I should’ve said it in my writeup. Once the meat and the shallots and herbs and dressing were mixed, I threw in some shredded romaine to bulk it up and provide some veg. The lettuce wasn’t warmed.
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I made Slow-Cooker Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Gnocchi with Delicata Squash & Spinach from EatingWell. My concerns about long-cooked gnocchi going gluey weren’t unfounded. I subbed frozen cubed butternut for the Delicata, garden chard for most of the spinach, and added a Parm Regg rind. Not bad but unless flavors really develop overnight, probably not a repeat. I mostly made the recipe because I could pick up all the ingredients curbside and it could cook on low while we were otherwise engaged tonight.
Having the last (generous) glass of last night’s enjoyable red now.
My first grader gave public comment tonight at the Asheville school board meeting, and I’m so proud of our little activist.
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More fridge and freezer cleanout. The last of the homemade potstickers. Chicken-zucchini meatballs. Dipping sauce. Steamed rice. Coleslaw.
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Last night’s dinner was weather-appropriate spicy pork ramen (plus a pork bun, how could I resist) over catching up with a college friend and spouse whom I last saw exactly this time last year (and had missed all the happenings of the past year while she herself moved countries and changed jobs and more).
Tonight, I finally got to COTM Ethiopia, which had been thwarted thus far by lack. of ingredients combined with lack of motivation for a grocery store visit, and batter that wouldn’t ferment.
I made a simple lamb stew (yebeg alitcha), a chickpea flour “salad” which is really more of a paste (buticha), and faux-injera crepes, and added some leftover sauteed spinach for a vegetable component.
Very pleased with everything except the crepes – my own fault for a bad batter, so I will start from scratch.
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Portuguese seafood stew with extra vegetables, because I had them. Namely carrots, celery and kale and parsley from my balcony (aka the climate change farm).
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Well, I had a bag of potatoes (about to go bad), 1 chicken breast, a can of white nacho cheese sauce and a can of peas. Hmmm… what to do?? I know!! I’ll make soup.
I present to you tonight’s dinner – Potato Chicken Cheese Pea soup. Sunshine really enjoyed this concoction. So I guess it was a success??
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This happens to me right around the same time I get tired of my sweaters… Should be any day now…!
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I love salmon and lentils. This was just me trying a different recipe than my go-to recipe for this dish.
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Fresca garlic-herb chicken sausages with fried peppers and onions. Quick and easy after a Rangers win.
A dram of Bourbon with.
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Fresca? Really? Is this like a coca cola marinade? How vintage 
Junkfish soup with tomato, white beans, and Spanish EVOO. “Junkfish” is my term for the $3.99/lb white fish trim that the local fishmonger sells (Tokyo Fish in Berkeley). I have no idea what the actual fish is.
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HahaHAH!
- Would you like a little salad with your bacon, Sirs or Mesdames?
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small but mighty!
what a great idea, i’m going to have to hit up Tokyo Fish for some of that too…
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They have salmon trim at $9/lb, and sometimes halibut trim at $13 and catfish trim at $7. Also “grilling cubes”, which I guess are tuna, sea bass, other firm fish.
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I think a little bacon might have improved it.
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Dinner last night was a combo of good news / bad news / gooder news.
Good news: Oldest daughter and SIL (with our new Grandson!) are planning to move close to here. SIL has been doing phone interviews with several local firms. He was here yesterday for final, in-person interviews. D1 is still on maternity leave and probably won’t start looking for work here for another month.
Bad news: I was chauffeur and after the last one we dined at a highly rated (4.7 stars, 2000+ Google reviews) Cuban place. I ordered picadillo, one of my home-cook favorites. I know it varies considerably across and even within countries… but what I got was a watery, somewhat tomato flavored ground beef. No evidence of green peppers, onion, garlic, olives, capers, raisins, cumin, oregano. Zip. The “Cuban black beans” were just canned beans, no other flavors. Not planning to go back…
Gooder News: Each of the 3 firms indicated by the end of the day (before we’d finished dinner) that they were putting an offer together for him. News worth suffering mediocre food.
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Well this is a good excuse to go out for a nice dinner again. To celebrate the SIL’s new job and to make up for the not-so-good one you just had. (And congrats to everyone all round for new jobs and having family closer.)
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Dinner out with a friend at “Tomato & Onion”, a Japanese “family restaurant” chain which is part of the ubiquitous “Skylark” chain (of which “Gusto” is the most common.).
The chain specializes in “hamburg”, which is what Americans would call “salisbury steak” or “chopped steak”. I had intended to order something like that, but an order of “stir fried chicken and vegetables (carrots, lotus root, eggplant, kabocha squash and snap peas) in a black vinegar sauce” caught my eye. It tasted like a Japanese riff on sweet & sour chicken and was surprisingly good, especially for a chain restaurant.
I needed rice with this and ordered a “set” of rice, miso soup, daikon pickles, a small bowl of some vegetables in a blend of various Japanese sauces and an AYCE of one of this restaurant’s signature dishes, “black curry”. Whatever vegetables and/or protein had typically melted down into the curry which was spicy, but not “hot”. The curry at their sister restaurant “Gusto” is quite bad and I was expecting something similar and was VERY happy to be proven wrong about that…so much so that I had TWO bowls of it!
The cost for this was ¥1209/USD $8.17, but my friend kindly treated me to the meal from a gift card her father had as he’s a Skylark stockholder.
I could have eaten another bowl of that curry, but wisely decided not to. I tend to avoid Japanese “family restaurants” (which are basically like “Denny’s” in the US) because their food generally ranges from bad to mediocre, but this meal was good enough that I’ll go back again.
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