And an early Happy Birthday to you Linda!
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So do I, my fondest memories!!
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Fried Chicken: Redemption.
When it is good, I don’t want any sauce or condiment with it. Had some grapes and watermelon alongside for relief.
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Nice! Tips?
I posted a while back about the recent Serious Eats recipe that I followed. Just follow that recipe – it’s a classic buttermilk brine recipe – except don’t bother with the honey sauce or the spice mix. And you can use All-Purpose if you don’t want to shell out for 00 flour. Don’t stress if you don’t have an ingredient like hot sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, etc. Just omit it or use something else like cider vinegar, mustard powder, etc. The best instructions in that recipe are the ones explaining oil temp. I used to aggressively try and get my oil back up to temperature. It took me years to figure out why my fried chicken was coming out worse after I started using a thermometer.
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Pot roast/beef stew tonight. I was channeling Vienna and made a horseradish cream. Green salad with vinaigrette on the side.
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I interpret non-baking recipes very liberally! 
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Good Pats game today.
Cooked a dinner to add to weekday leftover dinners, as I don’t expect to have any time to think about cooking.
I was craving garlic. A LOT of garlic. It definitely won’t be a work lunch). But it worked, despite it being a very beige meal.
Garlic Roasted Chicken and Potatoes with asparagus alongside. There was wine. Fortification for the upcoming work week.
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dinner tonight was very simple
A friend was invited for a boat ride, we had a nice lunch of Costco’s fresh ahi tuna seared till medium rare, tried the new Japanese yuzu kasha codiment added to mirin, red miso , and sesame oil to make a creamy dressing. Broccolini roasted with EVOO, S/P and roasted small potatoes in EVOOo with S?P and rosemary. I forgot to take pictures as usual/ The guest bought 2 rice dumplings which we call MA CHANG for our dinner. I steamed one of them as my son will be eating left over. pizza from Ledo’s. It is glutinous sticky rice, with pork peanuts and mushroom wrapped in bamboo. leaf. I steamed it, then added ketchup and tabasco to it. Reminds me of home when my grandma used to make them. I look forward for another treat tomorrow YUMMY!
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Yesterday was my favorite one year old’s birthday party! I always enjoy bubbly in the afternoon :)) i stayed to help un-decorate and bring stuff back to their apartment. Once the no longer a baby was in bed we ordered in from a great chinese place nearby and opened more wine. My bff’s parents were in town- i have known them since forever too of course- so it was nice to catch up. No photos because they would think that weird, but i had the dry fried green beans, tofu with black bean garlic sauce and some of the eggplant.
Another simple tomatoey soup tonight, orzo was on sale at the store so of course that was out of stock. Got something called tubbeti? Added a handful to my onion/garlic/tomato paste/chopped canned tomatoes, thyme, veg broth and zucchini. The last slice of that raisin fennel semolina bread along with it.
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I love hearing about what you cook, whoever you are, and especially about your favorite children of various ages. I’ve had many favorite children myself, and then at age 52 adopted a seven year old from foster care. The food challenges are many so we have separate meals but all come together around food, even if it’s just verbal. That tomato-y soup looks luscious, and dry green beans Chinese style is a big favorite for the parents in our house (not for son who is 19 as of yesterday)…
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There was so much butter and gravy tonight. I dropped my plate on the kitchen floor. Scooped out all the leftovers from the pan for dinner onto a new plate . Smiled to myself. Damn this tastes great
Wine to drink. 
Cheers
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What a welcome back as I go through replies and comments. I was chatting up HO over the weekend to my buddies.
Thanks again. Your daily meals and photos continue to elevate my recent efforts to take on meal detail at my home.
Cheers,
Rooster
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Fed “Tubetinis” to my girls when they were babies…they were easy to eat and did not fall of the spoon. Normally we put them in our chicken soup and when they wanted to start feeding themselves it was easier then broad egg noodles for them to handle.
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Hope you had a great entry into your 7th decade!
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Thanks! Three concerts in NYC, nibbling every which way, a few buddies came along before finishing a tour commitment, my son came to town, my wife surprised me with a meet and greet through a client connection.
Now its back down to earth…kick retirements ass😀.
Rooster
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@Linda, Make it count ( as I suspect you will)!
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I’m very late joining the party, so Happy Birthday! Sounds like you kicked off the coming year with a wonderful celebration.
Thanks Denise, I had a blast. Three days flew and we made the most of it best we could.
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I’ve started a new October thread here:
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