Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt
Welcome to Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt where cousins Christmas and Cara tick off the wild, sometimes ridiculous wishes from the bucket list of the late, great Bonnie—Christmas's mom and Cara's bonus mom. Every episode, we unpack grief and life’s absurdities through belly laughs, bizarre encounters, and the kind of soul-searching that only happens when you're half a bottle deep into questionable wine, munching on crackers and what-the-hell-is-this cheese. It's not just about where we go, but the oddballs we meet, the unbelievable stories we gather, and the existential crises we tackle together. Strap in and hold on —Bonnie's list isn’t going to complete itself, and things are about to get hilariously out of hand!
Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt
Maine Trip Update: Lobsters, Lies, and Ladies Who Golf
Christmas and Cara share updates on their upcoming trip to Maine in October where they'll explore the witch museum, take a nighttime haunted tour, and hopefully fit in a day trip to Acadia National Park.
Also, as usual, the conversation took some turns...
• Cara joined the ladies golf league at her country club where she's the youngest by "maybe two decades"
• An unfortunate incident involving a goose on the golf course leads to surprising ball placement
• Excitement builds for their Salem trip in October, including staying next to the witch museum
• Planning a walking food tour in Portland and a visit to the allegedly haunted Bunghole Liquors
• Discussion of Maine-based books including the "Clambake Mysteries" series and "The Frozen River"
• Cara's recent discovery of chimichurri sauce has her putting it on everything from eggs to beans and rice
• Pizza oven adventures and why manufacturers recommend practicing before hosting a pizza party
• Teenage slang evolution: "sus" is now considered cringe but "dodgy" remains timeless
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Welcome back. Welcome back, erin and I haven't talked in like two days, so we've got a lot to catch up on.
Speaker 2:Well, actually it's been a while since we've actually like really caught up. Yeah, I guess we've texted. I think I was out there three, four weeks ago.
Speaker 1:No, because I was talking to you in my kitchen when I was making something just the other day.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I guess we did. Did chat, but we haven't recorded in a month no, no, we haven't recorded.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've just had our normal what?
Speaker 2:are you doing? Doing, life doing life, yeah, um.
Speaker 1:So what did you just?
Speaker 2:tell me I just joined the ladies golf league at the local country club yeah, you did she's got the bug, everyone it's. I'm so bad.
Speaker 1:Every golfer says I'm so bad.
Speaker 2:No, I really am. I got 12. Two of the holes I got 12. On the rules when you have to follow rules, it's a whole different game.
Speaker 1:It is, it is yeah. That's why I don't do that.
Speaker 2:I've been following like beginner rules, where if it's like if it's out of bounds and I can't find it, I just drop one where I think it went. Yeah, but allegedly here in the rules that we participate in or play by, everybody has to have seen where it got or it went, not just me or we have to find it, or I have to go back to the tee box and hit again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are you liking it? Is it Tuesdays? I feel like most of it's.
Speaker 2:Wednesday mornings oh mornings, yeah, like I have to show up by 7.30 or I can't play.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is like ladies who don't have like corporate jobs.
Speaker 2:Right, it's mostly retired ladies. I think Are you the youngest one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so far. By how many decades?
Speaker 2:Maybe two. Okay, it's hard to tell. I can't tell it is hard to tell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did want to ask. I can't tell the difference between someone who's like 35 and 60. I'm like who do you think?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think there might be some women that are closer to my age in there, but the lady that helped me get set up with it and like kind of introduced me to it, she said that it's like there's like 30 or 30 or 39 women between the ages of 50 and 80.
Speaker 2:So, and they're good, they're good, so they're, they're kicking my ass. Ok, and here's what's interesting is that they're like I. I'm so inconsistent is is my biggest problem right now. Like I can hit my driver pretty far, but not every time. Sure and so, but they're, and it's not always straight. So they, but they're hitting very straight, very consistently. It's not crazy far, it's. They're not clocking like 175 yards or anything like that, which isn't even that far, but they're consistently going straight down where they want to be. So I'm ending up like in the bunker six times and I spent so much freaking time in the sand, but I think I think I'm going to learn a lot about strategy. Oh, okay, they're super smart. Like I'm watching them make decisions that I wouldn't necessarily have made before I was watching them. The little bit of treachery beats youth and enthusiasm. Every time. They've learned not to be as hopeful as I am. They're like no, you got to lay that up and just play it from the side there, don't try to hit it over.
Speaker 1:Also, they probably play every day oh.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they play every day.
Speaker 1:I don't know Honestly, I have no idea.
Speaker 2:I have no idea. It doesn't look like even all of them play every Wednesday. It's like usually between 12 and 16 women show up.
Speaker 1:Okay, and they just put you on four of them and away you go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you just get an email like Sunday asking if you want to play Wednesday and you respond and say yes or no. So it's not like I don't have to play every Wednesday, but I have to play 54 holes before I can get my handicap and then, because every Wednesday is a tournament, they're playing like a tournament. I can't wait to hear what your handicap is. Oh, it's going to be like 50. Like for sure it's going to be so bad. I don't even think they let like it goes as high as I would be. So it'll be like max 50 plus max. I don't know, it doesn't matter to me, it's like. At least it's something to like measure my progress by, of course, and I think that they I think they connect you like, they try to keep you in foursomes with people who are similar handicap to you so that you're not like, and then they send like the fast ladies out first, right.
Speaker 1:So right, so you don't feel too bad about yourself and your abilities.
Speaker 2:Well, I will just say, thank jesus, I'm not too, too competitive. The only, the only time I wanted to quit, like I wanted to walk out and be like fuck, this, I don't want to do this was on the 15th hole when I I sliced two balls right into like the dry weeds way off the side on the right, and the second ball was a provisional ball, so I was supposed to be able to find at least one of them, and I had me and like a handful of octogenarians in there with our clubs, watching out for snakes, trying to find. We're all traipsing through the bushes, getting stickers on our socks, looking for these freaking balls that we can't find. Found like six balls, finally found my first ball, and I just felt so bad. I was like dude, it's like 100 degrees out here and I've got these ladies, the traipsing through the underbrush where the rattlesnakes live looking for my stupid ball. I'm like you guys, just let me drop one on the side. They're like nope, nope. The rule is we gotta find your, your ball.
Speaker 2:I did learn later, though, because I stayed and had lunch with them and we chatted about it. Of course, oh, and hold please. I did learn that I can, and in that, if I had actually gotten like to the point where I was like I'm just not feeling this hole, like I just need to stop right now, I could have X'd out that hole and just not played it, not played the rest of it, and I just it would have been fine, I could have moved on and done the next hole, but I would have been ineligible for any of the prizes for the day, which I'm not eligible for anyway because I don't have a handicap.
Speaker 1:Yet Right, how much white wine do they drink at lunch?
Speaker 2:I was the only one who had a glass of white wine. One of the other gals, barb, had a beer, a gin and tarpon, let me guess Barb had a beer. I don't. I actually didn't. I wasn't there when all the other ladies ordered. I didn't really pay attention. But they didn't have wine glasses or beer and I did notice that. No cocktails. But they did like one of the girls got a birdie on like the fourth hole and she's part of the birdie club so everybody has to give her two dollars that they're playing with. My dog just went. Yeah, I said birdie and um, and then one of the gals that I was riding with she was like want some birdie juice and she had a bunch of like little alcohol bottles in her purse in case anybody got a birdie aiming juice that's fine, funny.
Speaker 1:Um wait, I got one question. Is Jeremy still taking a break from golf?
Speaker 2:I forced him to play on Sunday? Okay, because we got our friends Jared and Laura. Laura had never played before and Jared's pretty good, so we all decided to go out and play nine holes. But since it was Laura's first time ever, none of us kept score. Okay, so I didn't keep score, we just played and had a good time and it was super easy. And he said he felt pretty good, pretty good, like he had enough decent shots that he wasn't going to quit.
Speaker 1:maybe anymore necessarily. Ok great, Did you have a terrible day? Because I know usually only one of you can be good at. Yes, I did. Yes, I did.
Speaker 2:Perfect. That's probably good for him, but it was better than last Wednesday when I played the first league day, because, because no animals were injured. Sunday I hit a goose, you hit a goose, I hit a goose. Okay, just picture it. You're white. Okay, you've been on a golf course. You know I didn't mean to Many times.
Speaker 2:I've also been around a lot of geese. I obviously didn't mean to, so you know how they just flock to these golf courses and they're always hanging out and they're always in the way, but nobody ever really hits them like you're like shoo, get out of here. But it's rare that they actually get hit. Was it a canada goose?
Speaker 1:probably. What are we gonna?
Speaker 2:revoke my citizenship now, I know blackhead yes. Brownish yes, feathers yeah so I hit I was trying to hit up past a bunker onto the green and I swung and it went straight out like I hit it too thin and it went straight out, bounced off the duck's ass and when bounced up onto the green so I would have been in the bunker and again on a duck. What did I say?
Speaker 1:the duck, yeah did you get a duck?
Speaker 2:no, no, just a goose. But the lady that's in charge of everything was watching me and you should have seen her face. She was was like oh my God. And I was like horrified, right, because like nobody wants to hurt animals I mean, if you're not a psycho and I felt so freaking bad. And then she was like trying to make me feel better. She's like. I watched it, it's OK, it's not hurt, it's not hurt. But I could tell she was secretly judging me. She probably thought that you're a great shot and you were aiming for it like you are a psychopath or something.
Speaker 2:I couldn't do it again if I tried. I was so embarrassed of all the like, everything that I could have fucked up on. I fucked up. You said it bounced before it hit it. No it, it hit the it. It went straight, like it barely went up at all. It went straight, hit the goose in the fat part of its duck, its butt, and that's great. Bounced off its fat butt up onto the green and it was actually a pretty good shot. After that, that goose was helping you out. Oh yeah, if it wasn't for the goose, I would have been in the sand again. I mean they should hire that goose. Oh my.
Speaker 1:God.
Speaker 2:Usually I just throw the ball out of the sand because I mean I'll hit it. But if it's like one or two times, I'm like no, I'm not doing this, but I had to follow the rules. So I had to keep hitting it until I got out of the fucking sand. And they're all watching me and they're not really allowed to give me tips.
Speaker 1:How great would it be if you could train a goose to somehow like just follow you around the course?
Speaker 2:No one would probably notice for a while and they'd be like, why is there a goose always with Kara on every single one? It's waiting for its vengeance, waiting for its opportunity. Yeah, oh my God, though I was telling Jeremy later. I'm like what if it had hit its little leg and broken its leg or something Like that actually would be fucking devastating, especially because they need to like swim yeah.
Speaker 1:And would be fucking devastating especially because they need to like swim, yeah, and I was like, what would you even do it?
Speaker 2:wouldn't be able to run to take off to fly. And I was telling my girlfriend that this weekend when we were talking and she was like you just have to grab it by its neck and swing it around and kill it, probably because she's from a farm, farming the farm life, and I'm like I probably that's or that would be the humane thing to do, but could I probably, or you, just go?
Speaker 1:take it home. Okay, we no, no, no, no, hear me out, hear me out. Take it home. We know you have a resident mountain lion in your canyon. You release the goose into the canyon and just go. Sorry buddy circle of life. But like hunger games, like no, I think.
Speaker 2:I think we would probably have had to like tell somebody at the clubhouse and have like somebody braver than me go out and like put it out of its misery.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so many many things can go wrong on the golf course next time you see that mountain lion, you tell it that I was voting for it to get an easy meal, but no.
Speaker 2:I've already given that mountain lion an easy meal. My cat disappeared years ago, remember. Oh, that's true.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2:Striker was cat food. It's going to be Striker. Actually it probably was coyotes. It probably wasn't the mountain lion. Yeah, I don't even think a mountain lion would bother with a cat Plus. Isn't that kind of weird? Isn't that cannibalism? Cat?
Speaker 1:on cat. Yeah, cat on cat seems weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't feel like that's happening.
Speaker 1:That seems kind of not quite cannibalism, but not quite not cannibalism.
Speaker 2:It's a gray area.
Speaker 1:I mean there's birds that eat other birds, though all the time.
Speaker 2:I suppose Did I send you a picture of that hawk that was parked in my backyard recently. Well, maybe Let me look. Hold on, it was so, it was so. I was like I was enamored. It was sitting on the little concrete ledge in the backyard and I wanted to go feed it. And it was so cool, it sat there forever and Jeremy's like don't feed it, they eat meat and shit, they do eat meat and shit. No, you didn't. Oh well, I'll have to send it to you then.
Speaker 1:The only picture I have of a bird that you sent me is a bird eating popcorn and putting on binoculars.
Speaker 2:That sounds like something I would send you.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's because we were talking about the cryptozoology museum.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, okay, so we'll just have a little intro on the golf here, and then let's jump into what we're actually talking about today. Yes, we're not here to talk about golf.
Speaker 1:No, this is not a golf podcast.
Speaker 2:I know I'm so sad that you don't like golf.
Speaker 1:It's kind of my big rebellion. For those of you who don't know, my half-brother is a teaching pro. My dad lives by a golf course. After he retired he worked at said golf course for many years. My husband plays golf four times a week probably. I'm at a golf course a lot. I grew up around golf a lot. My big rebellion is that I don't really play. I would probably play if I was better at it, but also I really suck Me too. Yeah, I suck worse than you, way worse than you, in fact oh well, we'll probably never know well, I'll go out sometime just so you can see, like, how bad it really is.
Speaker 2:It'll make you feel really good about yourself, drive, just drive the cart and have have drinks with me. Yeah, absolutely, I'll be your swing coach. Okay, did I tell you that once when we were golfing I was, I wasn't, I don't hit ball. Oh, yeah, the guy. The guy was like I thought I was coach. Yeah, some guy thought I was jeremy's coach because I was standing behind him telling him to keep his head down and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes to let you go out if you're not playing. You have to tell him you're like a swing coach or something.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that I've been a swing coach.
Speaker 1:I'm real good at it. Okay, but we're not talking about golf. This is not a golf podcast. Nope, I'll never speak of it again.
Speaker 2:Speak of what Exactly? Nope, I'll never speak of it again. Speak of what?
Speaker 1:Exactly Okay.
Speaker 2:What we are here to talk about is our next trip, which I am getting very excited.
Speaker 1:Which we talked about a little bit. We did release an episode already announcing where we were going.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh yes no-transcript.
Speaker 1:So we are also going to Kara. You want to announce Salem?
Speaker 2:Massachusetts.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, we're going to Salem in October, which I realize a lot of people in Salem have said oh my God, it's crazy. It's going to be so crazy there, which great. That's part of the fun. We're here for the tourists, tourism Well, and town that celebrates witches for a month straight. Sign me up, please.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's going to be probably insane. We'll probably need to get some dinner reservations places. We almost didn't get a place to stay because everybody was booking up so quickly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, we should probably make some reservations. We'll get on that. Also, we figured out going up one day to Acadia National Park for some leaf peeping.
Speaker 2:I'm actually not looking forward to that drive. It's going to be so long. I mean we don't have to do it if you don't want to do it. I mean I do want to see a kid. I feel like it would be kind of a shame not to I feel, I feel both of those things, but also it's I mean, we have time. I think we're there for like eight days or like well we're in.
Speaker 1:I think we're like four days. I think we're well because we have Seattle on either end. Well, I guess just on the back end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the way that we have to do it because Christmas lives in Santa Rosa and I live closer to Sacramento than she does is she's flying out of Santa Rosa and I'm flying out of Sacramento, but we're meeting in Seattle because all the flights kind of go, they can go through Seattle anyway. So we're meeting up there and then we're going to fly back east together and then and watch murder.
Speaker 1:She wrote episodes the whole time the entire time, even the that are so bad. Oh, there's oh and uh. You may or may not have noticed, if you saw my instagram stories, just this past weekend I attended for the second time a solve along murder. She wrote theater. A Solve Along Murder she Wrote theater. I did see that it's so fun. It's this Australian guy who's another total Murder. She Wrote super fan and he does a one man show like in drag, kind of dressed as JB. It's so great, he's so great. He does it all like in the UK a ton. I think that's his full time gig is. He just travels around the UK where apparently it's also very popular, and he's been in San Francisco twice now.
Speaker 2:So what a strange job. Like what do you do?
Speaker 1:I want to figure out a way to leave my life and go join him and be his assistant and just cruise around and watch him do the show.
Speaker 2:I feel like it would get old doing the same thing every night, though, don't you Well?
Speaker 1:he does a different episode every night, Kara.
Speaker 2:Oh, I guess that would make a difference.
Speaker 1:You talk about who the guest stars are, what they were in before. Everyone like holds up a thing if someone does something that they think is shady or suspish.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, oh yeah, because we're not supposed to say sus anymore. I've told my teenage son just told me that's cringe when I say sus, but we can still say cringe, yep, certain things are still okay. I said no cap the other day and he was like I had to look at him and he said no, that's fine. I haven't heard that sus is not okay yet well, you're gonna hear it if you say it around parker okay, I'll have to ask ben and shane, my niece and I'm curious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so random question. Now you cut out for a second. What'd you say? Oh, I said so I just call random question is sus lame now. Oh yeah, they'll be like I don't know actually I mean, aren't they in southern california?
Speaker 2:is there? For a second, what'd you say? Oh, I said so. I just call random question. Is sus lame now? Oh yeah, they'll be like I don't know. Actually, I mean, aren't they in Southern California Is there? Maybe it's? Yeah, they're. They're both in Santa Barbara. Maybe it's been lame for longer down there than it has up here. You know we're a little slower on the trend.
Speaker 1:Um is suspish okay.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what made me think, say sus no Is dodgy.
Speaker 1:Okay, because I usually use dodgy. Dodgy is classic. Yeah, the classics never go out of step. Put the hat to dodgy. So yeah, salem witchiness, if anyone has hot tips on where to eat. What to do? We're definitely going on a nighttime haunted tour. I would really like to get a reading while we're there. Um, we're staying right next door to the witch museum.
Speaker 2:Okay, because you kind of did the, you did the searching on where we were going to stay in salem and kind of chose where we were going to stay in Salem and kind of chose, where we were going to stay.
Speaker 1:Yes, well, it was also a matter of what is even still available as October, and I think we have can figure it out, which I know is challenging, apparently.
Speaker 2:But you've also confirmed that we will not be driving a giant trans or a giant like sprinter van this time.
Speaker 1:So it should no, it should be no we will not be driving a giant sprinter van. We will not be driving a little tiny thing though, because I don't like driving little tiny things, and if we do go to acadia, I'm not trying to spend six hours in a dumb little car.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that'll be fine.
Speaker 1:I think I mean we should probably go to Acadia.
Speaker 2:I mean, we kind of decided already that we were going to spend one day and go do that, right, and I've heard Bar Harbor's up. Well, that way we can.
Speaker 1:Bar Harbor is the little town that's like next to Acadia.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've heard a lot about. I keep seeing that show up on my TikTok as like one of the cutest Bahaba Bahaba. It's like one of the cutest towns you have to see in Maine.
Speaker 1:Okay well.
Speaker 2:I mean Go see it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll record in the car. We'll talk about nothingness for three hours. It'll be great. I'm excited, I'm really excited. I'm very excited. I'm getting more excited. How many you were the one that told me that there is an entire Cozy Murder book series. Oh yeah, named Clambake Mysteries.
Speaker 2:So the first one is called Clammed. Up I think it might be. Actually, yeah, it's called Clammed Up, it's Barbara Ross, it's cute. I think you will really enjoy. Actually, yeah, it's called Clammed Up, it's Barbara Ross, it's cute. I think you will really enjoy it because oh, I've read the first four. Oh, you've read. Oh, shut up. Really, I'm still like a third of the way through the second one, because it's just it's way more you than it is me oh, absolutely, but it's still no Thursday murder club.
Speaker 2:Let's be real nobody's gonna be the like. I challenge someone to write something better than the Thursday Murder Club.
Speaker 1:They probably already have, we just don't know it. But also, if someone knows of something, send it our way. It was.
Speaker 2:I was. I can't wait for the next one to come out, but I did get another book that takes place in Maine in like 1750s through the 1790s. I know you hate historical fiction, but it's also a little bit of a murder mystery. Okay, it's called the Frozen River. It's about a midwife who, you know, has her life out there in the frozen tundra in the winter and chaos ensues. I'm way more enthralled with it than I have been with the Clammed Up series. It's not a clam dunk, I said clammed up.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought you said clam dunk. It's a main clam.
Speaker 2:It's a clam, dunk now.
Speaker 1:I shouldn't say I've read the first four, since it's been a lot of audible also. This trip is going to be a clam dunk audible also this trip is going to be a clam dunk, okay, frozen river right, yeah, you'll love it.
Speaker 2:Starts with murder right away. Oh, right out of the gate.
Speaker 1:I like that gate murder. I like the sound of that, okay, okay, um. So I shouldn't start number five, I guess.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do whatever you want, I know you love your cozy?
Speaker 1:Oh, I will, but there's also 12. I'm like I could just, oh God, really, yeah, there's 12.
Speaker 2:That's a lot. That's like Stephanie Plum series, like one for the money, two for yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I read like all the way through 19 and then I was like when you were pregnant, it started way through 19 and then I was like, when you were pregnant, it started before I was pregnant. But yeah, I was totally into that when I was pregnant.
Speaker 2:Um, I will say, the more of them I read, the more I do enjoy the characters. Obviously, the guys what's the guy that runs the restaurant? Gus Gus? Yeah, I love him. There are some. I can see some of the characters being like growing on you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure, and I'm enjoying seeing how Chris and Julia are navigating things. Okay, no, spoilers.
Speaker 2:I'm assuming they'll probably. It doesn't seem like that Jamie guy is going to get the girl. The policeman friend who tried to.
Speaker 1:I know who you're talking about. I'm just trying to remain neutral.
Speaker 2:Oh God, okay Well, maybe we shouldn't talk about it then, because I do, I will keep reading. Um, I just need to get bored enough, yeah which one.
Speaker 1:What's going on in the second one?
Speaker 2:the guy was found in the claminator. Oh, that's right, and um, the kid that's sticking, and the kid that the foot sticking out, yeah, the foot sticking out of the barbecue. Basically, cade, yeah, cade, and they, yeah, they suspect Cade, but I mean it's probably not Cade.
Speaker 1:The fact that you get to say Claminator, yeah, it's worth it.
Speaker 2:I think I've never said it out loud. When I read that, I was all yeah, that's a great name, yeah.
Speaker 1:The Claminator.
Speaker 2:Super funny, I love it.
Speaker 1:We also have another trip coming up in two weeks, three weeks, 18 days, so that's going to be exciting. Yep, yeah, we're going to the Eastern Sierras. I'm not going to say where exactly, because I don't want it to get too popular.
Speaker 2:That's fine, that's fair yeah.
Speaker 1:But we'll just Mammoth-ish, huh, mammoth-ish, mammoth-ish, mammoth-jacent. Yeah, you don't have to be in charge of any dinners, but you do have to help me with one of them.
Speaker 2:That's fine. I'll help you with whatever you want, and if you want me to be in charge of a dinner, I will. I just hate cooking. I know you hate it and I like it. If I never had to cook again in my life I'd be so happy, and I know you love it.
Speaker 2:You'd be sad, I would be devastated. I was thinking of you earlier today because I think that it will shock you to know that I just had chimichurri for the very first time. What, really? Yeah, really, and I love cilantro, so I don't know what happened. Like somebody really dropped the ball in my life that I haven't had it until just now.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, but a lot of it is going to be at like, like more Peruvian restaurants, like South south american restaurants, and you guys probably don't have a lot of south. I mean, you probably have mexican, but not like true south america, like argentinian food, I don't know I just know I've seen it on menus before, but I've always been like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know about that.
Speaker 1:That's a weird name um, you can make it because I I know cilantro can be really polarizing for some people. I love cilantro same, but there's the people that have that gene where it tastes like dirt to them or something soap. So I have also had friends make it with parsley. Um, all parsley, or parsley and basil. You can kind of make whatever. I personally love a cilantro chimichurri.
Speaker 2:My girlfriend made it on the 4th of July and it was for Jeremy, because they were what am I trying to say right now? They were smoking a whole bunch of meat and he still doesn't eat meat. I ate a rib, which was delicious because I'm starting to eat a little bit more meat, but he still really doesn't want to. So she made these like portabellos. She baked these portabellos so they wouldn't get contaminated in the smoke with the meat.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so nice of her.
Speaker 2:She made these like chimichurri sass, but she forgot about it, so it was in the fridge and so she gave it to us and said you've got to take this home, put it on anything. So we started with it on our scrambled eggs. Oh my God, that was amazing. Okay, never put it on scrambled eggs before. And then I made beans and rice last night and like chopped up a whole bunch of tofu and we mixed that Like it was basically beans and rice, like red beans and rice, but it was brown beans and chimichurri. Oh great, I had it cold for breakfast and for lunch.
Speaker 1:It was so freaking good, I discovered something that I think you will really like, but I don't want to tell you about it. I'm just going to show you when we go on our trip, which one? The one in 18 days.
Speaker 2:Okay, because I got you and me a present. I got us both something Okay, but I'm not giving it to you till we go to Maine.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I have a present for you too, so there.
Speaker 2:And I'm not. This is exciting. Well, I have one that I. How funny would it be if we got the same thing.
Speaker 1:Oh God, it's the gift of the magi.
Speaker 2:I'm going to die if it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:I guarantee it's not Okay, but I have something to give you for our mammoth trip and I have something that I'm not going to give you until we're on our way to Maine.
Speaker 2:Oh, geez Okay. I'm not going to give you yours until we get to Maine. Okay, that's fine. It's not a traveling gift, we need to be stationary.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:What could it be that it can't happen on a plane? I know Damn You're just gonna love it. Well, we shall see, shan't we.
Speaker 2:We shall. I'm super excited about the trip, though I love. I've always wanted to go to Maine. I love seafood. I'm not so sure about oysters but I like oysters, I'm not.
Speaker 1:I don't, I'm not like crazy, crazy about. I like them, but I'm not. Don't think they're like my favorite of the seafoods, that's for sure. They're probably not even my favorite of the mollusks. Uh, concerning, well, I do love, uh like mussels in white wine and butter with crusty bread sounds good. Steamed clams here for it, clam strips, oh I don't think I've ever had clam strips I'll fuck up a clam strip. Oh yeah, um, I'm excited for a lot of weird lobster stuff weird love.
Speaker 2:Oh, we've. We booked a walking food tour? Yes, we did, as we usually do, Portland. Always try to do that if we can. Yeah, that's good. I think we did like the three or four, I don't know it's it's long. I think it's longer than the last one we did in Juneau, I think. I know I'm really excited. It sounded like everything we would want to try was on the list.
Speaker 1:And we'll learn about Portland and its history. And, oh, we're also going to a place that I'm super excited about Bunghole Liquors oh right, supposed to be haunted, and it's called Bunghole Liquors. I will be buying merch.
Speaker 2:I would hope so.
Speaker 1:It's like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Yeah, I've told a couple people who have requested, if they have them, like can koozies? Yeah, from the bunghole.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gotta enjoy this trip and get lots of souvenirs. I don't think I don't see myself spending a lot of time or going back necessarily. It's so far it's not like it's Europe Cara. It still feels like it's Europe Cara. It still feels like it. It sucks up a whole day on either end for travel. So does Hawaii Not really it's like four hours to get to Hawaii, or five maybe.
Speaker 1:It's five one way, six the other. I only know that because my husband is headed there next week.
Speaker 2:Oh, golf, yeah, so you're going to be headed there next week. Oh, oh, golf, golf, that's right, yeah, so you're going to be eating mushrooms next week.
Speaker 1:Oh, I had some great mushrooms last night. I did a mushroom. I got a, went to the farmer's market, got a huge thing of a bunch of mixed, super fancy mushrooms, cooked them in butter, a little bit of cream, sherry, some herbs, and then I actually made not really a chimichurri, but kind of a chimichurri I like chopped up a bunch of parsley, added some garlic, lemon, tiny bit of champagne vinegar, and so I went sourdough toast that I fried in the pan in the mushroom butter. I fried in the pan in the mushroom butter burrata, all the sauteed mushrooms and then a little sprinkle of the. I'll show you a picture. So good, oh, you took a picture of it. Yeah, to send to my husband to be like tell me your husband's out of town without telling me your husband's out of town. Where is he now? He's in Boston. Oh, just till he'll be back tomorrow, just for work. Yeah, why can't I? Oh, I'm in the wrong thing. Oh, yeah, here we go. I don't know if you can see that.
Speaker 2:Oh, that looks beautiful. Damn oh, I can't.
Speaker 1:No, I saw it, I can see it. That looks amazing, it was amazing. It was great. Love brada. Yeah, I can't go wrong with brada. Um, I think I'm gonna try do some practice pizzas on the pizza oven tonight oh, because we're doing pizza on this trip, this next trip, aren't? We have our portable pizza oven and I want to get good at it, like good at the crusts, and I kind of want to practice when my husband's not here, because I can try methods that he might balk at.
Speaker 2:Do you guys disagree on cooking methodologies?
Speaker 1:No, I just want to get better than him, faster. I see? No, it's just my competit better than him faster? I see no it's just my competitiveness that tracks.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Is that why you don't golf? You're too competitive. You want to be good at it or you don't want to do it.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no. I'm fine doing things that I'm bad at, but I want to get good at making pizza. I wanted to get good at making pasta. I feel like I'm good at making homemade pasta. I want to get good at making pizza. I wanted to get good at making pasta. I feel like I'm good at making homemade pasta. I want to get good at pizza, especially because we have a little pizza oven.
Speaker 2:I mean homemade pizza is amazing.
Speaker 1:It is. Did I tell you when we were taking it out of the box? In the directions it says like in bold italicized font Make sure you practice times before you invite anyone over for a pizza party, which is true because the first time we tried it we almost got divorced. It was terrible, but we're getting ever better each time. But it made me wonder, like what happened at that company, that the attorneys were like guys. We got to just put it in the instructions.
Speaker 2:We really need a disclaimer for this.
Speaker 1:We need a disclaimer to not invite your friends.
Speaker 2:It almost makes me wonder if somebody actually tried to sue them because their marriage fell apart. I wonder.
Speaker 1:Or maybe they just got a ton of irate messages. I invited all my friends over for a pizza party and I look like a loser. Probably, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited about my new pizza oven. Everybody come over, let's have some pizza Fail, yeah, yeah. And then you have to blame somebody. You can't blame yourself, right? So you have to blame the pizza oven company.
Speaker 1:Well, what do you do with all the hungry people you have to order in pizza Pizza? Yeah. Well, what do you do with all the hungry people you have to order in pizza pizza? Yeah, if you didn't have a backup, if you didn't allot for failure, everybody just go home hungry.
Speaker 2:Sorry, eat some cheese and crackers for dinner. You're on your own. Sorry, I guess you won't be in accepting any of my invites anymore there's a recipe for chimichurri. You can put it on anything that's a good way to get out of having to host stuff. Just serve everyone. One terrible meal.
Speaker 1:Give everyone food poisoning once.
Speaker 2:Nobody asks me to bring anything to the potlucks anymore. So weird. Why am I always in charge of beverages? Yeah, you're so good at it, kara. Yeah, that actually sounds great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would rather be in charge of the food than the beverages.
Speaker 2:I did bring an appetizer to the 4th of July and she had a bunch of stuff there too. She had these like watermelon skewers with feta on them and stuff oh my God, it was so good and mint which I had never had before, but they were good.
Speaker 1:You've never had watermelon, feta and mint. Nope, Good fucking Christ good fucking christ.
Speaker 2:Hey, look, it's a big, wide world. There's lots of stuff to eat. Okay, I'm working on eating more of it. Okay, that's great that's great there.
Speaker 1:There. This is very true. There it is a big, wide world with lots of things to eat. I venture to say that up until recently you probably didn't eat a lot of those different things, like when Parker was growing up. I bet you ate a lot of the same stuff that's.
Speaker 2:a big part of it is that if I'm making, if I have to cook for my family and I've got a five-year-old or a 10-year-old. He was a picky eater when he was little and Jeremy's a picky eater too, so I'm not going to screw around. Nobody in my family is eating feta on watermelon.
Speaker 2:I mean they might now try it um, I don't know if he did, he probably would try it now and he would probably like it, but he didn't. I don't think he liked, like I'm trying to remember. It's only a recent development that he likes, like goat cheese and salads and things like that. Okay, so we're getting more.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna. I'm gonna get him with the tuna one of these days.
Speaker 2:I think you will, because he really does. He's starting to eat a little bit more dairy. I've noticed like not not that he was ever weird about dairy, but like he didn't like like sour cream was was too far what do you put on a goddamn big potato?
Speaker 2:butter and cheese okay, and vegan chili okay. But I made these little um. I couldn't find the longer skewers at the grocery store, so I got toothpicks and I made little caprese, like one bite caprese skewers, with just the three, you know, the tomato, the cheese and the basil. And then I put um reduced balsamic all over it and it was it was glaze.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's delicious. Um, yeah, you could just tell people I meant to do that.
Speaker 2:They're single serving well, it worked out better anyway, because then you didn't have to like risk skewering yourself in the mouth or using your hands to slide it up the skewer or no. You just do this method. Oh yeah, that's not how I'm about it. That seems messy. It probably is messy, it probably is.
Speaker 2:I've been seeing these corn on the cob, like these de-corners, if that makes sense Like it's this, like little shovel that you use and you slide it down the corn cob and it takes the corn off the cob. Have you seen those? I wonder if they work.
Speaker 1:You know what else works. It's this thing, perhaps you've heard of it. It's called a kn. You've heard of it.
Speaker 2:It's called a knife, uh yeah, but it's not shaped the right way. This thing is shaped like a shovel. It's like kind of round like the corn. Have you tried it? No, I'm asking if you've seen it.
Speaker 1:I might, I might buy one.
Speaker 2:I love corn, but I love gadgets. I know you do, you. You wait, I'm gonna. I'm gonna try one, and then you're going to be singing its praises. I can't wait. Frickin' knife what am I? I also know you have nice knives. I do have nice knives, thanks to you, wow. And you know what's wonderful is that my family forgets that they're here. I'm the only one who uses them, because we mounted the magnetic. We mounted the magnetic strip up under the counter, so you can't see them, unless you know they're there out of sight, out of mind handy.
Speaker 2:If someone ever broke in and tried to attack me, I'd be like aha, grab my knife. They wouldn't even see it coming. Well, you just keep a sock on your bat.
Speaker 1:A sock on my bat. Yeah, then, when you try to hit the intruder with the bat, if they grab the bat, the sock pulls right off and you go.
Speaker 2:That's a second time, motherfucker? I have heard that, yeah, and you definitely would go in for a second one. And then you got to keep the big zip ties on hand so you can secure the perp while you call 911.
Speaker 1:Right, or picture me hold still, sir, as I put together seven tiny zip ties.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was funny when you said that, because I'm picturing these big ass industrial ones that Jeremy has in the garage that you could easily, like the kind of cops carry around. I do have gorilla tape that would probably work too.
Speaker 1:You'd have to do it behind their back, though, because if it was in the front they could.
Speaker 2:Could probably just I'd just hog, tie them like all four of them, just right, or four of them gorilla tape around their head. Yeah, I'd, I'd gorilla tape their head to the ground, to my hardwood floors. I'd lay them out like like jesus on the cross and I'd tape them to my floor. They're not going going anywhere. The cops show up. They're like what the hell happened here?
Speaker 1:The perp is like please take me, please get me out of here. He's like I'd like to press charges.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this lady is kookaroo Take me far away, please. Yeah, yeah, but anyway.
Speaker 1:I digress yeah, what do you got going on this weekend?
Speaker 2:I'm supposed to go paddle boarding with a couple of girlfriends on Saturday. Fun, and I might try to convince Jeremy to golf again on Sunday, but we'll see how excited he is about that.
Speaker 1:Are you bringing a paddleboard?
Speaker 2:to our camping trip. I can I have two of them. Should I bring both?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Okay, my sister and brother-in-law will probably bring theirs.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're bringing the van, so I have plenty of room to bring crap. Okay, great, yeah, what are you doing this?
Speaker 1:weekend. Well, I was supposed to be vending at the Los Altos Art and Wine Festival, but I was on their waiting list and I have not heard from them, so I would assume.
Speaker 1:But I was on their waiting list and I have not heard from them, so I would assume that I am not vending, although I told them. You know, if you let me know by Thursday, I could probably pull it together and the lady's super nice, she's like we really would like to have you. She might say that to everyone. We'll see. So yeah, well, goddamn wait lists.
Speaker 2:I mean, you very rarely have a weekend that's not booked out.
Speaker 1:It's true it's true, it wouldn't be terrible to hang out, nice to have a, a little break. Yeah, um, okay. Well, I love you. I love you too, and I guess we love you too, dear listeners. We love you too, and I guess we love you too, dear listeners, we love you too, and we will probably be here again soon, sometime, sure will, sure will. Bye.
