Burger night.
Homemade banquet burger on a toasted brioche bun w/sauteed onions and shrooms, good tomato slices and Kosher dills. HP/mayo mix for sauce.
Side romaine salad with grilled corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and purple onion. Red wine/tomato water/EVVO vinaigrette.
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I turned leftover 4-bean chili into a creamy coconut curry with tofu, green peas, and garden kale, served over brown basmati rice-quinoa. Surprisingly pretty good!
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A couple of BISO chicken breasts were slathered with La Tourangelle Herbs de Provence oil, which was augmented with freshly minced rosemary, thyme, and s/p, with some tucked under the skin. Roasted at 400° for about 45 minutes.
Served on leftover Israeli couscous with steamed and buttered green beans with frizzled shallots and toasted almonds on top.
Vodka and Lemonade while preparing dinner.
The rest of the chicken will be used for work sandwiches.
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I was very unmotivated last night, so I slapped together some egg salad with mint chutney and put it on a sourdough discard biscuit with some tomato. Turned out pretty good. I was a little surprised.
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And a good way to use up that mint!
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Why is the egg pink?
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I seem to like making soup right as a heat wave is reaching a crescendo. During our heat wave a couple of weeks ago I made dal. Tonight I made a peanut soup. Hopefully this heat ends soon…
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We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at Drew’s Bayshore Bistro in Keyport, NJ, including an excellent seafood stuffed eggplant boat; pork belly burnt ends with a spicy coleslaw; fried green tomatoes with a lump crab remoulade; Cajun crawfish croquettes; spicy Cajun shrimp. We took home an excellent double chocolate bread pudding for dessert. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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Cashew chicken stir-fry with extra scallions. Rice and homemade chili crisp.
Typically, I’d use chicken breasts, but I had a couple of thighs languishing in the freezer to use up, and here we are.
For dessert: freshly baked blueberry slab pie.
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How was the movie? Gotten good reviews…
Yep, probably gonna make more.
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Outstanding
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Yum
It was excellent. I would give it a 10/10. It deals with some sensitive issues but was thoughtfully done. There’s dark humour used in the film which lightened the atmosphere.
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Thai eggplant with basil and chicken. (Makheua Yao Pad Tao Jiao)…from the garden
Stir fried ong chop from the garden.
Rice.
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Pizza Saturday. Margherita with fresh and low moisture mozzarella. Topped with grated pecorino. Cheers.
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“Ong” chop? 
Yesterday was another disgustingly swampy day with thunderstorms and rain that we mostly spent indoors, save for a quick grocery & wine run. As for dinner, we lucky b’stards were invited to our HK buddy’s place for roast duck & crispy pork belly… but of course, there was so much more, and our group of happy eaters dug in while catching up on our various travels & travails over the last couple of months.
The ‘main’ attraction:
I mentioned how fab my nam jim would be for dipping the pork belly, so our host brought out his own version (was lacking cilantro 
) and his own chili crisp I forgot to include in my pics. The chili crisp was nice and smoky, and had a good heat level.
The duck was perfection.
Then there was salt baked chicken with tempura cauli. Loved the chicken & cauli, didn’t care for the sweet chili sauce.
The Viet shrimp salad was more my groove 
Did not try this mung bean noodle & 3 kinds of tofu dish, but had some of the pickled veg in the background.
Lastly, a beef & potato curry redolent with cilantro. Had a couple of spoons of this.
Profiteroles were served on the patio when it was briefly not raining. That changed quickly, however. We were actually stuck a half hour longer bc of another violent downpour with thunder, lightning, and all that fun stuff.
My PIC made me a Manhattan with the cocktail set dear friends gifted us.
The second one had two cherries bc I’m a glutton.
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My bad…spell check strikes again.
I meant Ong Choy.
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