{"id":347,"date":"2009-01-12T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2009-01-12T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:28:25","slug":"need-anything-sliced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/need-anything-sliced\/","title":{"rendered":"Need Anything Sliced?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here it is mid-January and the sharp Christmas presents just keep filtering in.\u00a0 In addition to the W\u00fcsthof knife\u00a0 Mom gave me, last week a shiny new Mandoline<\/a> showed up in the mail from my Uncle Roy & Aunt Joyce.\u00a0 Note the “e” on the end there;\u00a0 No I did not take up playing a stringed instrument, it’s a kitchen utensil.\u00a0 OK actually maybe it wasn’t an official Christmas present;\u00a0 More likely they were just tired of listening to me repeat how much I’d always wanted one and when they saw a good sale they jumped at the chance to shut me up.\u00a0 It’s happened before.\u00a0 Anyway I was pretty excited to get to slicing, and finally decided on eggplants.\u00a0 I can’t explain how I arrived at that decision;\u00a0 I’ve probably only had eggplant once or twice in my life.\u00a0 It made sense at the time though, so we had Eggplant Parmigiana for dinner on Thursday.\u00a0 I have to imagine the recipe we used (out of our Betty Crocker cookbook) was some type of crime against true fans of the dish.\u00a0 But, having no idea what good Eggplant Parmigiana is, it tasted pretty darn good to me.\u00a0 Fried stuff with lots of cheese…\u00a0 What’s not to like?\u00a0 And, I’m sure it tasted considerably better with each piece of eggplant at an exact, uniform 3\/8″ thickness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday we again did happy hour with the Wilcox’s.\u00a0 We have established something of a routine, revolving around John’s new PC.\u00a0 Long story short, I “helped” John with his shiny new super-spec gaming computer, and after a few short weeks of “Call of Duty<\/a>” nirvana it quit working.\u00a0 Over the last several weeks I’ve been over there a few times trying different things to get the beast revived.\u00a0 I’ve been slowly running out of ideas though, and by now my troubleshooting sessions have degraded to giving it a few sharp raps on the side, shaking my head, then going out to dinner.\u00a0 Not very productive as far as the PC goes, but fun.\u00a0 We went to Bobby Bakers for a while, then went over to Tanner’s and picked up some takeout.\u00a0 In keeping with our New Year’s diet, we ordered all “small” foods to keep the calories down;\u00a0 mini corndogs, mini burritos, and mini baked potatoes, a.k.a. cheese fries.\u00a0 I figure anything with the word “mini” in it has got<\/strong> to be low-cal.\u00a0 Armed with this delicious dinner, we headed over to their house and played cards for the rest of the evening.\u00a0 We enjoyed the meal, and team Kenagy pulled out the victory in the Pitch game.\u00a0 As a side note, if you ever go to their house for cards, here’s a little tip for you:\u00a0 Throw the game.\u00a0 Susan may\u00a0 only come in at 4′ 8″, but she can get extremely aggressive when provoked and does not<\/strong> take losing well.\u00a0 That reminds me, I need to call and check on John, she was still\u00a0 pretty upset about that last bid when we left.\u00a0 (We said we were going to refill the Cheezit bowl and crawled out the kitchen window;\u00a0 It was very clear we were not allowed to leave until she won a game.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday rounded out pretty well.\u00a0 We got around rather slowly in the morning, then headed out to Mom’s for lunch.\u00a0 My intention was to do a little winter maintenance on my motorcycle (under the “better late than never” category) but after driving all the way out there discovered I had forgotten the key.\u00a0 Whoops.\u00a0 Oh well, no worries, I’d have probably electrocuted myself trying to take the battery out anyway.\u00a0 So, we headed out and had a solid lunch at the Best Burrito.\u00a0 After lunch Donette went home and I went over to my friend Ron’s house (a.k.a. “Flop” if you don’t recognize that name) to watch the MU game.\u00a0 Ron lives in the quintessential bachelor pad down in Brookside;\u00a0 A big 3,000 square foot house furnished with a leather recliner, big screen TV, refridgerator, and a microwave.\u00a0 What else do you need?\u00a0 You want to watch the game sitting down?\u00a0 Bring a chair.\u00a0 You want to be warm?\u00a0 Wear long sleeves, ’cause the thermostat stays on fifty-eight. <\/span>Want to cook something?\u00a0 The grill’s out back, coals are on the porch. <\/span>Cigar smoking isn’t just allowed, it’s encouraged.\u00a0 I swear, the guy could charge a $5 cover and make a mint.\u00a0 I spent most of the day over there, watching the unfortunate MU game and then the first NFL playoff game.\u00a0 After that I went back home and watched the second game, then played Wii games the rest of the night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday we started the day off right with a trip to the gym.\u00a0 We worked out for an hour or so, then replenished our systems with a 2500-calorie trip to their brunch buffet.\u00a0 (I thought I heard the cook remark that he’d never had to replenish the sausage gravy so many times in one day.)\u00a0 Thusly stuffed, we pretty much hunkered down at home for the rest of the day.\u00a0 Football season is coming to a close rapidly and I intend to waste every possible remaining day watching the rest of the games.\u00a0 That was really about the whole day, other than a good hour and a half of Rock Band later in the evening.
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