My h cried his way through Thailand when we went 25 yrs ago. Tears of joy said he!
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I would so love to go back. I would enjoy the food so much more, and there’d be far fewer arguments 
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I also think I’d enjoy the food more with a more experienced palette. I do recall it being very polluted and hard to breathe in Bangkok. Maybe in less of a hurry to go back there.
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Oh, yes! I wasn’t even smoking anymore at the time of our visit, and I had a raspy voice each time we were in the city. Killer for my contact lenses, too.
And it’s hard to imagine the pollution having gotten any better, almost 20 years later 
I’m sure that’s true. We would sometimes get in a river taxi for a little relief.
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I swear your pasta pics get me every time. You should open a trattoria! 
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In between Lunch and Dinner, I was making up some tortillas for stock. Sunshine came into the kitchen – looking for something to snack on and noticed I was making tortillas.
I told her I could make her a quesadilla for a snack, but she didn’t want any meat – just cheese. So I shredded some Colby Jack cheese I had in stock and made her a “just cheese” quesadilla.
I didn’t get a picture of the finished product, as it was quickly consumed.
I did finish frying off the rest of the tortillas and got a picture of them. Not the prettiest – but they sure do taste good!! (Sunshine Approved)
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‘Fridge clear out’ risotto - containing an old yellow bell pepper, some old tenderstem broccoli spears, meat stripped off an old chicken carcass that I boiled down for stock, the onions from the stock, the stock and a bit of sad-looking goats cheese that was lurking in a tupperware box. Lots of grated parmesan and black pepper.
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Man!! So simple yet so good!
This Spaghetti a la Bolognese was crafted using one of THE BEST TASTING commercially made Meat Bolognese sauces I have come across …the loving creation of a ’ Hong Kong ’ chef at that!! Oh! …and that gorgeous aroma! Stunning!
( Papa’s Kitchen, King’s Square, Woodbine & 16th Ave, Markham )
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Two ginormous sammiches at a cute lil Italian café out of town. Prosciutto cotto, burrata & pistachio pesto on foccacia,
and the deluxe grilled cheese with Taleggio on milk bread topped with a sunny side-up egg.
Both sandwiches came with extra-crispy potatoes that were reminiscent of SE’s recipe, and a healthy pile of arugula, just lightly dressed with lemon, with a few shards of parm scattered atop.
We managed to finish the grilled cheese (barely) & took half of the focaccia home for future lunches 
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Scored some fresh lobster mushrooms so Sunday brunch was lobster mushrooms in a cream sauce over toast!
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Lentil and pea soup, my lunch for this week, before I added some cooked brown rice and portioned it out.
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Aw, dangit! Was that at the farmers market that closes at 2pm? We just missed it 
No they came from a mushroom farm in Chester Co that brings in foraged mushrooms sometimes. When they have something I want I do the drive to them and my favorite wine store in Wilmington 
Left the house too late to hit up a farmers market (where @Bigley9 scored her awesome shrooms, I bet), but were out and about in time for wanting food. Found a promising brunch place en route, where we split eggs benny on Taylor pork roll with salad and the house hashbrown,
as well as the spicy dog with charred jalapeño sauce, tomato jalapeño relish, and crispy onion. According to the menu, it’s won awards 
My eggs were underdone (I can’t abide snotty/spoogy whites), the pork roll was a real letdown after everything I’ve heard about pork roll, and the hashbrown was over-fried & difficult to cut.
The salad was nice, but the star of the show was def the dog.
I gotta say those dawgs are sawl-teee to the max on their own, tho — and I’m decidedly a salt fiend. No wonder people usually add ‘stuff’ to get them down.
Felt like something healthier upon coming home & made a delish fruit bowl with golden kiwi and poms
I feel so virtuous RN 
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