Spouse and #1 son made/assembled dinner: falafel and chickpea tomato salad made at home plus pita, tahini, hummus, tabbouleh, and olives from nearby Mediterranean Bakery. Plus we sampled the Ethiopian honey wine that kid gave me from a local tasting room. All delicious. No pic except this one of stashed leftovers destined to be lunches this week
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We enjoyed some huge Dungeness crabs from Costco and Trader Joe’s sweet potato fries. We started off with homemade guacamole with Zapps spicy Cajun crawtator chips. It all went great with our favorite red blend.
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So you wouldn’t use the arugula again? All sounds great! 
‘‘Twas a long day. Mother’s Day breakfast with my friends (made by one husband and kid).
Mothers’ Day lunch with my cousin’s family. Then we all drove over to his sister’s to spend the afternoon with their mom. Then a friend of someone’s came over there with her 3 young boys (to add to the 3 young boys and 2 exuberant dogs already present).
By the time my aunt and I decided to leave for the dinner we had planned (I was talking her out), we made a beeline for home without even mentioning it because we were both entirely exhausted from the loooong afternoon (and weekend in general in my case) 
We peeled ourselves off the couch a few hours later for a quick dinner of omelettes — ham and cheese in hers, bacon in mine. Toast and hot herbal tea rounded it out.
Eggs were from the next door neighbor’s hens — I picked out all the blue ones because I get a kick out of them 
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My sister wanted to take me to her favorite sushi place here in Las Vegas. While I like sushi, I don’t eat it often, especially here in the US. The menu at this place was dominated by American-style rolls covered in “yum-yum” sauce or spicy rolls.
I decided to play it safe by ordering a simple tekkamaki (tuna roll) and an oshinko roll (Japanese pickles…in this case takuan, pickled daikon). Neither was very good at all. My sister asked me if I wanted anything else (she had the AYCE option), but didn’t seem too surprised that what I had was enough for me.
She enjoyed her meal which was fine with me as it was her choice to go there.
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TokushimaCook - you seem so resigned and unhappy. Do you have a plan to get out on your own? Whenever I read one of your posts I just want to reach out and hug you.
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Thank you very much. I’ve suffered from depression since the mid 90s. I have my good days and bad days. There’s more that I could say, but this isn’t the forum for such things.
Knowing that kind people like yourself care and are even willing to give me hugs, helps more than you know and I’m extremely appreciative of it.
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Does Costco sell live crabs, or are those frozen or something?
Ramp and asparagus soup with yogurt. It has some nice garnishes, too, but they sank. So much for presentation!
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I am impressed by the volume consumed along your crawl!
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I think the problem was that this was “baby” arugula, from one of those saladgreens bins. It was too stringy. Maybe adult arugula would work out better.
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The crabs are frozen, but are supposedly fully cooked within hours of being caught, and then frozen at “the peak of freshness” (Costco’s words not mine). You just have to steam them. They are sweet and delicious.
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Successful “fusion” cuisine combining Indian cuisine with Southern cooking from “My Two Souths” by Asha Gomez - Southern -style pork vindaloo and green bean verakka with cardamom cornbread
Pork vindaloo braises cubed pork butt and onions in a pureed mixture of garlic, brown mustard seeds, sugar, tomato paste, paprika, hot paprika and white wine vinegar. The green bean verakka stir-fried with coconut oil, brown mustard seeds, cumin seeds and thyme. And the cornbread is baked with cornmeal, cardamom powder, black pepper, sugar, eggs, buttermilk, butter and baking soda
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Be still my heart. I’m experiencing severe dumpling envy! Wow.
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And old buddy of ours from UT who used to take student groups to Berlin every summer recently retired, but is in town for a couple of weeks anyway & wanted to get together for dinner.
We went to a French brasserie we’d been meaning to try since last summer & never got around to it.
An airy, modern space with very interesting art (a threesome on the wall facing the entrance was particularly intriguing, but I didn’t snap a pic since there were peeps sitting right beneath it) and stunning chandeliers.
The menu is small, but eclectic. We opted to share a few small plates, as none of us were interested in the usual app, main, dessert thang.
We split their very good sourdough from a local baker – so good we got another order of it,
anchovies and capers,
eggplant ‘caviar’ (really just a glorified but good baba ghanoush),
perfectly tender, sautéed pulpo with ‘nduja & salsa verde of which we ordered another plate – the sauces were nice to sop up with that fantastic bread,
a whole artichoke with hollandaise and chervil vinaigrette (lovely),
roasted pepper with labneh and bagna cauda (also very good),
sautéed asparagus with sorrel and koji-beurre blanc (good inspo for my future asparagus meals!),
and my PIC and I shared the small tartare (70g / about 2.5oz and plenty at that point – very rich & filling).
In fact, I felt absolutely stuffed after sharing these things, even tho it wasn’t a lot of food. I blame the amazing bread 
We also shared a lovely Riesling that was the perfect complement to the meal, and very reasonably priced at 42€.
Back to some dinners at home before our Købnhaven trip Wednesday!
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We didn’t actually eat everything you see. I had 11, The Sprout 12 and Mr Bean didn’t count but we had enough left over for dinner on Sunday not including the 30 more frozen dumplings we bought from the Shang Dong before we headed home.
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Beautiful and I’m sure delicious
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Yum. I love when baba ganoush has some of the smokey burnt skin remaining.
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I love wedge salads and yours looks perfect. Actually every single dish in this post looks perfect.
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