Chili from the freezer with all the fixings - grated cheese, avocado, red onion, cilantro and corn chips. Hit the spot on this chilly night.
air fryers & air fryer toaster oven do a great job making tofu crispy & uses less oil than conventional pan frying.
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pholourie are also delish!
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Yesterday I started ATK’s beef braised in Barolo [Zinfandel], which I finished tonight and served with braised carrots and roasted-garlic mashed potatoes. Side of mixed greens with clementines, pistachios, and golden raisins in Dijon balsamic vinaigrette.
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It looks gorgeous!! Did you like it?
It was good – I think I overcooked the meat a little bit when I was rewarming it. It started falling apart when my husband was cutting it. Still tasted good. And I’ll add the roasted garlic to my mashed potatoes again. 
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Heating the oven to 450° for over an hour does a great job of heating up the house in these frigid temps.
Prosciutto, caramelized onion and arugula pizza with homemade pizza sauce and grated mozzarella.
Drizzled with the absolute last few drops of a truly aged balsamic vinegar from 1975, purchased from Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge in the 1990s as a gift to me. It has lasted at least 30 years since I received it and has only gotten better with time. I will need to make a weekend trip to their Cambridge location for another small bottle to last me until I go into a nursing home. 
There was wine.
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New pizza recipe: KAF’s Flaky Puff Crust Pizza.
This one has a laminated crust, described by KAF as flaky, crisp and cracker-like.
Meh. Deet’s on the pizza thread here.
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A new focaccia recipe tonight. I really liked it . Crispy crunchy outside . The inside light and airy .Headed to dinner for Bronzni fish whole and ceasar salad . Gino opened up his small restaurant for a short time .Serving what his father Gigi cooked for many years being in the restaurant business in North Beach San Francisco. Owning 12 restaurants the last one . Sotto Mare. The cioppino was so good last nite
. Im headed back tonight . Cheers
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We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Drew’s, in Keyport, NJ. There were a ton of leftovers to have for dinner during tomorrow’s monster snow storm 
We enjoyed an excellent rack of veal in a mushroom sauce; a fantastic crawfish empanada; pork belly and sprouts on a spicy tabasco gastrique; Andouille crusted monkfish; fig and gorgonzola flatbread; voodoo shrimp; and duck rilette. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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Taco salad. Little gem, red onion, cherry tomatoes, corn, avocado, albondigas, extra sharp cheddar, pickled jalapenos, cilantro with chipotle ranch dressing. Tortilla chips.
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So we basically had the same food groups. My potato salad also has some green veg in it.
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Thanks for posting. Pholourie sound delicious.
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And thr best part is that it all folds up and fits in the box that its sitting on
My big city cellist friend organized a fabulous surprise bday brunch for her mom yesterday (moved up a day for the storm), whose apartment we stayed in in Philly, and who is celebrating her 80th this weekend. The food was catered by a local, decent ME place with the usual suspects: salad, muhammara, hummus, baba ganoush, fried eggplant with yogurt, and dry AF chicken I ended up dipping into the muhammara, and the bubbly flowed liberally. My friend had cookies laser-printed with the likeness of all of her mom’s pets over the years,
and the cake was equally impressive.
We were also treated to a breathtakingly beautiful string trio concert with a fantastic rendering of a Beethoven movement, a piece by a Hungarian composer whose name escapes me ATM, and a couple of variations on We Shall Overcome, for the most obvious and terrifying reasons (both the mom and her daughter have always been very politically & socially engaged).
I needed a disco nap after all those mimosas before heading over to our friends’ place for our poker game, where a wonderful, zippy Thai curry shrimp soup
and a comfortingly kicky and warming South Indian lentil soup provided sustenance.
Didn’t stop me from losing my buy-in and then some. Feh!
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Those are amazing! Sounds like a fun party.
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Right? What little pieces of art! And they moved Joan to tears.
It was a great party, even if the person of honor ran about an hour late hahaha.
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I’m not sure there’s such a thing as too much artichoke!
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