Thanks everyone for the well wishes. We all appreciate it as we navigate through this.
We are still in eating our feelings mode. My dear wanted Olive Garden breadsticks, so we imbibed in some devil’s lettuce and jumped in an Uber. We ate so many different types of cheese and deep fried cheese that I don’t need to eat until next week. I’m not a soda or sweet tea drinker but I definitely had a couple double vodka and raspberry iced teas. I think I still lived in Louisiana the last time I went to an OG, and that was a whole other husband ago. 
Still a good amount of food for not a crazy amount of food.
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Healthier than my bowl of cheddar Goldfish I’ve had in the past. 
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Went with a very light dinner tonight: a new-to-me purchase of a crab cake baked in the toaster oven, purchased at Market Basket. Not bad; needs a bit more oomph in flavor, but the aioli helped. (Should have used the convection method to crisp it up a bit.) Put it on some leftover Israeli couscous with a lemon-garlic aioli.
A salad of the rest of some deck-grown butter lettuce with a lemon-honey-thyme vinaigrette.
A very nice chardonnay alongside.
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Best wishes for all of you!
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I’m very glad I had a big ziplock of crostini in the freezer.
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Leftover fried halibut sandwiches – fish patties revived in the convection oven on low heat (air-fry setting) for several minutes. Toasted buns, and creamy cabbage, carrot, and scallion slaw.
Came out better than I expected.
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Its my bday weekend so I took myself to the wine bar around the corner. A glass of bubbly, a respectably tannic Gigondas, and a fig-prosciutto-chevre flatbread.
Home to binge Wednesday and nurse a bruised heart (not broken, but definitely roughed-up).
I’ll find some sort of trouble for tomorrow.
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Happy birthday!! Enjoy the weekend
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Happy trip around the sun! Bruised hearts can mend🤗, best wishes!
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Turkey, chicken, and beef nibbly bits. Dipping sauce of sour cream and Ortega taco sauce. Was better than it looks.
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Happy Birthday. 
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Grilled flat iron steak, AMAZING red chimichurri (kudos to renowned epicure @mariacarmen), delicious sourdough (from the farmer’s market) toast with sauteed oyster and crimini mushrooms, garlic, shallot and Manchego cheese. Haricots verts, Gold Nuggets and grape tomatoes, red onion, sherry vinegar & oo dressing salad.
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Ratatouille Shakshuka - made with yellow bell peppers, celery, onions, garlic, eggplant, fresno chili, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, tomato paste, passata, aceto balsamico, thyme and rosemary. Finished with an egg and parmesan
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So funny. I have a friend who makes similar statements and it always amuses me. A parent at my kid’s school has a vanity plate on her SUV that reads: “my next husband will be normal”!
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Happy birthday! New year, new beginnings 
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You have all weekend to find it! Sorry on the bruised heart, but a very happy birthday weekend to you!
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Very simple 5 ingredient pineapple salmon that was a hit last night.
Salmon
Butter
Sugar
Pineapple
Aleppo Pepper
I chopped half a pineapple, and tossed it with brown sugar and butter. I let it roast for 20 minutes at 385 degrees F Convection on, then added 2 salmon fillets to the pan. Topped some salmon with the pineapple mixture. Sprinkled the salmon with Aleppo pepper. Then I roasted the salmon and pineapple another 25 minutes until the fish reached 145⁰ F on the thermometer.
Sides were a fresh tomato and garlic tubetti pasta, roasted homegrown delicata squash, and baked beans.
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One night this week we had guacamole and chips for dinner. Another evening, the two of us split a takeout meatball sub with a side of Cape Cod chips.
Every now and then, circumstances of the week dictate some “how low can I go” dinners. Those are two of ours.
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