Last Night’s Pizza
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Since we had such a late lunch, we also had a fairly late (for us) dinner. Abendbrot as planned, with breads, cheeses, meats, and mezzedes from our market hall trip earlier today.
I sliced up a few tomatoes to have with the Bulgarian feta, drizzled with the lemon olive oil I also purchased for future arugula salads, forgetting to pick up regular olive oil that is strangely missing from our fairly well-sorted kitchen.
Our landlady owns a villa on Skiathos & had fragrant Greek oregano from there, which I added to the feta-mater mix as well 
Simple and good.
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Old School chicken tacos with leftover piri piri chicken meat, cheddar, lettuce, toms, and a spicy ranch dressing inspired by the NYT (gift link here). I didn’t have jalapenos for the dressing, and subbed serranos in the form of our homemade chili sauce instead. Served with homemade refried beans. Good stuff!
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BF made us Butaniku No Shogayaki from a Serious Eats recipe, but by now he really has the typical, simple Japanese marinade/sauce down pat. We had thinly sliced pork belly - super tender, and the marinade made it very gingery. He also quick-pickled slivered daikon. Good! With a shprinkle of one of my Japan purchases to the rice - a shiso/plum salt. Very good!
Working on a Japan report… 
it’s slow going, and I’m trying not to be SO verbose. haha.
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Montauk Seafood Salad.
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Seafood in Montauk, or from Montauk, or in the Montauk style? English is hard!
Here, shredded chicken and garbanzos in a light fresh tomato sauce with orzo and asparagus. I like the texture of the garbanzos and orzo together.
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Tonight’s dinner was Chicken & Vegetable Fried Rice. I found some bell peppers on clearance, so they went into the mix.
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Sweet Pepper and Cheddar Clafouti from Clark’s Dinner in French - made with green, yellow, orange bell peppers, garlic, basil, ham, eggs, sour cream, milk, flour, cheddar and parmesan. Finished after the baking with some lemon juice
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Cardamom-Scented Chicken, Cauliflower with Peas, Chapatis, and Rice.
(Color palette for the day is yellow-green 
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You’ll have to ask Ina.
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No pic, but simple comfort food chez moi last night.
The offspring called and has had a stressy few days. Hes signed a lease for a new flat, so he’s been in full adulting mode, sorting out utilities and insurance and logistics.
So he needed a Mom night…roasted chicken with baby potatoes, steamed broccoli, and an Aldi strudel for dessert.
Not very exciting but I hope I fed his soul a little.
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You are a good mom for doing this. I am sure he enjoyed every morsel of it.
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Verbose away! Your writing is wonderful, and helps the reader feel like we were there with you - just without tasting everything. 
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Pure comfort food. Hope it helped his stress!
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I think so. Kid has run right at adulting…dealing with a car crash and the resulting medical issues, a roommate situation gone nightmare…so I have no issue helping him out when he’s overloaded.
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I’ve never thought of your posts as verbose! I love your trip reports and am looking forward to the new Japan one. 
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you are SO SWEET, El! Thanks for the vote of confidence! Working on it!
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thanks so much, too kind!!
