A wise friend of mine once pointed out that sometimes you have to have kinda crappy food in order to be sure you appreciate really great food. Sorry that last night was your night! Be sure to keep the new sesame oil in the fridge- i ruined a big batch of sesame noodles once with some i had kept in the cupboard that had gone off tasting. Blech.
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Tonight it was scallops, corn, shallots and peppers with a salad
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Lovely.
Rainy days requires something rainy dayish and comfort foodish - thanks to a post from Steve H. on the FB WFD group, it is meat loaf tonight.
Ground beef and ground pork from a sweet Italian sausage mixed with an egg, Worcestershire sauce, roasted garlic, minced fresh parsley, a pinch of salt, and Panko crumbs. Flopped into a loaf pan and baked at 350° for about 1-1/4 hours. I usually don’t do gravy with meat loaf, but I took out some leftover beef gravy from a meal in the winter, and used that.
Crash Hot Potatoes from Pioneer Woman (originally from a woman in Australia) and peas alongside. Wine.
And meat loaf sandwiches for lunch. Nom.
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Whoa, that’s gorgeous! very jealous. you’ll be able to make delicious things in that kitchen!
the BF is redoing our cabinets but the rest of the kitchen (we rent) is going to look pretty shabby when he’s done.
Congrats!
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so we made a 2nd visit to a diner i’m reviewing for bfast Sat. a.m., and that filled us so much (eggs benedict - holy crap they were good) that i couldn’t think of eating out again that night. so i went asiatic again, trying for something a little lighter. found some pork larb in the freezer from a few weeks ago, heated that up, made some jasmine rice, and chopped up basil, mint, shallots, carrots and peanuts, with a nuoc chamish dressing (fish sauce, sugar, and rice wine vinegar.) also made smacked cukes - minced garlic and bird chilies were tossed in hot peanut oil, and then salted chopped cukes were tossed in that, with a little sugar and more rice wine vinegar. nice and spicy, lots of greens!
today i prepped a bit for the week. made the chickpeas for this recipe:
and the cilantro dressing. i have everything else to put the salad together for dinner tomorrow night, plus i’m adding sliced Spanish chorizo as the BF cannot abide a meatless meal. the dressing is divine - a bit like a chimichurri without the chilies.
i also cut up some pork shoulder and it’s marinating in the last of my massa pimentao, to which i added Makers Mark instead of white wine, and a little bit of brown sugar. experimenting. we’ll see. i’ll cook it tomorrow night after dinner, and we’ll eat it on Thurs., since i’m out Tues. & Wed.
tonight we’re going out to the Mexican/rotisserie place i’m reviewing. i’m really looking forward to a white wine sangria on this still gorgeous evening.
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My wife eats a lot of salmon, I generally wrap it in tin foil with whatever “marinade” and cook/steam it on the grill. Honestly I’m surprised how good and flavorful it comes out.
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Thanks. Usually i take it out but it was done and i was not ready to eat so i turned it off and left it thinking it would stay better in the broth than out. Mistake. The other day i poached some salmon in miso then used the broth for noodles that was better. Live and learn 
Hmm i did not know just treated like other cooking oil… But yeah its been in the cupboard for awhile. Time to replace and refrigerate. I usually just added it to cooking oil for frying but it is definitely stale i never noticed😞
Tonight it’s Chicken Korma with potato and cauliflower.
I also whipped up a tasty Zucchini soup.
I also am ingesting some wonderful cucumber agua fresca mixed with Vodka! Yummy and smooth.
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That chickpea taco salad recipe looks great! I love anything with cilantro involved…
Sounds like you are reviewing some great places-where can we read them??
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Agreed! That salad looks awesome.
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I keep thinking about the great salad with fresh dill from friday night, so that was WFD tonight. I used sliced radishes, chopped sugar snap peas, chopped cucumber and green onion, halved cherry tomatoes, capers, some spinach, generous fresh dill, and a bunch of lentils to make it more of a meal. Dressing included a splash of the capers brine liquid. Enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow too
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Grilled a small tri-tip, squash, green beans, and baguette.
My blue dog appointed himself guardian of the new grill.
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The food looks great, @aussieshepsx2, but the dog is absolutely adorable!
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that’s so nice of you to ask.
they’re very local (just my neighborhood, the Mission) in San Francisco, and also have a focus on (mostly) old school, family owned, usually divey-ish. not always, but that was the original premise. Because this area is gentrifying so crazily and so rapidly, i wanted to focus on those unsung places that never get reviewed, that have been around forever, and still have a following. i deviate every now and then because there are so many other, good, new places here too!
here you go. warning - they’re long form! i like to blather on about food… 
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I hope that is not a before and after picture
Just kidding - I love dogs.
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I eat salmon every other day in some shape or form (either patties, lox, or on the grill) - although I don’t tin foil it. I remember watching Oliver something or other on the Food Network and he covered the salmon with tin foil and put it in the dishwasher!! I never tried it.
Very colourful and appetising.
I’m still waiting for fresh scallops at the saturday market. One of the fishmongers has them (eur.9,00/kg). Their live scallops often come with roe intact, which I like, but most importantly they don’t contain nasty chemicals.
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From yesterday: whole North Sea crab, simply steamed. And octopus salad. I made some flat bread again to go with both. Took us a very long time to finish dinner and there was still leftover octopus. I gashed a fingertip, unknowingly, with a very sharp broken shell… OK, I spare you the details.
My metal collapsable steamer left some specks on the shell (discoloured area). Really a lot of work extracting the meat so back to claws only next time.
Hadn’t realised in this photo they looked like sumo wrestlers. One was knocked out and couldn’t get up.
Quick dinner today. Wanted to use up a few leftover things. I used a Malasian pasted called something like “crispy shrimp in chillis”, fish sauce, sherry, and lots of garlic.
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