Funny Story… I called and checked in on Neighbor #2 just to see how she was doing and if she needed anything. All was good.
Then out of the blue she asked what I was making for dinner, I told her leftover Hoover Stew (but with ground turkey instead of hot dogs). I then asked her if she wanted any, as I had plenty leftover from the pot I made last night. Her response was “Yes, please”. So I took a big tupperware container over (enough for a couple of meals). She told me about how her mother made “Hoover Stew” and that she had not had any since she was a little girl… along with other stories from her childhood.
For the record, she very much enjoyed it.
It’s funny how food (or certain meals) bring back joyful memories from our past.
Bit of a mish mosh because I’m a zombie after a redeye, a lunch and other meetings, and badly timed nap. But delicious anyway.
Started with fennel salad from the last of the fennel bulbs I bought almost a month ago and have lasted like champs. Cider vinegar, lemon, honey dressing and shaved aged cheddar.
Then pan-cooked chicken thighs seasoned simply with salt, peper, and garlic powder, rendered very slowly skin side down until the chicken was fully cooked and the skin was golden, paper thin, and crisp.
Finally a frozen jumeokbap (korean cousin of japanese onigiri that is more heavily seasoned) that I seared in the same pan as the chicken to get the outside nice and crisp.
Love this dinner idea for the summer. Evokes the flavors of a pizza Margherita, without having to turn on the oven after the sun has been heating up our house all day.
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ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
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I still needed the oven to make the bread, but if bread is bought this is very true. Since we’ve barely broken 60 degrees yet this “summer”, I’m not too worried about turning the oven on.
I laugh too, bc until we built a fence, we were told that deer wouldn’t eat the herbs as the flavor was too strong. Not too strong to sit on them though. They were always bedding down in our chives and mint.
A former boss made me so mad. I was already going from WA where everyone composts to CA where they didn’t. About 15 yrs ago. This guy would buy 3-4 bottles of ice tea daily and then garbage the empties. He couldn’t be arsed as they say to walk to the recycle bin that each floor had next to the bathrooms bc he had a garbage in his office. Grr!
I wish I could find my video of the wild turkeys mashing their turkey butts down into our chives. This year I collected the blossoms for chive blossom vinegar before the birds had a chance to get cozy.
My PIC is leaving for a 2-day workshop in the south very early tomorrow morning & wanted to take me out to dinner tonight. A much-lauded Indian place in our hood seemed just the ticket.
Perhaps some of the best Indian food I’ve had (which admittedly isn’t saying much – both Berlin’s and my hometown’s offerings are mediocre at best). I wish we could’ve tried the many different appetizers, but there’s only so much a girl and her dude can eat in one sitting.
And so, we split the delightfully light, airy & crisp tandoori chicken dosa with coconut chutney, dal, a tomato-y sauce, and the sweet brown sauce I don’t like (tamarind?),
and the telangana lamb thali with dal, veggie korma, channa masala, chutney, naan, rice, a really terrible papad, and one gulab jamun my PIC liked far more than I did.
Both the lamb and the tandoori chicken could’ve been spicier for our taste (the menu marked them with two chili peppers), but everything was really lovely & the flavors complex.
The first dosa I’ve ever had was at a street food festival in Berlin a couple of years ago, and I thought it was much easier to snarf it off of a paper plate than trying to eat it with fork and knife. I also liked the heat level better at the street food stand
And another visit to Marlowe https://www.marlowesf.com/ in SoMa on a very short notice with the daughter. First time having the “famous” Marlowe burger and it definitely competes as one of the best restaurant burgers in the city - the horseradish aioli is quite unique and adds a touch too much horseradish flavor to it. We wished they would change their menu a bit more frequently as it seems to be always the same dishes.
The other half of that mortadell and provolone sangweech from yesterday with some super duper spicy chili/garlic/black bean green beans(leftover from lunch with the fam at our favourite Hakka joint). Weird but delicious combo.
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ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
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The recipe called for way too much toasted rice (unless maybe they forgot to instruct to just use a portion?). A Tbsp would have been plenty for 1 lb. IMO.
and then decided to do my own thing with some jarred pesto from the pantry (with a splash of soy sauce in a nod to the recipe). Calamari got added to the soba in its last couple minutes of cooking. Once everything was cooked, I drained and ran the soba and calamari under cold running water to stop the cooking. Then I tossed it with thinly sliced, raw bok choy and sliced grape tomatoes. Very tasty dinner with minimal effort!
Anthony is running through the narrow streets of the North End to get home for dinner.
Yeah, screw that running stuff. I just drove home.
Sketti & sauce, with lots of grated Parm-Reg.
A piece of sourdough bread, lightly toasted, buttered and sprinkled with McCormick garlic & herb seasoning for faux garlic bread.
CCE
(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
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Hope I don’t offend anyone’s sensibilities here based on timing. I made both back and spare ribs about 10 days ago. Once the family was done noshing and stuff was cooled, I stripped all the remaining meat off the bones, and a few days ago used about 1/3 of it in a pork-egg-shrimp fried rice.
The remaining 2/3 of it, I used tonight to make tacos for my son and me (wife, daughters are at church tonight and will dine with the crowd afterwards at a restaurant).
It tasted really good. Hope it doesn’t kill us.
Along with the meat, I had an avocado salsa, tomatoes, shredded lettuce and cheeses, and a quick-pickled onion side.
Take-out fake-out tonight. Frozen, storebought mini dumplings from Bibigo. BBQ pork also from the grocery. Steamed rice. Marinated cucumbers in an Asian vinaigrette. My first local cuke of the year (from the farmer’s market), it was awesome - sweet and crisp!
Sautéed sweet onion, red bell pepper, and mushrooms, then sautéed ground beef and ground pork OR several sweet Italian sausages with the pork squozen out of the casings, minced garlic, dried oregano, basil, and parsley, Aleppo pepper, a pinch of fennel seeds, bay leaf, Rao’s marinara, a can of Muir Glen diced fire-roasted tomatoes, tomato paste, and a couple of Parm-Reg rinds. That’ll simmer for several hours with the lid tipped to let the steam escape. I prefer a thick, meaty sauce.
Salad, pan-roasted chicken thighs with crazy crisp completely rendered skin, and a Korean jumeokbap (rice “cake”) seared in the chicken fat.
Well, I changed the salad because I’m out of fennel . So my salad of the day (”SOTD”) was arugula, almonds, and parmesan dressed with cider vinegar, lemon juice, honey, s&p.
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