Substitute Dr.

   I got to play doctor. Well kinda of. Yes, I had to sit in for a doctor whom I don’t know. A radiologist to be exact. Truly speaking I was a recipient of a V.I.P. pass to a wine and food jubilee.  Every year my good neighbor puts me on ticket call, saying that there might be two tickets/passes to the local wine and food jubilee for myself and my wife. We usually get at least a six to four hour notice for this event. This time we had the tickets weeks in advance. But these ticket were V.I.P. passes. Quite an upgrade from previous event. This pass came with a limo, a hotel suite, a carnival and we got in an hour earlier than the pedestrian jubilee’ers…….” Yeah Baby ! ” It was very well organized with food, wine, boutique beers, raffles, and an arcade where you could wine tickets bonking automated burrowing rodents.  the tickets that you won could be turned in for prizes. Prizes Yeah. Not your typical plastic backgammon set from Indonesia. But more adult style prizes. I noticed the prize change when my when seeing my wife with an armload or Chardonnays. I exclaimed . “Wow !   Do they have  Pro V’s “? ….”Pro what’s “?…. “Nothing Dear…..Nice booty..” NICE WHAT….who’s ? “…” Forget about it ” After the festivites we limo’d to the hotel for a restful night sleep with 9 pillow on the bed. Must all be part of those vip-passes along with the ubiquitous breakfast they serve at these places.

RANT TIME

 ” Come people can’t anyone get creative.” Every one of these establishments has the same menu. It’s like all they got the ” Cooking For A Crowd Cookbook ” from the Navy. This is the usual rut of culinary laziness that I often see. Here’s the menu. There will be those water cooler sized plastic cereal dispensers. Full of generic cereals. ( who knows when they’ll get to that cereal that was dumped in the dispenser. I wonder what month I am eating now.) There will be that eggy looking mixture flavored with water and a touch nothing. Wow !. You can toast your own bagel and use that real cool bagel cutter. ( the kids like that) They’ll have those .007 oz packs of cream cheese. Hey you want some jelly. Get out your Swiss Army knife and cut it out of that  .007 packagette.  Also there will be those stamped out meaty circles served at room temperatures claiming to be sausages. Yummy!  And if your lucky you can make your own “Lobby Waffle”  you know the old  fill it/ close it /spin it  and watch it ooze out the side waffle. The kids love that one so get in line. And sometime you will get this white lumpy sausage gravy that you can spoon over these flour hockey pucks doubling as biscuits. O.k. you can get a nice frothy citrus mix out 70 gallon juice dispenser. Stay away from the apple juice. ( Best apple juice is Martinelli’s …Just my opinion. Try the unfiltered. It’s creamy). Back home nice five minute drive. Kinda of a strange get away but it worked.  

     It’s Saturday morning and I am going shopping with my wife. Under the impression that we are looking for kitchen gadgets at the weekend blow out sale..So why am I pacing around in front of a clothing store for chicks….” I have a gift certificate I have to use I’ll just be a minute.”  Ok I think I will browse around instead of pace. You know I counted 5 shoe stores with in a hundred yards of each other. Tennis shoe stores. And they all look pretty similar they are either skateboard style of basketball style with maybe a few running shoes scattered about.  Not too many shoes dealing with the sport of tennis.You know there is a tennis shoe sub culture. When I was I kid i remember shoes be highlight of most teenage wardrobe. But not for 159 bucks There just tenies, I don’t know what they call them now. When I was a kid we called them tennis shoes of sneakers.  Our selection was Keds’s, Converse or P. F. flyers. I remember when these really wild foreign shoes turned up in the stores. This wild shoe company named Adidas. Imagine that a shoe with comfort. What a concept. Duh…

 

 Whip it out

Milano Casserole

Pack of Pasta any thing will do  Cook it and drain it

1b Italian sausage (brown and drain)

Jar of Prego Ragu…whatever…

1b Mozzarella grated

optional frozen veggie of your choice 1  bag ( spinach works well )

 

Make layers. Maybe two layers for each ingredient. Have cheese on the top layer.  Bake at 325 for 30 to 45 minutes