Child # 5 26th birthday yesterday…# 3 daughter (very pregnant) and hubby at a long time family favorite restaurant in Manhasset ; Café Continential, (which was just sold to the bartender) .
Fantastic drinks, appy’s and mains… no pictures of the food 
But a great meal none the less:
Hot antipasto
Bacon Wrapped shrimp
Burrata and diced tomato
Flounder in horseradish crust
Broccolini, sausage with risotto
Linguine with white clam sauce
Chicken with artichokes
Chicken Scarpiello
All served family style one dish at a time with grilled vegetables and roasted red potatoes Each of us had a small green salad along side with a simple mustard vinegar, and EVOO dressing.
Hey after eating at this restaurant for 25 years, they do treat us well…
Oh and by the way…wine; a PSTOW
A lazy Sunday dinner after a very good but tiring weekend. Mesquite seasoned chicken thighs in a frying pan (too windy to grill,) big garlicky buttery chunks of fresh zucchini and some halved cherry tomatoes to round it out.
Wonderful meal last night at a new-to-me izakaya. Can’t wait to go back!
Yellowtail collar in miso broth
Spicy salmon and avocado “tacos” on tempura nori
Yakitori - tsukune/meatballs, chicken with nori and yuzu kosho, molten center eggs with bacon and truffle
Grilled corn strips
Grilled squid with miso butter (that butter though…)
Earlier in the week - warm mixed bean (moong, moth, black eyed peas) salad with the spicing from a maharashtian dish called Usal.
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Chawanmushi with spicy chili crisp - tried a new cooking technique, didn’t love it. Custard was still tasty, though.
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And that cured salmon has been too easy to peel off from the freezer. Griddled bun (yeah, still those hot dog buns
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Tomatoes, goat cheese, basil, mint, balsamic, EVOO.
For me, new greens with Momofuku “ranch” dressing.
Linguini with scampi style prawns: shallots, garlic, herbs des provence, thyme, parsley, white wine, splat of butter, pasta water, thickened with crumbs
Great pics Eli! Did you happen to know what kind of wood? As you know, I live rib eye and all things cooked over wood. I’m salivating 
Thanks Johnny! Sorry, I don’t know what type of wood was used, but the rib eye was delicious and had a nice char to it.
After a morning cleaning up after and feeding goats, I prepped salad greens for the week, made a big batch of green goddess dressing, cooked up some fresh TJ’s peas with the last of the pancetta for tomorrow night, and prepped tonight’s dinner: pork burgers with grated ginger & garlic, mae ploy, fish sauce, sesame oil, and cilantro. Super juicy. also made a cabbage slaw with green onion, dressed in mayo, rice vinegar, sesame oil, mae ploy, sriracha, and lemon juice, that came out a little soppy but really delish, and went great on the burgers. toasted english muffins turned out to be the perfect choice - they weren’t too bready for the burgers, which shrank down to slider size.
then, an experiment, with the leftover coconut/turmeric bucatini from last week - I made pseudo arancini! they turned out nice and crispy, but were a pain in the ass to keep together and needed a sauce, and even though they screamed out for cheese in the middle, the thought of pairing a coconut/turmeric thing with cheese just didn’t sound right to me.
I have a “kitchen” in my flat but it’s barely usable so I have been making the simplest meals. Can’t really do much anyway being on a small island, at least there’s a tiny supermarket where I can get some basic things.
Here too, I was working and needed to use gmail, it was weird the whole evening. This morning is fine again.
Loved your chicken crust, mind you the CRUST. 
Ugh, I was wondering if it was just me, local to our company, or more widespread. Sorry it was more widespread…for both of us!
I knew it was their problem, both of my gmail accounts were down!
Great meal, as usual. I want that potato, might see if I have time to make it.
Happy birthday to Child #5! You have a big family!! A lot of celebrations and meals!
Clam! Chicken Scarpiello!
Hahaha! You did a great job to keep those together!
Upcoming - burgers on brioche buns, with kimchi.
OK, now kimchi is a new taste for me. I’ve read about it but, until the farmers market on Saturday, I’d never tasted it. I loved everything about it - the heat, the crunch, the sourness. So I bought a jar - the woman who sold it suggesting the burgers. So, I’m going to have a good half a jar left, which she suggested I not leave in the fridge for weeks but get on and find other things to do with it. Any favourite ideas, folks?
Saturday night, we went to le Marais, Mr. n wanted absolutely a pizza, I had some ink pasta, we both had tiramisu.
Yesterday lunch was cod with fresh onion and soy sauce, cucumber salad with smoked roe
Dinner: grilled mackerel cooked with miso and ginger, spinach salad.
And it’s still being investigated this morning, but at least it’s working. I came into work to a BUNCH of Admin Emails starting Sunday night through the early morning re: problems with GMail, Hangouts, Forms, Vault, Docs, Calendar, Drive… Blurgh.
Kimchi bacon fried rice or kimchi pancakes
For the pancakes, the mix is found at asian markets, but you can substitute all purpose flour with a bit of rice flour and cornstarch for crispness.
The kimchi liquid is also good in a salad dressing.
