Look who’s back!
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Dunno, but I’d call it delicious.
The perfect Berlin evening. We started with a visit to the beer garden near us, where we shared their very good potato salad & a pathetically un-salty pretzel.
Once we lost the sun there, we went back to our pad, got the picnic blanket & a cooler bag and had sundowner Riesling in the park along with many other Berliners.
After the sun no longer hit the park, we took our stuff back to the pad, hung out till 10pm, when we decided to go & grab ourselves some döner for dinner. A new ‘steak döner’ place had just opened on our street, with the fab introductory price of 4.99€, but we got bored standing in line & went back to our favorite döner place in the hood.
We shared the always excellent, not to mention ginormous dürüm döner between the 3 of us,
and my bestie and I had lovely homemade ayran with it — this is another of many Turkish places where alcohol is not served. Not that we needed any more, anyway 
And then we walked over to Curry 36, which was hopping, and shared an extra spicy currywurst with Pommes rot-weiß. And the city’s shittiest beer.
A Berlin bang bang dinner, if you will. Perfection.
A nightcap martini nobody needed with the excellent gin my girl brought along from London 
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Send us a slice, will ya? 
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Sure…
Yes, my goal is to make as many things as possible from scratch (including pasta), so I can spend our food budget dollars on items I can’t bake or make from scratch.
I recently picked up a 25 pound bag of flour at Walmart, the checkout lady asked what I was going to do with all of that flour. I told her I make bread, tortilla(s), pasta, fritters, cakes, cobblers, pie dough, cookies and anything else I need.
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Is the Tortilla Fried/Toasted (Tostada)?
Does defrosted over a gas burner count? It didn’t have any real char.
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IMO the Base for a Tostada needs to be crisp.
I think what you have there is an Taco, all be it a really FULL one! 
My Mom always purchased flour by the 25 lb bag. She had a large container with a good seal from the lid. Daddy would pour the flour out of the bag into the large container for her. To be quite honest, I never knew flour came in smaller bags until I got married and went grocery shopping for the first time. I found I did not have to purchase a large container for my flour, but could use the largest canister in a set of canisters for the flour. That sounds so lame, doesn’t it?
Not at all – your mother was similar to my mother. She used flour to make meals that fed the family, while teaching my sister and I basic cooking/baking techniques and recipes. I think the first (flour) recipe (I learned from my mother) was her “simple dumpling” recipe. I still use it from time to time.
It is quite economical to purchase flour in 25 pound bags. It was $7-$8 for a 25 pound bag, but its now $10-$11, which is still a great deal. I keep my bag in the bottom of my pantry and scoop out what I need as I need it. I keep the bag shut with a couple of clothespins.
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Grabbed a couple of slices from a local pizza joint which I gussied up a bit.
Left piece had spinach/tomatoes and ricotta to which I added feta and diced pickled jalapenos.
The other had bacon/mushrooms and pepperoni, I added sliced green olives and dice jalapenos.
Both were showered with Parm/Regg and a glug of EVOO.
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A Rainy Saturday.
Am I surprised?
Nope.
13th in a row.
New Boston record.
It feels like Forever in a row.
BUT…
It was also Haircut Day.
So…
Scallops.
Light lemon-wine sauce.
On leftover Israeli couscous.
Sautéed sugar snap peas, red bell pepper, and onions with marjoram and s/p alongside.
Wine.
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Often second visit to restaurants you liked the first time a lot turn out to be disappointing as it is hard to recreate that first unique, new impression. 1.5 years ago we visited Lazy Bear https://www.lazybearsf.com/ and really enjoyed our night and so we were a bit skeptical if our second visit would match that experience. But it turned out to be a fantastic night we liked even more with spectacular dishes, great ambience and service and perfect pacing. And it was a really nice surprise after we jokingly asked if we could have a second serving of the great lamb dish when the response was - let me see what I can do and we got a a variation of the dish which they sometimes make for themselves after service. And the goodie bag with breakfastj for the next morning is a nice treat
Forager’s Tisane, infusion of wild blossoms, herbs and conifers, honey
Whipped scrambled eggs, bacon, maple, hot sauce
Sourdough bread bowl, clam chowder, lazy bear reserved caviar
Spot prawn, apricot cocktail sauce, horseradish
Broiled shigoku oyster, green garlic glacage
SF bay halibut, lettuces, local anchovies, cucumber, croutons
Split pea soup, english peas and shoots, ham, pork belly
Lazy bear cultured butter, brown butter milk bread
Brentwood corn, fiscalini cheddar, huitlacoche, australian winter truffle
Fogline chicken, carrot, swiss chard, marsala
Grilled lamb ribeye, blueberry, porcini, young conifer
“Second helping” lamb
Strawberry, olive oil, lemon verbena
Strawberry cake
Dandelion chocolate, red beet, cocoa pulp
Mignardises
Breakfast - cold brew iced coffee, banana bread
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Pizza here tonight too. Made up the dough last night. Hot Italian sausage, mozzarella and a few sliced jalapeños on my side. Homemade hot honey. It’s been awhile since we’ve made pizza and it really hit the spot.,
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Made the kiddo his fave chicken tinga tacos with a side of black beans. I grazed on leftovers and made a bean and cheese taco. Brownies a la mode for dessert. 
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We enjoyed an excellent dinner at Cafe Panache, in Ramsey, NJ, including butter poached lobster and corn agnolotti; beautifully charred ribeye steak; prosciutto, caramelized mango, and aged ricotta; fried green tomatoes with truffled goat cheese. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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Food-cart style chicken kebabs grilled on the Big Green Egg. Yogurt-buttermilk sauce. Chopped salad. Yellow rice.
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Coconut poached salmon with corn and dill. I had a nice piece of Copper River sockeye and I cooked it in the ci rather than poach. The sauce was very good, it had a citrusy, peppery taste from the spices. Sides were cauliflower rice, with carrot, red pepper, green onion, a little chicken broth and a red and green cabbage slaw with mango and cilantro. Lime juice, fish sauce, brown sugar, garlic and Thai pepper dressing. And cat shoes.
I discovered it was World Gin Day today, thanks to @medgirl, so I celebrated with a London dry gin martini rocks.
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Pizza with sausage and chopped fresh tomatoes. A light layer of canned tomato, a layer of mixed mozzarella, romano and myzithra, sausage slices, the chopped fresh tomatoes, EVOO, a few more shreds of myzithra on top. The TJ’s dough was past its prime and didn’t rise much, so the crust was crackly, all good.
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