Is done – even the Google Doodle is back to World Cup, instead of Americana.
We grilled but just for three. Brats, broccoli & potatoes, and I made a farro, herb & cucumber salad, trying to use some of the three pounds of cukes that I got in my CSA box, and the slightly browning sprig of basil. The broccoli grilled up fine – but it was not the bunch I would’ve picked out for myself, if I was selecting from the produce display at a grocery store or market. It had some yellow buds and one or two black squishy spots I had to trim off, and it was stemmy. But that made it good for grilling.
I took a bunch of bad iPhone pics of the Shorewood golf course fireworks. Here’re a few – more soon – maybe they’re here.
To extend the holiday weekend, we went to the Twin Cities for the Prairie Home Companion 40th anniversary show, on the lawn at Macalester College. It was fun – lots of good music, Gillian Welsh (who I just learned via twitter & this blog, did the album cover for Robyn Hitchcock’s new one that I intend to buy myself as a birthday present in August) & Dave Rawlings, Heather Masse & the Wailin’ Jennys, Howard Levy, but the harmonica player, not that Howard Levy, the actor – oh, duh, he’s Eugene; Old Crow Medicine Show – I think I’m a new fan, a couple of black women soul singers, The Steele Sisters, Iris Dement, (actually a lot of the performances are on YouTube, but look for the official ones); one of the best weather days of the summer; bathrooms in the gym so you didn’t have to use the port-o-potties. There were food trucks, and we got tacos for dinner. I had one fried chicken, that was kind of fish taco style, with slaw & jalapeño ranch dressing, and one with black beans & queso fresco – Mexican cheese that’s kind of like feta. The corn tortillas were a lot better than the ones I can get in Madison – less crumbly, smoother and more rollable. Again, more pics on the way.
Prairie Home 40th
Our spot – thank you, mom for buying the chairs, however many years ago
The lives of the cowboys will not be heard tonight…
No cowboys
No cowboys tonight
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings
After the show we checked into our hotel, a Hyatt Place. We wanted to get ice cream, but ended up at Luce instead. The same place Al & I ate when I came up in winter 2013 to get his tattoo worked on, and thought I lost the car keys.
I’m feeling bloaty and blocked up after all this travel, so I just got a spinach salad. I got a dinner size – shoulda got the small. It’s got dried cranberries, toasted pecans, and blue cheese, and was a little overdressed. I’m sure Al & I split the same salad last time. While eating it I was thinking it was one of those restaurant tricks, where you think you’re ordering the healthy choice but a couple slices of pizza might’ve been less calories than the salad. If I ate the whole thing, anyways – I left a bunch behind.
Spinach salad at Luce
