Home food is so nice after too much eating out.
A simple Paneer Biryani tonight, with the forced addition of potatoes by yours truly who needs potatoes in any Biryani 
I don’t think we’ve ever made Paneer Biryani at home (it’s always mutton & vegetable — separately), but this was quite good.
Some of the aforementioned too much eating out is covered here:
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It’s the last hot day while we are here, and we were feeling like heat. Home-cooked meal and Thai dinner were switched around, so we scooted over to our favorite Thai resto after a beer at the beer garden (also the last time LE SIGH). I am so happy we discovered the place last year, since the Thai park is now only a shadow of its former self 
We split the “oyster explosion,” i.e. 4 oysters with their amazing spicy seafood sauce,
the duck breast laab ped (amazing, smoky, and hot AF),
the moo ping, which may have sat for a while bc it came out warm, not hot, but was still very tasty and tender,
and chu chee plah yang, i.e. whole grilled sea bass with red coconut curry, lime leaves, lime and peppers.
I wanted to take a selfie of my red crying (happy tears!) face, but it just didn’t come out.
When we paid, the server managed to knock over my (3/4 full) beer and spill it all over my lap — naturally a dress that had just come out of the laundry. She was super-apologetic, of course, tho not to the point of not charging us for the beer — we’re not in the US after all . Whatever, shit happens. Another load of laundry tonight 
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Anyway, it was everything we wanted from our final Thai dinner in Berlin. Ze Tchermens are playing Denmark ATM, and I’m non-celebrating the occasion with a martini. There’s some gin that needs used up after all 
Update: the game had to be interrupted due to a massive hail storm (!). No, I’m not kidding.
You’re going back to the States already? It seems like it was such a short stay.
Maybe home as in the family home in India, versus takeout/going out.
There’s so much good food posted here. I wish I had my former self back that could cook meals like a lot of you do, but it’s not to be. DH stepped up his game in the kitchen when cancer bit me in the ass and he’s getting better at it, but at heart he’s a meat and potatoes guy. It’s been a rather chilly overcast day on the outer Cape. We pulled mushroom gravy and mashed potatoes out of the freezer to have with pork schnitzel he’s making tonight, along with fresh green beans. Odd to be craving winter comfort food at the end of June, but that’s what we both wanted (and half of it was already prepared).
Thai fish curry. The recipe doesn’t call for curry paste so I added some because it could use some oomph. I put in a little more than usual so I can finish up a tin. I can now confirm my sinuses are clear 
It’s been unusually cool here in Ottawa, Canada too. As I was thinking about dinner this afternoon I was thinking about how I would love a spaghetti with bolognese sauce or chicken in a mushroom sauce - two of my favourite cool weather dishes.
I’ve craved my mom’s lemon pot roast in the hottest part of the summer, and today was quite cool in the Boston area (and I’m sure even cooler at the Cape!) so no questions from me about craving winter food in summer!
In to work at 7:30 a.m.
No breakfast, no lunch. 
Sweating bullets despite the AC beig cranked.
Movers done by 12:30.
Home by 5:00.
Office supplies and kitchen set up for Monday.
No electrical power at my outlets or the office next to me…to be fixed Monday morning.
Amd who greets me, other than the orange cattorists? Hello, my darling Paul Hobbs! I’ve been waiting for you for ever so long! How YOU doin’? It’s so nice to get so intimately acquainted with you again after the day/week/month I’ve had!
My Friday Night dinner was postponed by 24 hours: steak tips with Ballymaloe steak sauce, half a baked tater with TPSTOB&SC, and sauteed CSA sugar snap peas with onions and red bell peppers and Penzeys Mural of Flavor and s/p.
Did I mention the 2017 Paul Hobbs Russian River Chardonnay? Even though some may say it doesn’t go with beef? Yeah. Don’t care. I’m enjoying it immensely!
Is this the recipe? https://www.saveur.com/lamb-grape-leaf-tarts-orzo-feta-dolma-pie-recipe/
They sound amazing and yours looks gorgeous!
That is the recipe. It is always a hit.
Lovely dinner! Those favas look fresh. Where did you get them?
Summer garden chow mein. Snow peas, cabbage, carrots, and scallions with shrimp and ground pork. Homemade chili crisp.
And another visit to Pausa https://www.pausasanmateo.com/ in San Mateo. Still an excellent restaurant for the peninsula or Bay Area anywhere. Their fully home made charcuterie plate continues to beat pretty much any other charcuterie plates we have gotten anywhere else.
They brought the khachpuri not yet mixed with the hot cheese, raw egg and piece of butter. The Georgian waiter told us since we are the first time at the restaurant he has to show us how to correctly mix everything (and also talked a bit about the background of the dish, ingredients like the cheese etc)
Another salad. Thai-ish shrimp noodle. Rice noodles, cabbage, carrot, cuke, daikon, shallot, mint, cilantro, serrano pepper, shrimp of course, nuoc cham dressing with rpf added and a drizzle of chile crisp. I got a little carried away with the chiles so my sinuses are clear too. Today was a G&T day.
We enjoyed an excellent dinner at the Belford Bistro including excellent melt in your mouth filet mignon au poivre; jumbo lump crab cakes; fantastic spicy red curry mussels with carrots, leek, cilantro, citrus; zucchini blossoms with mornay sauce; artichoke fritters with pickled peppers, basil, parmigiano cream. It all went great with an excellent Shiraz and Zinfandel.
Experimentation pasta. Made with 1/3 freshly ground einkorn and 2/3 Italian 00 pasta flour. This portion served with browned butter, the other (scoffed quickly,no photo) with shrimp, peas, roasted peppers, bacon and cream. Everyone agreed that the einkorn made the pasta taste better than straight 00 and also gave it a nice bite.
