Shrimp pasta
It's not all eating out; sometimes I manage to put together a dish or two at home. Been doing this one for years--about time I put it on record, or at least online, or at least on this blog.
So, preparation: a pound of 16/20 shrimp, peeled and deveined, save the peel, brine the shrimp in salty water (no proportions, just added salt to a bowl of water till it tasted briny).
"Where are we going?"
"O out."
"We've been driving for almost an hour. Is it in another state?"
"Maybe."
"There you go again. Sometimes I want to smack you."
"Ow! Not when I'm driving."
"Frederick, Maryland?"
"You said you wanted somewhere different."
"Cute clock."
"Shut up and pose."
"You've been carrying this for thirteen years--when do you deliver?"
"We're eating here?"
"I got reservations."
"Did you rob a bank?"
The No-Plate Special
Said it before gonna say it again: this blog's all about find dining--the kind of eats where you're driving down a street, you pause before a sign, you park and walk right in (or likewise you're walking down said street, pause before a sign). Last week we discovered Grill Kebab on Route 30 East this way; this week we found Rendezvous Caribbean Restaurant a tiny place tucked away in the corner of West Washington and Black Street, on the south end of Chambersburg's downtown. This place had at various points been a Mexican bakery and a pizza joint; if anyone were to ask "What would you put up here instead?" an eatery serving Caribbean food wouldn't have been the first idea to come to mind--but why not? It's different; and we're (along with discovery and good food) all about la difference.
What I Did on Oscar Night
Watch the show? Ha ha--no, life's too short. Instead I defrosted this two-inch thick bone-in ribeye I bought from M & M Meats in Jim's Farmers Market which is labeled 'hormone free' (the label doesn't matter in poultry or pork, but does in beef), and massaged it with a variation of a coffee-cocoa rub I found online.
Happy accidents
You know how it goes: you're driving past and a sign catches your eye--this time it was 'GRILL KABAB' (1495 Lincoln Way East, Suite 109B, on that little strip mall East of I-81 and West of Walmart with the Dunkin Donuts). You're thinking: "we haven't seen a place serve honest-to-goodness Mediterranean style skewered meat since Bombay Diner on Wayne Ave closed during the summer."
That breathless charm
Couldn't call this 'find' dining exactly: Molly Pitcher Waffle House located in the heart of downtown Chambersburg--109 South Main Street (Route 11 South) past the intersection of 11 and Route 30 just before Capitol Theater--is, O how to describe it? a charmer of a little place: old-fashioned storefront, bright neon sign, small-town striped awning, curved iron railings.
Bigger'n Better'n Ever
Sad news was Momma B's closed back in November in its old location, on Lincoln Highway East; good news is it's open again, at 875 Lincoln Way West--same strip mall as Food Lion. And where the first struggled to seat twenty people you could fit a hundred folks in this big mother, easy.
