Another salmon Caesar. Here with a nice butter-roasted BC king salmon, and homemade dressing and croutons.
The soft fresh herbs in the RTE one really added a lot. But the combo of cucumber and avocado was shockingly delicious.
Another chunk of bavette steak with mushrooms, haricots and roasted red pepper, little gems and tomato salad with feta in a meyer lemon and EVOO vinaigrette. Pro tip: add a little feta brine to the vinaigrette.
Hoping for good news, Linda! 
Yesterday was the last warm-ish day for the rest of the week, with increasingly colder, wetter & windier weather coming our way 
. Srsly, no comparison to last year’s sunny & warm ouverture to summer 
I’d made a reservation at the fried chicken place we visit at least once or twice every summer, bc it was one of two* places our buddy def wanted to return to, and it’s much nicer to sit in the small beer garden than in the dark & cavernous inside. His last visit with us was in 2015. Nice when places are around for that long (or longer) 
Mandatory app of potato salad.
Le chicken.
Le cinnamon liqueur, which my PIC adores.
For the first time ever, I had to capitulate & did not finish the entire ½ chicken: I managed the leg and some of the breast (my PIC did the opposite) & we took the rest of it home. Fer shame! 
Had some ekmek kadaif for late night dessert from the local Greek bakery.
Sweeter and more syrupy than the version we discovered last year, but we still snarfed it all up, because we are purfeshnels.
*The other is Les Valseuses for The Best steak frites in town — Ima need a meat break for at least a day, so this will happen either tomorrow or Sunday.
I agree 100% about the avocado-cucumber combo. It’s not something I would have thought to put together but it works so well.
I usually put some cilantro in mine so I understand how making the salad a bit more herb-forward would add something. Next time I’ll add other herbs (and omit the cilantro if @LindaWhit is coming for dinner)
I have some sockeye salmon in my freezer. Might have to do something light like this this week or next. Simple, but tasty.
Three Cup Chicken with Steamed Broccoli with Sesame Vinaigrette - chicken thighs are stir-fried and cooked with a mixture of ginger, garlic, rice wine, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, toasted sesame oil and rock sugar and finished with Thai basil and fresno chili. The steamed broccoli was mixed with a vinaigrette made by pureeing sesame seeds, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, toasted sesame oil and canola oil. Served over rice
Great news from the patient portal!
I was craving a non-meat centered dinner, so I picked a Southern German / Alsatian place for tonight for which I used to translate the daily menu for several years. This meant taking my laptop everywhere while stateside (even on vacations or holidays) and checking several times a day in Berlin bc they’d upload their menu whenever, but expected the translation before 4pm, ideally 
Glad that’s over now.
We’d not been back in a long time since we didn’t stay anywhere nearby for the last 15 years, and TBH the last time we went with friends from the US I was pretty annoyed that their receipt had that sneaky line “tip not included,” whereas mine didn’t. The waiter tried to joke about it to me and said “well, one can at least try” — so that def left a bad taste in my mouth. Pun intended.
I was curious to see if they’d try to pull that one again. But first, we ordered:
Our buddy had a refreshingly tart limoncello spritz I regretted not getting,
the asparagus soup and Alsatian tart with green asparagus and rosemary ham.
I got the salad with walnuts, apples, red onion and bleu d’Avergne as my app,
and the asparagus soup with ramps pesto as my main.
The salad was excellent & abundant with blue cheese, so much so that I offered a bunch of it to the guys; the ramp pesto didn’t quite work for me, as I thought it overwhelmed the asparagus flavor.
My PIC got the steelhead trout atop asparagus risotto with wild herb salad. The skin was perfectly crisp.
No tip shenanigans on our bill this time. Happy campers
I made Wanja-Jeon with extra tofu) served w/ brown rice noodles with butter, msg and sweet soy sauce, stir-fried asparagus, stir-fried bok choy, microgreens with oo and salt, and kimchi. All veg, except the asparagus that my in-laws brought, from our postage-stamp garden.
I think @saregama suggested these.
Korean rice bowl (bibim bap) with asparagus, top sirloin, fried egg, and a sesame-salt-chili-powder garnish. So good!
Copy cat meal from @GretchenS
Pinchos Morunos and Avocado Salad. I’ve made the pinchos before, they are as good as I remembered. The cuke and avocado salad I have had bookmarked for awhile. Like everyone else I wondered about the pairing. It works and it works deliciously.
I’ve made Sushi rolls with sockeye salmon – really good!
I’ve mentioned here that once I’ve photoed pasta dishes, I drown them with grated cheese. Here’s the leftover fish, calamari, asparagus, tomato, and olive, from a couple of days ago, with TPSLO romano.
