BF got laid off so we’re out tonight commiserating. Starting with Buffalo chicken tots and beverages. We’ll see where it goes from there.
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OMG I am so sorry to hear that. What awful news 
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Good luck!
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Oh no! That’s lousy. Hope you find a good way to forget for tonight.
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Leftover fish and vegetable tagine with quinoa+rice blend.
Also braised duck legs based on a Teochew recipe (actually a mix of a few) for another day — will remove the fat and hope the rest intensifies the flavor.
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Oh no! So sorry to hear that. Hopefully your BF works in a field that is hiring, and he received some sort of severance, and can get unemployment in the meantime to tide him over.
Good luck!
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Stir fry chicken with mushrooms, broccoli and red peppers, aka what was hanging around in the fridge. I marinated the chicken in soy, oyster and hoisin sauces, garlic, lots of ginger and bit of something spicy I found without a label. The chicken went to the wok first, then the vegetables except the red peppers. I threw them in just before serving to keep them crispy.
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What a bummer! Best of luck to him in his job search! If his field is one in which you job search via resume and interviews (as opposed to pure networking), askamanager.com has excellent, actionable, free advice.
Your commiseration tots look tasty!!
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A most amazingly tasty dry-aged heritage pork chop from the posh butcher with reddish meat - pork breed or dry aging process? Anyway, lovely lightly funky dry agedness and porky goodness, cooked to just a hint of pink. Lightly fried sage leaves. Silky braised endive. Beefeater & Fever Tree to celebrate another quarter closed.
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Congrats that that albatross is off your back! Dinner looks swell.
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So colorful! Pretty nice for improvised.
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Well, crap. So sorry to hear that! Hope there a new and exciting job just around the corner for him.
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That chop looks fantastic! And I love braised endive so much 
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Salmon pie using the last of my frozen Sockeye I bought at Xmas. I topped it with tiny roasted potatoes and grated cheddar, instead of making a mashed potato topping.
I winged my fish pie. Here is a recipe I like.
Pizza inspired by the Sicilian thread.
Also, a romaine, avocado and bacon salad with Caesar dressing, lemon and croutons.
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It was Kick Off Day at our spiffy new gym, finally! We met with our personal trainers, did a fascinating 3-D body scan with super-interesting results…like I apparently shrunk an inch (WTF!), or I was slouching 
, and then were subjected to a fitness assessment. Uh-oh.
I am pretty sore now from fewer than 15 squats, a handful of lunges, and a couple of pushups, having done funk all since we left Philly & our building’s convenient basement gym 
— but that is hopefully going to change! We’ll be all swole and fit-like after April…… just in time to obliterate our concerted efforts for the following two months in Berlin #YOLO
My dude had a work dinner at 6pm (!), and he knows me well enough that he very discreetly took pics of his hamachi crudo with ponzu sauce, winter citrus, serrano chili, watermelon radish, and sesame,
and the Alaskan black cod atop French puy lentils, piquante peppers, pea shoots, sauce gribiche.
As for my bachelorette dinner, I just heated up the leftover lamb mapo tofu over rice & made up the rest of the bok choy with oyster sauce, ginger & garlic for some green on the side, loosely based on this WoL recipe. My tastebuds are still tingly and happy from the extra mala sprinkled on top 
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Chicken meatloaf from the freezer, sauteed Brussels, and cauliflower puree. The mini daffodils are the lipstick on the 
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Oh, damn. So sorry to hear that.
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Sucks. That’s the right starting point. Hope there were more beverages and comfort food later.
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I love daffodils, another sign spring has sprung.
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