Sunday 7 June
To celebrate the opening of their
summer season, Cincinnati Opera gave a free performance in Washington Park
today, so we threw a couple of folding chairs and a picnic basket into the car,
drove down early (leaving time for parking and getting lost), and found
ourselves a spot on the grass among a friendly crowd.
If you smoke two chickens, and eat
half of one, that leaves a whole lot of smoked chicken that you still have to
eat. That's mathematics. So for our main picnic dish, we made a salad out
of tender bits picked from yesterday's two chickens (saving the carcasses for
broth), chunks of the single leftover avocado, chopped scallion, mayonnaise, a
touch of cider vinegar, and a pinch of pimenton
de la Vera. And if it's a bit
repetitive of yesterday's excellent meal, so what?
Holt had also baked four little pane Pugliese yesterday, so we had
slices of the fresh bread to make open-faced sandwiches with. And of course, a thermos full of well-aged
grape juice.
For dessert, to the tantalization
of those seated around us, we feasted on the latest crop of garden strawberries, as mentioned last Wednesday.
We have no idea whether Yogi Bear and Boo-boo
enjoyed opera, but we all enjoy a good pic-a-nic basket, especially one filled
with just-picked strawberries.
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