Dinner
Honey Szechuan chicken legs
Turnip greens
Black-eyed peas

Recipes:

HONEY SZECHUAN CHICKEN LEGS
6 chicken legs, skin on
1 Tbs. soy sauce
1 Tbs. bottled Szechuan stir-fry sauce
1 Tbs. honey
1 Tbs. Texas Pete hot sauce (to taste)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix soy sauce, stir-fry-sauce, honey, and Texas Pete in a small bowl.
Bake chicken legs on baking sheet until mostly cooked through. Remove from oven, make random cuts in the meat, and brush thoroughly with sauce mixture. Return to oven and bake until fully cooked.

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So...where have we been for nearly a week?
We went to Florida for Spring Training. The weather was stunning the whole time, and we tried so many things we'd never tried before!
On Thursday we drove as far as Titusville, tried to get a motel, and discovered it was Bike Week at Daytona. There were no rooms to be found, so we continued to Cocoa, found a room (still brutally expensive), and stayed the night.
Friday morning we awoke and drove to Vero Beach to see the Dodgers and the Braves face off at Dodgertown. Our seats were incredible (right behind the Braves' bench), the park was gorgeous, and we got sunburned like the tourists we were. We ate dinner in Stuart, at a wharfside restaurant called The Dock. Big, beautiful raw oysters and delectable crab cakes! Then we hopped back in the car and drove down to meet our sportswriter friend Dave in Fort Lauderdale. We got in late, and he met us at the coolest bar on earth--a mangrove-encased waterfront dive called Le Tub in Hollywood.
The next day we grabbed some great Cuban food at Las Vegas on 441 in Hollywood. Then, thanks to Dave, we saw the Orioles and the Expos play at Fort Lauderdale Stadium. Our seats were just as great as the day before, only this time, mercifully, we were in the shade. The game was excellent in a Keystone Kops kind of way...lots of fun to see the teams work out their preseason kinks.
That night, we discovered a new passion at Dania Jai-Alai. If you haven't checked out this sport, you owe it to yourself! Then we adjourned to Le Tub again, where we discovered how great their food is. We fed our dinner scraps to giant fish that lurked only a few feet away.
Sunday, we took our dog to the pier at John U. Lloyd Beach State Park. Then we drove down to Hallandale Beach to go to the horse races at Gulfstream Park, home of the Florida Derby. We finished the day with a spectacular Polynesian meal at the Mai-Kai. This is not to be missed. We recommend the Mai-Kai Duck, which is a Peking Duck-style dish with a crispy crust and tender meat.
Monday morning we started our drive back home. We stopped in Jupiter for a meal and stumbled onto Don Ramon's, which had even better Cuban food than Las Vegas! The ropa vieja there is perfect, and the bread is divine.
Our last vacation stop was when we spotted a jai-alai sign on the highway north of Ocala. There it was--a fronton smack in the middle of a cow pasture. We watched Miami Jai-Alai on simulcast and started winding back down to our normal lives.
We're exhausted! But we're back...