Glad you are on the mend and all went well! The cast must be a nuisance though.
I’m thinking you could also roast things that don’t need chopping like baby carrots, grapes, little potatoes, green beans, mushrooms…
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Have recorded it along side my oxtail recipe, it seems pretty similar. My tripe recipe or guatita is an Ecuadorian version, yours differs slightly different.
This past June we spent several weeks in Italy, and like you had tripe, seeing your post brought back the flavor to my brain…Thank you!
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I watched Sound of Music with the 7 year old granddaughter after a diner she specifically requested, of Asian marinated Flank steak, cauliflower mac & cheese and a green salad with Ranch dressing…
I cried more than she did:joy:
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Nice to see you back and eating !!!
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Hey, Madrid, we stayed at the brand new Residence Inn right in the downtown area. It wasn’t cheap, but we decided to splurge and it was very comfortable. My goodness, Portsmouth is changing a lot. There are several new garages and hotels and a new development called Portwalk. The city still has its colonial seaport charm, but feels “bigger” somehow. Anyway, despite it’s growing size, there aren’t many places to dine after 10 so we had to choose from the few that we open. I would have definitely opted for Row 34, but our dear friend who comes up from Florida really prefers the menu at The District so we went with that. We ordered a burger (perfectly med-rare and tasty), maple-braised shortribs (declared very good) and a med-rare (ordered medium) steak frites which was thoroughly enjoyed. For breakfast we had okay breakfast sandwiches at Popovers. All in all, a lovely night of music, food and most of all, friendship.
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i hear you. i can’t plate worth a damn, and far, far too many dinners end up being sad desk dinners, so i end up living vicariously through yall.
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and brussels! smaller ones turn out just fine without being split, though you lose a bit on the caramelization. tie in to the cabbage thread too, it doesn’t take too much chopping to divide a head of cabbage into wedges for roasting.
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Made some rice to finish leftover shaljam gosht (tunips and meat) from the other day.
Then a slice of cake. This cake has a fine crumb and is dense, not airy and light. It uses whipped egg whites for physical leavening. No chemical leavening. (My kid used to be extremely sensitive to baking powder/soda, so I was “forced” to add physically leavened recipes to my baking repertoire.)
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Sometimes meh is good . More often than not for me .
Ha! I know exactly what that salad is! For reasons beyond me my mom loves the stuff- and she’s like a picky toddler when it comes to veggies- I’m not a fan of the dressing it comes with
No pics so you will have to use your imagination. 6 oz burger cooked in cast iron to get a nice firm crust, cooked medium on a toasted bun. Burger toppings included sliced tomato, avocado and arugula, spreads included ketchup, homemade mustard and chipotle guava spread. Side was hand cut oven fries
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Too sweet. I mean, tasty enough in that sweet-broccoli-salad kinda way. Yech.
Lol k
Yeah i think that’s what she likes. And i bet most toddlers also like that too sweet dressing…
but whatever floats your boat! I encourage it because the fact she eats any kind of kale at all is a small miracle that happened only within the last year or so
Hmm. Close call on if this is more or less sad than a Sad Desk Dinner. @escaped knows what i mean!
The delivery app lies about how long your order will take, and an hour (plus) for something from the usual suspects wasn’t tempting.
Went with a good looking big apple from the fruit bowl, added some granola, made tea with a splash of soy, and side of everything pretzel crisps from my snack stash to make this a more balanced meal.
Or whatever.
Odds of my finishing that dark chocolate bar from last night in the near future are excellent.
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Burger patty fashioned after the Juicy Lucy . Baked potato and broccoli. Wine to drink. 
Cheers
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and she cooks - again! (sorry for crappy pic though - i think my lens is dirty.)
Last night I brined Trader Joe’s Frenched bone-in pork chops in water/sugar/salt, crushed kampot peppercorns (gifted by a friend in Cambodia) and coriander seeds. This morning I rubbed them with a blend of smoked bourbon sugar, smoked bourbon paprika, and smoked habanero sugar. Super juicy, and almost as smoky as when we grilled them last time in Stinson Beach. Mashed taters were red/yellow/purples, crushed garlic, with metric tons of butter and goat cheese. And some scallions. Salad was arugula, endive, shallots, toasted pine nuts, walnut oil and a little white wine vinegar. Dressed too early and it got a little wilty cuz one of the chops was like 2 inches thick and took awhile to cook.
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I’m a baking Philistine but that crumb looks fantastic!
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ouch! here’s to fast healing!
