Jack's North Shore Eats

Cherry Time

It's cherry time!

It's almost like a pompadour!

Egg or Burger?

Somethings truly are accidental...

I didn't mean for there to be a cheese force field...

Around my burger...

Marathon Mangos?

I don't get this slogan...

Does it mean that these are lousy mangos for a quickie?

Patterns in Nature

Okay, so this is one of my favorite shrimp dishes. Great taste, great presentation...

They are dead easy and terribly delicious...

This comes out of the August 2004 Cooking Light Magazine so remember to double the marinade recipe...

Grilled Lemon-Bay Shrimp

2 T fresh lemon juice
1 T olive oil
1/2 t salt
1/2 t crushed red pepper
1/2 t freshly ground black pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
32 large shrimp, peeled & deveined (~1 1/2 pounds)
32 fresh bay leaves
4 large lemons, each cut into 8 wedges
cooking spray

So, your supposed to combine the first 6 ingredients into a large bowl and toss the shrimp in and let sit for ten minutes. Make life easy and give the shrimp twice the time in a large zip lock bag. The lemon wedges and bay leaves count will all depend on the number of shrimp you want per skewer. (It's mostly decoration, after all.) They say you're supposed to coat the bay leaves and lemons in cooking spray, but for the life of me I don't know why. Waste of time, if you ask me. The fresh bay leaves are sometimes hard to find. You may need to go to a specialty grocery store or simply leave them off. (CL says you can take dried leaves from the jar and soak them overnight, but I tried it and it was a complete disaster...)

I had some shrimp left over, so I put a chili salt rub on them. I will probably use them later with some noodles or something.

Add something light like asparagus and you've got a meal...

I think it's the lighting...

I recently ran into some rather glowy peach preserves...

It's a Cereal Thing

So, there's an elderly gentleman at the Factory who eats a bowl of raisin bran cereal every day. I think that's kind of weird, because I think it is odd to eat just one cereal. I believe they should be mixed...

Always put the floating cereal (Chex, Cheerios, Rice Krispies) on the bottom. It's a rule.

Gorilla Hands!

So Annie Ping says that I have enormous, gorilla-like hands. This is a picture of me holding a lime. My hands don't look so big, do they?

Actually, these are key limes. Pie to follow...

Coffee & a Doughnut?

I wasn't actually looking for anything to go with my morning cuppa...

But then, it struck me, this looks like a morning special...

Saddest moment: Right before it shut itself off for good, it's little screen flashed "SOS"...

(No, I'm not making this up...)

The March of the Red Potatoes

Where are they going?

Twins

This was the first of two... in a row.