Question 3/25: What's a great weekend trip near where you live? Or What's a good weekend trip you have taken?
I love hearing about where people live and the fun things near them and a fun weekend trip near where the live. Where? What's to do? Most important what's to eat?
For the campers and nature lovers amongst us, there is Watch Hill. A quick commuter train ride to Patchogue, a ferry to the barrier island called Fire Island and a well kept boardwalk to get to your primitive campsite. This is the only National Seashore with camping that I'm aware of. I understand they have a limited amt of glamping sites now where you only need to bring clothing but haven't tried them yet. May never because the man gets a peculiar facial twitch when I mention camping nowadays
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What to do? Loll in the sun, walk the trails, brisk swim in the Atlantic, kayaking. If you crave the night life take a long walk to the other Fire Island.
You eat what you bring w/ you for the best variety or in season dine at the concession stand or newly opened restaurant near the marina (great for boaters too!): hot dogs,hamburgers, and the like from the concession stand but no idea what the menu is at the restaurant.
No motorised vehicles allowed so cycle or walk. Should you have a lot of stuff bring a Red Flyer which will provide an easy carry all and the most noise you are apt to hear; love it there
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Good news ....hmmm. Let's see besides noticing that the bldg's elevator buttons are now outfitted with sanitizing disks over the buttons (what a world, what a world!) I can offer another Metropolitan Diary:
Their Corolla
Dear Diary:
For years, my wife and I noticed a car parked in our neighborhood that was identical to our beige 2001 Toyota Corolla. We often mistook it for our car when we didn’t remember where we had parked.
When we traded our car in for a new one, we were left with a brand-new hubcap we had never used that did not fit the new car. We were about to throw it out when we noticed that our old car’s twin was missing a hubcap.
We went out one night and put it on the car’s bare rim.
A month later, we noticed the Corolla with the new hubcap parked in front of a building where we knew the doorman. Thinking the car might be his, we casually asked if it was.
He said it belonged to people who lived in the building. Then he smiled broadly.
“You’re the hubcap people!” he shouted.
DGD enjoyed her congee this morning, so much so that she had it for lunch too. Unusually, I followed the recipe almost to the letter but only because I had most of the ingredients on hand excepting the mint. Great way to keep leftovers from taking up space. Added dried Chinese sausage and shrimp and shiitake mushrooms since I've a ton of 'em in the house. Since the chicken was already cooked I just threw it in to heat through at the end. PS- you can use
any kind of rice you have on hand and since the man hates cilantro, used parsley instead. Err had limes but didn't make sense to me so I finished w/ a little sesame oil. Gosh, guess I did change it round a lot, LOL. This is one of those dishes you can add most anything to:
https://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/chicken-shrimp-and-rice-stew
Tonight, it's a sheet pan meal of hake fillets, garlic, parsley, and sweet peppers with marble potatoes. Dessert will be lemon gelato and gingersnaps.
