I was going to make a Thai red curry tonight, but came home from work exhausted. However, I had thawed fish in the fridge. So, salmon salad with mustard, horseradish, scallions, and nigella seeds. Potato chips out of shot. IPA for him and Pinot Noir for me!
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What a great idea!
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When I am in doubt, I think “What do I wish I could eat like I’m pretending I am at a bar with fun food?” 
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Take out from the Mediterranean place down the road. A cold mezze platter of humus, , Baba Ganoush, grape leaves, tabouleh and feta and we split a chicken kabob dinner with rice and veggies.
Very tasty and leftovers for lunch tomorrow!
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Felt like some shrimp cocktail, but I couldn’t be arsed to buy all the ingredients to make a proper court bouillon to poach the shrimp, instead I marinated them and sautéed them in spicy chili oil. I did make the cocktail sauce from “scratch” 
Side Caesar salad for roughage.
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Been eating out a LOT lately. tonight, the BF made us sliders - Snake River American Wagyu sliders - that they sent me for free when i ordered a rib eye my sister and I will have as one of our holiday weekend meals. Melty Oaxacan cheese over the top. (yoi can just see a bit of the crusty cheesy lace under the tomatoes.) Teeny (2 oz. each) but quite robust in flavor! that dark stuff under the tomatoes is some crusty cheese lace. mmm… crusty cheese lace…
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That sounds really good!
Do you add any Mayo?
Tonight’s dinner creation was a cross between Olive Garden and 7-11. Pasta with canned Nacho Cheese, bacon and broccoli. Oddly, Sunshine loved it. She didn’t like last nights dinner of chicken and rice, but very much enjoyed this hot mess… Go figure.
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Korean style fried rice with calrose rice, chicken thighs, sweet potatoes, green cabbage, scallions, garlic, ginger, gochujang, soy sauce, sugar, rice vinegar
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Roasted duck with plum sauce, pan grilled asparagus and Scottish stovies (new both to me and the Big J). Since my stovies were a side dish, I left out the beef and used water to cook them. The linked recipe is similar, but mine were done in about 40 minutes rather than an hour. Good for a cold day.
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Looks very Christmasy!
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I went to a late afternoon screening of Maestro -140 minutes of my life that I will never get back. Oh well at least my popcorn was good. I was too tired to cook anything so I made linguine with a roasted red pepper pesto.
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Oh No-I was kind of looking forward to that movie!
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That looks wonderful! Do you have a recipe for the pizza crust? I struggle to get mine to brown underneath like that without burning the toppings.
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They focused solely on Leonard Bernstein’s love life. I knew it would be thw subject of the film but he was one of the greatest conductors of our time so I was hoping they would touch on his career a little bit. And the film started out in black and white then suddenly changed to colour for no apparent reason.
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Thanks! Equal parts mayo and sour cream! I’ve also done all sour cream or yogurt and its fine.
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I just read a luke-warm review in the Washington Post. Too bad. OTOH, American Fiction sounds great.
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Fabulous meal with friends at Vernick Food & Drink – we’ve been going since they’ve opened in 2012, which I believe is when our annual anniversary pilgrimage started. Our friends were celebrating a birthday & a divorce, so we were all in a very festive mood.
Once again, no notice was made of either occasion – the second time this trip. Strange.
We all started with one of their very good cocktails: 2 of us got the Good Morning Vietnam (rhum Agricole, lemongrass, peach, club soda), one a Mister Darcy (cardamoro, cognac, fig, cynar), and one The Crossing of 1909 (a lovely twist on martini with gin, blanc vermouth, genepy). Wine with dinner was a gorgeous Austrian Zweigelt rosé.
The amuse is almost always a lil shooter of soup, and yesterday’s was a bright & warming ginger carrot soup with a cheese gougère.
My PIC and I shared the eternally fantastic blue crab toast with lemon aioli and jalapeños on their amazing griddled sourdough,
and the hiramasa with pistachio butter and grapefruit. I wanted to live in that plate forever. Wow.
The birfday boy had the veal osso bucco with shaved brussels sprouts & apple salad he loved,
the freshly divorced lady the ginormous dayboat scallops with celery root cream, kohlrabi, and preserved lemon, and roasted cauli with Burgundy truffle agrodolce.
I had wonderful grilled sea bass with tarragon-sunchoke cream, broccoli rabe & green olive,
my PIC got two of the small plates: fazzoletti with pork sugo and rosemary-hazelnut crumb (fantastic), and the crispy potatoes with malt vinegar aioli.
Our friends shared the sorbet/icecream of the day: a scoop of roasted banana & mango, and chocolate peanut butter, respectively.
Our dessert was an incredibly rich, thick & creamy coquito for my PIC, and a Night Night, Josephine (rum, banana liqueur, mole bitters).
Nightcap at the bar downstairs. An absolutely wonderful evening.
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Spending time with her son is the best gift for Mom. Perhaps a “coupon book” for monthly or quarterly meals out with Mom would be a good gift!
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