Whoops! I totally skipped over the fact it was a party for an 80yo! (Not enough cawfee yet, I guess!) If that’s the case, kudos to the birthday boy for getting his groove back on after taking a tumble into the bushes! 
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It’s still predicted for rain next Saturday. Ughh.
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well that looks delicious.
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$10 (which is a steal in LA) - and the chef is French and eggs mayonnaise is the closest translation for oeufs mayonnaise
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Thank you 
That is indeed super-reasonable, and less than you pay around these parts for them.
Oven-baked chicken thighs with Dixie Fry seasoning.
Sautéed sugar snap peas, red bell pepper, and onions with Penzeys Tuscan Sunset and a pinch of salt.
Wine.
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It’s always great to find restaurants which fly a bit under the radar and one can get a real surprise with a fun and creative night. Tasting House https://www.tastinghouse.com/ in Los Gatos is often more known as a wine and champagne bar but it more recently “upgraded” their kitchen team and it is obvious that they are trying with their tasting menu to aim towards a Michelin star. It is an interesting menu getting influences from all over the world and playing around with different techniques. Nice wine pairing and very good service with the dessert served in their separate cocktail lounge (with a homemade tea with different fresh herbs, ginger, honey etc). It won’t be our last time at Tasting House.
Green apple, sorrel, celery
Fresh peas
Venison tartare
Kimchi
Uni, brokaw avocado, mussels, sand
Speckled romaine, seaweed, XO, tofu
Smorrebrod, rugbrod, sturgeon, danish curry, caesar tuile, parmesan, anchovy
Chawanmushi, uni, black trumpet
Abalone, mussel pho, nori, peas
Lamb, elk demi, ramps, pistachio
Milk bread, wildflower honey
Masami ranch beef, truffle, morel
PB & J and duck truffle
Grapefruit and sancho
Marigold, wildflower, rose
Pate a choux, date scone, bon bon
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Woke up far too early remembering I’d lost a medical device at the party yesterday & never went back to sleep. A brief search of our host’s house and patio didn’t turn it up, either 
Since we were already oot & aboot we decided to get brunch at the newish Turkish place before dropping off our ancient Prius at the dealer for its inspection mañana & picking up more supplies for our trip.
Dinner was a ginormous Cobb salad with romaine, celery, avocado, flavor bomb tomatoes, shaved red onion, gorgonzola, shredded rotisserie chicken, a few strips of crispy Nueske’s bacon, and 2 HBEs. Dressing was augmented buttermilk ranch — i.e. CK’s with crushed garlic, lemon juice, s&p, fresh parsley, dill & green onion.
Really hit the spot after a sizable brunch, and there’s leftover for tomorrow’s lunch 
Also, our Italy trip is still up in the air, or at least our final destination: cancelled Calabria and are now torn between SE Sicily and Ischia. Or maybe Sardinia. The options are overwhelming, TBH 
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A freezer and pantry clean-out.
From Saveur magazine, a go-to dish for penne with sausage, kale, and lemon-cream sauce. Red chili flakes for the win. Marinated cukes on the side to cool the palette.
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One-pan pork tenderloin and mushrooms. Maple syrup glazed carrots. Spinach salad, cara cara orange, red onion, celery, hazelnuts, orange marmalade, orange zest, oo, rice vinegar dressing. Manhattan.
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Thanks! will save the links. i don’t think I’ve ever had pickled pork, but it’s pork, so how can you go wrong?
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sending big hugs to you, and your mama…
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Another soboro don, this time at my sister’s last night, using “heirloom” Sonoma chicken thighs from our farmers’ mkt. I deboned and minced them, maybe not as finely as I would have liked, but I wanted to try it without using ground chicken this time, and didn’t want to use the food processor. The meat was very tender and the flavor really good. i just love that gingery/salty/sweet Japanese flavor. I still need to get the timing right so that the eggs are more custardy when placed on the rice. Again, didn’t come near to being as good as the one we had in Kyoto, but it scratched an (ongoing) itch.
And shredded cabbage with our KYK sesame dressing from the Kyoto outpost of a Tokyo tonkatsu restaurant we loved on our trip last year.
Still haven’t gotten around to formulating my Japan report! But here’s a tease - my Japan foodstuffs haul!
and now for something completely different - tonight’s dinner. Gave both the BF and I a night off from cooking and bought sopa de res (beef soup) from a local Mayan restaurant. Super homey, tender beef, veggie-laden, and delicious on a cold day.
p.s. - that’s not an egg in there - it’s their habanero hot sauce and some Mexican crema I threw in. The BF added cotija to his.
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I posted in another topic about the De Cecco radiatori pasta that I found, a favorite shape of mine. I wanted a sauce that the ribs on the noodles would sop up. So: a light tomato sauce with little lamb meatballs browned in the air fryer, garbanzos, and artichoke hearts, lots of garlic, romano.
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I was being lazy today and didn’t feel like cooking, so tonight I did a quick throw together meal. Brats, Rice-a-Roni and peas. Dessert was no-bake Honey-Peanut Butter-Oatmeal Bars.
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Yum.
I tried a recipe for Lo Mein noodles from Woks of Life but decided to add veggies, ginger, garlic. It was hard to find these fresh noodles, my daughter looked in two big Chinese markets. In the second one I went to they had the exact brand WK OF L uses! (Fresh water chestnuts, snow peas, bean sprouts)
I made two batches, burned some noodles in first, used lower heat and less oyster sauce in second.
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