h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We have had many excellent meals over the weeks, most home cooked and some delivered.

July 1st is Canada's birthday, and I made a great feast.

- iceberg lettuce salad

- 4-lb 12-oz (2.15 kg) of the tastiest and most tender beef rump roast

- excellent gravy from the roast broth

- creamy, buttery mashed potatoes

- fresh carrots simmered

- 2 cobs of corn, cooked and frozen, were shaved and the kernels heated

- store made apple pie with vanilla ice-cream, or home made rhubarb sauce with chopped, locally grown, strawberries.

Lunch will be roasted chicken with mashed potatoes.

Supper will probably be a Cobb salad with a peanut butter salad, made with multigrain gluten-free bread.

A really quick meal before Mrs Rev had a meeting to attend. A batch of Manwich (a sort of sloppy-joe) with several good spoons of a mild salsa. Served on toast.

Supper will be a turkey and cheese sandwich on oatmeal bread.

I splurged on lunch: I got Chinese takeout food: shrimp with vegetables, along with white rice and Crab Rangoon.

A simple Saturday supper here.

- a pound of lean ground Angus beef burger... lightly seasoned and browned.

- a day earlier, I oven roasted 8 fresh cobs of corn. Some of the shaved kernels top the beef.

- some fresh mushrooms, sliced, made another layer on the corn and beef.

- herself made a really good brown sauce to top all off the above.

- then, of course, some really smooth smashed potatoes top it all.

Oven baked about 40 minutes, and voila! A really fine cottage pie.

Our restaraunt dining ia open, but with restrictions and limitations. I want a late lunch one day this week.

The opener is obviously escargots baked in garlic butter, the topped with golden brown mozza and Swiss cheeses.

What to follow up with?

- French onion soup ?

- a fair sized Greek salad ?

- a batch of breaded & deep-fried butter-fly shrimp ? Accompanied bu a small Geek salad.

- a really well stacked club house sandwich ?

Supper will be a Cobb salad with mashed potatoes.

Fish and chips with breaded and fried zucchini.

I was given 2 very large zucchini - and neither of us like them. No luck finding another home either, so I foresee chopping them onto the compost pit.

Supper will again be a cobb salad with mashed potatoes. Chocolate chip cookie for dessert.

Sunday supper will be an experimental merge of some of my favourite food and some of hers.

A crock-pot of mac'n'cheese, with elbow pasta, Spanish onion, green onions, celery, seasonings and garlic. And a really thick and rich sauce with cream and 3 sorts of cheeses.

Then add in lobster, crab and shrimps. I am still on the fence about adding scallops.

And it proved to be excellent.

This is a fine eating week-end here.

Saturday way the 33rd anniversary of marrying Mrs Rev. We went out for a great dinner that included: Caesar salad, baked escargots topped with melted cheese, 6 massive butter-flied shrimp that were breaded and crispy, some beans and carrots, some rather dry mashed potatoes, a serving of ricotta stuffed manicotti pasta baked in a rosee sauce and topped with melted cheese. A number of pieces of garlic bread through-out. She finished with a wedge of really good lemon meringue pie.

Monday now is a statutory holiday - which means little ro a pair of retirees. But we will feast. Caesar salad, roasted pork tenderloin - with gravy, creamy garlic mashed potatoes, bread dressing, fresh cobs of local corn - lightly simmered then salt dusted. Cherry cheese cake.

Supper will be a Chef's salad, with mixed potatoes, carrots, and zucchini, and a turkey patty.

Yeah, aside from the salad? No taste for the rest

I tend to have the same supper every night.

Yesterday, I was gifted with 2 of my favourite cuts of a fresh butchered beef. Observing the particular needs, I will cook a tongue and a heart.

Today (Sunday)supper will be spaghetti with fresh made meat sauce. I will also have fresh sauteed red onion and portobello mushroom.

Monday will be colourful:

- a veggie stir fry in the wok

- pork ribs done in a honey/garlic glaze in a crock-pot

- a simple flavoured rice

- commercial mini egg rolls

- commercial breaded button mushrooms

Chicken stew.

I am always happy to know that you re still alive and enjoying your food, Rev Nick.