1. A while back, oh, a couple of weeks or so, Ed told me that he entered a drawing at the CdA Casino for two tickets to a Gonzaga men's basketball game and he won them! Tonight, he and his son Darren went to the game. I don't know all the details, but I know they were in a suite and that Darren reported on Facebook that "getting to watch from a suite with free food and drinks was legendary".
Sounds epic to me.
I look forward to getting the whole story from Ed as soon as possible.
2. Once again late this afternoon, I stretched my cooking abilities with the help of HelloFresh.
Tonight I prepared Cheddar Stuffed Meatloaves with Potato Wedges, Carrots, Crispy Shallots, and Special Sauce.
For starters, I got to cook meatloaf in a way I'd never thought of before.
After combining the 10 oz package of ground beef with panko bread crumbs and a packet of beef stock and some water, I divided this mixture in half and made two half inch thick rounds. I then sprinkled grated cheddar cheese onto these rounds and folded the edges of the ground beef over the cheese, doubling the thickness and formed two small loaves.
I had already cut potato wedges and I put them on the left hand side of a parchment paper covered ridged baking sheet and, after five minutes of roasting, I pulled out the baking sheet and put the two loaves on the right hand side of the sheet. For the next seventeen minutes, the two meatloaves and the potatoes cooked simultaneously. I removed the sheet, put more cheddar cheese on top of the meatloaves and they went back in the oven for about three more minutes.
This was all new to me: stuffing the meatloaves, baking them on the same sheet as the potato wedges, and topping the meatloaves with more grated cheddar cheese.
But, wait! There's more!
I cooked two carrots chopped into quarter inch thick rounds, put these pieces in a bowl, and then I added more oil to the cast iron pan.
I heated up the oil and soon dropped a chopped shallot covered with flour into the hot oil and let these pieces sizzle away until they were golden brown and crunchy. I'd never done this before.
I cut each meat loaf in half lengthwise, and drizzled some of the very simple sauce I had made by combining catsup and mayonnaise over the meatloaf halves and then topped the four halves with the crunchy shallot pieces.
We used the remaining sauce to put over the potato wedges. (We could have dipped them.)
Our dinner was delicious and filling: cheddar stuffed meatloaf with sauce and crispy shallots, a side of carrots cooked in the cast iron pan, and potato wedges with sauce.
3. After we ate, Debbie said she was ready for some screen time, but wanted something different than Columbo. No problem. When we don't watch Columbo, I like to go back to roughly that same period of time and watch other shows, often ones I never viewed when they were new.
So, tonight, we watched the first episode of the first season of Remington Steele. What a gas! I, for one, gave myself over to the somewhat ludicrous premise of the show, mainly because I enjoy watching Pierce Brosnan at work, and this romp involving the invention of new model of automobile combined with a jewel heist turned out to both deadly and fun. I don't know if we'll return for more episodes of Remington Steele, but I enjoyed finding out what I missed back in the 1980s when this show ran for several seasons.
We ended the night in grand style.
I went to YouTube and found a couple of videos that focused exclusively on Paul Lynde answering questions on Hollywood Squares.
What a riot!
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