We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at The Farmer’s Daughter, in Newton, NJ, including a fantastic crab salad topped with uni and ahi tuna on the side; fusilli pasta pesto with fried eggplant; beef tenderloin with peppercorn sauce; fried delicata squash donuts topped with honey and an apple slaw; beef tartare; mussels in a green curry sauce. It all went great with an excellent red blend and cabernet.
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Seared and roasted chicken thigh and KOM, broccoli was blanched and roasted in the drippings with the chicken and mushroom, sprinkled with rosemary oo asiago and rpf. Little gem, arugula, red onion, grape tomatoes, avocado salad. Pesto dressing.
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Homemade pork and shrimp potstickers from the freezer. A black vinegar dipping sauce. Cukes in an Asian-inspired vinaigrette. Steamed rice.
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Breaded chicken breasts with the infamous household sauce of mayo, mustard, and sweet pickle relish, haricots verts with butter, sweet potatoes with butter, and ciabatta roll with butter. Watermelon juice and vodka.
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Focaccine Semplici . Small focaccia’s . Served along side . Smoked pork loin , beans , and salad. Cheers .
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That looks delicious
I am in awe of anyone who makes mole from scratch. I’ve tried several times - it is so much work, requires so many ingredients and never turns out as good as the plastic bag of store-bought mole I get at the supermercado.
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I saved the juice from last night’s can of pickled beets, so I could add it to some rice and make Pink Rice as tonight’s starch. It’s a fun way to serve rice (in my opinion).
Tuna Cakes, Pink Rice and Green Beans.
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It was frigid today, too cold to be running around much outside, so I spent the afternoon trying my hand at a cozy dish I saw on instagram. I subscribe to this creator’s substack, but not the paid version, and the full recipe was behind a paywall. So I just watched the reel and made up the quantities. We really liked it. Chicken shepherd’s pie, I guess I’d call it.
I poached two huge chicken breasts to start, and then made the riced potatoes, and stashed them in the fridge as directed. Getting the potatoes scooped prettily onto the dish was a bit of a PITA, but the whole thing smelled amazing in the oven and tasted great.
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I love the look of these! Can you share any details as to dough weight, pan size, and yield?
And yet, you did a marvelous job of it - it’s beautiful!
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Wow, does that look terrific!!
Thanks. I think if the potatoes had been colder, maybe they would have released from the scoop more easily? I don’t know. I hate those cookie scoops. They never work.
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But it really isn’t. I know plenty of skinny folks who are unhealthy and unhappy 
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Our show went well, and we had a big crowd despite the still disgustingly cold temps. Personally, I’d have stayed home in my PJs given the choice, but maybe peeps were feeling cabin fever. Several folks gave me a big ole hug literally after having told them about my RC surgery 
I hadn’t performed since First Night & was worried I might be a bit rusty, but thankfully it’s like riding a bicycle — ‘cept safer to do with one arm
My PIC and I ended up sharing a rather generously stuffed carnitas Cubano, so that was dinner.
A buddy came over for a nightcap & a bowl, and we called it a night around 1am.
Looking forward to staying inside today, save for a quick trip to the store. It’ll either be wings to crisp up in the air-fryer to have for the halftime show, or I’ll make another spicy Thai red curry with shrimp. My boo will be marinating BISO chickie thighs for mañana’s Peruvian chicken, one of my favorite dishes he makes 
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I made a half batch . 225 grms of type 0 flour
15 grms of semolina flour . Dough is cut with a cookie cutter and baked on a sheet pan . I got this recipe on you tube watching a Italian cooking show .
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Thank you!
if you don’t mind me asking, what was the medication?
Valsartan 320mg. Since I developed CKD, my blood pressure is low and I no longer take this medication.
I am now on day three of The Crud. (I am borrowing this term from @linguafood because it accurately describes what I have 
) I basically have a cold that hit like a ton of bricks on Thursday night then got up Friday morning to a stuffy nose a cough akin to someone with a pack-a-day habit, chills and an upset stomach. I’m not sure if it’s possible to get a cold and the flu at the same time but for 12 hours of my life it felt like it. My stomach seemed to have settled by the end of the day on Friday so I assume it’s a run-of-the-mill cold. I haven’t had much of an appetite this weekend so on Friday night I had the last of the cabbage soup in the fridge and I had scrambled eggs for dinner last night. I am starting to get my appetite back so I had a salmon fillet and a kale salad for dinner - success!
I spent the day at home watching the Olympics and saw Lindsey Vonn take a nasty tumble (I hope she’s okay) speed skating, figure skating and luge. I gotta give those luge athletes my fullest admiration for speeding down an icy track feet first at break neck speed and not being able to see where you’re going.
A gratuitous picture of dinner:
Tomorrow I go back to work.
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