We had a potluck at work today so after partaking in devilled eggs, cheese salads etc. I had a salad of sorts for dinner made with green beans and cherry tomatoes with an evoo/red wine vinegar/dijon vinaigrette and garnished with a little egg.
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More driving today. I could barely stop myself 
from accepting a trip to PHL airport for a whopping $180 (minus roughly $60 for gas & $20 for tolls, so really $100 for a 7 hr roundtrip), and another one for about the same price to NYC 
You have got to be shitting me. And I can only imagine how much they charge the riders 
As for dinner, we’re double-dippin’ social butterflies tonight: a local foodie group had an event at a restaurant my trio used to play fairly regularly many moons ago, but I was never impressed with the food, the drinks, or the service. However, I’m always up for a freebie. So I grabbed my PIC and we hung out for about 45 min, sampling the mostly underwhelming but ‘fed us for dinner’ stuff, as there was
the worst idea ever: fried deviled eggs.
Imagine taking half a HBE, deep-frying it in too much batter, then putting deviled yolk on top. Also, room temp to cold. Meh.
Caramelized onion and bacon dip I did not try bc I know my insides too well 
Boursin-stuffed baby shrooms. The chef told me he wanted bigger ones, but “this is what Sysco delivered.” Hokay then. They were actually some of the better bites.
More caramelized onion, pecan & something something tartlets I didn’t try.
Prosciutto-wrapped asparagus. Al dente but bland asparagi with very salty brashoot.
These were my favorites tonight: fried green tomato BLT bites. I had three 
Southern fried chicken bites. Crispy, but bland AF & kinda dry. Needed some sawce.
Big-ass shrimp. Hard to fuck those up. Some were pretty salty, however, and the cocktail sauce was devoid of horseradish whattttttt 
Cuke slices with smoked tuna (some very bland, some very salty) and other stuff. Meh.
The dessert table had cannoli bites and gingerbread cheesecake dip. Nope.
We also took advantage of a free ginger beer / cranberry / vodka concoction from the seasonal menu of three drink choices.
We’re about to make our way downtown to meet a bunch of my gal pals at our regular joint. Will be nice to see the ladies after a few weeks’ break 
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I think this idea has potential. With a Scotch egg as a jumping off place.
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Quesadilla with last night’s leftover chicken taco filling and refried beans, along with some Tillamook cheddar. Leftover red rice. Pico de Gallo and chopped lettuce on the side.
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I made chicken and soyrizo burgers on toasted ww buns topped with provolone and spread with ají verde. Sides of bagged avo-ranch salad and broccoli-cauliflower cheese.
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My honeybee came home for lunch before I left for work per usual, but a blizzard literally started to come through as he pulled in. He got to ditch the rest of his day but alas, away I went. Snow was blowing sideways with maybe 5 feet of visibility and many people without their lights on. Further down the road between Calgary and Airdrie there was an 80-100 car pileup. I called him to let him know I made and told him to pull something from the freezer for dinner because I know my journey home would suck too.
He decided on some chili and some smokies for chili cheese dogs and Mario KD. I bought a couple boxes when I babysat for a friend recently and we had a leftover.
He has his dogs. I had a bit of chili and KD. And a heavy pour bourbon on almost as much ice as there is outside. The plows should be out tonight, and my car and I are good in the snow. Other people though…
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Tonight’s dinner was a repeat from a couple of weeks ago – no one seemed to mind though.
Tuna cakes, Rice-a-Roni and green beans. All in all, it was a hot meal that was pretty good.
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Hot turkey sandwich, sour cream, green onion mash, sage gravy, buttered petite peas. Savoy, red cabbage, kale, carrot slaw, creamy celery seed dressing.
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Potential, sure. Execution… not so much.
Yes, granted.
I usually have this dish, ramen with poached salmon and veggies, for lunch, but I’m busy for lunch all week, and I had to use the salmon. So, 120F sous-vide salmon, snap peas, broccoli, avo, fresh ramen in a pork broth with garlic, black pepper, and fish sauce.
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Glad to hear you made it home okay. We’ve been seeing pictures on the news of that crazy snowstorm you got and I’m glad to hear you made it home in one piece.
Soooo…
- They DID fuck up the big-ass shrimp if they were too salty, and
- Cocktail sauce without horseradish? That’s just the wrongest of wrongs.
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Yeah, some were kinda bland, others were too salty. It was odd. And not putting kicky horseradish in cocktail sauce is a crime, agreed.
But it was f-r-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e 
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Isn’t that basically just catsup ??
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And Worcestershire sauce and lemon and hot sauce, if you’re making my version of cocktail sauce.
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Had to pivot from my plan of making baked pork and orzo last night when I discovered the container that I though contained the orzo, contained rice, so baked pork and rice with chorizo/onions/carrots and green peppers it was! Pretty much the same technique and with the same satisfying result.
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The way I’ve had fried deviled eggs before – and they’re not really what you think of when you hear “fried deviled eggs,” to be fair – is to take a regular deviled egg and pan-fry them stuffed-side down for a few minutes.
I’m going to google this to make sure I’m remembering the provenance – yes, it’s a Jacques Pepin thing: https://soupaddict.com/fried-deviled-eggs-pepin/
Thank you, all!
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