This all looks fantastic. 
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Never has brown food looked so good.
Well done.
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I think it will be my go to shrimp preparation! But you are right about the garlic 
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I see what you did there.
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Kale/hot sausage/potato/bean soup from the freezer with added ham and romaine that needed to be used up, showered with Parm Regg. Hit the spot on this miserable, rainy day.
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I get the ‘you want more what?’ when I call in for take out pizza. If I go through the drive through I ask them to show me the pizza before I pay. Chintzy is a nice way of putting it. Cheap ba*&∆rds is how the roomate phrases it. Asking for extra cheese is followed by, “I’ll pay extra, natch!” A basic large combo without, nothing really fancy, no anchovies ($5 extra) with extra cheese goes for $33, no tax.
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They are beautiful! I had a few along with a weeping cherry, pieris japonica and a few camellias. So colorful!
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A pantry and freezer go-to after a busy day. Pasta with the Slaterish roasted tomatoes, garlic, and parsley. Uli’s mild Italian sausages. Marinated mushrooms from a jar. Green salad mix from the grocery. Lots of parm on everything.
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Bits and bobs: leftover mushroom quiche from Emmer Bakery on Toronto, leftover Mary Brown’s fried chicken and wedge taters, Waldorf salad with dried cherries, currants and walnuts,
Russian cabbage soup, spaghetti squash with pumpkin pie spice, maple syrup and butter, vegetarian Polish-style Breton beans. Pumpkin spice cream puff from Emmer Bakery for the dessert eaters.
I’m 48 hours into no desserts, cookies, sweets or candies.
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Calamari with tartar sauce, cauliflower tortilla from the freezer, cabbage, snow pea, carrot slaw with Carolina dressing. A Boulevardier and wineish.
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Wishing you the best of luck! We gave up eating lunch in favor of a sweet treat with afternoon tea. All I can say is I enjoy the treat, but I’m really, really hungry come dinner time. 
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Thank you !
I stopped drinking over the last 2 years.
Not that I ever drank that much, but the one thing I’ve been indulging in the past 2 years, especially since moving into a neighbourhood with some people really nice patisseries and coffee shops this year , has been nice baked goods.
I seem to have no self-control with some cookies, baked goods and chocolates lately.
I had been trying to eat more Salami and cheese for a while, and that led to some other health issues, so I’m trying to focus on tea, new preps of fruits and vegetables ,and salads.
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Interesting. I’ve been cutting back on drinking, and watching my craving for sweets skyrocketing. I was never a big sweet eater before, but now …
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Not my best plating effort. Kingfish (new to me, very nice!) with sage butter; okra stewed with tomatoes.
Caesar salad looks pretty, at least. Ignore the fact that I can’t make emulsified egg dressings to save my life.
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Busy cooking day before I leave.
Lemon muffins for one kiddo.
Masala snack puris also for him (batch 2, because he was concerned batch 1 was insufficient if parents and sibling who did not request this started tucking in).
Bhel for other kiddo and sibling after-school / before-dinner snack.
Japchae for everyone — 2 versions, with and without spinach, both vegetarian. (Double batch, froze half for the kids for next week.)
Beyond Steak made into a spicy stir-fry (half Korean / half kung pao, because I added cashews 
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Real steak (previously cooked sous vide) made into the same thing.
Tomato salad because someone thought there needed to be some balance.
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That’s love!
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Fabulous meal with the lovely @mariacarmen and her lovely sis at Rintaro. We shared the yellowtail amberjack sashimi - the fish practically melted in your mouth, the black cod, the tonkatsu, grilled king oyster, chicken thighs with sansho, and chicken oysters (those were so amazing we got another order), hamachi kama, and pork soup dumplings with chicken feet jelly. Impossible to pick a favorite dish.
Two wonderful bottles of Austrian rosé to go with, and Drinks After at the same bar we got Drinks Before 
Off to Hawai’i later today 
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Safe and delicious travels!!
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