Three times the charm, apparently.
After another incredibly mediocre lunch we had plans to hit up our other favorite Turkish restaurant for dinner that serves an amazing special kebab made with chopped lamb (vs. ground) & pistachios, and that we’d not yet visited this summer.
But our cat sitter messaged us again today that our chonk still didn’t quite seem himself, after telling us about a week ago that he hadn’t been eating as much and seemed subdued. After our buddy stopped in at the time and supplied him with cat grass, which he was all over & which often helps him, we thought things were alright. He may be just having tooth issues (another cleaning and possible extraction was in his near future), but we’re too worried and decided against spending $$$ on a meal we can’t really enjoy 
We went to the beer garden near us instead, sharing a decent brat,
then went home. We had leftover pappardelle with chanterelles from a couple of nights ago, and it’s time to start cleaning out our fridge, anyway. I fried up 4 slices of bacon with a few oyster shrooms that also needed to be used up & was going to add those, a splash of wine & a little cream to pimp up the pasta.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t until the bacon was nice and crisp and the shrooms started releasing liquid when I noticed a distinctive whiff of ammonia 
And so, into the garbage the perfectly fine bacon and shitty shrooms went. I ended up sautéing a few chopped up tomatoes and half a shallot in butter instead & added the rosé, cream & pasta to that. It was alright 
Our friend is taking our boy to the vet around 11pm our time, so we are hopeful to hear back in a bit, and are keeping our fingers crossed for good news.
