We enjoyed an excellent dinner at Walnut Street Kitchen (previously Corso 98), including Soft shell crab aligue over chitarra pasta; mushroom manicotti with porcini and morel mushrooms; Jersey creamed corn stuffed Goldbar squash; oysters Rockefeller with zucchini blossoms in the breading; and whipped ricotta with balsamic figs. It all went great with a couple of excellent Syrahs.
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To celebrate a glorious 80 degree day, an orange poloma and then a Beefeater rocks for the cook slaving over a hot stove. I was gifted thin pork chops so pork piccata it was, asparagus, cucumber, tomato, red onion, mozz ball salad, balsamic/oo dressing with basil chiffonade.
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At friends’ home for Spanish dinner Friday, instead of going to a local beloved tapas place that’s closing soon, because it was just going to be too crowded for [covid] safety (they’re opening in a new location tho.) Host made paella, I made champiñones al ajillo, there were roasted potatoes, tons of cheese, bread, crackers, marcona almonds, membrillo, homemade romesco, aioli, etc. Torres fried egg potato chips were blah, tasting nothing like egg and not salty enough. Gin mayo from Spain was icky, more like Miracle Whip. For drinks: a fantastic Spanish amaro, with tonic, then cava, and then a wonderful Rioja which I ran right out to buy yesterday. Finished off with macerated berries and whipped cream. Perfecto, all of it! The paella was to die for, with a good socarrat.
Then, at my sister’s last night, she made ATK’s Bo Luc Lak and I made Com Do. Both turned out great. We used two different cuts of beef - flap steak and picanha - for the shaken beef, the latter being the more tender cut - and they were both good in this. Rice was really good too - first time making this kind. Rather like my mexi-rice although with soy.
and tonight, i had some leftover uncooked steak from her house, so i tried the recipe myself, using less corn starch in the sauce (so a little less gloopy) and made mine in the wok. i tried to brown the meat more and ended up overcooking it so it was tougher than my sister’s, but still super tasty. i liked using less cornstarch, tho. alongside i made Vietnamese garlic noodles which always steal the show.
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Almost the same dinner I had last night, courtesy leftovers.
Rice, split green moong dal, broccoli slaw cooked Bengali style (mustard oil, panch phoron, mustard).
Last night: frozen fish fingers!
Tonight: salmon cooked in a foil packet with dried lime powder, green chilli, and mustard
Found ice cream buried deep in the freezer, so there was also dessert
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Always love the idea of a bowl but forget to do it — that looks simple but delicious!
(And welcome out of the lurking… it’s nice to hear from you. I also recently employed the mute button for the first time, against all my normal instincts.)
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Tonight’s dinner was courtesy of Costco. We recently bought a packaged Thai red curry chicken dinner to save for a night we didn’t feel like cooking. Well we hit the beach today and swam and roasted for hours. That qualified as a night we didn’t have to cook, though I did make the rice that went with it. End result was actually delicious. Not exactly Thai restaurant worthy but flavorful and fragrant due to lemongrass and Kaffir lime leaf. It required no doctoring, though next time I’d make it spicier. I’d buy again. Just heated in my wok and served. I almost feel guilty. Almost.
Side of frozen egg rolls from the Asian market, air fried.
Drinks in the garden. Couldn’t miss that after a beautiful day. Bombay gin martini for me, gin and tonic with Fever Tree elderflower and muddled mint and blackberries for him.
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I might go into palate overload with bo luc lac and umami/garlic noodles together, but YUM!
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That looks and sounds amazing! Gin and elderflower is my favorite summer combination.
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Then you must try my martini that I think I’ve shared here several times: gin, elderflower liqueur (St. Germaine or St. Elder), and lime juice-- fresh squeezed if you like tartness, or Rose’s if you like more of a sweet profile.
I call it a “French Martini” because that’s what it was called at the bar I first had one. But don’t order it that way because a French Martini can be made many different ways.
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Martinis are too strong for me these days, but I used to be a French martini girl - the original kind, though. Alternated between those and Kir Royales, so your drinks this week have been tempting!
But I love elderflower just in sparkling water too.
Btw - TJs has a pretty excellent elderflower lemon concoction in a can.
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That’s my kind of dinner.
Looks great, and nice to have a convenience product that doesn’t disappoint.
*the preferred terminology for those leaves is “makrut” these days 
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Yes, I was made aware. I knew about the term but just never associated the negative connotation of the “other” meaning with that of the lime leaf. The packaging does, however, use the “bad” term, which is why I repeated it.
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I didn’t know the connotation for the longest time, either. I didn’t mean to come across as judgy & apologize if I did. That was not my intention.
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Knoedel mit Kraut - German-style dumplings (made from bread, bacon, milk, egg, parsley, marjoram, onion, nutmeg) with braised cabbage (with caraway seeds) and topped with roasted onions
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Hope it wasn’t too good a wine!
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Eh, on the higher end of what I usually spend at $18.99 
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Stuck to my weekly menu last night. Add a plain slice of white bread with butter, air fryer (AF) fried potatoes, AF 6-oz salmon fillet, and AF broccolini. It was very good. Had about 1/2 the salmon left so think I will make a small salmon salad from the remainder. And as usual, I ate only half of the potato or less, and half the broccolini. I am trying really hard to eat more, but I just get stuffed and cannot force myself to eat anymore. Am concerned that I am not eating enough to keep my strength up.
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