I love this thread because it allows so much breadth of thought and experience. It’s a good place. If it gets sliced and diced, with different styles having their own threads, I think a lot would get lost. Like a family pot luck. Just walk the table and take your pick. 
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Thankfully big project is done, we’ll see what comes of it (applying for a job that’s a similar field but different function). Meals have still been fairly uninspired…
one night was same salad different day, side of crunchy edamame
Another night was a toss it all in the pot situation with veggies and tofu and some trader joe’s veggie dumplings with soyaki sauce. Bizarre close up!
It’s also very possible i am now 50% watermelon inside. Somehow the market near me has pretty good ones lately! I’ve been adding a tiny sprinkle of the fancy smoked black salt i have
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Good points and true; somehow wasn’t looking at it that way, but you are right. We all eat differently day to day & WFD is the perfect place for those posts. 
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I second that emotion!
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I thought it would be, but the fam didn’t like it.
Well, just among us friends, what does family know? No imagination. They are SO lucky we cater to their taste. It’s HERE we find kindred souls who understand our flights of culinary fantasy. 
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Lovely setting!
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Christina, you do a beautiful job of feeding your family and yourself such delicious and healthy looking meals. Having raised 2 children, it can seem like a thankless task when things go south in the kitchen, or if everyone is tired and cranky. Keep up the good work, you will never regret it. ( We realized our food strategy with the kids, was maybe a little too good, when they didn’t want to go to slumber parties or overnight with friends because the food wasn’t good)!
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That is the ultimate compliment, right? Aww.
Thank you for the kind words - this was too spicy for the kiddo - we made him some other items which he picked at after having two cups of milk and snacks at a playdate earlier. We adults are trying to cut back on calories/carbs where we can 
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An excellent early afternoon visit with Mom. Then some errands.
Then the bell rang across the way, and I headed over to my neighbor’s for Pinot Grigio, cheese, crackers, nuts, and grapes and lots of gossip.
Back home about 7:30 after a plaintive Mrrrow from Alfie through the screen door reminded me the boyz hadn’t been fed.
For me, a very late dinner: a salad using my buttercrunch lettuce, along with hard-boiled eggs, sliced cukes, radishes, halved candy cherry tomatoes, grated carrots, bacon and goat cheese. Penzeys Creamy Peppercorn Dressing with some Tuscan Sunset blend added to the mix.
The pic is pre-salad dressing, as it looks much better.
The evening will be spent reading a bit on the anniversary of Anthony Bourdain’s passing. My heart hurt anew when my FB memories showed up this morning.
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Stuffed celery and home-cured olives.
Prawns.
Add some rice, splash of condiment of your choice, broccoli.
This was a dinner for son and grand-kids and was somewhat of a disaster. One proclaimed she didn’t like prawns, nor broccoli without cheese sauce, and hated mayo. She did eat rice and strawberries. One other ate well, and the third had 4ths on broccoli. However, the first seemed to be the loudest.
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Thank you for the kind words 
Yes, Mrs. P takes flower arrangements to a whole new dimension. She looks for height and depth and the colors of the various flowers have to blend. She really puts a whole lot of thought into each planter. Everything has to be symmetrical. If something doesn’t look right she will just rip it out and buy a new plant to blend right in. She would have made a great interior decorator.
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We had a sensational dinner at Tillie’s in Millburn with @Rich and his lovely wife. We shared a bunch of appetizers including crispy soft shell crab with a corn salad, lollipop chicken in a spicy BBQ mustard sauce, smoked slab bacon with port wine mustard and spicy slaw, gulf shrimp cocktail with lemon and scallions, grilled octopus with Claremont salad and romesco, burrata and shaved asparagus salad with watercress arugula and toasted almonds. For entrees we had pan roasted halibut with maitake mushrooms, ramps, pea greens and giardiniera, molasses brined pork chop with red beans and rice and roasted Brussels sprouts, grass fed NY strip steak with grilled asparagus and roasted onions, and Cajun shrimp and grits with brandy, hot sauce, and sweet peppers. We had an awesome key lime pie for dessert and some incredible wines.
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Made two pies…pizza (pepperoni, roasted tomatoes, and a bit of Calabria chilies) and a peach/blueberry galette.
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Tonight, we’ll start with a salad. Just a supermarket bag of rocket and other leaves. Bottled dressing. Followed by supermarket gnocchi with a home made tomato, garlic and basil sauce.
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Wow, nice spread Eli! Got about 6 crabs this morning. So far the season is dismal. I’ll keep you posted. That softie looks delicious!
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Thanks Johnny!
Wow , wow , wow , and wow . Plus a bottle from Ridge winery. One of my favorites .WOW !!!
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