Good Eats!

Although I've actually lost weight on this trip, which I contribute to lots of walking and exercise (Bill keeps trying to convince me it's due to drinking beer each evening), we have enjoyed some delicious meals in Florida. Let me start backwards and try to remember...

Today Mom and I had lunch at PJ's Oyster Bar in Indian Rocks Beach, which is right down the road from where she and John will spend the winter (Largo, FL). We both had a very tasty grilled grouper sandwich. Grouper seems to be the fish of choice most places we go in Florida.

Yesterday our friend Lou drove us to see the sights in St. Petersburg, and we stopped at a beachfront restaurant called Caddy's for lunch. They smoke their own meats, which made for the best corned beef reuben I have ever had! The night before Lou treated us to dinner at the Crab Shack, where I had my first taste of stone crabs and Bill had alligator sausage. The crabs were good, but my favorites remain steamed blue crabs, and, of course, Bill has never met a sausage he didn't like!

Speaking of reubens, Susan Brown recommended we stop to get a lobster reuben at the Key Fisheries Restaurant in Marathon. It was huge, and we shared it as Susan suggested.

Also in Marathon is the Sunset Grille, where we watched the football games. We would definitely order the hamburgers and sushi there again. 

When we were traveling through South Florida, the Cuban influence made for some good eatin'. We would go to the prepared foods section of the grocery store and buy the most succulent roast pork and a dish called picadillo, which is seasoned ground beef with green olives and potatoes.

As most of you know, I am very particular about my coffee...and I like to have it first thing every morning. We solved the challenge of what to do when we are not hooked up to electricity by purchasing an insulated French Press. I just have to heat water on our stove, which uses propane and can always be turned on, pour it over the Starbucks coffee, and let it steep for four minutes. So good!!! Bill can enjoy his extra minutes...hour...in bed, while I have my coffee and read the paper at the dinette.

Gotta go...dinner time!