Please join us to nominate books for next quarter’s COTM:
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Love the action shot.
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In other news, my once vegan, then vegetarian, then pescatarian, then pollotarian 3rd daughter has finally, fully returned to the omnivore fold.
Her grocer had a bunch of beef on sale at significantly reduced prices, so she asked me which of the 4 was the best deal, yummy, and relatively easy to make. I pointed her at the flatiron steaks and gave her my routine, which is salt at 1.3% > 6 hours before, foil wrap and roast low temp oven (about 220°F) to about 128°F, then unwrap and pan sear.
Looks like she did a pretty good job for herself and her roommate’s dinner! The roommate, poor lass, doesn’t know how to cook. But D3 is starting to teach her.
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Nominations are open for Dish and Cuisine of the Quarter - come play!
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If we were celebrating start of dating rather than marriage, we’d be at 30 yrs in a week or so!
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It’s funny to me how different the weather can be in Washington and in Oregon. Lately it’s been a miracle if we can hit 63° in the middle of the afternoon.
Hope you enjoy the beechers for that price. I’ve had it from their store at pike place market and their stall at SeaTac. Meh imho. Noods are too mushy, sauce is too greasy, and has no bite or sharpness. I think the cheese they must use is too mild.
Really nice. How you guys hanging? My daughter at WCU was supposed to come home this weekend, but the roads are such a mess and a lot of them closed.
I just heard about the mudslide closing 40 on one side of Asheville and 40 closed on the other side for some other reason.
My wife pulled up the NC state highway incident website and the map is so lit up, it looks like the final part of the movie War Games where the rogue computer WOPR is finally figuring out that no one wins a game of thermonuclear war (the movie may be before your time).
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JOSHUA: Greetings, Professor Falken.
STEPHEN FALKEN (typing while speaking): Hello, Joshua.
JOSHUA: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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Wow, great looking pie. That reminds me that we haven’t had it in a while!
I do have some frozen beef and lamb mince in there, somewhere.
I’ve strangely never tried it with mixed beef and pork. I say “strangely” because I use a half-half mix for other stuff like meatloaf. For some reason it never occurred to me to do shepherd’s pie that way.
There’s always next time!
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GAAAAAH. I’ll adjust my expectations accordingly 
Got our usual Friday sushi/sashimi delivery. Tonight, I have assorted sashimi (scallops, surf clam, salmon, and mackerel) over brown rice. I also got a side of kimchi.
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A half day off to deal with some last minute medical tests.
A Pork Chop Marsala of sorts with leftover pistachio rice and steamed green beans for dinner after my updated Covid vax.
Wine.
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Sweet! Can you describe a bit more your “sushi/sashimi delivery”?
I don’t think there’s anything like this around here, but I’d kill to have it
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We checked out the HH at a jazz club in CC that had nice deals on drinks & snacks and live music.
I had a few Swifties — pleasantly tart and with a pronounced ginger kick, my PIC a Champagne Cocktail followed by Kenzinger on draft.
We split the pork sliders,
½ lb mussels in red sauce,
and the fried buffalo Brussels sprouts with blue cheese and spicy ranch dressing.
The mussels were pretty small, and ever so slightly underdone, the sliders really quite good with creamy cole slaw & flavorful pork on soft slider rolls, but the star of the evening was definitely the shproutz. Very filling, sizable portion — especially for $10, and a really nice combo. I may have to try to make this at home.
Not to mention the band: a wonderful male vox (so rare!) who was also a great tabla player, a very good guitar, and both were joined by a sax for the second set. Really laid-back atmosphere, too.
We were back home by 8pm & are aboot to have a margarita. Good start to the weekend for the old folks 
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You might like it?. Lmk I’m curious.
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New England style chowder with a nice BC halibut, bacon, potatoes, shallots, celery, and peas. Scallion biscuits (do the scallions in the biscuits count as a veg?).
A slice of yogurt cake with pears for dessert.
Spuds, allium, bay leaf, peas, and pears from the garden.
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We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at Fiorentini in Rutherford, NJ, including venison; honeynut squash agnolotti; poached cod, shrimp mousse, pancetta, and bouillabaisse; cacio e pepe risotto with fresh shaved truffles; gnocchi with walnut pesto and gorgonzola; crab cake with mustard sauce. It all went great with a couple of excellent red blends.
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I didn’t cook much for dinner today - opened up a jar of rillettes from a local French restaurant and café (Maison Nico in San Francisco) and had that for dinner with a baguette.
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This growing season has been an embarrassment of riches. I have grown Anaheim peppers for probably 6 or 7 years, always dreaming of having enough at one time to make one of my favorite foods, chiles rellenos casserole. This year has been been the first time it actually happened, and not once but twice! Tonight was time #2.
Plus grilled eggplant and portobellos with spice mix and basil.
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