Well, it’s been a tough two days as ceremonies kicked off last evening for dad’s 1-year anniversary (“kicked off” as in lunar / religious calendar leading up to the punch-in-the-stomach of a whole calendar year having passed, because no one had space to mourn him with all the shit that happened to mom after that, so how the high heck has it been a YEAR??? Aah, life.)
Anyway, LINNER yesterday was the early bird special with fellow Onions at a new Cambodian restaurant (timing worked out well because I was home in plenty of time to video call in to the ceremony).
The food was lovely; it’s been so long since I ate Cambodian that the gentle spicing combined with potent flavor combinations was a pleasant surprise.
What we ate and pics are here:
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After the ceremony, it had been long enough post-meal that I was hungry again, so I ate the rest of a spanish tortilla I had made earlier in the week with leftover chorizo and alioli. (Look at my cute little baby tortilla! — turns out 2 eggs-worth will fit into my tiny carbon steel fry pan, which I never thought to do until this week, duh.)
Oh yeah, and that marble cake finally went gonzo 
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Tonight, I FINALLY got to the Porchetta!
I made lazy polenta (microwave + oven) finished with milk, brown butter, cream cheese, and lots of grated parrano (which is all I had, not having restocked cheese yet).
Also sautéed a bag of spinach (because I couldn’t get to the store for broccoli rabe, which is what I had planned for this plate).
This. Was. So. Good. Lazy version of every item, but so delicious anyway.
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Oh, and I baked some new-to-me brownie cookies since dinner didn’t need much work. They were almost a disaster (as in, almost all over the bottom of the oven) but then they were saved, which is just as well, because they’re tastier than I was expecting.
