that looks wonderful!
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Really?!
For Respectfully Declined yes. For you? Not so much.
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Sushi out. I made an adult birthday cake with apricot jam. Next time I would make a darker chocolate frosting.
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I’m a‘miring your adult sprinkle management. @NotJrvedivici has sum competition.
Happy birthday, btw.
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Chilly day, so eggplant chili. With some green sauce left over from Mexican takeout, and squeeze bottle sour cream (first time I’ve had that) from some Airbnb guests. Didn’t have time to eat my lunch, so I repurposed the hardboiled egg and made it more fancy.
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Dinner was shell pasta in a vodka cream sauce I made on Sunday, with hot Italian sausage, shiitake mushrooms, arugula, and red bell peppers. not sure i could taste the vodka at all, but this was delish. Sausage came from Italian butcher Panizzera in Russian River, where we spent our anniversary weekend. Nice and quite spicy, considering i added no extra red chili flakes. While we didn’t love the sausages whole (dry texture), they were great in this, and I’d buy them again.
BF made one of my favorite salads - super simple, old WW recipe - thinly sliced raw zucchini, basil, arugula and parm in a very lemony vinaigrette.
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It is raining today. Break out the bourbon, a Manhattan, and it feels like a soup day. I found meat balls and cannellini beans in the freezer. Sauteed carrots, onions, red peppers, swiss chard, added chicken broth and then the meat balls and beans. Warm baguette and butter, green salad, avocado, sun sugars, green onion, mushrooms and bleu cheese dressing.
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Yummmm
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Some blackened chicken that had been marinated in Mama Sita’s BBQ sauce. This is of Filipino origin and is a wonderful blend of sweet and savory, producing a nice caramelization. It honestly tasted like it came from an Asian restaurant. With Trader Joes butternut squash cauliflower risotto. (This was MEH-- it was just missing something)
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After a VERY rich dinner yesterday, today was a light minestrone. The colors are a little muddled due to my using a bean called “orca” that is, you guess it, black with white spots. Tasty though. And a bit of a cleanse. I think I’m going to gift myself some more heirloom beans for Chanukah this year. If anyone has an inside edge on when they might be doing any promotions, I’d love a heads up.
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That sandwich looks incredible!!!
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Adding birthday wishes for @Christina M and Mrs P! Do hope you enjoyed with great food and good company! 
And for @LindaWhit later in the week! 
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Feeling myself again!
I baked two desserts to take to friends’ where I had been invited to dinner. Two because I made one, but it was experimental, and then I got anxious about the outcome, so I quickly made something safe as a backup.
First - I made up something I call Rasmalai Cake - flavors based the Indian dessert Rasmalai, and inspired by tres leches cake which I love. Flavored with cardamom and saffron.
But when I started having doubts about the soaking working, I decided to make flan as a backup. Used orange to flavor it.
Well, the cake was big hit, so the flan was unnecessary. And still, most of both got eaten, haha. Totally forgot to take pics in all my stress.
Oh - dinner was tacos and fajitas, ordered in.
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Grissini, cream cheese, smoked salmon, and a hybrid face to face and Zoom meeting.
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Looks very lovely.
How many Saffron threads did you employ ?
