I love food. I love cooking and I love feeding people. I think food should be flavorful, beautiful, healthy and environmentally responsible. Lots of people know about my likes but tonight I have a confession:
Our feeders have been attracting hummingbirds and orioles. The orioles eat grape jelly and nectar. The hummingbirds just eat nectar, although I have definitely seen some crossover. This afternoon I made up a batch of nectar, 4 parts water to 1 part sugar. I left it on the stove to cool.
John and I were going out tonight. We ended up at Kengo, (it’s been way too long.) which regrettably is not a favorite for our granddaughter Aloisa so we went on our own. It was perfect, but we decided that a stop at Netty’s for ice cream would really round out the evening. Since the rest of the family also wanted ice cream, we ordered 5 small cones and did our best to get them home intact. Our best was not good enough, but since the Netty’s staff put each cone upside down in a plastic cup, although they were deformed they were not befouled. Success!!
After serving that less than elegant dessert, I decided to fill the hummingbird and oriole feeders with the now-cooled nectar, but the nectar pot was mysteriously almost empty . It turns out that Johanna assumed I had left hot-dog cooking water along with the hot dogs (all beef, to be sure) I had thawed for her. Although she didn’t notice, I’ll bet that sweet hot dogs are really special.
Some days we eat real food.