Didn’t have harissa paste, and couldn’t find the envelope of harissa spice powder I know I have. So I made my own paste from tomato paste, ground cumin, s/p, smoked paprika, minced garlic, Aleppo pepper, lemon juice, and olive oil. I’m sure it’s nowhere near as hot as harissa paste usually is, but it worked for me.
I also only have Greek yogurt, so that’s what I used, thinned a bit with lemon juice and heavy cream.
I like the single sheet pan method of cooking everything together. The leeks, however, seem out of place. But I really enjoyed this meal.
They sell at the Rittenhouse farmers market on Saturday and the Sunday Market at Headhouse. I am addicted to their pasta - local grains, things like spelt , but not anything like the whole wheat pasta in the stupid market
Tuna Melt on a homemade marble rye. Tomato-basil soup, served with a drizzle of chili oil.
The tuna is a smoked albacore packed in oil, bought from one of the local boats (they will ship). Pickled cukes, onions, tomatoes, basil, and serrano chili peppers from the garden.
What’s up with these flu vaccines for us olders kickin’ our butts? Last year’s did it and this year’s got me down again. I take 2 Benedryl before hand, but noooooo, can’t move the arm for a day and I felt hungover. A little less worse debilitating than the covid vax. No longer have to get the pnu jab and RSV was a one and done, they said.
I asked what the difference was between the regular flu and the senior flu vaxes, and she said “just a little bit more of the vaccine”. I could definitely feel it going in to my arm muscle. My arm is doing well today. I was just so tired on Friday, even after a lot of sleep on Thursday night.
And I got the RSV last year, so I guess I’ll get the pneumonia this year.
In St Louis visiting family. Hit some farmers markets and made Ramen salad, caprese salad, jalapeño popper burgers. Nephew in law had issues grilling the burgers. He will be getting a Thermopen in the mail shortly. All was delicious if a bit on the rare side
Last night I made a short rib and noodle dish I hadn’t tried in 34 years. I can’t find the original recipe anywhere, which was called something like “Forgotten Short Ribs”, so I just winged in the crock pot, but cooked the noodles separately. Not too bad. Definitely will try again with much less liquid.
The original recipe called for browning the short ribs (English style), placing them in a deep casserole with a bag of wide egg noodles, a can of beef consome, a can of water and an envelope of onion soup mix. Cover with foil, then the casserole lid and bake at 275° untouched for 3-1/2 hours or so.
Does anyone remember hearing about this or making something like this in the past?
We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at James on Main in Hackettstown, NJ, including wild boar tenderloin katsu style, with cabbage salad, hoisin wasabi glaze; maple cured duck confit with miso sweet potato velvet, water spinach, sage, creme fraiche; peekytoe crab omelette with bernaise sauce; pan roasted maitake and chilled buckwheat noodle salad with passion fruit, green papaya, peanut-scallion vinaigrette; rock shrimp tacos with mango salsa, avocado, micro cilantro; sea bass; chilled corn soup with crispy guanciale; crispy hand cut potato wedges. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
Vaccines two days ago kicked my butt yesterday. I had the new Covid (Moderna), and Shingrix 2. Previous Moderna and Shingrix shots didn’t affect me at all. I’m glad I had the emergency stash of homemade stock, to make youvarlakia for dinner.
It was a little strange. I didn’t remember getting Shingrix 1, but California has started registering all vaccines, and the printout showed that I had it in 2020.
VERY NICE!! Food look wholesome, rustic and yummy. LOVE Wild Boar!!..only second to ELk and Venison. Did they cook the meat like the Europeans do…PINK?!
Saw your reflections on the wine bottle! With AI Facial recognition, the human face linked to the Puppy will soon be revealed!
Thank you! It was delicious! The meat was cooked medium rare the way I like it.
Those wine reflections are going to be my downfall I will probably get arrested any day now
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He’s shared photos of himself and the missus here already
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I will probably get arrested any day now 
