Chickpea and roasted red pepper salad with a glass of vintage 2023 skim milk.
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How vintage? 
I bought it on Thursday 
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2023 was a good year.
The cows were happy
Ahaha! 
Aldi’s “gravlax,” which technically isn’t (it’s also cold smoked), but delish nonetheless, especially with a lil blob of Inglehoffer’s horseradish 
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This year we are not having an all staff Christmas party since management decided to leave it up to each team to organize their own lunches out. Today it was the management team’s turn for a lunch out so, as they say, when the cat’s away the mice do play! The rest of our group went for lunch to a pub down the street so I had a schnitzel platter. The schnitzel itself was a little on the dry side but the braised cabbage and cheese spaetzle were really good. The cucumber grapefruit fizz I ordered to drink was really good!
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Late lunch: local mîche topped with mayo, tiny blob of brown mustard, avocado, roti chicken breast, banana peppers.
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Sunshine asked if I could make her a New York Style Pizza for lunch. She had lived in NY in her youth and recently thought about a place she used to eat called “Original Ray’s Pizza”.
I did some research and found Adam Ragusea recipe and method on youtube. My oven only goes to 525 (F), so it didn’t come out as good as his… but for a first attempt, Sunshine was pleasantly surprised. She very much enjoyed Original Dan’s Pizza (LOL)!!
I still need to do some tweaking to both my recipe and method, but I’ll get there.
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There are approximately 8000 “Original Ray’s” (and almost as many “Famous Original Ray’s”). I’m curious to know which was her go-to. Mine was at 6th and 11th.
Sunshine lived in the Manhattan area and remembers her “Ray’s Pizza” being at 75th St and 3rd Ave. (Manhattan, NY)
Oy. And Ray’s Original, and Ray’s Famous Original, and so on. Gotta love all the Ray’s
(@Desert-Dan I don’t recall one in the 70s but “mine” was 10 blocks down in the 60s.)
Yes, we were trying to find it on Google Maps and we couldn’t. It may have closed.
But yes, Sunshine went down memory lane this afternoon as I poured her a glass of diet coke and she had “a slice and a diet coke” which was her usual order at Ray’s.
I’m looking forward to tweaking the recipe and method a bit as I try to re-create that experience for her. Sunshine was smiling ear to ear and reminisced about some of her adventures while living there.
It’s funny how food triggers memories and allows you to remember items/experiences/adventures you hadn’t thought about in years.
It was a good day!
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My PIC delivered on a late lunch grilled cheese I requested: Aldi’s pane turano brushed with heavy duty mayo, havarti, TJ’s raclette, spinach, aleppo pepper. I think baby spinach would’ve wilted more and thus had been the better choice, but I didn’t have any in the house.
Hey - at least it wasn’t kale 
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Brunch at a local joint: a ginormous Monte Cristo (toasted white, tavern ham, gruyère, sauce Mornay) topped with a poached egg. This mofo could’ve easily fed the entire population of Monte Carlo, and even with my PIC’s help we had to give up halfway thru. Thankfully, he didn’t order one himself as originally planned, but got the brisket grilled cheese w/very good fries instead.
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That looks really good - is that different from a croque madame? I’ve never had a Monte Cristo. When we lived in the Netherlands I had a hard time finding food I liked and always felt safe ordering an Uitsmijter - at least it wasn’t dry as hell…
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Ooops - my bad. It was actually a croque monsieur that I basically turned into a croque madame by adding an egg (albeit poached vs. fried).
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Fridge cleanout lunch, somewhat: TJ’s murderously hot Italian sausage split almost thru and fried up in ghee & scrambled eggs with Sunny Paris and fresh parsley.
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Potato and chorizo hash with some fried eggs and a few squirts of hot sauce.
I made hot dog onions the other day and even the tiny amount I made is quite a lot considering how much you use on a hot dog, so I’ve been tossing them into various things where jammy onions would be welcome, including this hash.
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