Photo ops

Baby Paws power naps after an all-nighter down Goomp's over the weekend.

Goomp's black beauty Lucie -- AKA the last of the Meow-hicans -- on the window sill beside the bed evokes Johannes Vermeer's "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" (c. 1662, Marquand Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Late-afternoon sunlight makes magic in the kitchen at Camelot-by-the-Sea.

Back home after an extended weekend Down East tending to things that needed tending to, Tuck invents the best potato salad ever -- Potato Salad a GeeGee -- a simple mixture of leftovers from yesterday's phantom cookout (no one broke bread with us but Goomp and Tuck and the poodies): our own to-die-for potato salad* mixed with thick diagonally-cut slices of leftover grilled Kayem (made in Chelsea) brats. Wicked delicious!

Updates: Modulator's Friday Ark is afloat, and the Carnival of the Cats -- #124 -- "has come home to TBIFOC."

*Amazingly, an Answers.com search reveals we've never published our elegantly simple but effective potato salad recipe. Steam together for about 20 minutes halved purple potatoes and chopped garlic. Transfer to a large bowl, chop coarsely and toss with freshly ground pepper and mayo. Proportions are up to you. As our favorite ex-brother-in-law David said about our astonishingly delicious cole slaw -- coarsely chopped cabbage and shredded carrots tossed with mayo -- the other day, in answer to how come it tastes so good, "It's because Sissy made it." We aren't about to argue.

Comments

[hNAV]

gorgeous photos...

and now i am hungry...

[enrevanche]

I am *so* making that potato salad (sans brats) tomorrow night.

Remind me to share my recipe for new-potato potato salad with you some time. It involves fresh dill (and pan-toasted almond slivers for the crunch factor.)

[Sissy Willis]

Barry: You're only as good as your crunch factor. :)

[Sissy Willis]

hNAV: You remind me of that old Cheer (I think) ad, where Harold's mother says "He never STOPS eating!"