Not recommended. Ill set it up in the garage which is well ventilated , garage door open .
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Pizzaaaaaa for a teen birthday.
Coal-fired New Haven style (in CA). Very good.
Also some very good chocolate cake, but chocolate buttercream does not compete with chocolate ganache.
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I spent a lovely afternoon hitting up the stores in Chinatown yesterday so I am now stocked up with goodies for this week. So dinner started with three spring rolls because I was starving then I moved on to a pork chow mein using a combination of CSA and Chinatown veggies. The bbq’d pork was from the take away counter. Sadly the kombucha was flat so I think itvwas sitting in the store for a long time. I will have to contact the company and ask/plead/cajole them to set up a rable at our downtown farmers market. Dessert was probably the best egg tart I’ve ever had. The Chinese grocer has some lovely baked goods and their egg tarts have always been good but yesterday they nailed it.
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Where in CA?
San Diego
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Zuppa Cubana, a simplified riff on Zuppa Toscana. Shallot, kale, Cuban sausage (which tasted a bit like a Cuban sandwich and contained mustard and pickles), Spanish sweet paprika and cream.
And a take-out twice-baked potato and latke. I probably won’t eat both! But I might 
Turns out the latke is too salty, glad I bought both!
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Deck was cleared for the season of dead container plants, tables, and chairs. Still active rosemary and parsley came inside.
Dinner was a pork loin rubbed with a combo of olive oil, minced fresh rosemary and garlic, s/p, and honey, and roasted at 425° for a half hour, then turned down to 375° to finish roasting to an internal temp of 145°. An apple cider gravy was made from pan juices, some pork liquid leftover from oven ribs awhile back, a flour slurry, and a half cup of apple cider.
Roasted potatoes and steamed green beans.
Water.
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One pot shrimp Alfredo, adapted from this chicken one - https://tasty.co/recipe/one-pot-chicken-alfredo
It’s good, but kind of lives or dies on how good your Parmesan is. Also, triple the garlic it calls for. Seriously. Just slice up the whole darn head. Thank me later. Add lots of freshly ground pepper. And parsley. So you have something green on the plate. But, yes, needs way more garlic than as written.
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Pot roast in the IP with FIL’s beef chuck roast, carrots, celery, potatoes, onion, garlic, and shallot. Pretty tasty. I used white vermouth.
Veggies and dip to start.
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Saturday we took my mom for a late lunch/early dinner to an Afghan restaurant. Shared dishes - all really great.
Tonight, I made the Cabbage - Beef stir fry from Budget Bites only I used slivered pork loin chops. Quite good; 4 of us tonight and all was devoured with rice and gyoza (from frozen).
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URBN ?
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It’s the time for cheap chanterelles- Pasta Salad with Chanterelles and Poppy Seeds - First you cook diced bacon until slightly crispy. Afterwards cook chanterelles and shallots in the bacon fat, add some vermouth and cook it down before finishing with some pasta water and lemon juice. Mix everything with fettuccine, bacon and toasted poppy seeds. Give it 15 minutes to soak up flavors and finish with some basil and parmesan.
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Patty melts. Used a nice sourdough rye by Bread Alone and made my own Thousand Island-type sauce. Patties are a 50/50 blend of Costco’s organic ground beef and ground Wagyu. Served with Whole Foods house-brand tater tots (which are excellent). Overall, an insanely delicious meal.
Brownies for dessert.
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Not as much fun cooking a meal drinking water instead of wine/booze is it. I feel for ya.
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City Sunday that involved a lot of shleppin’ around on a brilliantly cloudless day. Grabbed a loaf of that fab homadama at the market, got a banh mi & pork summer rolls for lunch on the sunny patio on 9th Street, and had one final (?!) frozen banana sundae with walnuts, pistachios, coconut flakes, toffee sauce & chocolate sauce 
We nixed our OG plans to hit up a Thai place in Chinatown bc we felt lazy after all that walking around & ordered delivery instead: tom yum goong, moo ping, moo tod nam phra, and som tam — Thai spicy where applicable. Most of the food that was meant to be eaten hot showed up room temp / cool, so we reheated the soup on the stove top & threw tha meatz in the air-fryer.
The tom yum had a decent kick, though the shrimp were overcooked, the moo ping was 3 skewers of uninteresting ground pork (we def prefer the pork shoulder version), the moo tod nam phra was also not very impressive, i.e. small pieces of over-fried pork belly and just not very flavorful — but I’ll admit our favorite place in Berlin sets a pretty high bar. The som tam was DEF Thai spicy.
I’d chopped up some bird chilies “just in case” and added a few to the dipping sauce for the pork belly. That certainly did the trick, and our mouths are still on fire, but it was all just ok.
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We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Alfie’s in Warren, NJ, including surf n turf with blue cheese; filet mignon murphy; calamari with balsamic vinaigrette; portobello mushrooms with balsamic reduction; pumpkin ravioli with sundried tomatoes, walnuts, and cream sauce. It all went great with an excellent Chateauneuf Du Pape and cabernet.
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