Sheldon wrote:
> Margaret Suran wrote:
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>>The air conditioning in our building is out. It is the second hottest
>>day of the year and I do not know what to cook. Most likely, I will
>>only heat up the boiled beef with potatoes and vegetables and ice
>>coffee and a Baba au Rum for Marcel. I will have a cold sandwich,
>>bologna on toasted nine grain bread. It is hot in my apartment.
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> No A/C sounds like the perfect excuse to go out for Chinese.
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>>I am having a nice glass of Scotch, with lots and lots of ice.
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> Wouldn't that be a glass of nice Scotch... ok, a big glass of nice
> Scotch.
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> Sheldon
>

For more years than I want to count, there has not been a really good
Chinese restaurant in my immediate neighborhood. There were so many
when I first moved here in 1977. There was a wonderful little
inexpensive Mama/Papa one right across the street, The Szechuan
Kitchen, but the building was torn down and a high rise was built.
The new rent would have been much too high for the owners of that
place and they moved into another building, into a place that only has
a kitchen and a counter for ordering and paying, where they cook a
limited amount of their most popular dishes for take-out and for
delivery only. I order from them at times, but I really prefer to go
out for dinner.

Shun Lee West, both the regular restaurant and their Dim Sum Cafe are
still my favorites, but they are on the other side of the city. They
are worth the trip, but I rarely go there now.

As for the nice glass of Scotch, everything about it was nice. )

"Margaret Suran" > wrote

> As for the nice glass of Scotch, everything about it was nice. )

All I want to know is ... do you have A/C yet?

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Margaret Suran" > wrote
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>>As for the nice glass of Scotch, everything about it was nice. )
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> All I want to know is ... do you have A/C yet?
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> nancy
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Thank you, Nancy, yes it came back yesterday around noon time. Since
the building was without any A/C for something like two days, it took
quite a while for the apartment to get comfortably cool. It was so
warm in spite of the A/C, I went to the bridge club and spent the
afternoon there. Marcel and I won about $25.00 (he played and I
kibitzed) and by the time I got home, the place was nice and cool.

Marcel and I had assorted Wuerstel for dinner, Bratwurst, Bauernwurst,
Weisswurst and Knackwurst with a really good potato salad from
Fairway's. We also had fresh corn on the cob and Marcel had a
Millefoglie for dessert from Agata & Valentina, with iced coffee.
There were also crispy crunchy Portuguese rolls with Brie and Italian
Fontina and fresh, ripe figs. Marcel had Cantaloupe instead of the
figs. He had a glass of beer and I had a nice glass of Scotch. )

Keep cool and take care, M