I’m all with you on the Giant Martini. Sometimes, that’s dinner.
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Yeah, harvested too early is what I read in my local cooking group, where I bitched about it as well — naturellement 
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this is living.
but yours wasn’t rouxless, right? yeah i looked it up, sounds watery.
Large perfect avocado, diced, sprinkled with Kashmiri chili and served with blue cheese dressing. Beefeater and Fever Tree tonic. Just what I needed on a Friday evening.
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No, I’ve always made a roux.
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Roast porchetta, wild mushroom, tarragon and mustard cream tagliatelle.
Would’ve looked better if had topped the pasta with the sauce rather than mixing the pasta into the sauce - was delicious though
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In defense of asparagus growers (hobby, not commercial) - no asparagus left behind! Asparagus has been challenging to grow. Big, thick ones get roasted or grilled. Skinny stalks and seedlings go into the egg scramble. Mid-size is a buck dancer’s choice: pizza, casserole, strata, hash, or what have you.
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Had a craving for coconut shrimp, so it was for dinner tonight, with a dipping sauce of blood orange preserves, Thai sweet chili sauce, lime juice, and lime zest. Side was an arugula salad with toasted pine nuts and shaved Parm-Reg, and a vinaigrette of olive oil, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, honey, and s/p.
There was wine.
I ate dinner before then watching through the blackout and the Artemis II / Intrgrity’s splashdown in California waters. I’m old enough to have seen many Apollo splashdowns, and I’m so proud of our NASA astronauts for going where no human has ever gone before. THIS is what America is about.
And even Finnegan was awed by their re-entry.
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I’ve regressed to elementary school.
It hit the spot - not to mention I stumbled across one of my little. Corningware grab-it bowls.
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I remember watching the moon landing. I was sick with a strep throat…
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A once-in-a-blue-moon, exotic appetizer for tonight’s dinner! 
Close encounter with some fresh, live, large size edible Busycon Whelks ( sea snails ) at Markham’s Sunfood Oriental Supermarket.
Boiled in salt water, cool and eaten with Hoisin sauce ( reminiscent of one of my favorite Hong Kong night market seafood snacks. )
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As do I. It was inconceivable to me as an 11yo. I remember my Mom waking my sister amd me up about 30 minutes before Neil Armstrong was to step out of the lunar module and step down to the surface around 11 p.m. We watched it, then went back to bed to sleep. LOL
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Giada’s Amalfi Lemon Chicken. A spatchcocked bird rubbed with lemon zest, rosemary, thyme and salt, and roasted on a bed of lemon slices as a rack. I dry-brined the chicken for 24 hours in advance and threw some quartered Yukon Gold spuds in around the thing before roasting. Basted every 15 minutes until done.
Served with roasted garden asparagus. Perfect (thank you @newtraditionalists).
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That bird looks amazing!
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it all looks spectacular!
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For me, BF made another tofu/cabbage dish, this time with peanut butter from a recipe i sent him. Was good but not as good as the last one I made (different recipe), so probably not a repeat. For himself, reprised meatloaf, with onion gravy, more buttery taters, and carrots. Good for a rainy SF night.
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