I am so impressed with your portion size! (Also everything looks very pretty.)
That fluke looks wonderful. Might need to try that!
Last night I went to a movie then dessert/drinks with one of my meetup groups. I dined at a Chinese restaurant near the theater before the show and I had noodles with pork and peanut sauce - my favourite! Then off to see The Promised Land. We went to a brew pub down the street for dessert and coffee. I had a chocolate mousse cake to die for and a coffee.
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I had gone to my local grocery store as they had potatoes on sale. I decided to wander down to the meat department to see what was on sale/clearance. I found some boneless pork on clearance, so that became dinner. I asked Sunshine how she wanted her pork and was told “Shake and Bake”. I don’t know if “Shake and Bake” Pork goes with baked potatoes, but that is what I served. Pickled beets were the vegetable. Sunshine finished off her Valentine’s Day candy as dessert.
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Shake and Bake pork definitely goes with potatoes. It’s essentially oven schnitzel, or oven (pork) nuggets, and both go with potatoes!
What meat doesn’t go with potatoes? 
I just alternate potatoes/ pasta/ pierogies/ rice / polenta/ bread with my various proteins, regardless!
Pierogies also go well with oven schnitzel!
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Lemon and capers are such a great combination. A favorite at casa lingua.
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Movie night at casa lingua with one of my PIC’s old grad school buddies. A double feature with a very good movie and an absolutely terrible movie, during which we mostly caught up on our respective goings on.
Sustenance was provided by the new Detroit pizza joint in town: their absolutely addictive garlic dill pickle,
triple threat (very generous with their aMAZing vodka sauce this time 
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and hot honey pepperoni – which we hadn’t tried before.
I could’ve used more heat from the honey (natch), but that’s where the RPF come in. The blobs of ricotta on the nicely charred pepperoni is a nice touch.
Yeah, I know. No cooking again ovah heah. Well, guess what! I couldn’t if I’d wanted to…. bc when I went into the kitchen to make popcorn for us, the stove didn’t turn on.
Looks like our remodel team did something to the connection, and they’re currently here to fix it.
Not that there will be any cooking tonight either, cuz we’re invited to my bassist’s poker game - the first in well over a year. Festivities start at 7pm, so we’ll assume there will be food stuffs.
Got a lil surprise snow last night, too
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They have one. And even with its regularly timed drops, they’re still waiting and hollering for their wet food. Believe me, they’re NOT starving. 
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Munchies for grazing while we watch our kitty recover from sedation for pet dental work earlier today.
First:
Then, shrimp balchão (from Thali, by Maunika Gowardhan):
And hummus and pita, because, hummus and pita:
All together now:
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Everything looks good, but I LOVE balchao 
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Ina Garten’s Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup. It isn’t low calorie, heart-healthy, or inexpensive but it is definitely delicious! https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/cream-of-wild-mushroom-soup-recipe-1950237
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Thank you! 
The balchão is really good! Next time I make it, I will have the patience to let it hang out in the fridge to do it’s thing for a day or two.
We make two kinds: one ifresh, where the prawns are cooked till just done and you eat it immediately, the other the actual pickle, where all the water is cooked out of the masala as well as the prawns, and then it hangs out for as long as it takes to consume (days or months, depending on who’s snacking on it 
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I think this was more akin to the first one. I cooked the shrimp for about half the time she called for (5 instead of 8-9 minutes). Was more saucy than I expected (probably because it had less time to cook down).
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I always want more sauce 
What did you eat it with? It’s “meant” for rice and dal or khichdi, but my dad’s favorite was to squish it into crusty bread as a sandwich.
ETA: I just know it’s gonna show up in a taco @Amandarama
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Stunning, as ever. You always manage to make any dish look faceplant-worthy.
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We had some pita in the house from earlier in the week, so we tore pieces off and ate everything from hand.
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You may not be entirely wrong 
Eta - I would absolutely eat there!
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Thank you!
The bassist is apparently not feeding us anything besides snacks – yet wants us to show up at 7pm to play 
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So, we’ll have to eat a lil something beforehand I guess, even though that’s very much on the early side for us. With all that pasta talk lately I briefly considered making stir-fried linguine with leftover bok choy and king oyster shrooms we grabbed at the Asian grocer earlier, but I just now finished my coffee & absolutely don’t feel like putting together an actual meal at this hour.
Random snacks to the rescue. Some Iberico ham we splurged on at Wegmans, lavash with my baba ganoush, and maybe a cup of tomato soup. Thrilling!
Tomorrow will be a proper dinner. There has to be 
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