{"id":6771,"date":"2009-07-05T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=6771"},"modified":"2009-07-05T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T13:39:09","slug":"july-4th-2009-a-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/07\/july-4th-2009-a-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4th, 2009: A Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 Yesterday didn&#8217;t see us doing much of anything.\u00a0 We played games. <img src='\/images\/biggrin.gif' alt=':D' \/>\u00a0 And there was a small snack.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6775\" title=\"Cheese and chips \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_snack-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cheese and chips \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_snack-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_snack.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted some cheese and chips! Great combo, right?\u00a0 There are jalapeno chips for Scott, baked chips for me, and some sheep&#8217;s milk cheese.\u00a0 I had a few chips and then my tongue started to burn (from the salt) telling me that I&#8217;ve had enough. I had a few bites of cheese and was perfectly content.<\/p>\n<p>Rain killed dinner plans last night so I switched things up and brought out some lobster tails!\u00a0 When the HQ is on vacation and celebrating something, you can expect to see a lot of seafood because it&#8217;s our favorite protein source.\u00a0 And because we don&#8217;t have this kind of stuff everyday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6773\" title=\"Lobster tail \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_lobster-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lobster tail \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_lobster-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_lobster.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huge lobster tails that I got from Sam&#8217;s and that are not Maine lobsters.\u00a0 I have trouble finding Maine tails here and ordering them costs a fortune.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6774\" title=\"Purple slaw \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_slaw-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Purple slaw \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_slaw-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_slaw.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Purple people eater slaw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red cabbage<\/li>\n<li>Shredded carrot<\/li>\n<li>Shredded beet<\/li>\n<li>Shredded parsnip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With a grainy mustard, white wine vinegar, and olive oil dressing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6776\" title=\"Baked sweet potato \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_sp-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Baked sweet potato \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_sp-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_sp.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baked sweet potato with a smidge of butter and cinnamon sugar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6772\" title=\"Sweet potato, lobster, slaw \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet potato, lobster, slaw \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dinner was most excellent! And I did not eat that entire lobster tail because it was huge. :o\u00a0 I had about half.<\/p>\n<p>After dinner it was time for some vino.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6777\" title=\"White wine \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_wine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"White wine \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_wine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-04-09_wine.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very lovely vino verde.\u00a0 If you like white wine, try this, it&#8217;s slightly bubbly and so refreshing.\u00a0 Vacation also means lots of wine at the HQ. I&#8217;m not apologizing, just informing. <img src='\/images\/biggrin.gif' alt=':D' \/>\u00a0 While sipping on wine we watched The Original Kings of Comedy which is an absolute favorite here.\u00a0 Then I hit the hay.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a very relaxing day!<\/p>\n<p>Just know that even if I haven&#8217;t been commenting, I&#8217;ve still been reading what you&#8217;re up too.\u00a0 It&#8217;s because I&#8217;m on vaction that I haven&#8217;t commented much or gotten back to emails!\u00a0 I will soon though. <img src='\/images\/biggrin.gif' alt=':D' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 Yesterday didn&#8217;t see us doing much of anything.\u00a0 We played games. \u00a0 And there was a small snack. I wanted some cheese and chips! Great combo, right?\u00a0 There are jalapeno chips for Scott, baked chips for me, and some sheep&#8217;s milk cheese.\u00a0 I had a few chips and then my tongue started to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1Ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}