{"id":13188,"date":"2012-06-17T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2012-06-17T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T00:55:08","slug":"familiar-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/17\/familiar-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a chunk of the family over for dinner tonight, including my older brother, his daughter and my sister. My mom made delicious Hungarian guly\u00e1s (goulash) but with rice added for some extra thickness. First time I&#8217;ve had it this way but I liked it.<\/p>\n<p>Another first: my sister brought over three tiny watermelon looking things. They were Mexican sour gherkins and I had never even heard of them before tonight. They looked like toy watermelons on the outside and tiny green tomatoes with relatively giant cucumber seeds on the inside. They tasted like slightly bitter cucumbers, but not unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s how I spent my Father&#8217;s Day evening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"570\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pacsworlds.com\\\/blogs\\\/2012\\\/06\\\/17\\\/familiar-dinner\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:21460605}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 570px; height: 255px;\" data-original-width=\"570\" data-original-height=\"255\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 381px; height: 255px;\" data-original-width=\"381\" data-original-height=\"255\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dinner01-06-17-12-lo-res.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"lightbox[13188]\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"377\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"251\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"13189\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dinner01-06-17-12-lo-res.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1339950293&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dinner01 06-17-12 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dinner01-06-17-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dinner01-06-17-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dinner01-06-17-12-lo-res.jpg?w=377&#038;h=251&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"377\" height=\"251\" data-original-width=\"377\" data-original-height=\"251\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Dinner01 06-17-12 lo-res\" alt=\"Dinner01 06-17-12 lo-res\" style=\"width: 377px; 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My mom made delicious Hungarian guly\u00e1s (goulash) but with rice added for some extra thickness. First time I&#8217;ve had it this way but I liked it. Another first: my sister brought over three tiny watermelon looking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/17\/familiar-dinner\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-3qI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9687,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/11\/06\/most-of-the-family-dinner\/","url_meta":{"origin":13188,"position":0},"title":"Most Of The Family Dinner","date":"November 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Had most of the family over for dinner tonight. Of the locals, only my older brother couldn't make it. The t\u00far\u00f3s csusza\u00a0that my mom made\u00a0and the palacsinta (crepes) that my sister made tasted great as always. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dinner01-11-06-11-lo-res-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10599,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/25\/christmas-dinner-with-59-of-the-family\/","url_meta":{"origin":13188,"position":1},"title":"Christmas Dinner With 5\/9 Of The Family","date":"December 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My sister along with my older brother and niece (who brought their three black cats) came over this evening for a much improved Christmas dinner over what didn't happen yesterday. 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