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April 08, 2006
Turkish Dinner
Well my Turkish dinner went off without a hitch tonight!! :-) Clare (from work) and Joanne came over for a "home-cooked" Turkish meal because they are thinking about going to Istanbul at somepoint in their lives...Of course as soon as I heard Clare mention that I've been dropping her little hints and forcing her to look at my pictures, eat the food, listen to all the stories...etc...everything Turkish. :-)
Anyway, today finally came!! We started the morning early (for us) and got up and at 'em by 10AM. Our new cleaning lady (yeah did you know we have a cleaning lady?? Yeah, it's still strange to me too ;-) came for the first time today...So, Seymen and I decided to go out to breakfast and hung around (outside of the apartment) until 1ish. From there, we went to Opening Day for the Red Wings Game! It was really nice weather, except that it was freezing cold...but the sun was shining and when the wind wasn't blowing, it was pleasent. We had these really nice seats right behind the red wing's dug out. This cute little boy (maybe 4 or 5 years old) was sitting in front of us with his father. It was just the two of them and I think his dad was really excited to be at the baseball game with his son. His son, on the other hand...was REALLY excited to eat all the food at the baseball game :-) He sat there munch on the cotton candy, occasionally yelling out "Home Run! Go Red wings". Well as soon as he finished his candy, he sat down in his seat...then got up...stepped on some peanut shells, and then started chanting "Candy Apple! Candy Apple!" It was so cute. They got up and then a few minutes later returned with a Candy apple. At one point maybe 50 licks into the Candy Apple, peanuts started to sound appealing to him :-) But his dad held his ground...Poor kid. I think he might be either really hyper tonight or really sick from all the food ;-)
So, we stayed until the 4th inning, but we were all too cold and I needed to go still go grocery shopping for dinner tonight, and cook...So we headed out. While I went to Wegmans, Seymen did one last check out of Chase Pitkins. It's offically closing. There's nothing left there except a handful of items, most under $20. The shelves are empty and all the employees just look sad and defeated :-((( I couldn't stand staying in there for very long. I almost got teary over the situation because it looked so depressing and EMPTY...and that must say ALOTTT because although I do enjoy my drill, I'm not one to go hang out in Chase Pitkins/Home Depot/Lowes on my free time!
Anyway, for dinner I made Mercemeck corba (Lentil Soup)...and SUPRISINGLY!!! I have finally...well not "MASTERED" per say, the recipe sent by Seymen's Mom...but I have successfully accomplished making an ediable immitation of Mercemeck corba. I have also found a solution for the hand blender and it splattering soup all over me and the kitchen. I had a rough moment in the beginning, when I splattered boiling hot soup on my forehead. Yeah...it was a sight to see...Thankfully I had everything re-cleaned by the time Clare and Joanne arrived...AND lucky before Seymen got back from the gym...just so he couldn't make fun of me, or the red spot on my forehead ;-)
So we had the soup, Stuffed Green Peppers, Dolmas, and Clare and Joanne brought homemade apple pie for dessert. It was delicious (the pie) :-) Seymen and I lucked out and were able to keep the left over pie ;-) hehehe :-) It was really a great night. We had some really interesting conversation and a few good laughs...especially when Seymen did a Demonstration of the "Tushy Cleaner" in his bathroom :-) I'm sure that this will be a memorable night for Clare and Joanne...whether they want it to be or not ;-)
Anyway, now we are both really tired. Seymen is sitting on the couch watching the discovery channel...something about molecules bonding together...blah...blah blah...I was going to fall asleep sitting up watching that...so here I am :-) Anyway...I'm thinking that my bed looks really really cozy right about now...so I'm gonna hit the sack. Nighty nightt :-)
Posted by beth at April 8, 2006 10:56 PM
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Don't believe Beth -- that soup was really incredible. If that isn't the real thing, I can't imagine how good the real thing is. I like lentils to start with, but this soup was incredibly velvety, rich and complex. When I saw the recipe, I was amazed at how simple the ingredients were. I am planning to try to make it next week, Beth! The dolmas and the peppers were really tasty too -- a wonderful meal start to finish.
Posted by: Clare at April 11, 2006 09:39 AM