I have a glut of sole fillets to use up in my freezer, so I adapted this recipe I discovered when Portuguese was the COTQ in 2023 - Bacalhau à Bruxa de Valpaços. I guess with sole it would be Filé de Linguado à Bruxa de Valpaços (thanks, Google Translate!). The potatoes and fish are bathed in a hot, bacon-y vinaigrette! Served some steamed broccoli on the side, for health 
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This is the first real meal I’ve cooked in more than 3 weeks. Grilled lemongrass pork chops. I planned to have them for dinner on Sunday but ended up postponing that meal. The extra day of marinating (light and dark soy sauce, fish sauce, garlic, gingers, lemongrass, black pepper and a squirt of balsamic vinaigrette because I grabbed the wrong bottle) intensified the flavors. Served with a quick salad of cucumber, carrot, green onion, rice wine and chinkaiyang black vinegars, sesame seeds and sesame oil, a bit of rice and the first corn of the summer though not of our local season.
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I’m back to my summer weight so I treated myself to a carb fest for Memorial Day. Charred in the ci skillet jalapeno cheddar hot dog on toasted baguette, onions, pickle relish and mustard. Potato salad, red onion, homemade pickles, hbe, red bell, parsley, s&p, sour cream, mayo, celery salt dressing, a dusting of paprika. Jalapeno ranch beans from a can. A Cuba Libre.
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Bravo!
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Quinoa Salad with Mustard Dip - quinoa is mixed with pan-roasted vegetables (red bell peppers, celeriac, red cabbage, carrots), pomegranate seeds, cilantro and lemon juice. Served with a dip from yoghurt, mustard and maple syrup
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Hope all went well with your surgery. How are you doing? Sending healing thoughts to you.
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Hope @mts will check in as soon as they can 
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congrats!! well-earned meal!
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Moroccan lamb dinner. BF found lamb in the freezer that I’d cooked forever ago, don’t even remember how it was prepared, but it was very lean. He braised it, which unfortunately turned the meat dry and woody. Couldn’t finish it, even with his delicious sauce. But the sides were great! He has some sauce left over, which he’ll use to braise chicken soon.
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Is the au poivre sauce from the ATK email that came out last week?
I don’t subscribe to ATK but here are some details from another thread, pretty easy to make:
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Pork tenderloin(again), with roasted asparagus, carrots, shrooms and red onions. The veg was drizzled with lemon vinaigrette for zesty-ness!!
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My scooter was ready for pickup this morning, so we took advantage of the sunny day, and hopped on over to the Turkish nabe for some clothes & tights shopping. Pretty much blew my load at the tights store for this summer — well, FOREVER, really, since they’re closing at the end of the year 
My Berlin buddy got us into a comedy show this evening at a bar for which he occasionally records/edits, and since we’re likely to stay home tomorrow night if not the whole day (rain forecast yet again), we decided to go for it. The club has shows almost 7 days a week, with newcomers and more experienced comedians.
It was their first English language show, with two guys from NYC who relocated to Berlin, and an Iranian. The first NYer and the Iranian were very funny, and we ended up chatting with them after the show.
WFD was lovely sourdough with pistachio mortadella.
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Tonight I made chicken and asparagus lemon stir fry. The recipe involves blanching the asparagus then putting it aside, stirfrying the garlic and ginger then putting it aside, sautéing the chicken then putting it aside, etc. The only instruction I followed was blanching the asparagus and putting it aside. I then heated a little grapeseed oil in a fry pan then added the chicken until no longer pink then added the ginger and garlic and sautéed for a minute or two. I then mixed together a little flour and chicken broth (I don’t have cornstarch) then added to the fry pan until thickened then added the soy sauce and lemon juice. Although I liked this dish I think I would prefer using a little sesame oil instead of the lemon juice. I like lemon juice but in desserts and salad dressing but that’s just a personal preference.
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