Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Tex-Mex crunchy tacos tonight because my wife and son like them. For me they are meh. I'd rather have carnitas or chicken tinga tacos with soft tortillas.

 

After a WTF Friday night.

 

I have been battling a really crummy sinus thing for a while so not much cooking. I think my son is bring home pizza to eat while watching the game.

I felt good enough on Saturday to attend the game and Sunday to do a lot of carpentry work but really starting feeling bad Sunday night. Perhaps it would have been smarter to just rest instead. Today is better than yesterday.

Added in edit: Not covid. I tested negative twice.

 

My wife made clam linguini tonight.

Tomorrow the plan is Chicago style hot dogs but using Hebrew National hot dogs (almost as good as Vienna Beef) and without poppyseed buns because we can't get them. Dinner before the game.

 

With the doubleheader yesterday (watched the afternoon game on TV with my MIL and our dogs. Attended the evening game with my MIL and son. My wife stayed home with dogs and watched on TV) we ate wings from somewhere between games and they were meh. Also had a side of soggy fried okra.

Today I spent most of the day cutting mortises for replacement wooden window screens and gluing them up. Ran out of clamps but they are all cut. I am really glad that I have a Powermatic mortising machine instead of either hand cutting or using a router to get most of the wood out and then chiseling the corners. Don't tell anyone but in the past I have used a router for this kind of job and cut them a little long. My laziness was hidden by the piece with the tenon.

Anyway with all the carpentry work my MIL offered to buy us Thai dinner from Wah-Ha-Ha.

 

That is some good stuff!

 

Spent the day with my wife visiting her old college roommate who was visiting her daughter and grandson in Tampa. So no cooking for me.

My wife's friend's husband is a HUGE UK basketball fan but he wan't with us. He was at home back in Michigan. We went to the 2014 Final Four with him and his son where we had a great time but were both disappointed in the results. I told my wife's friend to be kind to her hubby when they talked on the phone later. Nice guy. Now that he is retired from GM I can tell about getting a drive around the GM proving grounds and an up close look at a protoype Vette with all kinds of camo paint on it so that Car and Driver or Road and Track couldn't get a good picture from outside the compound. I am sure that everything he did for us that day was totally off limits

 

Got a request for chicken torillla soup tomorrow. Sounds like a great idea.

I just have to make sure tha I get enough limes for margaritas.

 

I take it this isn't a yes/no choice.

 

Tacos are always a great dinner for watching baeball. Going to be switching back and forth between UF/FSU and USA/Japan.

Making two kinds of tacos. The one I like is chicken tinga with soft corn tortillas. Made pickled red onion especially for it. Also making Tex-Mex tacos with hard shells.

Made a batch of pico de gallo that can go on either.