Santi Ficarnos » Food and dining

Lemonade

santi — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:34:15 +0000

One of the things that I really miss in the winter is lemonade. This springtime special is not as tasty in the winter you just do not feel like having lemonade when it is cold outside, hot tea and hot chocolate are a lot more winter time treats to me at least. I really love spring and all the special things that are better in the warm seasons including lemonade. Baseball and lemonade are two of my favorite spring time treats.

Turkey

santi — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:00:39 +0000

We bought our turkey for Thanksgiving Day today and it is a huge beast, dang thing must weigh 25 pounds, maybe 30. It is the biggest turkey I have ever seen not on the hoof. We used to have some huge old turkeys on the farm when I was a child but we did not eat them, we always had one of the young turkeys for Thanksgiving, my Grand Mother said that they were tender and tasted better than the old ones. I love all the food and football coming this week and I can not wait to get this huge turkey into the oven on Thursday it will be terrific.

Sub sandwich

santi — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:12:16 +0000

We have a great sub shop here close to our house, Jersey Mikes is a great sub chain that we really like to frequent. They make a wonderful sub sandwich and I really like their bread. That is the reason I do not go to some of the other sub chains is I do not like the bread and what is a sandwich with out good bread. I get the wheat bread most of the time and it is so very soft and tasty, makes the whole sandwich great. I like either the number eight or nine the club subs. The wife likes hers Mikes way which has oil and vinegar which I do not like but she likes them that way and thats all that matters.

Tomato’s cleared

santi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:01:22 +0000

Tomato has been cleared of the chargers of making several hundred people sick in the last month or so, and the finger has been pointed at the jalapeno pepper. I knew the tomato would be cleared he is one of the life bloods in the Italian family, with out tomato’s an Italian would starve to death. The nasty little pepper is something we can live without, although I do like Spanish food from time to time. I will have to wait till the all clear is given before I have Spanish food again, I can make it on spaghetti if I have to.

Cubs game

santi — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:42:31 +0000

Every year we make a trip to Chicago to see the Chicago Cubs play my team the St Louis Cards, and this year we are going to do something very different. We are going to watch the game from the Wrigley Field Rooftop Club, it is located right outside the walls of Wrigley Field and the view is great. Cubs roof top games are fun and exciting, I can not wait to see my first game from the roof top outside of Wrigley Field, I have been inside Wrigley Field for games, and that is very exciting in its own right, but watching a game from the roof top is going to be a blast.

Wrigley Field Rooftop Club is located right down the right field line and only 454 feet from home plate, it is closer than any of the other rooftops that have seats at Wrigley Field. What is more amazing is that it is closer than some of the seats inside the stadium. This trip is going to be so much fun I can not wait for my Cardinals to beat the Cubs and I will be right there to enjoy it.

The food they offer on the rooftop is fantastic and that is going to add to the party. Good food, beer and most of all great baseball. This is going to be my kinda trip. Next year we might bring a big group to enjoy this view with us.

Grill night

santi — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:44:06 +0000

Tonight we are throwing some thick steaks on the grill, it is a beautiful night to cook outside, if we can keep the bugs away long enough we might just eat outside too. One bad thing about cooking and eating outside are the bugs. I bough a bug zapper last year and it works pretty good but only controls a small area. The mosquitoes are pretty thick this time of year and some around here carry the West Nile Virus. Sure do not want that. Ok off to light the grill.

Unsafe food

santi — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:20:41 +0000

Everyday it seems we have more and more unsafe food in our world. How long will it be and there will be no good food left, unless you grow it yourself do you really know how safe your food you buy is. I try to buy the best produce possible and the best meat but everyday there is a recall of one sort or another. Everything we eat is processed to one degree or another, it is very hard to raise your own meat when you live in a city, maybe moving to the country is one option.

Bad milk

santi — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:55:45 +0000

As I went to pour the milk on my morning cereal this morning I caught the whiff of sour milk, as I brought the carton up to check I looked at the date still in date for 3 more days. OMG the aroma of sour milk hit me, I still smell it, next to skunk and perhaps week old laundry sour milk is the worst smell in the world. I still have the reek of it in my head several hours later. I will have to go buy some new milk as soon as im not nauseous any more.

Western style plates

santi — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:45:50 +0000

My sister that lives in Oklahoma has a very different motif in her home, her home is a log home that they have decorated in the western style, with saddles as chairs and old guns on the walls she also has western dinnerware. that is very attractive and very fun to use. You can see most of the items she has at her home at Western Cowboy Home Decor, check out their web site at http://westerncowboyhomedecor.com, a fun shopping site for people who love the west and western decor.

Food storage

santi — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:14:39 +0000

With the price of everything rising we have decided to horde a bit of food and water, just in case there is a national emergency. We look at the expiration dates and only store foods that have at least a year shelf life left in them, and we will rotate them as they get close to expiring. I wish we had a stockpile of gasoline that will become the hardest to buy if the price keeps going up. Maybe after the election this fall prices will get back to normal, I hope.