Pork and green bean stirfry.
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I made “cheater’s Hawawshi pitas” [with ground chicken and adding harissa] from the Mediterranean Dish Cookbook and Diana Henry’s roasted green beans and vine tomatoes with cumin seed and tahini yogurt. Also a kale Caesar with tomatoes and cucumbers since we’re breaking rules anyway.
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Beautiful color!
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That’s a smart technique!
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Thanks! I roasted the squash first, which I think concentrated the flavor and color a bit.
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Langers pastrami on rye (via Goldbelly) with mustard and local sauerkraut. Excellent! No pic.
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Thanks Bro!
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What is the bread please? Did you say earlier? (or I missed). I don’t see that dark of pita around here.
@ChristinaM My gawd, the tomatoes + green beans dish took my breath away.
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Dinner tonight. Halved a 4 c. flour buttermilk biscuit recipe. Should’ve rolled out thicker and cut 6 instead of 9. Next up was my first time Chicken Pot Pie Soup. Too much roux, not enough chicken stock from cooking the chicken to go around. A little extra white wine and half & half did the the trick. Sort of. I pretty much wound up with a stewp. Not exactly memorable but still pretty good.
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It’s been a day, got home way later than planned. Was starving so I put the kibosh on my dinner plans and went for fast and easy. Had left over tuna from last night, so a tuna sandwich it was.
Kettle chips, kosher dills and a glass of milk. There will be a piece of carrot cake later.
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Somehow I missed the photo! 
WFD was blackened Cajun chicken Caesar.
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The balcony garden is winding down, so I took in all the viable sorrel and chard (of which there was not a whole helluva lot) and made it into a sauce for this nice piece of monkfish.
And drug these Turkish-style braised green beans outta the freezer and threw some mint on them.
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We got into Philly late afternoon. Our room wasn’t available until 4pm, so we weren’t in any rush to leave the house OR our cute kittehs! 
I had a serious hankering for HK-style roast duck & pork, and the OG plan was to hit up Sang Kee Peking Duck House in Chinatown. Unfortunately, they close at the ridic hour of 8pm, and that was a bit early for us.
We pivoted to E Mei, a very popular, highly rated Sichuan restaurant that’s been recommended to us many times. We’d never gone, as we have very good Sichuan food back home & prefer to seek out other cuisines while traveling. Because it is one of my favorite cuisines with many dishes I love, I also much prefer to enjoy it with a bunch of friends.
We decided to go with a couple of our faves, having to limit our order to an app and a couple of mains: the garlic cukes, dry-fried green beans, and the Chongqing chicken.
The cukes were lightly dressed with sesame oil and lots of garlic, but we missed the tingling ma la from toasted and ground up Sichuan peppercorns from my personal golden standard.
We asked to make the chicken “spicier,” not knowing what the regular level would be, and it was alright. Not as spicy as we are accustomed to from another place back home, and more than a few pieces were on the dryer side. It hit the spot, but wasn’t remarkable in any way.
The dry-fried green beans had lovely, smoky wok hei with a large amount of ya cai, providing a vital salty kick.
I’m looking forward to meeting friends for a Mexican lunch tomorrow, and our very own @bigley9 for dinner.
Looks like I won’t be starving here. Phew! 
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I simmered the leftover fish pie from a couple of days ago with some stock (BTB chicken) to make a chowder.
The chanterelle bits kept their deep flavor with the mild fish in the chowder.
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Tonight’s dinner was an old standby, as I needed to use up some potatoes. Potato, Carrot & Onion Casserole! Sunshine and I will get 3 meals (6 servings) out of this dish.
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But it’s the love you put into it, right?
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