This week I've been going out for some lovely meals with various friends. Here's a photo from Earls Restaurant of their delicious Kung Pao Chicken with 3 hot hunan peppers. I've been going to Earls for nearly 30 years now and I always order this same dish Every. Single. Time.
I love gay singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. I've been listening all week to this fabulous 2021 live album of his. It's an intimate and intense mix of eclectic songs written by various Canadian and European songwriters, as well as by himself. Four of the songs are sung in French, his childhood language from Quebec.
I also went to Canadian Tire this week to buy a new muffin tin and noticed that their Halloween merch is now on the shelves. My two faves were this Zombie Gnome and the Unicorn Skull.
...Kung Pao Chicken must be good. I did know that Rufus Wainwright was Loudon Snowden Wainwright III son!
ReplyDelete@ Tom -- Yes, and Rufus Wainwright's mother was Kate McGarrigle, the Canadian singer-songwriter (which is why he grew up in Quebec after his parents divorced). He comes from "folk singer royalty" on both sides of his family tree.
DeleteThat Kung Pao looks dee-lish; it's barely 7:30 AM here and now I want Chinese food!
ReplyDeleteSpo needs that gnome for out by the pool.
ReplyDeleteYou and SG would get along well. He shocks waitstaff when he orders something different. I don’t think I’ve heard anything of Rufus Wainwright’s 2021 album. I’ll have to check it out. I kind of like the unicorn skull. As for the gnome, it’s better than usual gnome I suppose.
ReplyDeleteI love the unicorn skull and the zombie gnome.
ReplyDeleteI was always Kung Po Shrimp back in the day. Sounds like an excellent week. Love the Halloween fun.
ReplyDeleteAny Chinese food is welcome by me ... I love Kung Pao! Do you actually eat those little red hot peppers? Ack! I can't go THAT Kung Ho! LOL 🥵
ReplyDelete@ Marcia LaRue -- I was warned to NEVER eat those peppers and I have always heeded that restriction! It's probably why I'm still alive today!
DeleteI don't decorate for Halloween the way I used to, but I love enjoying the decorations of others! And, Halloween has taken over the yards and houses near me with such creativity! So much more interesting and varied than xmas these days! 🎃
ReplyDeleteI love making Kung Pao Chicken. The sauce is a little tricky but I got it down. I have to get me a Zombie Gnome.
ReplyDeleteI love anything Kung Pao. It's amazing the creativity that goes into Halloween decorations nowadays.
ReplyDeleteZombie Gnome is hysterical. I'd have bought it.
ReplyDeletei love rufus!
ReplyDeleteMuffin tin...at a tire store??? You Canadiastanis are weird! (I hasten to add GOOD weird!!!)
ReplyDelete@ Bruce.desertrat -- Yes, Canadian Tire did start out as a tire and automotive business but over the decades it diversified and today it's essentially Canada's equivalent of Walmart (except no clothes or groceries).
DeleteI love Earls, and I've been going to it many years as well, Debra. Next time I'm in Calgary, I'll have to order the Kung Pao Chicken.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't familiar with Rufus Wainwright. I'll be checking out his songs on You Tube. He's really good looking. The CT Halloween decorations are a lot of fun. I hope you've been having a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteThe food looks gorgeous! I just listen to his songs on YouTube. So good
ReplyDeleteThat unicorn skull proves that unicorns do exist! 🫠
ReplyDeleteI have a few Friends who every time we go out wil take ages to read the menu and then order the same thing they always do lol
ReplyDeleteLove the gnome and unicorn
I would love to see Rufus live.
ReplyDeleteThat's one way to make a unicorn scary!
ReplyDeleteIt's been Halloween here since late July/early August. It's certainly going to be interesting this year.
ReplyDeleteI was not familiar with Mr. Wainwright until now; hey! I learned something !
ReplyDeleteAre you like me who likes to stick with one meal or anything else :)))
ReplyDeleteDish looks Yummy omg 😍
Glad you enjoyed songs by favorite singer
Never thought wll see skull of unicorn .it hurts my aesthetic sense
Doesn't Rufus look spiffy?! Such a talented family...
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who would be sorely tempted by that gnome! I believe that she already has a zombie gnome, but how many is too many?
Zombie Gnome! I need one. I'd name him Darryl
ReplyDeleteThat Kung Pao Chicken looks delicious but I couldn't eat the peppers though! I generally eat the same things.
ReplyDeleteZombie Gnome - that's pretty cool.
ReplyDeletehalloween seems far off as our temps are so hot. Love the unicorn skull. I remember going to canadian tire when I lived in Edmonton.
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I now have a hankering for Kung Pao! I had no idea Rufus was gay; why am I always the last to know?
ReplyDeleteThe zombie gnome is pretty clever!