YES ! The owner of the restaurant is a good sommelier and he suggested this to the chef ! I was pretty happy 
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On sale, pork tenderloin is around $2.99-$3.99 per lb, chicken breast is around $5.99-$7.99 lb + and that’s for bone in skin on or boneless/skinless which I’m not a fan of.
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Made a big ol’ pot of kale/chorizo/potato and bean soup, some for dinner tomorrow and the rest for the freezer. Breakfast for dinner tonight, Hot Italian sausage, caramelized onion and Havarti cheese omelet with a side of kale and onion home fries.
A random kitty having a nap in a storefront window to brighten your day
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Friday night snacky dinner. Thanks to all of you who mentioned Boursin with black truffles and sea salt, I doubt I would have seen it, had I not been looking - and it was on sale!! Very tasty. Also roast beef with toum and cornichons, as well as other goodies.
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I love those roast beast / toum / cornichon crackers! What a great combo! I also like horseradish or tartar sauce with roast beef & cornichons.
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A bacon cheeseburger was required.
A Wegmans chuck & brisket Angus burger was cooked with a slice of Kraft yellow American cheese melted on top. A halved slice of Tender Belly bacon on top, on top of a lightly toasted Wegmans brioche bun with ketchup on the bottom bun.
Lamb-Weston hand cut fries cooked in the toaster oven, and a pseudo-Mexican Street corn salad, using some COTC I had cut off the cob in the summer, some chopped red bell pepper and a radish, a chopped scallion, some crumbled Cotija cheese, and dried parsley, with a combination of mayo, lime juice, garlic paste, lime zest, and a pinch of black pepper and salt for the dressing.
There was wine.
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I was dragging a bit this AM after last night’s shananana-nanigans, NGL! 
Had to make a 30 min drive to see an endocrinologist who was super-young, super-nice, and kinda surprised to see me there, as he didn’t think my numbers warranted a visit 
30 min later & $30 poorer we got a coupla fantabulous smashburgers for lunch, and on the place’s last open day of the season at that. Must be my lucky week! 
Did a lil more driving in the afternoon, then picked up fixins for tonight’s delovely egg-“fried” rice — with properly aged rice, none of that fresh nonsense… but it still turned out more like, umm, SE Asian risotto 
Think I’ll leave the rice frying to the purfeshnels from now on (or get TJ’s frozen veg fried rice, which makes for a nice base, and the texture is better than what I can accomplish myself).
Here’s a PIC of tonight’s mise aka TPSTOG,G&TBP.
Bok choy, carrots & peas joined the wok party, as did the two lonely lemongrass snossidges in the fridge, plus a handful of mid-sized shrimp for extra protein.
Finished as usual with Viet kumquat hot sauce, and the last of the Sinatra leaves on top.
Looking forward to a quiet night with my doodz. Hosting a game again tomorrow!
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Looks like the poyfect boygah! 
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Thinly sliced Sticky Bourbon pork (from the freezer) on a buttered and toasted French sandwich roll. Savoy and red cabbages and carrot slaw, creamy dill dressing. Garlic fries, which were delicious.
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It all looks great but that slaw
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I’m fixated.
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Kicking off the holiday feasting season.
Petite American Wagyu filet of beef. Scallion couscous. The last of our 2025 garden carrots. The last of the casino butter.
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In a pinch, the precooked rice (the 90-second stuff) works pretty well for fried rice.
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I made a new-to-me lamb ragu recipe as a test for my annual friends Christmas party. It was ok but not really special enough for a dinner party.
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New Orleans Red Beans and Rice from “The Bean Book” by Steve Sando - using his Lila beans, andouille sausage, onions, garlic, celery, green bell peppers, bay leaves, thyme, ancho chili, cayenne pepper, mustard, parsley and scallions. Served over rice - it’s always great to taste how much more flavorful these heirloom beans are compared to “regular” ones and really transform a dish
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It looks cozy and nourishing though!
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Last night I fed the freezer with three half pans of lasagna, and we had the fourth for dinner with steamed broccoli with lemon olive oil and ground coriander. Big hit.
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We had our family t-day dinner last night. I contributed the mushroom filling for the brie en croute appie, cran-raz jel, whipped cream for the pie and the luscious gravy. Dotter did the 16# turkey in the huge electric roaster, steamed asparagus, steamed green beans, the pumpkin pie and two dozen mini pumpkin pie muffins (from left over pumpkin pie filling). Son and DIL brought mashed red potatoes, breaded red mashed potato balls and homemade white bread rolls. A game of Rocky Bingo and Uno followed. Dotter did so much of the production and then she vacuumed the house and blew the driveway! I was glad for her to takeover. The first day of chemo was exhausting and I just can’t do the big thing, for now. No pictures, just family memories. The grandies smeared the cran-raz jel on their rolls, which was surprising since it is rather tart. Somebody forgot to bring the honey butter for her rolls. I got in trouble for breaking into the brie, but, but, but, the ‘guests’ kept pushing the time to eat way past my needs, so I had a bite. Too bad, it was delicious then and after my crime.
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