We enjoyed another excellent dinner at James on Main in Hackettstown, NJ, including an excellent duck confit crepinette with local beetroot, warm goat cheese, smoked cherry jam, grilled sourdough; skillet roasted duck breast with caramelized butternut squash gratin, confit beet, smoked apple butter, micro chervil; fresh Maine peekytoe crab with dijon fennel emulsion, persimmons juice, shaved fennel, micro chervil; frito misto with flash fried calamari, rock shrimp, delicata squash, meyer lemon remoulade; crispy hand cut fries; It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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Dinner was the other half of my lunch banh mi and a Viet spring roll / cha gio after an evening of prepping our Thanksgiving dinner which is happening early — tomorrow. Oh and the rest of a lotus leaf sticky green rice parcel that was quite delicious.
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Happy early Thanksgiving!
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Today was a day full of chores and getting our Christmas decorations out of the shed and situated. Its a little early for our [fake] tree to go up, but due to some roof work being done in our development next week and the outside of the house turned into a war zone, we needed to get everything inside or else wait at least another week. Full annual Christmas tree story to come at a later date when decorated.
Anyway, tonight was takeout pizza. One slice with onion, another mushroom. I added some sautéed broccoli rabe and also a basic bruschetta app.
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Two Ottolenghi recipes for dinner tonight - chickpea pancakes (chickpea flour, ginger, garlic, scallions, jalapeno, cornstarch, baking powder, apple cider vinegar, cumin, garam masala) with mango pickle yoghurt (yoghurt, mango, mango pickle, lime zest) and some crispy, fried curry leaves. Served with eggplants with herbs and crispy garlic (oven roasted eggplant mixed with mint, dill and cilantro in a vinaigrette made from garlic olive oil, white wine vinegar and jalapeño and topped with some crispy garlic slices)
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Did the thief send the socks/plate picture to taunt you?
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Last night’s dinner was gussied up pizza slices from a local joint, the marzipan croissant was an afternoon treat with a cuppa.
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I had intended on making a pasta dinner last night but I was too tired to cook in the end so I ordered take out. My dinner included an egg roll, sweet and sour chicken balls, garlic spareribs and chicken fried rice. I also ordered some mixed vegetables rice for dinner tonight (not pictured) to go with some bbq’d pork ribs that I found in the freezer. There will be leftovers.
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Maybe. She does have a dry, understated manner to her whit.
Another night we didn’t have to cook! Lucky bishes we are. A buddy hosted our weekly poker game & ordered wings and pizza from the new Detroit-style place in town. It’s so good we ordered from them multiple times before our trip. He unfortunately did NOT get the garlic pickle pizza, but the triple threat and the pepperoni. The triple thread has regular sauce, pesto, and vodka sauce & was great. Their vodka sauce is fantastic. Wings were on the smaller side, but OK.
No pics since y’all seen the pie & it’s not entirely unlikely to make an appearance here again before November is over 
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Inspired by @linguafood 's tales of spicy garlic shrimp in Oahu, I adapted this Hawaiian Style Garlic Butter Shrimp (mostly by adding 3 heaping tablespoons of sambal oelek to the compound butter). It’s delicious and was a nice antidote to the gray afternoon weather.
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i’m baaack… i finally finally got around to posting my Mexico City trips. To be honest, I stupidly felt guilty to post anything else before i did! That, and I got pretty ill after the first trip, and then just lazy, then went to L.A. for a weekend, then caught a cold (first one in 4 years), and now my excuses are over and here i am! i’m hoping to be much more participatory.
Here’s the CDMX report, if anyone is interested.
and thanks to @GretchenS for checking in on me!
Looking forward to seeing all your meals again!
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Bone in pork chop and a big pot of braised purple cabbage. Very good. Sweet…sour…peppery.
Sunday supper.
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A purple sweet potato, nuked for 6 minutes then crisped in the air fryer. Butter + Crema + salt and pepper. Delicious
Just me. Spouse headed off with a bowl of ice cream after a day of celebrations. His retirement from the UU church and a post wedding thing for two senior friends
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Welcome back! Looking forward to your stories. Is immodium packed in your bags when you travel?
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I think I’d mentioned that our cat sitter requested a few meals cooked by yours truly as a barter for her services, and so I made a YUGE batch of pork stroganoff over egg noodles and a ginormous salad on the side. I tossed the tenderloin chunks in TJ’s smoky chili seasoning, cayenne, hot Hungarian paprika & smoked paprika, all of which added up to quite a bit of heat, so I hope it’s not too spicy for them…
Then again when my keyboarder (our cat sitter’s partner) came by to pick everything up he thought a lil heat was perfect as they are both fighting colds.
We have a little bit of stroganoff and salad leftover. Good Sunday eats 
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This all looks awesome!
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