Jewish Odysseus: A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER...

Friday, December 15, 2006

A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER...

Mmmmmmm...Porterhouse...Grilled over hardwood and natural charcoal, and of course no lighter fluid...Mmmmmmm:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: What!!!??? Just ONE??! I guess the wife will just watch you eat???; December 15, 2006 at 9:20:00 AM PST
Jewish Odysseus said...: No, I tossed her and the kids a couple crusts of stale bread.

Seriously, that steak weighed more than 2 pounds. We never cook more than 1 porterhouse at a time unless we have company, since it's more than we can eat together.

As it happened, the wife didn't want steak that night, so there's about 1.5 lbs of leftover grilled porterhouse in the fridge right now. Cometathinkuvit, I think I'll slice some off to put in a salad right now, yummmmm...; December 15, 2006 at 10:52:00 AM PST
Anonymous said...: a pound and a half and still no invite, what kind of a friend are you, lol?; December 16, 2006 at 12:21:00 AM PST

The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.