Can It Be Done on the Beach?

As it gets closer to the holidays, I start to think about cooking the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.  The family is coming from Chicago to Columbus and we will all be together.  I warmed up a couple of weeks ago by making about 8 gallons of pasta sauce and around 4 pounds of meatballs.

Here is a little known fact about me.  I grew up around restaurants that my dad owned and my mom taught me how to cook at home.  I'd go to meetings with dad and he would have me spend my time chopping vegetables.  This started when I was about 7.

I know most of us think about what we are going to do when we retire.  For me, the serious thought is my own restaurant.  Gotta blow the retirement money somewhere, right?

I've been sort of planning this for about 10 years and have a journal where I keep all of my recipies.  Most came from mom or grandma and then I added my own twist to them.  Some, I just made up on my own and then modified until it tasted tright.  Fish salad, steaks and chops of course, lamb and veal, not so much chicken, some side dishes.  Spending money on starting and running my own company has eaten into my wine pairing investigation.  Wine gets expensive. 

Ideally, this retirement place would be in the Bahamas.  Yahoooo.  Cold beer, margaritas and fresh seafood.  Not sure how that would play out though.  Melissa doesn't eat fish and I don't know how to cook it.

So the plan is there, but needs some tweaking.  Either I am going to need to learn a lot about different foods or I may end up with the first ever beach front Italian steakhouse.   

For now, it is time to get ready for the Thanksgiving Turkey cooked on the charcoal grill, wrapped in bacon and basted in Smokey BBQ Sauce.  I need to back to my journal and get the perfected recipe.  Maybe I will post a couple for folks to try.

 
Posted by Rich Kruse on 11/17/2007 10:53 AM   Comments (17)   , , , , ,  
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17 Comments on Can It Be Done on the Beach?

Are we old enough to retire now?? I want to go run a B&B in the islands!

11/17/2007 11:00 AM by Melissa Kruse (Gryphon )

I'm coming to your house for T-giving.  My turkeys are likely really annoyed that they were sacrificed just to be...BOOOORRRRIIIIING!  I'll be waiting for help, so that when I enter the pearly gates, I'm not run off by the group of turkeys that were overcooked, undercooked, or dropped, rinsed, dropped, rinsed....

(it took 4 holidays before I understood that the guts in plastic inside were supposed to be removed from the plastic)

11/17/2007 11:04 AM by Options Realty

Sounds Great.

Bill

 

11/17/2007 11:10 AM by William J Archambault Jr (The Real Estate Investment Institute )

Yeah, we are old enough, but not rich enough.

Fine with me Laurie.  Just bring some red wine.  We always have too much food and not enough vino.

Go WHO Bill?

11/17/2007 11:20 AM by Rich Kruse (Gryphon USA, Ltd.)

It is always best to have career doing something you love. I hope you get the chance to experience that with a restaurant.

11/17/2007 11:32 AM by Rosario Lewis ~ DDR Realty, Orange County, NY (DDR Realty)

The restaurant was my dream for a long time.  After starting in real estate, I have realized I will be too tired and too broke to actually do it.  My new plan is just to GO to a lot of restaurants.

11/17/2007 12:56 PM by Jayne Dodgson (Prudential Preferred Realty)

It's half time, I think I'll wait to elaborate! Or maybe delete.

Bill

11/17/2007 01:00 PM by William J Archambault Jr (The Real Estate Investment Institute )

I've decited to delete.

After having a long run to a TD called back they repeated it. O'my.

Bill

11/17/2007 01:11 PM by William J Archambault Jr (The Real Estate Investment Institute )

You can't cook fish and Melissa doesn't eat fish? Yep. I'd say the plan needs some tweaking :)

11/17/2007 01:19 PM by Lisa Hill (Daytona Beach REALTOR®) (Adams Cameron and Company)

Rich.... Turkey and Pasta for the Holidays!  Brings me back to when my Grandma was here, and she would cook the govidilla's, the turkey, ham and baked clams!  Can I slip into the suitcase of anyone heading from Chicago to your house for Thanksgiving?  By the way...she called her sauce gravy...I still call it gravy to this day. 

11/17/2007 01:52 PM by Illinois Mortgage Lender | Kim Murphy (1st Advantage Mortgage, LLC)

Kim - we do the  baked clams at Christmas. My brother-in-law and Rich have perfected that receipe. It is the only ocean related food that I'll eat, so you know it's got to be Great!

11/17/2007 01:55 PM by Melissa Kruse (Gryphon )

Wow!

Didn't Michigan's Band sound good today?

Those clames sound good.

Like Kim, my Grandmother always had turkey and ham, but no clames. She did have oisters in the stuffing.

Bill

11/17/2007 02:27 PM by William J Archambault Jr (The Real Estate Investment Institute )

You are making me hungry.  That turkey sounds incredible.  What time is dinner?

11/17/2007 03:06 PM by Downtown Long Beach Condos Long Beach Real Estate, Laurie Manny (Prudential California Realty)

Bill - Gotta love those Buckeyes!

Laurie - dinner's at three. Feel free to join us!

11/17/2007 04:01 PM by Melissa Kruse (Gryphon )

Your post made me hungry Rich. You are a brave man to consider owning a restaurant for retirement. That's a lot of work. In fact I don't know if there is a harder business to run. I guess you could be the guy at the bar entertaining your guest though. Folks in our area make deep fried turkey? Have you ever had one? It's actually very good. 

11/17/2007 04:05 PM by Bryant Tutas-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc

Bill - Sorry for not posting back to you yesterday.  I was watching the game on a 1 hr. delay and was afraid I was gonna "read" the score.

Kim - Like MMK said, we do clams.  I could do a whole meal of just clams.  Love em.

Lauire - At about 4, but we start eating at around 10am when we start cooking.

BB - Neighbors do that, but we have not.  I learned about the grill about 10 years ago and never looked back.

11/18/2007 07:24 AM by Rich Kruse (Gryphon USA, Ltd.)

Bill,

  If all else fails, you could open a Chicago style Hot Dog stand on the beach

11/18/2007 09:23 AM by Mark H Roe BeSure Home Inspection Service (BeSure Home Inspection Service)

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