Guajillos are my all time favorite dried chilies for general use. Sounds like you have your priorities in line
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@emglow101, have fun. Can’t make anything exotic like Mexican here in food hell. Ingredients don’t exist.
Kebab spiced meatballs fried in goose fat. Soft, chewy Iraqui flatbread, and garlicky dill yoghurt sauce (not shown, was being made by partner at the time this photo was being made).
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I am smoking ribs and I was planning to make chile colorado (also inspired by @mariacarmen) as the sauce, but I lost track of time so I switched gears and went with a mustard-based, South Carolina style sauce instead. The ribs were rubbed with a simple salt/sugar/paprika/pepper rub, so there’s no seasonings to conflict either way. Roasted Brussels sprouts alongside. Chile colorado will happen next weekend!
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Reading, watching, and cooking today.
Reading = magazines and Faceboom.
Watching = Law & Order: SVU on USA Network. I never watched when it aired; a good way to catch up on a very good show.
Cooking = Chicken stock made overnight in the crockpot. Then made two big foil containers of mac & ham & cheese for freezer meals for my sister and BIL (and one small one for me for a dinner tomorrow night, probably.)
Decided to go light for dinner tonight - I used some of the chicken stock in a Tortellini, Carrot & Baby Bok Choy Soup with some light miso paste, green onions and parsley added. The petite baby bok choy from Wegmans are perfect for this soup!
Wine and a crusty buttered roll alongside, and another Lemon Posset for dessert.
Also Watching = the pre-game carpet run for the Oscars. Interested to see how Jimmy Kimmel deals with current events. And it’s always fun to see the yays and nays on the red carpet. 
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That soup broth looks lovely. And so clean… 
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That it was. 
Although it needed something else - more salt, definitely, and probably more miso paste. First time user of miso, so other than the taste on the tip of my finger, I had no idea how to use. I see that for “miso soup”, up to 2 Tbsp. can be used - so I definitely should have used more than the little bit I added.
Faceboom! I like. Was that on purpose or a typo?
It came out fantastic . I ended up going out for sushi and did not try it until today . When I tasted it last night I thought it was going to be to spicy . After it sat in the fridge all night it mellowed . Just the right amount of heat with smokey deep flavors and tender . I will definitely make this again .
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On purpose. A friend on Facebook accidentally called it that (or her phone auto-corrected to that, for some reason) and a bunch of us picked it up. 
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Best laid plans n all… WFD tonight was supposed to be spicy crispy chicken tenders with Belgian endive salad, but I seem to be having a flare up of my occasional tummy issues.
We had wonderfully tasty Indian food (saag paneer, egg vindaloo, some lamb & and some chicken dish, vegetable biryani) and very good almond cookies at a dinner party last night, but fairly soon after dinner I was feeling absolutely awful, and so we had to leave early 
So instead of crispiness, soupiness it is: picked up a whole chicken, a buncha leeks, carrots, celery stalks (since I couldn’t find celery root anywhere) and egg noodles. Funny how we only ever make that dish when one or both of us is sick…
The chicken & leeks are simmering away in a big stock pot, carrots have been chopped up to be added later (and I’ve been digging in to them, so may have to pick up another lb. :-D)
Despite my tummy troubles, I couldn’t help but fry up the liver & heart, deglazing with a little maple syrup and devouring it on the spot. Surely, this is the perfect lunch for an upset stomach, right??
No Karneval or Mardi Gras meals here. Maybe some oyster shooters at our gig tomorrow.
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That sucks. If it happens more often you’d turn into a soup/Pichelsteiner person. Hah! I am a soup fiend, and I do like Pichelsteiner just as much.
Forgot to ask you this before Karneval started… what are typical foods or snacks during this party week? Here it’s just “sausage bread” (baked long rolls with sausage mince in them), and basically just all the typical fast food crap (WTF?!) and copious coma-inducing amounts of crap beer. I have tried looking it up, though not in German yet. Not many results in English.
Berliner, of course (the donut), and Spritzkuchen – my preference.
Beer. Beer. And more beer.
OK, so only during Karneval you are a “sweetie”? 
Just donuts and beer for Lingua. No singing silly songs? I’ve just looked it up, and indeed they eat a lot of donuts during Karneval. Also chicken and egg dishes according to the article. Herring salad, that I can make.
I like a bite of Spritzkuchen and always order Berliner mit puderzucker when in Germany. It’s like a tiny piece of heaven the Berliner… when you bite into a pillowy, airy ball… powdered sugar on your face… hmmm. Just 1 or 2 bites are enough for me.
The partner eats the rest of the pastries of course, quite happily. I no longer have a high sugar threshold.
PS: I found answers 
Mostly fat and sugar.
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Thanks, Salsailsa! Sounds like pure comfort food. I’ll put it in my meatloaf rotation.
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I love using miso in about any soups- kind of trial and error for how much, darker miso you need less since the flavor is rather strong. I whisk the miso with a splash of broth and add at the very end, you don’t want the miso to boil or cook at too high of a heat since that kills the probiotics and can affect the flavor. Adds a great depth of flavor
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When I tasted a bit on my finger, I really liked the fullness of flavor. And since this was a light (or “sweet” as it was called), I could have easily used more. Trial and error - will add more next time. And yes - I just swirled it in at the end.
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I love using light miso in salad dressings. Actually my favorite beyond simple appetizer that i actually order at this little izakaya spot is literally sliced cucumber served with a side of mild sweet miso- you take a tiny schmear of the miso on the cucumber. Makes a really refreshing surprisingly good “veggie side”
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Another fun week of crazy long stressful days so far… (i’m including sunday since i was at work all day sunday too)
Last night was basically a lot of peanut butter sauce (with soy and like juice) over some seared tempeh and lots of fresh spinach that got wilty from the hot tempeh and sauce.
Today was Ripe Avocado Day! Half was for breakfast (aka with salt and a spoon leaning over the counter in my bathrobe). Other half went into this quick cucumber avocado salad thing with lots of cilantro for dinner. I added in some cubed smoked tofu and chopped romaine, skipped the mayo and went with a blob of plain greek yogurt instead and a heavy hand with the pepper
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Seared salmon with oven roasted cauliflower. To give the cauliflower a little more interest, I tossed it with a tablespoon of tahini mixed with olive oil 3/4 of the way into the roast.
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that is PERFECTION! i’ve only recently come to like NY strip - i had one at a Peruvian restaurant recently and i was wonderful. Others I’ve had over the years had a texture i didn’t like, so i avoided it, eating only rib eyes. yours looks great!
