Key Lime Pie Little v Large

Key Lime Pie. 

I used to be a chocolate dessert person until I moved to Key West.  It was a given, whatever chocolate dessert was on the menu Amy was getting it.  No debate whatsoever.

But then Key Lime Pie came into my life. Sweet, tart, delicious, creamy. biscuity key lime pie. Oh God, be still my beating heart.

So what's a person to do? You see my conundrum right?  No matter how much I try say it's Vitamin C, at the end of the day I can't be eating a big old slice of the pie every day right? 

Well, good news, Publix supermarket has you covered my friend.  I present to you the MINI key lime pie!

The DL: 

> 4 slices per pie

> $5.99 

Compared with the original pie: 

> 8 slices per pie

> $8.99

Yes at $8.99 for 8 slices the bigger one is better value, and I like value (winky face). But what that really translates into is this. You have people over for dinner, you serve the mini pie, everyone oohs and ahs and enjoys pie. End of. You have people over for dinner, you serve the mini pie, everyone oohs and ahs and enjoys pie.  For the next TWO nights, you and your partner eat key lime pie for dessert.  That's fine the first time, the second time too, and the third...but after that...well you live in Key West, I know it pains to admit it but you simply know it's not sustainable. Enter stage left, the Publix mini key lime pie.

Fun with tat (aka jewellery)

I've had quite a lot of fun over the last few days playing around with Christmas earrings/Christmas sweaters/red dresses etc in work.  Time to pack them away for another year, but it was a lot of fun while it lasted!

Lost and Found doggo

So coming home from Party No. 2 on Christmas Eve we came across this little thing, out on his own, having a grand old time.

After knocking on some doors, and speaking to people out walking their dogs, and nobody knowing anything about him our only option (yay!!!) was bring him home with us.

It turned out

(a) he was a she

(b) she was such a good natured little thing!

I posted up on facebook on the Key West Lost and Found page and literally just as we were ready to go to bed at around midnight someone from three blocks away got in touch and claimed "Shadow".

A Christmas miracle! Lol



Christmas in Paradise

I'm just getting a few words down on paper to capture what is going on with me at the moment before suddenly December is over and it is 2020 - and the moment has passed.

Enid and Ciaran are here!

Christmas Eve was lovely! Christmas day was lovely!

We are just having lovely times together.

Today I am working (I've been working a lot over Christmas that is hotel work for you I guess!) and the rest of the gang are gone fishing!!! I am sad for me, but happy for them! I will get over it lol.

  

A few little photos below for posterity.

Two/three liner review of two movies

 So, so good. But my God, I came out of the cinema FEELING ANGRY, and still feel angry even now.  The battle may have been won, the war is far from over.

A beautiful film.  Deeper and darker then I expected it to be, a wonderful storytelling of triumph over anger, hurt and cynicism.

The F word

Let's talk about fishing!  Because, let me tell you, it seems to be all we talk about at home these days, all we text our friends about, and all I seem to look at on my phone - fishing and fish apps.

At the weekend we were out with friend's on their lovely boat and it was great!  Not necessarily the best haul...but as they say "a bad day's fishing beats any day in the office".  Plus also, it is just so lovely fishing for the afternoon and then fishing as the sun sets.  Key West gets simply the most beautiful sunsets...there is a reason people have been hanging out at Mallory Square and honouring the sun for decades.

And then this evening, straight after work instead of going home, I nipped on my bike and headed to White Street Pier for a sneaky little fish before sunset.  It was a nice reminder of why we moved here and how lovely it is to live on an island.

I met a friend lol!

New Happy Hour venue!

If you have been following my blog and noting my Key West eating venues, you probably have worked out that Half Shell Raw Bar and Martin's are two of our favorite Happy Hour Eating establishments.

 

Half Shell is casual and easy, and feels authentic Key West. A license plates on the wall type of place, originally a shrimpers shed, turned restaurant, situated on the spot where the fishworkers spilled out their catch right on the bight.

 

Martin's is when we are feeling a little fancier and want to drink wine and martini's - that would be every Sunday so! The food is fancier too.

 

15% strength!
 

But now! Now, we have Old Town Tavern which is a "just riiiiight" balance between the two. 
 

Apparently it has the "Best Guinness in Town" according to Patrick, a man with 30 years of  drinking Guinness (IN IRELAND) under his belt.

 

It also has Craft Beers.  Something which my Chicago man  has occasionally (very occasionally it must be said) lamented since arriving South.  Well lament no more!  This bar even has Goose Island Bourbon Stout!

And their Happy Hour food, oh my!

Flatbreads; with toppings ranging from a sexy little shrimp scampi number, to your classic chicken barbeque to the exquisitely unique pig and pickle. 

Looks good, right?!

Yes,  of course I had the pork. I can never resist pork.

Along with a chicken liver pate dish of crispy toasted bread,  wholegrain mustard and capers we were just nicely satisfied.  Not at all hungry, and not too full.  In fact "just riiiiight".

If I was really hungry I would also have ordered the meat balls and the pork belly.  Have I mentioned I can never resist pork?

And while I am almost a year into my little Key West adventure and one could argue disappointment that I had not found this little gem of a joint earlier, on the other hand for that very reason it makes me appreciate it all the more. Without a doubt, it is part of our Happy Hour repertoire going forward, and will be for many more years I hope.