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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world’s only daily column painfully adjusting to a thrifty diet of cheap meat and bad bread.
Nutritional values are irrelevant to our ever-more-miserly spending habits: We simply don’t have the extra tender for capers and caviar.
The grimy alternative of budget hot dogs hasn’t settled well. A recent rotisserie frank wasn’t labeled “bone-in,” and now we have a chip on our tooth.
Budget cans of sardines in mustard make for a fine meal. Their bones are soft enough to slide down the hatch, choke-free.
We’d go for these more frequently, but halitosis sinks friendships.
Rooster’s beak is always a winner — especially for those with vegetarian leanings.
The dish known more readily for its Spanish term — pico de gallo — includes tomato, onion and jalepeños with cilantro. It goes well with cow tongue, which can also be fairly affordable, depending whom you ask.
But enough about food. Let’s talk about cars.
We may soon forget that dastardly, malcontented valet who crashed our vehicle into a pillar last November.
A local body shop is taking the Jeep to mend its damages, returning the quarter panel to its factory sheen, no doubt.
But before we go dropping it off, some heavy-duty cleaning is in order.
We don’t have a garage, and Summit County’s cold air is one heck of a disincentive to vacuum the carpets — or even remove trash that’s been in the trunk since, say, last summer.
Pieces of plastic-foam cooler and crushed beer cans (open containers?) are well overdue for a trip to the dump — er, recycling center.
We’ll be packing out several CDs, a birthday card from the grandparents, a softball glove and an employee handbook that have all been shifting around the back, accompanying us for thousands of miles.
Perhaps our gas mileage will increase a few notches, so we can set aside more money for rice balls and malt liquor.
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It’s Sunday, and we’re out milking cats. Send your cut-rate meal bargains or recipes to summitup@summitdaily.com.
Nutritional values are irrelevant to our ever-more-miserly spending habits: We simply don’t have the extra tender for capers and caviar.
The grimy alternative of budget hot dogs hasn’t settled well. A recent rotisserie frank wasn’t labeled “bone-in,” and now we have a chip on our tooth.
Budget cans of sardines in mustard make for a fine meal. Their bones are soft enough to slide down the hatch, choke-free.
We’d go for these more frequently, but halitosis sinks friendships.
Rooster’s beak is always a winner — especially for those with vegetarian leanings.
The dish known more readily for its Spanish term — pico de gallo — includes tomato, onion and jalepeños with cilantro. It goes well with cow tongue, which can also be fairly affordable, depending whom you ask.
But enough about food. Let’s talk about cars.
We may soon forget that dastardly, malcontented valet who crashed our vehicle into a pillar last November.
A local body shop is taking the Jeep to mend its damages, returning the quarter panel to its factory sheen, no doubt.
But before we go dropping it off, some heavy-duty cleaning is in order.
We don’t have a garage, and Summit County’s cold air is one heck of a disincentive to vacuum the carpets — or even remove trash that’s been in the trunk since, say, last summer.
Pieces of plastic-foam cooler and crushed beer cans (open containers?) are well overdue for a trip to the dump — er, recycling center.
We’ll be packing out several CDs, a birthday card from the grandparents, a softball glove and an employee handbook that have all been shifting around the back, accompanying us for thousands of miles.
Perhaps our gas mileage will increase a few notches, so we can set aside more money for rice balls and malt liquor.
***
It’s Sunday, and we’re out milking cats. Send your cut-rate meal bargains or recipes to summitup@summitdaily.com.
