Homage to Five Buck Cluck and a Word about Golf

Roche Brothers has rotisserie chicken for sale everyday, but on Thursday it's available hot or cold for five bucks. Hard to beat the price who can provide a dinner for four (if no one fights over white meat versus dark meat). Or in my case four meals for me and some scraps for my ferocious (at meal time) Pomeranian. Thursday, its hot leg and thigh picnic style with a nice summer salad. Friday noon it's a chicken breast sandwich on whole wheat with tomato and onion. Today, it's chicken stuffed peppers-Bell's stuffing mix chopped, chicken, sauteed mushroom and onion duxelle. This will be served with Actually Edible Succotash-not the overcooked mush of my youth (based on the traditional Native American recipe). The recipe calls for frozen corn (today probably oven roasted fresh corn), frozen lima beans cooked until just tender and then quickly sauteed with chopped garlic and jalapeños in a little olive oil. Last another chicken sandwich-toasted cheese and chicken breast.

A week from tomorrow I'll start working at the Deutsche Bank Golf Tournament in Norton for the fourth year. I spend a week of often 12 hour days driving golf carts. Due to its many environmental areas, this is the only PGA Tournament where the pros are driven between certain holes. I'll give you a few behind the scenes blogs-it's really an amazing event with 1500+ volunteers coming together to make it all work. The volunteers all pay $80 for their uniforms with all the money going to the charities supported by the tournament. They then get breakfast, lunch, snacks, an in-tournament banquet and a post-season banquet plus other perks. Volunteers come back year after year so it's like a big family reunion when we get together like yesterday when we were setting up the cart yard tucked away in the woods of Norton. Eventually the 12 hour days will catch up with me and I'll miss a few blogs!