The Best Laid Plans for Visitors from TENNESSEE

  at Icy Point Strait, Alaska, July 2019

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BREAKFAST at home: ready at 6 AM

                                                  Apricot Tea Bread:  Purity Cook Book

Fried Eggs with Curried Tomatoes & Green Onions (from GOOD COOKING IN INDIA by S. Mehta)

Cereal: Kellogg’s Krave 

 Coffee & Chocolate Milk

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ACTIVITY: Stewart Farm:  Farmhouse, grounds & outbuildings dating to the 1800s, with guides in period attire & kids' events.

Address: 13723 Crescent Rd, Surrey, BC V4P 1J4

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LUNCH: PICNIC:  

Drinks:  Water, Diet Coke, Regular Coke, Milk

Sandwiches:  Buttered Buns, Lettuce, Sliced meats, Cheeses, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Hot Pickles, Onions, Dill Pickles, Mayo on Ice, Mustard, Vinaigrette to Drizzle

Dessert:  Brownies  & Coffee in thermos

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ACTIVITY:  Crescent Beach wading

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SNACK:

Afternoon COCKTAIL: 

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5:00-5:30:  Pre-dinner Cocktail:

MAIN:  Garlic Sausage:  Polish Kielbasa w Piwnym Sosie: p. 106 in POLISH COOKING by 

M. Olszewska Heberle

SIDE:  Potato and Cottage Cheese Perogies & Sour Cream: Mary Stadnyk's Recipe

            Cabbage Rolls:  Nestor

SALAD:  Tex-Mex Salad

DESSERT:  Diana

ACTIVITY:  Board Game

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P.S. We didn't make it to Stewart Farm or have the picnic . . . but there's always another time.

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Something I'd like to see in Tennessee when we return the visit :) 

A Romanian Appetizer/salad . . .

THE ART of Romanian cooking by Galia Sperber

The very first recipe sounded appealing and everyone enjoyed it. . .

Aubergine-Stuffed Tomatoes (rosii umplute cu vinete)

 but I liked it better as a salad.  Chop one or two tomatoes.  Add these to the lettuce.
Stir in the aubergine/eggplant mixture and a vinaigrette dressing.  Yum!

To make the eggplant mixture, use one pound of eggplant, only one onion (6 ounces), 1 and a half teaspoons salt, and 1/4 tsp pepper.

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Lonely Planet’s two-week itinerary takes one from Bucharest all the way north to “the exquisite wooden churches of Maramures” where “attending one of the services is a special treat”. 

To start with, however, in Bucharest, I would like to see the “stunning glass dome” in the Assembly Hall in the Palace of Parliament.  (see p. 572 in Eyewitness)

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That’s just for starters!