Taco pizza (from frozen), leftover fennel slaw, green salad with mustardy dressing. The babe ate two bites of slaw - I was floored. And two whole slices of pizza with all the toppings. I’m easily impressed these days 
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THAT TACO PIZZA LOOKS DELICIOUS. Love the plating.
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It was a very good day.
For both Mom and me.
I like these kinds of days. 
Dinner was decided on the way home from Mom’s: a cracked black pepper turkey, provolone, and caramelized onion grilled panino with honey mustard mayo, and some fresh corn on the cob.
A peach and blueberry cobbler with Turkey Hill Trio’politan Triple Vanilla ice cream. Yum!
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Thanks. I played no role except purchasing and dousing in chipotle sauce 
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That cornbread tho 
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In memory of my beloved husband who would have been 82 today, I made the ff dishes.
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For main course, I am offering Korean Sweet Potato Starch Noodle (Jap Chai or Chap Chai )which is actually derived from Chinese words meaning many or 10 vegetables. Usual way is to use marinated thinly sliced beef but since I have problem with red meat nowadays, I am using cooked pulled duck meat from Maple duck farm. To the cooked duck, I added caramelized onions, garlic, rehydrated shitaki mushroom , rice wine, mirin, rice vinegar and sesame oil , a touch of satay peanut sauce and Korean fermented bean paste. Also a pound of Argentina red shrimp cooked with garlic Evoo and chipotle adobo saiuce. Veg were stir fried ( carrots, leak , bell pepper) while asparagus tips were roasted for 8 minutes in oven with Evoo , garlic and rosemary. Noodles were cooked in boiling water for 6 minutes, then shocked and drained, and added sauce which was mixture of honey, soy sauce, lime, pepper and sesame oil.
All were cooked separately then of mixed together.
Dessert is Chinese glutinous rice cake with my version of adding jackfruit for my husban had gd luten enteropathy / This was one of his favorite breakfast and snack. Tom and Jery ice cream and a bottle of TJ’s chianti.
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Wonderful photo. Very evocative.
Thank you!
Evocative, yes. Of my last days of freedom drifting away… 
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This is a lovely way to memorialize the day. You were lucky to have shared such a lovely home, garden, son and so many memories.
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I can really appreciate this. It has only been two years since my dad passed away suddenly, and I find myself having nights where I make his favorites. Some are more sad than others, and some are gushing with happiness. Still can’t get used to it, but we loved to eat and there is sometimes no better way to connect than with food (or in my dad’s case a gin martini, straight up, extra olives 
). I don’t know how long its been but my condolences and well-wishes anyway.
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In case anyone is interested we had another excellent dinner at Drew’s. Details and pictures are in the below link.
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Butterflied pork chop, coated with panko and parmesan, sautéed in evoo. Smashed potatoes topped with roasted tomatoes and the lemon/oil/juice from the tomatoes. Stewed green beans and wine. Three day weekends are so nice.
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I’ve diligently disconnected from everything this past week, it’s been fantastic of course… i hate living so far away from my family. Dad did have tomatoes ready for me!
I also pilfered the farmers market of course… local avocados!! Lots of raw veggies really, and taking photos of dinner just isn’t done so much… caught a bad photo of the gazpacho i made though! Crazy amazing, used a combo of backyard tomatoes and some from the market, didn’t have enough ripe yet here.
There are some grape vines in the backyard, wine with dad (mom doesn’t drink) was a daily event. Mom will make jam from the concords once they’re ready to pick
The daliahs were all blooming, lots of them in the house- mom’s favorite flower so dad grows several beds of them
My sister and I discovered that cheap bubbly and homemade kombucha is a great combo!
And of course lots of quality time with Jaggers who has a whole zoo worth of toys- the monkey is his favorite, on the third or fourth generation monkey now… 
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Nice, all of it! and what a cutie pie pooch!
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At my sister’s for the day, and we grilled a shit-ton of meat, enough to eat for lunch/dinner, some for the BF, and for leftovers for all of us for later this week. We had 2 rib eyes, a skirt steak, flap steak, and a small rack of baby back ribs. Didn’t cook the sausages, just too much. My sister’s biz partner was there too, and he likes his meat cooked to shoe leather, so i made him his own NY steak. I made chimichurri, grilled scallions, and the ribs became Epicurious’ Sticky Balsamic Ribs. Marinated the flap steak for a bit in lemon, garlic, thyme and evoo. Truffle salt on one rib eye. Brought home a whole rib eye for the BF, some ribs, and almost all the skirt steak, which will become tacos later this week. Nuked fresh corn on the cob with TPSTOB and truffle salt for dessert.
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@mariacarmenz, VERY nice!
Inspirational.
Husband’s New York Strip;
And mine.
Okay ,I did reverses mine a it too.
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First tomato from the garden . Going to be one of the few . Damn you Dolores … Yum . Grilled chicken with sides . Wine to drink .Cheers.
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Nice antipasti …
