Thread: A memorable meal

On Wed 17 Mar 2010 08:09:02p, gloria.p told us...

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>
> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
> Too tired to cook, we went to our neighborhood Italian restaurant and
> each had one of the nightly specials. They were sooooo good! I had a
> baked boneless chicken breast topped with roasted red peppers and
> Fontina cheese, with a side pasta Alfredo. Husband had seafood
> canneloni, filled with big chunks of lobster and crab and shrimp, baked
> with a creamy tomato sauce. Holy cow, they were good.
>
> Sometimes it's good thing NOT to order your old faithful menu favorite.
>
> gloria p
>

Both meals sound delicious, Gloria. I agree, one should step off the
beaten path at times. Some new dishes soon become old favorites.

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"gloria.p" <[email protected]> wrote in news:hns5gk$ap5$1@news.eternal-
september.org:

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>
> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.


You work, he plays!!!!

What sort of work do you do at the airport??


> Too tired to cook, we went to our neighborhood Italian restaurant and
> each had one of the nightly specials. They were sooooo good! I had a
> baked boneless chicken breast topped with roasted red peppers and
> Fontina cheese, with a side pasta Alfredo. Husband had seafood
> canneloni, filled with big chunks of lobster and crab and shrimp, baked
> with a creamy tomato sauce. Holy cow, they were good.



I'd have gone a dish of what your husband had.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,
lobster, crab, prawns, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :-)


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> Sometimes it's good thing NOT to order your old faithful menu favorite.
>


Trying something new each time can be fun.


You didn't take any pics??


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke.

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:

> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.

Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
that they can't hire people for?

I kinda have this thing about for-profit companies who ask for
volunteers, but I guess most airports are actually public entities,
so it wouldn't be totally unusual.

-sw

"gloria.p" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>
> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
> Too tired to cook, we went to our neighborhood Italian restaurant and each
> had one of the nightly specials. They were sooooo good! I had a baked
> boneless chicken breast topped with roasted red peppers and Fontina
> cheese, with a side pasta Alfredo. Husband had seafood canneloni, filled
> with big chunks of lobster and crab and shrimp, baked with a creamy tomato
> sauce. Holy cow, they were good.
>
> Sometimes it's good thing NOT to order your old faithful menu favorite.
>
> gloria p


Sounds wonderful!! Especially the seafood cannelloni.

I worked all day on getting ready for the move, and I am exhausted. A
friend came over to help us lug stuff up from the basement. We were all
tired, sweaty, and hungry. I went over to a local Chinese carry out joint.
The food is typical middle of the US Chinese fare. It was good and filling,
which is what we wanted. Your dinner sounds much better. Off to bed, as I
am beat!

Dale P

"Sqwertz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>
>> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
> that they can't hire people for?
>
> I kinda have this thing about for-profit companies who ask for
> volunteers, but I guess most airports are actually public entities,
> so it wouldn't be totally unusual.
>
> -sw

I believe she is a USO volunteer. Many larger airports have a USO office,
or at the least a "table" to greet returning military personnel, thank them
for their service, lend assistance with directions, etc. Also to show
support to departing personnel.

In article <hns5gk$ap5$[email protected]>,
"gloria.p" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
> Too tired to cook, we went to our neighborhood Italian restaurant and
> each had one of the nightly specials. They were sooooo good! I had a
> baked boneless chicken breast topped with roasted red peppers and
> Fontina cheese, with a side pasta Alfredo. Husband had seafood
> canneloni, filled with big chunks of lobster and crab and shrimp, baked
> with a creamy tomato sauce. Holy cow, they were good.
>
> Sometimes it's good thing NOT to order your old faithful menu favorite.
>
> gloria p

Sounds memorable indeed. :-)
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:25:55 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>
>> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>
>Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
>that they can't hire people for?
>
>I kinda have this thing about for-profit companies who ask for
>volunteers, but I guess most airports are actually public entities,
>so it wouldn't be totally unusual.

There wouldn't be PGA, LPGA or senior tour tourmanets period if they
didn't have huge numbers of volunteers and all the volunteers get out
of it is a really ugly uniform,

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

> There wouldn't be PGA, LPGA or senior tour tourmanets period if they
> didn't have huge numbers of volunteers and all the volunteers get out
> of it is a really ugly uniform,
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
Ohmygosh...So true! Volunteers LOVE to volunteer to work at The Masters
in Augusta!! And many get a *great* uniform to wear and keep.

Many groups offer services at airports, yet aren't employees nor
represent the airport. Doesn't Gloria P volunteer with the USO or
something like that??
Goomba

PLucas1 wrote:
> "gloria.p" <[email protected]> wrote in news:hns5gk$ap5$1@news.eternal-
> september.org:
>
>>
>> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>
>
> You work, he plays!!!!
>
> What sort of work do you do at the airport??
>
>


I'm a volunteer "Ambassador" a couple of days a month. We help people
navigate their way through the airport. It's an unpaid service but we
do get to park free in the employees' lot including when we travel.
Mainly we answer a couple of the same questions over and over again:

"Yes, there are lots more restaurants once you go through security
and get near your gate."

"Yes, there are smoking lounges on each concourse."

"Yes, you have to take the train to get to concourses B and C."

"Yes, you have to go back through security to get to your gate. When
you took the train and emerged in the main terminal you left the secured
area."

Actually my husband was skiing but also carrying out HIS volunteer
service at Copper Mt. where their Ambassadors help people to navigate
the slopes and the base areas. Our ski areas are large enough so people
occasionally get lost when they take the wrong trail down from the top.
The perk for a required number of days of service is a free season pass.

Retired people need to do what they can to minimize expenses. ;-)

gloria p

Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>
>> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
> that they can't hire people for?
>

We do all the grunt stuff that paid people can't be bothered to do.
We answer questions, escort people who are lost or afraid, meet people
at the plane when requested by a family member, direct people to the
right baggage claim when they reach the terminal and, hand out and help
people fill out he immigration and customs forms at International
Arrivals. We have ongoing training sessions covering "what's new" and
both airport and airline employees often stop to ask questions and
directions from us.

> I kinda have this thing about for-profit companies who ask for
> volunteers, but I guess most airports are actually public entities,
> so it wouldn't be totally unusual.
>
> -sw

We are the volunteer arm of Guest Services for the City and County of
Denver. The program began a year before the airport opened, to provide
tour guides for VIPs who were on boondoggle tours of inspection. A
month after the official opening, the program was supposed to go out of
existence but the airlines requested that the city continue it because
people were so confused by the size and scope of the airport:

http://www.flydenver.com/maps/index.asp

gloria p

Paco wrote:
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> "Sqwertz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>>
>>> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
>> that they can't hire people for?
>>
>> I kinda have this thing about for-profit companies who ask for
>> volunteers, but I guess most airports are actually public entities,
>> so it wouldn't be totally unusual.
>>
>> -sw
>
> I believe she is a USO volunteer. Many larger airports have a USO
> office, or at the least a "table" to greet returning military personnel,
> thank them for their service, lend assistance with directions, etc.
> Also to show support to departing personnel.


Nope. We do have a USO but the Ambassador program does all that for
the general public. We do direct service folks to the USO but they have
their own set of volunteers, mostly retired service people.

gloria p

Sqwertz wrote:
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>
> > Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
> that they can't hire people for?

Baggage handlers. They get to keep 10% of what
they handle. :-)

"gloria.p" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Paco wrote:
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>> "Sqwertz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]..
>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>>>
>>> Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
>>> that they can't hire people for?
>>>
>>> I kinda have this thing about for-profit companies who ask for
>>> volunteers, but I guess most airports are actually public entities,
>>> so it wouldn't be totally unusual.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> I believe she is a USO volunteer. Many larger airports have a USO
>> office, or at the least a "table" to greet returning military personnel,
>> thank them for their service, lend assistance with directions, etc. Also
>> to show support to departing personnel.
>
>
> Nope. We do have a USO but the Ambassador program does all that for
> the general public. We do direct service folks to the USO but they have
> their own set of volunteers, mostly retired service people.
>
> gloria p

Oops! Sorry, guess I misremembered! I'm sure the City of Denver
appreciates your enthusiasm and civic pride.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:29:20 -0600, "gloria.p" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I'm a volunteer "Ambassador" a couple of days a month. We help people
>navigate their way through the airport. It's an unpaid service but we
>do get to park free in the employees' lot including when we travel.
>Mainly we answer a couple of the same questions over and over again:

<snip>

Girl, I am well aware that the Denver airport is actually in Kansas
<veg> and I do hope you're getting some remuneration for your travel.
Jaysus. After you get the hell and gone off the 70, you've got 9 miles
from the interstate to the airport - and that's if the snow fences
work (which they don't). Good on ya for doing a good service, but how
far is your commute?? And the Denver airport isn't that
complicated...unless the tram gets jammed up or someone mistakes the
airport for a giant bunch of tipis.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:39:01 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
<[email protected]> wrote:

> And the Denver airport isn't that
> complicated...unless the tram gets jammed up or someone mistakes the
> airport for a giant bunch of tipis.

You're talking like a big city girl... which most travelers are not.

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Mark Thorson wrote:
> Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:02 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>>
>>> Tuesday I volunteered at the airport all day and husband skied.
>> Just out of curiosity, what does an airport need volunteers to do
>> that they can't hire people for?
>
> Baggage handlers. They get to keep 10% of what
> they handle. :-)


Hah! The "baggage" we handle is a very different kind: stress,
confusion, impatience, worry, loss of direction, language difficulty,
and (often) meltdowns. I'm always amazed at how many people leave
their common sense at home when they travel.

gloria p

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:29:20 -0600, "gloria.p" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm a volunteer "Ambassador" a couple of days a month. We help people
>> navigate their way through the airport.

>
> Girl, I am well aware that the Denver airport is actually in Kansas
> <veg> and I do hope you're getting some remuneration for your travel.
> Jaysus. After you get the hell and gone off the 70, you've got 9 miles
> from the interstate to the airport - and that's if the snow fences
> work (which they don't). Good on ya for doing a good service, but how
> far is your commute?? And the Denver airport isn't that
> complicated...unless the tram gets jammed up or someone mistakes the
> airport for a giant bunch of tipis.
>


It's about 25 miles each way and we are excused from our shift when it
snows hard--they don't want an additional bunch of people stranded out
there putting an additional burden on the available cots, blankets,
food, and other limited resources. We are committed for 12 hours/month.

You'd be amazed at how befuddled people get when they walk off the plane
or into the main terminal from the airline check-in kiosks. Many first
timers expect to see the planes lined up under the tent roof and want to
know "OK, where's my plane?" People have told me "This airport is
bigger than my whole town!" They walk to the center of their concourse
and want to know where their rental car and baggage is. They can't
believe they have walked that far (Concourse B is 3/4 mile from one end
to the other)and still have to take the train to the terminal. A whole
bunch want suggestions about where to go for lunch or a drink.

BTW, there is an ongoing split in opinion about the tent roof. Half the
people think it looks like a tipi/teepee village, the other half agree
with the architect that it mirrors the peaks of the Rockies, visible in
the distance.

OB food: Loads of people ask "Where should I go for lunch?" After
giving them a pretty thorough rundown of each of the restaurant menus in
the area, I'm amused to see many of them head into McDonald's.

gloria p

"gloria.p" <[email protected]> wrote in news:ho0ag2$5cd$1@news.eternal-
september.org:


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> OB food: Loads of people ask "Where should I go for lunch?" After
> giving them a pretty thorough rundown of each of the restaurant menus in
> the area, I'm amused to see many of them head into McDonald's.
>


Heathens!!!

Either that, or they're just down from Podunk, Hicksville, and the local
'cafe' only serves 'coons and possum!!


(I just watched one of those shows on the Travel and Living network last
night.... Bizarre Foods..... and he was up in the Appalachian Mountains with
some Tennessee 'hill people'.... they had a BBQ and served up whole roasted
'coon and possum, cracked the skulls open and spread the brains on
'hardtack'.)




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke.

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:58:35 -0600, "gloria.p" <[email protected]>
wrote:

<snip>

Well, blessings on your head, Gloria. I don't know that I'd have the
patience.

>BTW, there is an ongoing split in opinion about the tent roof. Half the
>people think it looks like a tipi/teepee village, the other half agree
>with the architect that it mirrors the peaks of the Rockies, visible in
>the distance.

I *know* what the architect set out to create, but you'd have to be
nearly blind to think they resembled the Rockies. Anyway, IIRC, coming
in from I-70 on the airport road, you're going north and the Rockies
are over there <pointing west>. 'Course, if the Rockies backdropped
the airport, it'd look even sillier, IMHO.
>
>OB food: Loads of people ask "Where should I go for lunch?" After
>giving them a pretty thorough rundown of each of the restaurant menus in
>the area, I'm amused to see many of them head into McDonald's.

McDonald's must have some major mojo with airport commissions, b/c I
think there's a Mickey D's in every airport that has concessions
(except Long Beach, which is nearly concession-less, anyway). Flying
in and out of John Wayne in SoCal, I'm always bumfuzzled at the long
lines - and, then there's the inevitable $tarbuck$ which, I swear, you
would find on Mars.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines