We had some excellent takeout from Ammata Thai in River Vale, Nj. I actually tried to go back to Fernandes Steakhouse in Newark but apparently they were closed. The phone just kept ringing. Well, anyway this was an excellent plan B.
We enjoyed our usual spicy crunchy papaya salad, crab dip, Southern crab curry, and Phad Phed beef among other things. I had them bring the spice up to 3 out of 5 which is spicy but doesn’t blow out your taste buds. It all went great with Mollydooker The Boxer Shiraz.
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Dueling dinners tonight.
I went simple: a turkey tenderloin marinated in orange juice, dark soy sauce, ginger honey, ground ginger, orange zest, and olive oil. The tenderloin was baked at 350° with a bit of the marinade spooned over top, and the rest of the marinade was boiled down to reduce, eventually mounted with butter to make a sauce.
Asparagus with butter and some lovely Salter’s Point Provisions’ Cross Island Fleur de Sel.
Yup. There was wine.
Meanwhile, my sister, who is admittedly NOT the cook of the family, has cooked 2 days in a row, and is proud enough to send me pictures.
She made honey garlic pork chops, cheesy roasted asparagus, rice pilaf and home made chunky applesauce (no picture on the applesauce)
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45th Wedding Anniversary dinner in the Age of Coronavirus. Semi-homemade pizza using a Weewalka dough…
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A VERY happy 45th anniversary to you, @RedJim!
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Thank you, Linda.
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That roast looks really good. Side note: like the tablecloth.
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Welcome back to the club!
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So good to be back but sadly I’m on our last one wahhhhhhhhhhh
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Congrats! That’s a while. I’ll be 70 if I/we make it that long.
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Tonight I made chicken curry with potatoes and peas, served over leftover quinoa-rice. Leftover kale salad. Babe must have been hungry because he ate heartily. We split an ice cream sandwich for dessert. I may have to give up dessert soon given the rate of my wine/bourbon consumption.
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oh, he reminds me of a cat I dearly loved in Northern Calif. years ago. She looked something like him, I miss her so much. I moved in 1988 back to the east coast and she disappeared, according to her humans, for a few days after I left; I knew she knew I was leaving, she was sitting in my suitcases, I tried to explain. I mourned leaving her for a very long time and I still have dreams about AnnieCat. I’m allergic to cats but wasn’t to her. I was a dog person before and I miss those dogs, but AnnieCat…it was a much more complex relationship.
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Thank you! Funny you mention the tablecloth…I always thought it was tacky and just remarked yesterday that we need a new one! LOL
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Happy anniversary!
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It photographed so nicely in your cornbread shot though!
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I get it, @Madrid. They are complicated creatures, but when they love, they let you know. AnnieCat loved you, and knew you loved her. 
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Happy 45th anniversary Jimmy! That’s an amazing milestone. That is also a nice looking pizza.
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Thank you, LindaWhit. You are a very loving person yourself.
She knew I loved her, I am sure of that, and she knew I knew she loved me. She also loved shellfish…when I cooked cioppino, she was at my door in a flash. I used to get her canned crab. She’d eat a portion and then wait until the next day, then scratch at my door and just stare at the refrigerator. She’d get the next portion, and then when it was done, she was satisfied when I showed her the empty can. Kneaded my chest very often. Her humans found her abandoned as a kitten on a highway in Kansas and moved her to Northern California with them. She was, and is an amazing soul…she’s somewhere in the universe, that I am sure of.
So when I was a CASA/GAL volunteer for children in foster care, after 10 years of doing it, I met a four year old boy who loved the cats in his foster home. He’s 20 now, and our 13th adoption anniversary is tomorrow. He doesn’t like shellfish at all, but he is really, really, good at purring. And every now and then, he asks me about AnnieCat, and he loves the stories and the photos.
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