Mary Sheehan has done it again! Just two weeks ago, I was looking for a peanut sauce to top our stir fry and couldn't remember where I had gotten the recipe before. This wasn't it, but it was even better than the last one! So simple and so good.

I did use crunchy peanut butter because that's what I had opened and mixed instead of the creamy peanut butter she recommends. I suspect it made the sauce a bit more challenging to mix, but I don't think it hurt it.

The concierge at our hotel needed to direct us to a reasonably fast dinner location. Paul said Italian pizza sounded good, and she made a reservation for us at Salute! on Madison Ave. and then directed us on the best way to get a cab to Carnegie Hall for a beautiful, but long performance of Handel's Messiah. (In case you never knew, the Hallelujah Chorus is not the end of the program, only of Part 2.)

Last week I sent Paul to Publix specifically to buy strawberries because the ones I had purchased at Costco just the day before were totally unacceptable for serving fresh. And it got me to thinking. . .at what point is the strawberry season done in Florida? In Louisiana, where I grew up, we had strawberries until Memorial Day. They might have been small, but they were full-flavored. What is the general rule for when one fruit should jump into your cart by the pounds and when another fruit needs to stay on the shelf?

I have a standard daily lunch. Some of the doctors shake their heads that it doesn't sound like much or isn't balanced enough. Other staff tease me. And even others tell me I'm out of my mind and that hommus tastes nasty. But these are the same people that happen across hommus in the grocery store and think about me.