Last week’s dinner plans were moved around & changed ever so slightly.
While I picked up 2 pecks of green beans at the FM on Tuesday, I only got to the Sichuan dish last night. Kinda switched around my Tue & Wed plans as well, since I hosted a ladies night for my gals on Wednesday night…which also means that the stir-fry with the Lao sausages never happened. Life, man!
Anywhos, let’s get to the nitty-gritty: still cooking for two w̶i̶l̶d̶ ̶&̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶z̶y̶ mildly interesting middle-aged folks in Happy Valley. The weather has returned to summer, with sunny skies and balmy temps, so any braises or stews I had in the back of my mind will have to wait.
TONIGHT we’re having our good buddy (who also just had to put his cat down 
) over for dinner & a movie to get him out of his now empty house. I’m making mushroom pasta, specifically paccheri with chicken of the woods. I have never prepared these crazy, alien-looking shrooms,
but one of my gal pals & keen forager was nice enough to share some of her bounty. Fingers crossed it’s not a total disaster, otherwise we’ll have to order pizza 
TOMORROW a friend is hosting our weekly poker game, which was on hiatus the last two weekends. He’s getting sushi for the table. We can groove to that.
SUNDAY… well, you already know it’s going to be ssssspicy. Maybe that stir-fry with the Lao sausages that never got made this week.
MONDAY a singer-songwriter friend of mine has a performance I want to attend, so we’ll likely grab something on the fly downtown. A new Iraqi place opened today 
, and it’s near the venue. There’s also Korean fried chicken, cheesesteaks, Lebanese, or the halal cart…..
TUESDAY is market day again. I think this time Ima pick up an entire bushel of those beans to blanch and freeze — and possibly use some of them that night for fasolakia, if we decide on a Greek night. It’s been forever since I made pork souvlaki, and we always have gigantes and dolmades in the house 
WEDNESDAY may or may not be another ladies night, don’t think I’m gonna host again, tho. TBD
THURSDAY is too far off for me to plan. TBD
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
