~IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND THEY ASK ... 'whatcha doin' -- HON, eatin'?~

all photographs by Wilbur M. Reeling & Nikon 5400
...WUZ-ZUP-WIT-CHEW?...
DIS-UP-WIT-ME
If you talk the talk -- you'd better walk the walk!

This is some Maryland Eastern 'Show ... walkin'

I owe this one to Chez Pim, she gets credit for this idea http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/

I just thought it was a good one

IF YOU GREW UP IN THE 60'S, LIKE ME, YOU ONLY KEPT YOUR ..."MARY JANE"... FROZEN -- THEN YOUR COFFEE BEANS - BEN and JERRY'S and now "FOIE GRAS" -LOL- HERE'S MY STOCKED FULL FRIG & FREEZER, EXACTLY AS IT WAS AFTER THIS MORNING'S REPAST -- NO EDITING -- JUST THE "RAW PIX!"

CLICK PHOTOS FOR FULL VIEW

below: the r.front: DUCK BREAST & r.rear: w/GOLD LABEL FOIE GRAS

below: wine & champagne rack
below: the daily drinkers
below: breakfast of soft boiled Amish free-range eggs, Cave aged Farmer's Double Gloucester, French preserves & bread with Jana Valley+82 butter, Guerande 'Fleur De Sel' Sea Salt & Sarawak Lampong-Sumatra black pepper ... and a whole lotta of UMAMI !!
below: part of my 1000 COOK BOOK COLLECTION
below: walk to the front door and enter

below: my Spring Gardens

below: ... just a pix of our puppy and friend's "SOYKHER" Racing Porsche that he let's me use to shop for Foie Gras on Saturday morning (so it won't take me to long!) -- LOL -- the car was rolled last season and waits for the new stickers & decals
left: Igor Soykher -- middle: FoFoPuppy -- right: Ole' Uncle Ernie

below: my drive way, a Maryland Winter ... impossible to walk & tuff to drive that Porsche

Honor's Jag "S" Type -- my Turbo Saab
SNACKS

left: nuts - cheese - salmon / right: German sausage

the snack table, returning from the walk in Baltimore to find it

above: ... some bottom walkers that didn't walk fast enough -lol-

some top-shelf talkers that also walk the walkabove: Honor & some soft, fluffy 7 pounders or ... "FoFo & Chewy"

"things on the sofa that never walk"

("FOX TROT" 2006, Collection Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simko)

... the things on my last canvas that took a WALK

above: things recently added to my studio storeroom worth walking for

"BIG-BOYS-WALKING"

SOME OF MY COLLECTION -- FAVORITE BELGIAN SIPPERS

I love the Belgian XXX-Trips the best -- I like sippppppping 'em

... then you can't walk [OR DRIVE]

... so, they say on TV -- What's in your wallet ? and I say, what's in your frig ?

DATz ALL FOR THIS TIME -- CYA

~~ HONG KONG SUSHI...Maryland Style ~~

all photographs by Wilbur M. Reeling & Nikon 5400

& this one is for Chuckeats Sushi and Truffles and Porsches

..."is putting parsley trees in Wasabi Dragons an ART FORM?"...

When you live in the middle of nowhere and you are surrounded by people who know nothing, this is what you get.

Several years ago after an interview with a chef from China that did not speak English, I asked to see his credentials from the Cooking Institute where he said he had graduated. They gave me a photo copy of a document in Chinese characters that I could not read.

WHEN I HAD IT TRANSLATED IT WAS HIS PUBLIC LIBRARY CERTIFICATE

-- you gotta be careful

above: need I say more?
above: mmm, mmm good stuff when you can make wasabi shaped like a fish too

above: a la Maryland Eastern Show!!... half tomato garnish with wonderful lemon

above: some ..."delish"... curley leaf parsley and carrot Mangeoire de Garde a la Hong Kong

above: just Chuckle ... by yourself ... please
above: Honor's pretty RED NAILS hold and show a proper chop stick technique for the Eastern 'Show, Hon --lol-- but ready for another heaping helping of wasabi a la mountain lemon with parsley volcano eruption
below: NO - NO - NO ... this is Hong Kong Tempora, no matter what you say!
below: WE ARE OFTEN ABLE TO ESCAPE ... QUICKLEY IF NEED BE!

180MPH on the straight and ... almost ready for the season

dasz how we do on da Eastern 'Show -- Hon!

--LOL --

~dats the end of that one folks!~

PS - follow-up ... Tuesday May 25th
-- OMG! --

Sometimes my sense of humor is just "cursed" ...

Already, dozens and dozens of you have eMAILED me how wonderful the HONG KONG food must have been when all along I was making fun of "HOW HORRIBLE THE FOOD WAS" ... the Real Stuff is here --

http://chuckeats.com/blog3/2007/05/16/kuruma-zushi-ny-the-wrong-quadrant/#more-146

That terrible Sushi with the Hong Kong "SPIN" and Dragon Wasabi has about as much to do with the quality of a 3 star Michelin Restaurant like American famed Chef Thomas Keller's French Laundry in Yountsville, serving "PAVE" OF JAPANESE MEDAI "AMANDINE" with Melted Fennel Bulb, Black Winter Truffles "Pignons de Pins" & Grains of Paradise as compared to the RT. 66 Holiday Inn in Barstow at the Chinese Laundry ... "asking you, light or heavy starch!!"

SHAPE UP FOLKS... please