Archive for November 30th, 2005

Kansas City

Posted in Kansas_Sunflowers on 11/30/2005 10:53 pm by Queenkv

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We drove out to Kansas City last Saturday. Part of the city is in Kansas and the other part is in Missouri. It was like driving from Covina to Vegas….but faster. It took us about 50 minutes to cross the state border.

Folks at the station recomended the Plaza. OK - there’s two Plaza shopping centers. We ended up at the Country Club Plaza - which had a sweet Christmas light display at night. I enjoyed Kansas City. I felt comfortable among the high-rise apartment buildings. Maybe I’m a city girl at heart.

It was a beautiful day - warm and sunny. We ended up walking around without our jackets. The Plaza had plenty of high-end stores, Armani and the like….plus an Apple Store. We were content window shopping and eating. We had some tasty Mexican food at Baja 360. They had tiki torches burning around the patio seating area. We dipped inside Better Cheddar and sampled a lot of cheese. I loved my cookie bit dipped in clotted cream with brandy and jam. The first time I tasted clotted cream was at high tea in London. It’s light, sweet and rich. I looked around for clotted cream in American grocery stores with no luck. So inside this cheese store, I bought my own bottle of clotted cream.

 

Holiday Cooking and Baking

Posted in Kansas_Sunflowers on 11/30/2005 10:31 pm by Queenkv

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The Sunday before Thanksgiving, Mark and I figured we could do this Turkey dinner business after a dress rehersal. So we roasted a chicken. Yummy. We did pretty good, considering it was our first roasted chicken. Hell, it looks nice in the picture and it tasted good. We cooked most of it.

Next time, we’ll get a string to tie up the legs. I didn’t expect digging out the gibblets to feel so disgusting. I stuck my hand in and pulled out these slimy, squishy jello-like body bits. Now I know I didn’t have the nerves to be a doctor. Ewww.

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Later that week, my co-worked invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah! We didn’t have to worry about roasting the turkey. We dumped it in the freezer and have plans to thaw it out, later. So, I made a pasta side disk with smoked clams and prosciutto. Mark baked two pecan pies with Maker’s Mark. The bourbon tasted awesome with the whip cream.