Looks great . What , no 24 hour notice?
Are you bragging or complaining?? 
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Seared and roasted chicken thigh with honey mustard sauce. Corn riblets. Salad of mixed greens, red onion, fennel, roasted beet and mandarin orange, smokey orange vinaigrette. Wine spritzer.
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Tonight’s dinner was Coconut Lemon Chicken over pasta with a side of string beans/w almonds.
Sunshine likes this dish, but didn’t like the lime juice that was on the original recipe, so I substituted in lemon juice. She likes it much better, now.
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I’m marketing. 
They’re addictive.
I don’t really like other canned or jarred jalapeños.
We haven’t used the spiralizer for some time - zucchini noodles (briefly sautéed with garam masala) and chicken breast (cooked with garlic, ginger and garam masala). Served with diced mango, cilantro, lemon juice and a herb-yoghurt sauce (made with lemon zest and juice, cilantro, mint and garlic)
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Did some more running around / shopping yesterday, which was even hotter than the previous day, but certainly not as terrible as the temps fellow users like @shrinkrap or @TokushimaCook are suffering 
We went to the gay bar, where we met up with my friend who was part of the gang that checked in on our chonkster while we were gone — mostly to gift her the cat-themed earrings and bracelet I got for her in Berlin, but also to say hi to the bar staff & grab a bite. We got two orders of very good steak tartare toasts,
but that wasn’t enough to sop up the booze,
so we ordered a dozen plain wings when we got home around 10:30 pm (I ‘make’ our own sauces).
Delicious. crispy, crunchy, spicy chicken. A regretful decision that made for a rather terrible night of sleep 
We’re invited to our HK friend for poker and niblets tonight. Looking forward.
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I live vicariously through you…
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Nope. Not even that. Just a response from Prop Mgmt saing “last minute, the painters said they had time, so we took it.” I did get an apology, but c’mon…
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Speaking of window peepers, when we lived in the Netherlands our landlord required that we have our windows cleaned monthly. The Dutch live in narrow, attached row houses for the most part, and to make up for that their windows are huge where they’re able to have them. We had to pay cash to a guy every month but he never cleaned on a regular schedule and never gave us notice when he would be there. I walked out of the shower more than once with him outside the window on his ladder soaping the second floor glass. Haven’t thought about that in years…
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It’s hard work… but someone’s gotta do it 
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Aha, cultural insight for me. My neighbor was born in the Netherlands. She’s incredibly diligent about keeping her windows gleaming. Now I get it.
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They’re not really keen on window treatments - for the most part you can see straight through their large street side bay windows to their back gardens and everything is on display.
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A dear childhood friend is in town after a few years and came over for a meal today.
It was bittersweet, because it’s the first time he’s been here since we lost my dad, whom he loved almost as much as his own (lost when we were in high school). Even tougher because his last trip, after COVID, was after he lost his own mom, so it has really kinda sucked for him to come home the past couple of times.
By request, we replicated the last meal he shared with my dad, mostly home-cooked with a couple of divey takeout additions. Plus a couple of our favorite desserts.
We had goat trotter soup, brains in green masala and ghee, nihari (overnight-cooked shank with marrow, from one of dad’s divey spots), and our family favorite kababs (from another of dad’s favorite spots — coincidentally my cousin sent us pics from there yesterday remembering dad 
),.
Accompanied by two kinds of naan (one from the kabab place, which I prefer, the other from the nihari place, which everyone else prefers).
Dessert was basundi (burnt milk with saffron and pistachios) and two kinds of kulfi (umm… pretty much frozen basundi if it’s correctly made).
Oh and we started with khandvi, which is my favorite snack and also his — a hard to make, thin, noodle-y roll made from a gram flour and buttermilk batter. Yum.
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The usual salad and protein for dinner.
Pan fried mahi mahi, romaine, pickled vegetables, tomato and Parm Regg. Lemon/anchovy dressing. What can I say, I’m a creature of habit.
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My favorite dinners involve a big salad and grilled fish or meats with it, especially in the summer!
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! Ez Pz , nice and breezy.
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Wellll, the chopping and the vinaigretting still takes more time than I’d like to, but it’s no beef Wellington, that’s for sure
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Wanted chicken.
Wanted pasta. (I used cavatappi)
Wanted feta cheese.
Well, as Meat Loaf sang, two outta three ain’t bad! 
Made this recipe…added halved Honey Bomb tomatoes halfway through cooking the chicken, and added the sundried tomatoes earlier along with several large handfuls of CSA arugula. Also, used Aleppo pepper for the RPF.
That two-outta-three thing? What I thought was crumbled feta in my fridge was crumbled goat cheese. 
Oh well. Still good!
Wine as the side.
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