More Food Memories- Part 2

 -Mike and I had a drink called a Shirley Temple at Newark airport after either picking up or dropping off Grandma next store there in the late 70s. I thought that it was made with ginger ale and cranberry juice. This really has grenadine and maraschino cherry not the latter in it.

-Wildwood – We went to a good diner and also an ice cream place there but I don’t remember their names. The fudge from the candy shop on the boardwalk was yummy.

-The pierogis from Kathy’s church were very good.

-Lobster –Mom made this only once. Karen T gave her instructions on how to do so. It was very messy but pretty good. I preferred having it as just the tail with filet mignon at the Sleepy Hollow Inn.

-Aunt Ann and Uncle Joe- My aunt made deviled eggs and celery with peanut butter as appetizers for parties. She baked Magic Cookie Bars (we have her recipe) that are delicious as were my uncle’s cinnamon pinwheels. They often had a bowl of in-shell walnuts on their coffee table.

Shirley Temple

Pierogies

Note- some images are from the internet - #s 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11

My Newspaper/Moch Frap Time

We used to get the full subscription to the Star Ledger but we had to make cuts in the budget because of rising expenses in other areas like the cost of gas so now we only get the Sunday subscription which also includes Thursdays and certain holidays. It's kind of strange that they don't have a weekender subscription though. Thursday's edition has the sales flyers in it. I really miss gettting the paper everyday esp. on Wednesdays and Fridays. For the past few weeks I have actually been going to Shop Rite very early in the morning on those 2 days for the paper. I pray that my brother will not wake up early and interrupt my nice, quiet paper reading/mocha frappuccino drinking time. He is very rude and doesn't care that it bothers me that he talks as I try to read. He would just say that I'm crazy if he knew that I do this. I am up at 4:30 and at the store before they even brought the papers in and put them on the shelf. I love the Ticket and Munchmobile section. In the summertime they go to different places throughout NJ and have a theme every week. It was pancake, waffle and french toast last week and 2 of these aren't that far from me - Westfield and Elizabeth.

I started out only having a mocha frap 2 days a week - on Sundays and Thursdays but now that I get the paper on the other 2 days I have it then too. The two things go together well for me. I do have a banana as well because just the mocha frap would not be a very good breakfast. I now have this on the other 2 days as well in addition to Saturdays when I am reading the Entertainment Weekly which comes on Fridays and I save it for early the next morning. I really am going to have to cut back on that drink though because even on sale it is 5.00 for the 4 pack and I am having to cut back on my savings fund for important things like new eyeglasses just to have the money for this. Sometimes I feel like I am addicted to the stuff. I think that the price of it will be going up soon because I read that the price of coffee is increasing so maybe it will be on sale for 6.00 instead. I have to have it despite that. I usually drink decaffinated coffee but this is definitely not decaf. I kind of feel a little energized after drinking it but also a bit jittery. I will be just going to the store for the paper on Fridays from now on though - probably.