Deep breath time. One door closes sadly, another opens gladly. Positive thoughts being sent your way!
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I had two huge chicken boobies in the freezer, prime subjects for chicken marsala. Each breast was sliced into three āfilletsā. SautĆ©ed and sauced with creminis, etc. Served with wide egg noonoos and steamed sliced zukes. Great meal with lots of lefovers.
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Halibut chunks were on sale at the fishmonger, so I prepared them alla Livornese (shallot, cherry tomatoes, olives, EVOO). Flaky and tender. Over Turkish-style pilaf, made with brown rice.
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Tonightās dinner was an experiment. Shredded Potato, Veggie & Re-Fried Beans Casserole. I got some ideas from āBeansā thread and decided to add corn & cheese. I topped it with some leftover crispy onions.
It was OK ā not my favorite dinner, but it was quite filling.
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Thank you @linguafood , @bcc , @ChristinaM , @paryzer , @GretchenS , @LindaWhit , @small_h , @Saregama , and @mts ! Weāre taking it one step at a time. Heās going to decompress until Monday. There is some severance and his health insurance is supposed to continue through May, so weāll be ok for a bit while he starts looking. Heās already got some feelers out and is beginning to get familiar with LinkedIn. Heās in QA Automation for software so hopefully something will come along quickly!
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All available fingers and toes crossed, and glad to hear about the health insurance! That must be a major relief.
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Thanks. Keeping the red peppers nearly raw helps maintain their color as much as the texture.
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So sorry to hear that your BF was hit by a layoff. Our household has been hit in the past, so I know three things: Layoffs s**k, they often make no sense, and you will get through this. We are here for you.
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Smoked chicken and black bean chili was for dinner. Drew upon a bunch of ingredients from freezer and pantry, including the smoked chicken, pasilla chile paste I made and froze, and sweet potatoes and onions stored over the winter. Labne subbed for crema/sour cream and warmed whole wheat roti subbed for tortillas (not pictured).
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For some perverse reason, I have been resisting buying groceries and making something of a game of trying to get a meal together with what I have on hand. The fridge looks very spacious. In my coop, people often leave their extra food in the laundry room (donāt ask) for others to take, and the other day I decided to pick up a shelf-stable vegetarian Kosher shells & cheese, probably someoneās reject from Meals on Wheels. I tried to dress it up with a shrimp cocktail and a nice fizzy rose, but itās still pretty bleak.
The filling was a tan paste, not recognizable as any kind of cheese. The topping was very sweet tomato sauce, corn, green beans and peas. I donāt understand the logic behind this at all.
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Thank you!
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After spending the day rushing around to doctors appointments yesterday, I ended my day by picking up my good food box and I squeezed in a trip to the Chinese grocer to pick up missing ingredients for dishes this week. So for dinner last night I started with egg rolls then I moved on to a soba noodle salad then finished with an egg tart.
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Thatās a beautifully eggy looking egg tart!
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It was ! And I give full credit to the bakery in the grocery store I go to since they are one of my favourite pastry sources in Ottawa. I canāt bake to save my life but Iām lucky to have quite a few bakeries within walking distance from my apartment.
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I canāt bake either. Far too accurate for me, so I leave it to the pros as well, of which we have ample these days 
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Thank you for sharing those links! I didnāt even know they existed 
I know thereās a baking thread which I havenāt been following since I donāt bake sweets I just east them 
Iām off to check them out.
Oh, please do! Itās for those of us with a sweet tooth but without the appropriate skillz to feed it
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National Burrito Day!
Iāll figure something out. My favorite burritos of all time were from La Imperial in Hayward, Ca.
More recently, Iād make a burrito from a burrito bowl at Qdoba. A steamed whole wheat tortilla on the side, lots of cilantro and lime juice would seal the deal. Not anymore.
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So sorry to hear it! Was it a complete surprise? That makes it worse, in my experience.
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