32:31 +0000

The new gas grills are just too darn expensive for me to consider for just me and a fire for cooking. So I bought a nice little propane camp stove and it works great for grilling just one or two hamburgers or steaks. It does not take up much space and it only uses a little propane each time I use it. In fact, the same little tank of propane has lasted me from Memorial Day and is still going strong tonight.

It was a great deal and it does a great job. What else can you ask for?

Toss the Tomatoes

Claude — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:34:54 +0000

Well, looks like all the tomato plants I bought this year got that fungus that I read about. It seems that every tomato plant sold by all the big outlets like Home Depot, KMart, Lowes and Target were infected with the fungus at the nursery or wholesalers before being shipped. The fungus has slowly killed each plant. I cut down each plant and tossed them in the trash can. So no tomatoes in my garden this year.

Morning News

Claude — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:53:09 +0000

Every morning I make a small pot of coffee and sit down in the kitchen to read the morning newspaper. If anything happens to my newspaper so I cannot read it with my coffee, it starts my day off on a bad note.

This morning there was no newspaper in my driveway. So I guess some hooligan has stolen it, or more likely the newspaper delivery person forgot to throw mine in my driveway. That seems to be happening a lot lately.

Good Start

Claude — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:00:50 +0000

Yesterday I went to a local coffee shop called Paccini’s which is just a half mile or so from the shopping center where I buy my groceries every week. It sounded Italian and I like a lot of Italian things, so I drove over and went inside. The coffee shop is small and intimate, but the extremely high ceiling made it a little too noisy for my preference. I ordered a plain Columbian coffee to see how they compared to the taste of my regular Starbucks coffee. It was very good and a dollar cheaper than Starbucks. So maybe I’ll go by there a second time and see if the noise issue is really all that bad.

Taste Test

Claude — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:57:28 +0000

As much as I like Starbucks coffee, it is an acquired taste and I wonder if drinking Starbucks coffee exclusively is depriving me of other coffee tasting adventures. There are other coffee shops around town besides Starbucks. Almost all of them have free wi-fi, so I can sit at a small cafe table or in a booth with my laptop and sip on a fresh cup of java. I think today I will try one of the other local shops and give their coffee a taste test. It might be time for a change.