TJ’s chicken karaage over a big green salad with carrot-ginger sesame dressing with a little wild rice and fresh basil. ALDI pork spring roll and duck sauce on the side.
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My dad would have swiped those potatoes right off your plate!
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LOL. I just took the saved bits of a Chinese barbecued port roast out of the freezer to make fried rice tomorrow - like yours! Looks great!
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We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Cafe Panache in Ramsey, NJ, including a delicious Berkshire pork chop with apple, maple, shallot reduction; linguine with lobster, crab, shrimp, and mussels in a white wine and garlic sauce; lobster bisque with mussels; tuna tartare with avocado, ginger, seaweed. It all went great with an excellent Chateauneuf Du Pape and red blend.
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Take-out crab croquettes, octopus, patatas bravas,
and seafood paella from a wine bar called Salt in Toronto.
Cakes from a coffee shop called Coco’s: Swedish princess cake, lemon raspberry coconut, and pineapple upside down cake,
and Bakery Pompette’s Crème Caramel.
Enough leftovers from today and yesterday that I won’t have to cook tomorrow!
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Last month someone posted in WFD about flammkuchen. Piqued my interest and tonight’s dinner was a totally bastardized version - TJs pizza dough from the freezer. Creme fraiche, pork belly sautéed with onions, a little bit of grated fresh mozzarella. Served with a green salad.
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For our last meal in Strasbourg we picked La Cuiller a Pot https://www.lacuillerapot.fr/ -perhaps best described as elevated French neighborhood restaurant with “typical” French cooking/dishes but also interesting small unusual details like the chili con carne with figatelli sausage which adds an interesting deep livery funk to the dish. Only both steaks had a few very chewy gristles. Overall a great finish to our stay in France.
Vegetable cakes
Italian-style steak tartare with focaccia and arugula
Chili con Carne with Figatelli sausage
Rabbit strudel with leek confit
Fried rabbit leg with summer vegetables
Steak de jour with vegetables
Gourmand dessert
Ice cream variations
Fin
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What’s your verdict on the pork spring roll (unless you already commented on the Aldi thread)?
Dat rabbit strudel, tho! 
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I thought they were really good, actually! Third time buying them. But our local Chinese sucks.
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Kathi rolls again.
Chicken seekh, pickled onions with cumin and chilli, and green chutney in ours. Mom’s had veggie patties made with potato, cabbage, and carrot.
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Leftovers from the fridge and a few stragglers from the freezer.
Eggplant Parmesan, leftover salmon plaki (tomato and lemon), leftover crab croquette, leftover take-out Patatas Bravas.
From the freezer: store-bought Mexican corn fritters and store-bought hot wings.
Sautéed Swiss chard and kale from the garden.
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I made haluski with garden cabbage and parsley, Klement’s white cheddar brats (which are more like a polish sausage or Käsekrainer to me), and heirloom tomato salad. Worked.
I bought a bunch of stuff (TJ’s frozen entrees, etc) for easy or heat n eat meals and the truth is, my DH and I feel pretty uninspired by them. Once the freezer is empty of all the boxes we will go back to actual cooking.
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So very beige but tasty. Everything local but the mustard (France) and butter (Ireland). Roasted smoked bratwurst, sauerkraut, gold potatoes, shallot. I see a repeat in the near future…
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Ensalada Valenciana-ish
Rio-Mare tuna
Good tomatoes
Cucumbers
Pickled veg
Romaine lettuce
Shaved Parmigianino Reggiano
Red wine/Dijon vinaigrette
Close enough
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Beef Rendang, which I tinkered with a little (added shrimp paste to the rempah, doubled the chiles she called for and then added a couple chiles de arbol on top of that). I liked the results, so I have penciled them in on the recipe for me to remember when I make this again. I used trimmed blade steak as my stew meat. This is a wonderfully indulgent recipe and I am very much looking forward to the leftovers for lunch later this week!
Oh, and this was served with jasmine rice and roasted green beans that needed badly to be used up!
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I originally typed YUM!!! but was told it wasn’t a complete sentence. 
YUM!!!
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Tonight’s dinner was a Thai basa fillet green curry. I had originally planned on having a risotto but I decided I am no longer interested in the risotto recipe I picked out. It calls for sautéing fresh tomatoes then adding other veg then risotto. The tomato breaks down and turns into a marinara type sauce which tastes great over pasta but not so much in risotto. Just my personal preference 
It was also a good excuse to finish up the little bit of coconut milk in the fridge.
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