So wine was poured when I got home at 6pm.
Before the boyz were fed.
They didn’t appreciate that.
Tough tooties.
Pan-seared pork chop (finished in the convection oven after 4 minutes of sear on both sides in hot oil) with a mango-ginger sauce, served on leftover rice pilaf with sautéed zucchini planks, onions, and red bell peppers alongside, seasoned with s/p and Penzeys Mural of Flavor and dried parsley (from my fresh that I had minced and air-dried).
Pretty uneventful day in the nabe. The only “exciting” moment was when I wanted to update my CC on Venmo to pay our cat-sitter and noticed that our server last night had switched my card with one of my pal’s. Oops! We met up downtown and made things right.
I was craving fish — ideally grilled & mostly to mop up more of that aji-churri, and Aldi had a really nice salmon filet just under a lb. The weather rained on that parade, so it went in the air fryer instead using this recipe.
It didn’t really come out crispy on the outside, which is what the recipe promised & I had hoped for. It was reasonably tasty, but likely not a repeat.
I left out mayo and sour cream this time for a lighter version of my herb mustard dressing Lots leftover for lunch tomorrow.
It’s been exactly a week since the steroid shot, and nothing’s changed. Too bad I can’t refuse payment for treatments that don’t work, and I sorely regret not seeing someone while I was in Germany, where everything is of course a fragment of the insanely inflated health care costs here
Epicurious Better Than Takeout noodles. I used spaghetti noodles, garden veg, and a little ground pork, making extra to holdover for another day (because we love it).
Italian salad. Salami, prosciutto, cherry tomatoes, roasted peppers, calamata olives, red onion, little cubes of taleggio, chiffonade of basil, oo&v dressing over little gem and radicchio.
I found a “Clearance Vegetable Bag” today at a local grocery store for 99 cents. SCORE!!
In it was two heads of lettuce and three cucumbers. The lettuce only had two small brown spots, otherwise they were perfect! So I made a big pot of Lettuce Soup. I made this a few months ago and both Sunshine and I really liked it.
I guess it’s lamb week here. After the yorvetsi earlier, I got some Costco lamb chops*. Sous-vide and seared, with green beans in brown butter with slivered almonds.
I had intended on having fried liver and onions last night so after rummaging through the freezer for the last serving of liver that I thought was in there, I realized the only thing I was missing was the liver part I have some ground beef to finish up so I made a ground beef stirfry with green beans. (The recipe calls for ground pork but I used ground beef since that’s what I had.)
Although I had Caesar not pasta salad. Good company, interesting book talk, food was just fine. Tonight will be equally as exciting as I go to a viewing party at a hotel for a friend’s appearance on Jeopardy.
That’s so cool! Both my mom and I auditioned for Jeopardy! Germany, but only she made it through (I did well on the knowledge tests, but came across as a deer in the headlight for the camera test — this was long before I overcame my stage fright).
I remember sitting in the audiene wondering WTH she wasn’t pressing a button for an answer we (my sis, my mom’s BF and I) knew SHE KNEW. She told us later that hitting the button at the right time was the hardest part. Too early = yer blocked, too late = well, … duh.
She still came in second, won a shitty mobile phone & some cash AFAIK. Great experience, for sure.
I modified a “Food Network” recipe:
4 tablespoons of butter
4 tablespoons of flour, cook until brownish (medium heat), slowly add 2 cups of milk (whisking constantly).
I shredded and rinsed the two heads of lettuce, added them with 4 cups of chicken broth and switched to my immersion blender. I added about a teaspoon of onion powder and a teaspoon of ground cumin and blended until smooth.
Sleep in.
Read.
Health lab appt.
Work issues dealt with.
CSA pickup.
The my town’s farmer’s market, which I’m never able to get to soon after they open at 4pm.
CSA drove dinner tonight: some fresh heirloom tomatoes were used in a fresh tomato Spaghetti all’Amatriciana. I used pancetta and Aleppo pepper in place of the guanciale and RPF.
as the brewery had just dropped its excellent Czech-style pilsner yesterday & it sells out real fast. It was hoppier than the first time they made it, but still quite good.
WFD was leftovers: salad from last night plus cheeborger sliderz and tater salad from our Saturday shindig.
Off to upstate NY tomorrow for a reunion of my PIC’s German side of the family. Hopefully I can at least share some of the driving duties
I met one of the German cousins several years ago when he was traveling in the summer & came through Berlin, but otherwise I’ve only met the Armenian side. We’ll be staying with my PIC’s brother & SIL, both of which we see far too rarely (grandkids in the Carolinas have been a priority whenever they could take some time off, and it’s about a 5 hr drive between us).
Also, judging from the endless txt messages between family members, there’s going to be some very interesting dishes that are hyper-local to the area. I’m pretty excited about that!
Lots leftover for lunch tomorrow.
