Those shrooms are gorgeous. Still life, indeed! 
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I braised chicken thighs in commercial red curry paste mixed with coconut milk powder and a little fresh ginger.
For sides, I picked up a Pad Thai with shrimp
and a vegetable pad kaprow / phat kaphrao / pad kaprao/ pad gaprao / holy basil stir fry. I haven’t quite figured out why some restaurants include a slightly cornstarchy sauce, whereas others keep their stir-fry more dry. I prefer the drier type. This restaurant had more sauce.
Caramel apple fritter for dessert.
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We had crackers with brie, pepper jack, and sautéed mushrooms. BF is having an off week for a variety of reasons, so my meal planning is largely rolling over into next week.
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Any chance someone could translate the ingredients for me? I think I can figure out the rest! I’m really interested in trying these- as I said, I grew up eating the Joy of Cooking version 
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I gotchoo.
1 roll or 4 slices of day old bread
5oz milk
1 medium onion
1 bunch of parsley
2 medium eggs
1 tbsp of mustard
7ish oz of ground beef
10 oz. of ground pork
1-2 anchovies
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tbsps flour
1 gallon broth
1 bay leaf
Ooops. That was just for the meataballza. Here’s the sauce ingredients:
roughly 2oz of butter
1oz flour
3oz of heavy cream
10oz veg broth — although I agree with @BierMonk that you should just use the simmering liquid
1.5oz of capers with brine
1/4 tsp salt
dash o’ black pepper
dash o’ nutmeg
juice of half a lemon
Do you want the cooking instructions, too?
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I’m helping out my local animal rescue by taking in a really shut down 8 month old poodle mix (1 week after my last foster dog got adopted and I said no more until 2025 
) So dinner was easy because if she’s not in my lap, she’s under the sofa 
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Sautéed cabbage and onions with some smoked kielbasa and pierogi from Mom Mom’s Kitchen. Interesting pierogi- kapusta pierogi - mushrooms, cabbage, kraut, onions. I have more and I’ll cook them properly next time. These were frozen, steamed on top of the cabbage and then browned slightly in the pan.
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Aw, poor baby. Thank you so much for what you do 
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It’s my term for the pieces of whitefish trim that the fish monger sells as “chowder bits” for $4/lb.
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Aha.
Big salad for dinner.
red and green bib lettuce, crispy pork belly, HBE, pickled red onion, cucumber, cocktail tomatoes and shaved Parm/Regg. Dijon/red wine vinaigrette.
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Another gross shweater weather day 
I only left the pad briefly to pick up dinner fixins for our soup & salad night, i.e. hot Italian sausages, baby yellow potatoes, kale, Great Northern beans, heavy cream — clearly, you see where this is going… Tuscan soup was on the menu 
I fried up the sliced sausages in Greek olive oil until deeply browned on each side, removed them from the pot, then added a medium diced onion & fennel seeds & a few crushed garlic cloves to sweat a lil. Toasted a couple of blobs of ‘nduja & tomato paste, then deglazed it all with a generous pour of whatever open red was near the stove. Added a bunch of water, BTB chicken to taste, then the kale, potatoes, beans & sausage. I wanted a little heat to add to the warmth of the soup, so I finished it all with a few shakes of Aleppo pepper. A splash of cream, et voila: la soupe finie. It had a little less depth than usual, as I didn’t have any anchovies in the house, but it was still very good, and we have TPSTOS leftover.
Salad was baby butter lettuce, ½ an avocado & a few pepita seeds in a creamy citrus dressing: lemon juice, finely diced shallot, brown mustard, parsley, citrus blend oil, a little mayo, s&p.
My poor PIC has a stupid live interview with peeps on the west coast that starts at 9:50pm and runs 2 hours. JFC 
It was supposed to be an hour earlier, but their schedule changed. We are not thrilled, but ya gotta do whatcha gotta do — even on a Friday night 
I’ll probz check out the most recent SNL or read.
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yum
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Very late dinner due to some work-related “stuff” to deal with after I got home: Trader Joe’s pork belly with a glaze of hoisin, some Stonewall Kitchen blood orange syrup that’s been in my fridge for longer than it should have been, and ground ginger.
Side of CSA rainbow carrots tossed with olive oil, s/p, and ground ginger, and roasted in the convection oven, drizzled with a bit of honey near the end.
The teeniest, tiniest glass of wine to see how I tolerate it. So far, so good.
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Tiny steps, tiny steps. When you signed off on your recent posts with a water sign it always looked to me like tear drops next to it.
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My DH made cellentani with homemade pesto, roasted grape tomatoes, and marinated sauteed shrimp. Delicious and wonderful to be cooked for. I was busy helping get a friend settled into our guest room for the night.
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Well, in a sense, it was tears as well since I had self-restricted on enjoying a glass of wine with dinner and I was missing it! 
But this seems to be OK, so as you said, baby steps.
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We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Fiorentini in Rutherford, NJ, including honeynut squash agnolotti, with sage, spicy soppressata, and smoked burrata; poached cod with shrimp mousse and pancetta; poached pear salad with ricotta, candied walnuts; orecchiette pasta with broccoli rabe pesto, provolone, and chili flakes; cacio e pepe risotto; mushroom pizza rustica. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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