I haven’t tried making tortillas yet.
I have made a frying pan type of naan once and type of pita bread once.
I guess I should give roti a try.
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Mr Bean did not find it all that hard - just a bit time consuming. It was worth the effort.
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Tonight I made [Brown Rice] Vermicelli Tofu Salad With Peanut Sauce by Lara Lee. I omitted the edamame and added jammy egg, radish, stir-fried lemongrass green beans, garlic-soy broccolini, and leftover miso butternut squash. This was tasty! Nearly vegan.
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Another freezing cold, snowy day, another romaine salad.
This time with leftover hot Italian sausage and crisped up chorizo, homemade garlic/parmesan croutons, tomatoes and cucumbers, tossed in a spicy homemade Thousand Island dressing.
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Tonight I made a chana saag with a couple of modifications. The recipe xalled for using garam masala however I used cumin seeds instead. (No reason other than the fact I just felt like cumin tonight 
) The recipe also called for fresh coriander but I didn’t have any so I added a little coriander powder. The chickpea to spinach ratio was off so next time I shall use a few kess chickpeas and a lot more spinach. (The spinach is supposed to be creamy in consistency and lots of it.) The taste was perfect so I will make it again making modifications.
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Another Sichuan jour fixe this evening. I’d given my chile heads a choice between 2 spots, as well as between today & tomorrow. Both my PIC and I would have preferred tomorrow, when it’s his long day on campus, plus a snowstorm started descending on our lil town late this afternoon…
No matter: the 12 votes favored today and — unlike some governments — I happen to respect majority wishes.
Unfortunately, we had several late notice cancellations for any number of reasons.
The remaining 7 of us gathered at one of our favorite Sichuan restaurants & ordered a wonderful variety of dishes: garlic cukes,
pork dumplings in chili oil,
Chongqing chicken,
cumin lamb,
fish with soft tofu & ground pork,
eggplant casserole with ground pork,
and dry-fried green beans.
Since our vegan couple was one of the cancellations, we could go full carnivore this time around. Everything was really excellent, and we took some leftovers home.
After today’s experience, future Sichuan group dinners will have a decidedly more dictatorial approach in that I will choose the weekday & place for which people can sign up. Kind of over the voting system at this point 
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Oven-roasted halibut with panko crust. Served on top of the remains of Monday’s Italian bean and vegetable soup (more stew than soup).
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My dear friends,
Today was insanely busy, and I am bone-weary and aching after spending the day zooming from one thing to another.
I shall leave you then, with an image captured as I walked to a friend’s hen party in anticipation of her inpending nuptials Saturday here in camp.
I find the warm glow of candles illuminating the tents to be wonderfully cosy and homey
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I enjoyed the salad and fish sticks with mustardy tartar yesterday so I had it again, adding the first potato salad of the year. Microwaved three similar sized russet potatoes and then peeled. Added celery, onion, and three hard boiled eggs. Dressing was rice vinegar while potatoes were still hot and then mayo, yellow mustard, and sweet pickle relish. Also added carrot, cauliflower, broccoli, radish, and salt and pepper. It was delicious and will be hard to beat.
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Brined pork chop, tonkatsu style. Chopped salad, cauliflower, broccoli, carrot, red and yellow baby bell, cabbages, red onion, peanuts with the last of the mystery dressing, a splash of sweet chili sauce and a squeeze of kewpie.
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Big artichokes were inexpensive at TJ’s today. So, steamed for an hour, with dipping sauces EVOO and garlic, and Kewpie dijonnaise. Annie’s shells in the other bowl, because I felt like it. It turned out that the cheese sauce also worked for dipping the choke leaves.
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Never thought of making shishitos in the air fryer. What temp and for how long? Thanks.
This was at 400F for five minutes. They were tossed with some oil and salt beforehand.
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Tonight was catch as catch can between evening activities. I had chicken salad salad, sourdough with avocado, and a tiny bit of leftover pasta marinara. The rest of the fam had leftover lasagna and veg/salad.
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My kid had 2 Hot Pockets (fancy Ranch pepperoni) before 2-hours of rock concert classes. Seems like rock and roll kind of food.
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Oh, happy day! 
My surgeon removed the stitches this morning & told me that I don’t have to wear that damn sling during the day anymore & instead can let my arm hang down uselessly….as opposed to having it uselessly folded up in the same position 24/7. Even better news is that I may go back to sleeping on my side. I srsly can’t wait to go to bed tonight 
. Ah, the little things that make life livable.
Of course, little things can also be immensely frustrating…. like coming home from a planning meeting on campus for a benefit I’m organizing in April that took less than an hour, and discovering “someone” had knocked our glass coffee pot on the kitchen floor. I did a decent one-armed job collecting all the shards & even vacuuming up the rest. Posting the mess on Fb had the added bonus — besides being able to vent — that a sweet member of one of my local food groups offered to lend us a French press or pour-over setup. I gratefully accepted, and he stopped over shortly thereafter & dropped off both. It was the first time we met in person. Sometimes, Facebook doesn’t completely suck 
All of this was enough excitement for a random Thursday, and an easy dinner of Sichuan leftovers (eggplant casserole, the fish dish, beans & chicken) plus TJ’s pork belly sliced & air-fried to a crisp with a chutney dip was very much appreciated.
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I’m glad to hear that you are making progress on your shoulder! You have to celebrate the little things 
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