First BBQ of the year! In before the crappy weather sets in tomorrow and the rest of the week.
Treated myself to a 28 day aged ribeye from a local, fancy “grocery store”, just under a lb for $38. Grilled up some peppers/red onion and zucchini to go with and voila dinner was served. Delicious piece of meat and a real treat. Only ate half, saving the other half for tomorrow(if I can keep my grubby hands off it)
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I have some awfully big shoes to fill after seeing @PedroPero 's bbq 
Dinner tonight was sautéed yellow pepper, cherry tomatoes, edamame and bok choy served over whole wheat spaghettini.
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You’ve seen my other dinners, like salad in a SS bowl 
This isn’t “normal” for me. your dinner looks great!
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My DH smoked a chicken and I handled sides – veggie tray, sauteed Brussels and baby bok choy, and mashed potatoes. Delish!
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That looks delicious and the chicken looks perfect. How long on the smoke, and what was the temp, if you know?
Kurobuta ground pork meatballs with garden basil and zucchini, brushed with a sweet-and-sour peach glaze (blitzed in the FP: homemade Yakima peach jam, chicken stock, light soy, lemon juice, cider vinegar, and datil peppers). Steamed rice. Cuke salad in an Asian-inspired vinaigrette with sesame and soy.
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Your meal looks great and I like your tablecloth as well!
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Thanks 
. The tablecloth is from Dollarama 
Ha! I love those places.
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Me too!
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Salad for me, ala the BF, with tuna and various veggies, and for him - brisket from an Indonesian bbq restaurant I went to with friends yesterday, at which i overindulged in beef - hence, salad for me tonight. Incredibly tender - even with his dental issues, the BF had no problem wolfing it down. I still had beef envy.
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OMG… I’m having MORE beef envy!!
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As you should 
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Portobello Mushrooms with Spinach - not very photogenic but nonetheless very tasty. Portobello mushrooms were filled with spinach, mushroom stems, onion, garlic and nutmeg and topped with a breadcrumb butter mixture. Sauce was made with bell peppers (red, yellow, green), onions, dried tomatoes, thyme, cream cheese and water. Everything was baked in the oven for 25 minutes
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I think it was an hour and a half somewhere between 225° and 275°, with a final crisp at higher temperature. I will ask.
Drove down to Hershey mid-afternoon on the last nice (sunny) day for a while.
I’d gotten what looked like a good dinner recommendation in my local food group on Facebook & called in the rez before we left, despite it being a Monday night & just the two of us.
Upon arriving in our hotel room we discovered the toilet had not been cleaned 
, so we moved rooms & also got a coupon for a free drink each, which we used for pre-dinner drinks (G&T for him, dry AF Hendricks martini for me) after late afternoon sunshine beers on the Hershey campus at a very cute little Inn.
The restaurant itself is located in the basement of a Howard Johnson. It smelled a bit musky — as basements tend to, and was almost empty, save for one other table.
The Bluecoat martini I ordered was very good,
but we were a little hesitant about the food menu, mostly bc the restaurant’s atmosphere, layout, staff & clientele didn’t exactly scream ‘fancy small plates done well.’
And so, for fear of wasting our money on lamb lollipop chops or pistachio-dusted scallops, we took what we thought was the safer route: a very generous order of jumbo lump crab ‘martini with drawn butter,
fried pickles with ranch dip,
and “hot” buffalo wings.
The pickles were excellent, the wings just ok. They were battered, which the menu didn’t mention, and which I don’t care for.
We’ll never know if they excel at the fancier stuff….. unless we end up having to stay another night. Hopefully not, though.
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There used to be a Howard Johnson on Ste. Catherine street in Montreal when I lived there in the 80s. I don’t remember anything about the hotel other than the dining room on the main floor and it served standard fare for those days - liver and onions, shepherds pie and the like. (This was 40 years ago and I am relying on my sketchy memory 
) The food was nothing fancy but what they did, they did well. The menu at the resto you went to looks upscale for a Howard Johnsons and I probably wouldn’t have even gone in based on that menu… Glad to hear the martini and pickles were suitable.
The restaurant and the hotel aren’t related. And who knows – maybe we should’ve taken a chance on the food, which came highly recommended 
