Tonight’s dinner was a salad of radish sprouts, yellow pepper, tomatoes and avocado.
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Thanks a million! I am going to work on reducing the amounts in order to serve me
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Thank you so very, very much!
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Thoroughly enjoy your 5-days off.
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Thank you many times over.
I had a lovely day off. Started with breakfast at Vic’s Waffle House in my town: Red Velvet Waffle with bananas, strawberries, and whipped cream, with a couple of mini-pours of maple syrup as I needed it. Fresh-squozen OJ and a cuppa cawfee alongside.
Then I visited several Home Goods, shopping for myself and my sister.
Found something that she wanted, but told her I didn’t find (but I cleaned them out of all 5 packages they had!). It’ll be a Christmas giftie surprise tomorrow when we get together to exchange Christmas gifts. 
And yes, my own HG addiction was also fed. 
Dinner tonight will be another surprise for my sister and BIL, as I cooked to feed their freezer again: Pork, Sweet Potato & Apple Cider Stew. I served mine on leftover mini lasagna egg noodles with minced parsley on top.
There was wine.
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Friday fish fry.
A nice BC rock fish, panko crusted. Convection oven fries. Homemade tartar sauce. Cuke salad in an Asian vinaigrette.
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We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Cafe Panache, in Ramsey, NJ, including lobster crab cakes; strip steak; tuna tartare; and octopus with eggplant caponata. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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That and the perfect heavenly whipped mashed potatoes look amazing!
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I wish. I live in a condo that has a nice view of the mountains if I walk out to the street. You probably don’t remember but I sustained water damage to both bathrooms in September and I’m just now getting it repaired. This is the view from my motel window where they’re housing me till the repair is completed.
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The proverbial artichoke. It looks beat up but it was fine. I tried Duke’s mayo and it just isn’t zesty enough for me. I’m a Best Foods’ girl for life.
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My ss gave me a piece of sirloin so I finally got to try NYTs Garlic Butter Steak Bites. Tender medium rare little flavor bombs. Fried potatoes, onions and red baby bells. Little gem, green onion, radishes, celery, sugar snaps salad with pesto dressing.
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Overnight stop in Laguna Beach on a quick trip to San Diego. Time for a nice little tasting menu at Heritage https://heritagerestaurantlb.com Really nice dishes which focus on the flavors of the main ingredients but add well thought out components to elevate the overall dishes and well deserved Michelin star.
Wonderful relaxed night with good service at a preferred place at the chef’s counter
Kitchen view from the Chef’s counter
Honey Bush tea, rose, verjus
32-day Aged Beef Crostata, tonnato, preserved mushroom - elevated steak tartare
Sea Urchin Toast, brown-butter yuzu, brioche
Pickled Pineapple, basil seed, tepache
Wild Kampachi, jicama, cultured cream - good addition of some passionfruit mousse
Local Abalone Rice, black garlic, sesame
Live Scallop in Shell, dashi, smoked trout roe
Line-Caught Black Cod, razor clams, artichoke
Aged Duck & Smoked Leg, celery root, spiced apple jus - duck leg confit with lentil was a good combination with the duck breast and celeriac puree
Whipped Meringue Yogurt Mousse, herbed tea gelee, poached kiwi
Farm carrots, mascarpone, walnut
Mignardises
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I’m glad it worked out so well for you.
We increased the marinade as we doubled the amount of chicken to assure leftovers. We did wipe it off as instructed but probably wouldn’t bother next time.
I wouldn’t worry about leftovers, at least when it comes to the aji verde. This recipe is sofa king delightful, you’ll happily eat leftover chicken for a couple of days, and that sauce is probably one of my favorite sauces evah! I’d dip a shoe in it and eat it.
Looking forward to your report, and how you like it! IF you end up using the NYTimes recipe, def make sure to reduce the oil content by half. It’s a ludicrous amount & absolutely not necessary.
As I think I mentioned in my post (or previously, since we make this regularly), my PIC doubles all the ingredients except for the oil, which he halves.
Comes out perfect 
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Show went well. Neither the venue nor I had done a particularly good job at advertising (they’ve only been open for 2 months), so the crowd was on the smaller side. A woman seated at the bar greeted me rather enthusiastically when I walked in — a pleasantry I returned, despite having absolutely no idea who she was. I finally figured it out while setting up my ish: she was my chiropractor who’d practically promised me relief from my chronic pain issue with a treatment I paid out of pocket for (bc of course I did), and that never came…so I walked back over & punched her in the face.
Kidding. Just seeing if yer paying attention
Anywhos, a few friends of ours showed up, and one of them had us over for a martini nightcap I def did not need, especially after the massive bong rip he’d also provided 
. Didn’t finish my drink & we went home to have more of the rather surprisingly EXCELLENT flakey crust pizza (Tha Works: onion, shrooms, green pepper, snossidge, pepperoni) we took home.
Looking forward to having more leftovers for lonch in a bit.
Tonight’s yet another gig out of town, for which my bass is picking me up at 4:30 
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Stage one of the prawn cocktail addict’s elevated fix…
vodka, orange, and ancho chilli ceviche.
More to follow, we are live
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