Oct 31st

I hate when Halloween is on a Saturday. It just seems to go on and on FOREVER!

Last night's dinner at Tesoro's was nothing short of a food orgie!!! I'm so full today!

It started with ....

-pizza bread

-an olive and cheese platter

-mozzarella, roasted peppers and prosciutto platter with balsamic vinegar sprinkled around

-Clams Oreganata

-Eggplant Rollatine

-Shrimp wrapped in Bacon (the BEST!!)

Then out came the pasta with a fresh tomato sauce and basil on top

I ordered the Veal dish. It was Veal bla bla bla Marsala. I don't know the word that was in the middle. It was veal, rolled with spinach and cheese in the middle with a delicious Marsala sauce and mushrooms on top. YUM! PJ got the Salmon. They also came with potatoes and broccoli.

THEN came the dessert....

Platters of Tiramasu, cream puffs, chocolate mousse cake , cheesecake, cannolis, cookies, boscotti and Tartuffo, PJ's favorite. They brought PJ over an extra plate full of Tartufo because they know he loves it so much.

We didn't end up leaving until about 11:00. We had a really nice time and a GREAT dinner!

The Yankees have Game 3 tonight. It went until almost 1:00 AM. I went to bed but PJ told me that................................................................................................................................................

THE YANKEES WON!!!!!!

Oct 30th

Tonight is our Softball Dinner at Tesoro's. I've been salivating over the shrimp wrapped in bacon with that delicious sauce over them for about a week now in anticipation!!

Good food, Good friends.... what more could you ask for!!!!!!

Oct 29th

I spent a good part of today organizing and packing for Sunday's crop. I LOVE going to crops, especially the fundraiser ones. I hope I win a raffle this time or at least someone at my table. We need lots of excitement!!

Oct 28th

Boston Market has a $1 meal deal going on with a coupon. I decided to give it a try. I was plesently surprised. It was delicious and I'M STUFFED!!!!

Alyssa carved this pumpkin the other night to show her support of the Yankees. Tonight is Game 1 of the World Series so hopefully the'll have a good game. Hopefully the rain will STOP!

Oct 27th

Today was a dismil , rainy day. What else to do but declutter! I bought 2 boxes of cooking magazines during the summer from garage sales. I gave a lot of them away to M., who loves to cook. Normally I would just donate the rest of them but decided to list them on Craigslist. A few months ago I put a bunch of scrapbooking magazines on craigslist and got good $ for it. I also decided to get rid of my scrapbooking books. I'm going to a crop on Sunday. Having extra $, other that what I'm planning on bringing, would be very nice!!!

At lunchtime I went to Dad's house to get him his lunch. He's seeming much more frail again. It took him about 20 minutes to be able to scoot over just about 6" while sitting in his bed. He didn't want any help so I just watched.

Oct 26th

I decided to use the bread machine today. I made these delicious Cresent Rolls. They reminded us of Uncle Stan's rolls. They were really good! I made 2 trays of them and this is all there was left:

Scott had to have AT LEAST 10 of them if not more! The recipe will be in my cooking blog.

http://mamazukecooks.blogspot.com/

Oct 25th

PJ and I decided to take the MGB out for a spin to take advantage of the beautiful weather we're having today. We always end up in Massapequa near the nice houses. We stumbled on to a garage sale and hit the mother load! They had a box of qt. size and a box of jelly jar size canning jars for $1 per box! One of the boxes had a rolled up tube of newspaper that I thought was holding the jars from moving around. When we got home I looked and it was a pretty glass bud vase rolled up in the paper. We also got a bread machine $3 (it's a bigger capacity than mine I mine is broken anyway!), and a food dehydrator for Scott for $3. He mentioned a while ago that he wanted one of them!

I didn't realize that the beach chairs were in the trunk. When we got everything piled into the car I told PJ to use side streets to go home so no one would see us. We had the boxes of jars and the dehydrator on my lap and the bread maker between us at our head level. We looked so funny! Well, we took Merrick Rd and 135 to get home so EVERYONE saw us!!
I wish I had my camera for that one!!

Oct 24th

We did our last running around with brooke. She wanted to be sure to get to the Cookie Factory in Hicksville for their Rainbow Cookies and Black & White Cookies. They're her favorite and you can't buy them in FL. We ended up driving to Guintas for the Rainbow cookies because they were fresher looking and more for the $.

Brooke left to go back to FL at 7:30 tonight. The Yankee game was canceled because of the rain. She was really disappointed because she wanted to watch the game on the tv while flying home. I guess the food channel will be on now!

Oct 23rd

Alyssa went to the Dr. today. Her back seems to be doing good. He said that the epidural usually lasts for 9 months to a year. By that time, her disk should have healed and she'd be as good as new. She needs to go to a few therapy visits to strengthen her back though.

We went to visit Grandpa (my father). He was happy to see everyone but that was about it. He continued to read the newspaper as we chatted with Ann. Typical!

Oct 22nd
Today we went to City Island to visit Pops. Cousin Jeannie came by for lunch as well. It's always a pleasure catching up with her. Pops was so happy to see us. It was sad to see him. He cried a lot yesterday. He's doing well but you can really see a change in his health. He's pretty forgetful now, hard of hearing and walks pretty unsteady. He still has his sense of humor though! He's not supposed to drive and is to stay on City Island. He told us that he HAD to get out so being that the weather was nice, he took the car out, went off the island and bought
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS! He said that he'll put them up tomorrow because it's so nice out and he doesn't want to deal with them in the cold. Makes sense! Aunt Winnie and Uncle Ronnie stopped by. That lady never shuts up! I could NEVER live with her!
We had Jeannie take our picture outside. It's amazing how the sun changes the color of your hair when it shines on you!! Right now my hair is BROWN, not the RED in the picture!


Jeannie and Pops

Oct 21st

The girls went to the city today. It's nice seeing them together again!