When you mentioned this, it sparked a memory. A relative had a number of medical procedures that affected swallowing, which the physicians did not properly explain to us. Maybe ask whether any interventions will be needed to help with safe swallowing, such as liquid thickeners or speech therapy.
You always cover your bases and are a fantastic advocate for Sunshine, so thought this be worth sharing in case. Sending good thoughts to you and Sunshine!
I love the Curious George Santa behind your plate of yummy looking pork noodles!
Only in the sense that it’s in hoisin sauce (or warm spicing close to it).
Thank you… They gave us some “post care” instructions, but I’ll be adding this to my list of questions.
We are hoping she gets her voice back… I miss hearing her voice above a whisper. At the end of the day, its not life threatening – so if they can’t correct her voice, we’ll work around it, somehow.
Seared and roasted chicken thigh with Hidden Valley Black Pepper Parmesan sauce. Baked potato, butter, sour cream and green onions. Mixed greens salad, red onion, orange bell, cauliflower, broccoli, Green Goddess dressing. Sauce was pretty good, a little salty.
Tortellini soup, loosely based on a NYT recipe which is making the rounds here on HO.
I used a homemade tomato-basil soup (from frozen) for the broth. Subbed garden leeks for onions and used garden spinach for the greens. I reduced the sausage and cream by half (still plenty!), and cooked the pasta separate from the soup. Combined for serving - along with freshly baked ciabatta and grated parm - this was delicious (but a half-recipe still was a lot for two)!
Did some shopping for our Thxgiving dinner, which will be rather untraditional as I begged my PIC to make his fabulous yuvetsi he’s perfected over the last two decades, based on my mom’s late Greek BF. Ordered 4 lamb shanks at Wegner’s, then picked up some freeze-dried chicken bits at the pet store for our boys. Had a very late lunch of the last stir-fry & veg leftovers all, since I had a show this evening.
I was invited to tonight’s jazz edition of a monthly No Filter series moderated by two guys — one of them a fellow musician & good buddy of @wabi (small world!), with a jazz singer who spent the last 3 decades in NYC, and yours truly.
She started off the night with 3 tunes/interview, another friend of ours who’s a journalist and great story teller … told a story, and I did the second hour — same thing. It was a really fun experience, and very different from our regular shows.
I’d have taken a pic of our dinner if we’d had any. I finally had a martini with the smoked rosemary Junipero gin, and the bartender was nice enough to bring a plate with lemon twist, orange twist, and olives. I opted for the olives (I’m solidly a twist gal usually), and they worked well. Woulda probz worked with either of the twists, too.
No pic of that, either. So sorry I failed y’all tonight 
OK fine. Bluecoat martini & Sichuan peanuts 
Leftover red wine pot roast + trimmings. Even better on day two.
It is indeed a small world. His wife has been one of my best friends for 52 years!
He told me! What a wild story!!!
Tonight’s dinner was a bit of an experiment. I wanted to see if I could feed the two of us for $2 or less. I made Tuna cakes from a 50¢ can of tuna, Rice-a-Roni that was on sale for 50¢/box and a can of green beans, also 50¢ (from Walmart). So with other ingredients used, I think I was just under $2 for two people. We had a protein, starch and vegetable and were satisfied at the end of the meal.
Sunshine said she enjoyed her tuna cake and it wasn’t lacking for taste. I’m still worried about 2026, but this was a successful experiment (for us).
Roast lamb seasoned with garlic, rosemary, and mustard and reverse seared, with Hasselback potato gratin and Turkish-inspired stewed green beans.
What went into the tuna cake?
This is the recipe. I can’t take credit for it – I modified it from “The Chicken of the Sea” website.
Tuna Cakes
1 can of tuna (drained 5 oz)
½ - 3/4 cup of Bread Crumbs (adjust as needed)
1 egg beaten
2 Tbsp of Mayonnaise
½ Onion chopped finely
1 tsp. Dijon Mustard
1 tsp. Lemon Juice
Dash of Salt
Oil to Fry
Mix ingredients – form into two patties, refrigerate for 30 minutes, fry in vegetable oil until brown
If I remember correctly, this was a hand out at a Los Angeles Angels baseball game. It’s the Rally Monkey. I’m a LA Dodger fan so I only display it for my Angel loving family members.
Latest display.
I got two dinners from the braised chicken I made the other day, and there were still some mushrooms and rice left over. They worked well with an air-fryer sausage, probably Sicilian.
Running through HO like wildfire 
