It’s actually surprisingly difficult to find good Alsace dishes in a restaurant in Colmar without hitting very touristy places. The old city center where we stayed is beautiful but also a tourist hot spot. Our first try to find a good place was Bistrot des Lavandieres https://www.bistrotdeslavandieres.com/ which turn out to be good but not great. Dishes were cooked OK but also lacked some finesse and creativity and service was much more rushed than your normal french restaurant
Thai red curry for dinner tonight, but verrryyyy late because yours truly got waylaid by a childhood classmate and got very late getting home to make dinner.
Vegetarian version had fresh baby corn, mushrooms, and cauliflower, plus a tiny bit of mock duck to see if mom can manage it again.
Made a (bone-in) chicken version for us with most of the same vegetables.
The coconut milk was disappointingly anemic, but other than that I thought it turned out well. I used Maggi instead of fish sauce as the curry was made vegetarian, and the chicken cooked separately in curry paste and coconut milk. Jaggery for palm sugar and a splash of vinegar plus lime juice at the end.
That is a delicious looking salad. I have shown to DH, and he got the hint, I am happy to say.
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Dinner was a flop tonight. My bad. I made NYT’s miso-ginger chicken and rice skillet but made too many changes, I guess. No one really liked it. My DH didn’t understand what it even was.
No food pictures, but it was breakfast for dinner. Bacon, eggs, blueberry pancakes, cooked in the (almost) fully functional kitchen. Oven trips the breaker when turned on, electrician on vacation for the next week. So close!
Burners working fine and we still have the toaster oven.
But the place looks great! Back splash to install and floor to refinish, all by the end of the month and its done.
Chicken thighs, seasoned with s&p, garlic, oregano, paprika,seared and roasted. Cofftc, haricots verts salad with red bell, orange tomato, red onion, oo&v dressing.
Cleaning out the freezer as part of operation relocate mom to the other coast. Frozen salmon marinated with tamari koji and then grilled. TJs cauliflower gnocci with pesto. Caesar salad from a Costco kit.
Brascioles over bucatini. I had a random craving for them and BF wanted meatballs. So I made mine and he made his, threw them into the same pot, and simmered for a couple of hours. I also requested his foccacia again which I will never grow tired of.
