For Supper tonight my husband surprised me with pizza. Sorry no picks dove in right away!
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Last night’s second booster wiped me out today. A mid-afternoon trip to Home Goods, and I was done.
Wasn’t super hungry, but I had taken the dough, sauce and sausage out of the freezer, so…
Sausage and roasted broccoli pizza with some tomato sauce augmented with tomato paste, dried basil, oregano, parsley, garlic powder, and a smidge of Aleppo pepper.
A very small glass of wine, as I expect to crash early. Sleeping in and a late morning nap didn’t help.
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Beef keftedes, with lemony roasted potatoes, Greek salad and tzatziki.
Red onion, shallot, parsley and dill from the garden.
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Caprese salad with herb sauce.
Fish chowder with mushrooms and wild spinach. And too much lemon, but don’t tell anyone.
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The corned beef is making it’s swan song tonight. Accompanied by brussels sprouts colcannon, my butter pool sprang a leak, and a salad of butter lettuce, radicchio, avocado, carrot, green onion with honey mustard dressing.
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Played sous chef at my sister’s tonight - first time making homemade ravioli - 4 cheese - with her tomato butter. Asparagus was perfect with the sauce. French pink bubbles from TJs.
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Wonderful looking ravioli but the little dog is a scene-stealer.
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That’s Rita Moreno! 
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Fusion Salad. It’s a little Cuban, a little Vietnamese, a little Korean, and a little Island. It is also really good. So light and refreshing with so many different textures and flavors. My mouth is happy.
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We had another appetizer night (a.k.a let’s tear through the fridge, freezer, and pantry looking for odds and ends to get rid of). Didn’t manage to get through even half of what my goal was-- BF brought a couple of snacks from the Thai restaurant on his way home from work and while they were delicious, they kind of filled us up.
No pics of the food since was not really concerned with presentation.
Drinks were a Bluecoat martini with an orange slice for me, a dirty Aviation gin martini for him, and mom joined us and had an Appletini (vodka-based)
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After watching the latest episode of Top Chef Houston, which was finally barbecue related, we had a hankering for brisket. As I have no plans of getting to Texas anytime soon, and no clue how to smoke brisket, we did take out from one of the local joints. Chopped brisket with burnt ends, collard greens and ranch beans. All very tasty.
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We finally had a chance to eat some of the batch of red braised pork short ribs I made earlier in the week (and then froze). I used some in udon noodle bowls with homemade chicken broth and bok choy.
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I call those a “bits and bobs” meal. 
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Country style pork ribs seasoned with a pork rub, baked covered with foil at 300° for 2 hours, then uncovered and slathered with Dinosaur Garlic-Honey BBQ sauce augmented with a drizzle of Mike’s Hot Honey and baked for another 20-30 minutes.
Sides were roasted paprika Yukon Gold potatoes and roasted Brussels sprouts.
Wine. And I’d recommend never ever EVER buying Treana Chardonnay, which I tried to open tonight. I spent 20 minutes just trying to get the foil cap off the bottle. It couldn’t be cut with my bottle opener. I had to use a sharp knife to make small cuts to the cap, and then needle nose pliers to peel off the overly heavy duty foil cap in small pieces. Once I got that off, the plastic “cork” refused to let loose from the bottle.
It’s going back to the wine store with my receipt to get a refund, and the vineyard will be informed. Sorry dudes. Do NOT make me work so hard for a glass of wine! 
(Yes, I know, first world problems. But my money, my choice to bitch when I don’t get what I expected.)
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That looks so good!
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OMG. I want that!
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