sigh - nothing to see here, yet I post. Moar leftover tuna potato salad, pan con tomate, and a half-cup of the BF’s white bean/sausage soup, which was delicious.
mourning the loss of Pee-wee Herman today… I think we’ll watch The Pee-wee Herman Show tonight.
Slow-cooked broccoli and mushroom in tomato sauce, served at room temperature, 'cause it’s hot.
Salad with lettuce, tomato, cukes, tarragon and parsley from the garden. Avocado, shrimp, squid, onion and radish not from the garden. Served cold, 'cause it’s a salad.
I hope you feel better tomorrow!
Crab Mac’n’Cheese - no sodium citrate was harmed when making the dish “conventionally” with fusili, flour, milk, cheddar, Monterey jack, asiago, old bay, nutmeg, tomatoes and crab
Had a lovely day off. BF and I saw “Barbie”. I didn’t think I would be seeing it before “Oppenheimer”, but there we were. Drinks and apps afterwards as we discussed the movie. The bartop was made of slate and they conveniently provided chalk.
Fantastic cocktail bar. Huge specialty menu but I felt like a Negroni. Had not had one in ages. Saw an Anthony Bourdain clip the other day of him professing his love for them so that must have put me in the mood. It was perfectly made in a gorgeous glass Stirred, not shaken🙏-- so many bars rush cocktails by shaking everything. Not here. BF had a Tequila Scarlet Knight with jalapeño salt on the rim.
To eat: a batch of their house specialty “double fried” chicken wings which were excellent texture-wise and then honey butter rice balls. The menu was Korean inspired and the menu described them as “Korean Gnocchi”.
Being near the Indian food capital of New Jersey, we picked up a Biryani and naan on the way home.
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I always specify the more boozy gin cocktails I order (including, but not limited to, martinis) to be stirred, not shaken.
With all the hype that Barbie movie got, some people might’ve missed a lil independent flick about a physicist we caught at the local iMax this afternoon 
Most of the 3 hours were actually quite engaging, even though the political intrigue could’ve easily been cut down by a good half hour. RDJ def stole the show as Strauss. I still wanna see Barbie, tho 
Dinner at a new Greek we discovered Sunday while scootin’ around town with the cutesy name It’s all Greek to me! wasn’t the greatest we’ve ever had in Berlin, but certainly better than the stuff we had a few weeks ago. We split pikilia kria, grilled xtapodi, and pork souvlaki.
The pikilia included all the Greek dips/salads, i.e. tzatziki, melitsanosalata, skordalia, tirokafteri, tarama, fava, as well as a dolma, gigantes, patzaria, and a chunk of feta. The skordalia was far too light on the garlic (when it’s literally named for it FCS), the tarama a bit bland and short on roe flavor. My homemade tzatziki is also better than theirs, and the gigantes were underdone.
The grilled octopus, however, was grilled perfectly with a light char & incredibly tender. It needed a splash of olive oil & lemon, both of which were available to us at the table.
The souvlaki (tenderloin) was also pretty perfectly medium & flavorful, the potatoes nice and lemony.
We had a crème caramel forced on us & two ouzos. Whaddya gonna do? Walk a few more steps vs. taking the tram to our doorstep is what. Tomorrow we fast 
Trying yet again to join the fun here at WFD.
Sunday was a salad of quartered grape tomatoes, corn cut off the cob, thinly-sliced red onion and cukes, liberal sprinkling of cilantro. Only dressing needed was Penzey’s Szechuan Roasted Salt + Pepper. Angel hair pasta topped with Quorn soy chicken, with dabs of my garlic scape pesto (last of last year’s batch, which I excavated from the freezer; I made a huge batch right before our recent 2-week trip).
Last night was the same salad, this time I tried topping it with fresh peach chunks (I generally don’t like mixing sweet and savory, but this was fine), grilled halibut with generous globs of pesto for B, side of Korean-ish vinegary cukes. At 12 o’clock on B’s plate was leftover scrambled eggs from Spring Onion’s breakfast for dinner. I have finally nailed the bacon-making and even was complimented by SO 
(I neglected to take a photo of his dinner).
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Sorry for the delay, folks - here’s the link to the August 2023 WFD thread!
Thank you. I have some HonDashi granules which look like would work well.
How does a takeout buffet work? Isn’t the entire idea that you pay for what you can eat while you are there?
Maybe the fortune should take its own advice? “Pithy reigns.”
I imagine it’s like a salad bar - fill a container and head out.
Pay by weight? That would make sense then. I just envision otherwise one person going in and buying enough food for 2. Or for 2 days. We went to an “all you can eat” Korean bbq once where you grill the meat, where we paid per person. Signs all over the place said they had the discretion to surcharge if you over-ordered by a significant amount. I think to counter this scenario where you are ordering to have leftovers. Not implying anything about the poster. Just wondering how it worked.
