My favorite pie was the white one with B shproutz and garlic. A ridiculously luscious coconut cake was a collaborative effort between our host and our buddy.
Thank you! Happy Birthday to your PIC, and congratulations on your good health news! It looks like you and your friends are having a fabulous celebration. Enjoy!
I know I’m a little late to the party - and I do hope you are partying - GREAT NEWS!!!
Edited to add - I replied to your post before I finished reading. It looks like you are having many great parties all rolled up into one. Happy Birthday to your PIC!
Tagliatelle with hot fennel sausage and baby super greens with a light lemon garlic cream sauce. I was a bit heavy-handed with the heat: cobanero chili, Urfa biber and fermented white pepper, but delicious nonetheless. Luckily there is always Pepcid.
An old timey recipe ~ Shrimp DeJongne or De Jongne🙂 Jumbo black tiger shrimp from Aldi(thanks Lingua). Plenty of butter, sherry, garlic, spidgen of paprika for color and four Hawaiian sweet rolls(I had to make two stops and finally buy a 12 pack) crumbled/dried out in the oven. All mixed together to top shrimp. Some of you might think that sherry and HSR would turn out too sweet. But this was really good. And I forgot to add the chopped flat leaf parsley I had ready in the fridge so tossed it on the top at the end. I’m burned out on asparagus.
I ate to excess last night. Take-out tonkatsu ramen, karaage (Japanese fried chicken) from Tondou , pepperoni and mushroom pizza from the Fourth Man in the Fire pizzeria and half a very big chocolate chip- Cadbury mini eggs cookie from Coco’s Coffee Shop on College St.
That led me to make a lighter dinner tonight. I finally cooked up my Prima Taste Laksa. I added Tuscan kale, which simmered with the noodles , because I didn’t eat vegetables yesterday.
#1 son went to Highland County VA for maple syrup week and brought me lots of syrup. So dinner was maple syrup glazed pork tenderloin, mushroom ravioli w/ sautéed oyster mushrooms, and cabbage slaw. No complaints!
Double dipping: 1) Frank’s hot sauce, butter, and a homemade serrano pepper sauce, and 2) Penzey’s Ranch spice mix with mayo, sour cream, and buttermilk.
Continuing with our pre-anniversary dinner, we enjoyed a fabulous dinner at James on Main, in Hackettstown, NJ, including roasted duck with plum glaze, green papaya salad, thai red chilis, crushed peanuts, lime; moules frites with Maine mussels, saffron, white wine, garlic and dijon served with fresh cut fries; Diver scallops with lobster butter, wood fired corn cake, chestnut mushrooms; pork belly mole with house made tortilla and black bean salad; black sea bass with white asparagus, petit red watercress, pommes puree, banyuls vinaigrette; big eye tuna crudo with crispy sticky black rice, coconut and lemongrass nage, fried ginger, sweet soy, micro shiso; For dessert we enjoyed an awesome crispy, sweet, and salty chocolate semifreddo with Ghana 72% dark chocolate from Mazur, peanut toffee sauce, candied peanuts, Man Skirt lager reduction. It all went great with our favorite red blend and a cabernet sauvignon.
Second pizza . Pizza Saturday… Getting closer 69 % hydration . Satisfied yes . Baked in electric oven on broil . I have my eyes on a portable pizza oven . Cheers.