3 fried eggs, toast and fresh scrapple was tonight’s dinner
Last night I grilled pork chops medium rare from our neighbors’ pigs. Served with homemade coleslaw and apples I baked, then put on the grill to get grill marks. The cabbage and apples were from our neighbors’ farm.
Leftover lemon chicken on a bed of spaghetti.
I left out the two best parts. When plating the apples I drizzled a bit of honey over them. Honey our neighbors bees made from our fields.
And to drink, I opened a cellared 8 year old stout. My gf had wine, but she noticed there was a swallow of my beer left in the bottle. Before I could stop her she drank it down. Note it is bottle refermented, on lees. 
ETA: It’s 10%ABV, but so mild, I would have guessed 4.5%.
Jif chunky peanut butter and Welch’s grape jelly on an open-face whole wheat sandwich, with some baby Swiss cheese slices on the side, two kosher dill pickles and some Smartfood popcorn, all with a glass of ice water. Later, some mini Kit Kats and a glass of cold milk.
We leave tonight for a two week vacation. Dinner last night consisted of all the things that would not last two weeks. Did a saute of celery, onions, carrots, potatoes, some cream, leftover turkey breast.
Would make again, it was pretty good, but we were totally winging it. Grey Goose on the rocks to drink.
Saturday night I attempted to make Julia Child’s Coq au Vin. It was MARvelous! I have done it the right way - next time I’ll take some shortcuts.
Last night we ate at Yvette’s in St Martin’s Quartier De Orleans. It’s a tiny neighborhood restaurant with six tables. Locals outnumber tourists most nights.
I had Conch Ceviche, Whole Snapper Creole Style, rice&peas, plaintains, Johnny cakes.
My gf had Conch Chowder, Conch&Dumplings, salad.
White wine to drink and a shared slice of guava pie.
Crab bisque, shrimp tacos and some white cheddar mashed potatoes, along with a glass of ice water.
Spaghettini again. I’ve said before that I’m very particular about pasta sauce, and my absolute fave is Pustari’s semplice tomato sauce. But since I have no good reason to drive all the way into the Big City just for a few jars of pasta sauce, I’ve been looking for a substitute. And when I say “I’m very particular” I mean that I have actually dumped jars of pasta sauce down the sink because they were crap.
So I’m happy to say that a US-made brand that found locally, probably available in many US groceries, is just about as good. It’s “Little Italy in the Bronx” marinara sauce. Ingredients: Italian tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, onions, carrots, sea salt, garlic, parsley, thyme.
I always thought carrots was an odd ingredient, but apparently it helps to mellow the sauce. The Pusateri’s version has it, too.
Dinner last night at Jai’s Fusion Restaurant in Sint Maarten on Simpson Bay. Crazy, good food. We shared Chicken Masala over pasta in a cream sauce, a mushroom dish with four different shrooms each handled differently then combined in a fiery red sauce, and an olive appetizer with 4 green olives bigger than I’ve ever seen.
For dessert there was a cool presentation. A red hot slab of metal was placed on our table. On that was placed a dark chocolate brownie (with tiny chips of hot peppers in it). On that was placed a ball of homemade vanilla ice cream. Over that was poured a chocolate sauce flambé which boiled as it hit the hot metal. What an experience!
A bottle of a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, two bottles of Perrier, and after dinner Amaretto to drink.
Ate out at a Thai restaurant whose dining area just reopened this week after 2 years. The service was great - we were the only 2 diners there. The food was excellent.
Dinner at Lagoonies in Sint Maarten. We shared an olive tapenade appetizer, then enjoyed Raviole du Dauphiné and salad. Sauvignon Blanc to drink. A heavenly meal.
Thursday was my birthday so last night my parents bought me a throwback to my childhood birthdays, Pizza Hut.
Last night was Vesna Taverna, a restaurant in Simpson Bay Sint Maarten owned by a Foodie couple. One is French, the other Greek. Their menu is French/French fusion, except for Saturdays when they do a Greek thing.
Greek soup, lamb gyro with amazing tzatziki sauce, a Greek salad with chunks of tomato, feta, cucumber, mint, peppers, olives, etc. humus, moussaka, Spanakopita, dolmades, with a crisp ice cold Pinot Grigio.
We ran into Jai on a beach yesterday. I asked him about the pasta (which was awesome and a shape I never saw, sorta like the little ear things Orecchiette?).
He blushed and explained he made the pasta himself, based on orecchiette.
Wow, foodie heaven.
BBQ tonight on Wegman’s bakery kaiser rolls, potatoes au gratin and fresh strawberries from a local farm. I also made a strawberry coffee cake and am eyeballing a piece of that for dessert.
Poblano queso with the last of my tortilla chip scoops (I thought there were more … ? May have to augment with Triscuits, cuz man, those things go with everything.)
Boneless chicken wings - okay, they’re pretty much chicken nuggets - with a homemade dipping sauce: chili sauce, garlic, cilantro, and sesame oil.
… so, how was “real” conch like?
Nifty! (How’d it taste?)
Gods, I miss good Thai food. One of the few downsides of getting away from a big city (the concrete! the traffic!) is losing out on fun exotic foods.
That’s friggin’ adorable.
Simple, yet elegant. (Man, I lurves me some Smartfood!)
Pure heaven.
Last night at Dinghy Dock they were grilling their fresh catch. I scored two small snappers. I ate everything except the bones and eyeballs.
A large Caesar salad and then a three-meat (veal, beef and pork) ragu in a tomato basil sauce over pasta, with a glass of ice water and a glass of Cabernet. Later, some Dove dark chocolate pieces with a glass of cold milk.