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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Hawaiian BBQ                                             [1]
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Howdy Ruth!

-> -> Have they got a menu posted yet?
->  HN> ->
->  HN> Nope, but when I went by there today there was someone inside
->  HN> working...that's a good sign!
-> 
-> Usually a very good sign.  Especially if they come back the next day and
-> work more.
-> 
My schedule has been such that I have not been able to spend much time at
my workspace painting so I have not been able to monitor the progress...I
may make it down there today for a few minutes....but I'm not positive
about that!

-> ->  HN> good source of comfort food for Annie who has German roots.
->  HN> ->
-> -> It is sad; you really need both a good business head and a good cook
to
-> -> make a place work.  If the food is good, people will come but if the
-> -> food isn't so great, it'll be evedent by the lack of customers, no
-> -> matter how business smart the owners are.
-> 
->  HN> It's sad indeed, the food was top rate, Saubraten one week (on
->  HN> Saturdays only) and Roladin(sp?) the next week and great items on
the
->  HN> rest of the menu...I usually got the Jaegerschnitzel, oh was that
->  HN> good!! AND they had good German Desserts as well!
-> 
-> Sounds like it was much better than the ill fated trip to Blob's Park.
-> The jagerschnitzel was OK but other things were much less than stellar.
-> But, the company was fun.
-> 
Well those days are in the past, we don't really plan to eat there
anymore...the saurbraten now comes from a seasoning packet. 

-> -> We're headed up to eastern NC this week end; I already told Steve I
want
-> -> to eat at Moore's BBQ in New Bern and T&W Oyster Bar in Cape
Carteret.
-> 
->  HN> Gonna stop at South of the Border??(grin)
-> 
-> We did, and that was probably the least favorite of our meals.  I had a
-> bbq sandwich, Steve had a ruben (as spelled on the menu).  Just not that
-> great a meal as compared to the next one at T&W's. 

Silly Girl! You NEVER stop at South of the Border for food!!! You stop
there to get fireworks...rubber tomahawks, and cheap souvenirs! Oh and
fuzzy dice to hang from the rear view mirror! But NEVER NEVER eat there!!!
Oh well, now you know that (grin).

 It's owned by
-> someone we knew; he's still active but not as much so in the day to day
-> running of the place. Steve had scallops panned in butter; I ordered the
-> shrimp panned in butter.  The waitress brought out 2 scallops orders
-> instead so we mentioned I'd asked for shrimp.  She checked, and yes,
-> she'd made the mistake.  Shrimp was brought out a few minutes later and
-> we were told to enjoy the scallops, no charge.  The scallops were small
-> but tasty; the shrimp was a bit bigger but fantastic! They were cooked
-> to the absolute peak of perfection, not a moment more. A hint of garlic
-> would have been nice but not totally neccessary.  My appetite was a bit
-> off so we took most of one order of scallops and most of the shrimp back
-> to our room, along with some hush puppies.  Stopped at a grocery store
-> the next day and got a bit of DIY salad bar stuff to go with the seafood
-> for lunch.  Even cold the shrimp were still great; the scallops not
-> quite as good but still OK. We each had a small salad with our original
-> meal, as well as a couple of sides and hush puppies.  The hush puppies
-> were the standard, no onion or extra corn in them but well cooked, no
-> extra grease.
-> 
Now THAT sounds like a meal worth travelling for! I'll admit to not
ordering scallops very often anymore. It is not often anymore that I am
satisfied with how they are prepared. And knowing that they often "plump"
them with Trisodiumphosphate does not encourage me either.

->  HN> We have a pretty big (and growing) Samoan population as well.
-> 
-> Some of those guys are pretty big! (G)
-> 
Only some?? 

-> ->  HN> INCREDIBLE!!!! Chocolate mousse with something crunchy in it and
-> ->  HN> chocolate cookies that were halfway between brownies and fudge
they
-> 
-> -> .........................the dessert guy.  I'm sitting here drooling
at
-> -> the offerings.
->  HN> ->
->  HN> Oh yeah! (grin) Right next to the desserts was the coffee and so
all
->  HN> my co-workers and I sat there and ate chocolate mousse and drank
->  HN> coffee...the sound system was malfunctioning so when the big
corporate
->  HN> guys were making speeches it was quiet back where we were...so we
just
->  HN> had more coffee and mousse! A GREAT time was had by all !
-> 
-> Sounds like one of the military events we went to one time in Berlin.
-> We were off in another room with several other couples; I think about 4
-> tables.  The speaker system between the 2 rooms wasn't working well so
-> we only heard little snippets of the program.  One of the other tables
-> was a bit rowdy but we had a nice quiet group at ours with good
-> conversation.
-> 
The Mariners have quite a few employees so we had to spread out over quite
a large area of the ballpark's "Terrace club level".

-> ->  HN> on the mousse! It was the best mousse I've ever had!
->  HN> ->
-> -> And nobody was the wiser. (G)
->  HN> ->
->  HN> Oh they knew...but happily they had more mousse back there than we
->  HN> could eat so there was plenty for all!
-> 
-> That's good.
-> 
-> ->  HN> I'll be making some Ibarra mexican hot chocolate this weekend,
it's
-> ->  HN> gonna be cold and wet..good time for stews and hot chocolate!
-> 
-> -> I'm hoping for sunny weather this week end, at least in NC.  On our
way
-> -> over to the clinic a couple of hours ago, the radio station local
-> 
->  HN> Today is the warmest sunniest day of the last couple of
weeks...it's
->  HN> 4:45pm and it's 60 degrees out...and tomorrow the bad weather
returns!
->  HN> Made
->  HN> porkchops and mushrooms in a dijon cream sauce last night, very
hearty
-> 
-> Looks good.  We started with a rainy week end but it cleared off late
-> Saturday morning.  Encountered more rain on our way home (including some
-> rather hard downpours) but we'd had a good week end otherwise.
-> 
We've slipped into our normal fall routine...but a bit cooler than usual.
chat with you soon
ha
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