With SOTD in mind, Cajun chicken Caesar salad.
NYT’s blackened chicken (gift link) served over garden romaine with Caesar dressing and homemade French bread croutons.
I cooked the well-seasoned chicken over open flame on the BGE, no skillet. The heat of the chicken went great with the coolness of the Caesar salad.
We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Drew’s Bayshore Bistro, including BBQ shrimp and grits, strawberry bruschetta, octopus tostada, escargot with Benton’s country ham and gorgonzola cheese, pork chop with vinegar, hot peppers, and cheese; Cajun jalapeño and garlic meatballs; fantastic seafood bouillabaisse. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
Yam leaves from the garden (blanched and tossed with some yuzu and garlic, salt and white pepper to taste
Mackerel (air fried)
A dinner that came together in stages.
Arugula and carrot salad with Japanese carrot-ginger dressing.
A tiny serving of my brown butter scallop sushi obsession, in chirashi form.
And then (significantly) doctored leftover vegetable Thai green curry with salmon added.
Pizza Saturday. What i like is i show you all the mishaps on my pizza journey . Along with the second try .
First one came off the peel wrong . To thin in the middle. I knew it
Lamb ragu with fettuccine from the That Noodle Life book - bone-in lamb shoulder chops are braised in a sauce made from pancetta, onion, carrot, celery, tomato paste, white wine and beef broth and afterwards shredded before mixing with the pasta, peas and mint. Finished with some parmesan
That duck breast is PURRRRRRR-fection, ma’am 
I was eyeing that recipe myself, but was hesitant to add it to my recipe box, which is like flying economy class: mostly chicken or pasta recipes 
I liked it quite a bit as a component of the salad and will probably make the whole she-bang again.
I failed to mention I brined the breasts for about 20 minutes before cooking to help prevent them from drying out.
That sounds delicious.
So far I’ve been escaping the Big Bad C, although — come to think of it that should prolly be the Medium Bad C 
— save for a few sniffles. My PIC felt slightly better today, so we scooted to the street food market near us for a shared banh mi for lunch, with a delightful slice of funghi π being our second course – gotta get those kilometers done
Weather was spectacular, so we had sunset beers at the same beer garden we went to yesterday. Dinner involved quick-blanching some broccolini, stir-frying them along with TPSTOG & 3 chopped up bird peppers, then finishing them off in the wonderfully gelatinous beef broth we had left over from our noodle dinner Friday night.
The noodz themselves didn’t take super-well to being nuked… but it was an easy meal to put together, and everything was sufficiently spicy 
Nice to have a whole order of smashed cukes left, too. House of The Dragon Breath tonight @casa lingua 
Comfort food. My DH is uncharacteristically down for the count - sleeping all afternoon. I’m worried and have no back up plans for dinner. This would be a gift.
That looks so good. Wish I had it to eat this evening.
One of our Stinson Beach weekends, smaller crowd (for reasons I won’t go into here, and why i’m not posting on my own page 
), not the usual big one in August/Sept - still to come.
But PUH-LENTY of food and drink and laughs and fun and booze and laughs and food and bubbles and cocktails and vino and food and laughs. Including, of course, the usual Saturday feast at The Marshall Store for ALLL THE OYSTERS and pulled pork, po boy, crab sandwiches, fish tacos and moar bubbles and Spanish wine.
I made the usual cambozola/heavy cream dip, that we ate with endive, radicchio, sugar snap peas and baguette slices, warmed olives that marinated with garlic, rosemary, thyme, pepperoncini, orange peel, and a few chunks of feta, made the Sardinian rice salad with tuna I learned about here, with added white beans, a huge hit (of course, I made so much i have leftovers for lunch this week.) The best thing I made, however, may have been the giant panini we cut up and split - on a loaf of super crusty bread, both had Campari tomatoes marinated in evoo, garic, and salt, and plenty of mozzerella di bufala, one had mortadella, coppa, and prosciutto, the other gorgeous anchovies, both had basil, a drizzle of a fancy, grassy evoo i picked up at the Ferry Bldg. (Stonehouse Picual), balsamic glaze, plus Calabrian chili paste on the bread. FUCKING-FAN-TASTIC. We had fancy French butter, a selection of cheeses and Fatted Calf sausages, marinated Spanish sardines, friend made a stir-fry of haricorts verts and shiitakes, a spicy chimichurri, we had two kinds of fish (my Nobu-inspired miso marinated black cod and a neighbor brought some kind of Jamaican jerk fish), and a gorgeous Berkeley bakery cherry pah. Martinis, Paper Planes, French bubbles, a luscious Ribera del Duero that our host and I split a case of, a Spanish rose, etc. etc. A little hot tubbing this morning before I packed up and came home to the BF (who as y’all know by now, is happy to not be social and awaited me with brunch at the ready.) Great weekend, good to be home, time for a big ol’ nap.
Keeping is simple tonight with garlic roasted flounder with soy sauce, garlic, and chile crisp (Fly By Jing X-tra Hot, purchased on a whim) on top of jasmine rice and peas.
Fantastic! What’s that coiled sausage-looking thing?
So impressive! What a continual spread.
