That one sounds good. I read that it was originally (1940s) made with just a couple dashes of Maraschino and served up with a sugared rim. In its current evolution it’s closer to an Old Fashioned subbing out the sugar syrup. A Martinez is a good one, too – of course it also contains sweet red vermouth.
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A bowl of comfort: qeema with kale (adapted from an Ismail Merchant recipe in a 1986 cookbook that I have been making since then) on yellow rice with yogurt and baby cilantro. Yum!! There is lots more for the freezer and I am trying not to go back for seconds because I certainly don’t need them.
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Another candidate for shitiest dinner pic ever. But it was delicious!! Teriyaki tofu, roasted delicata squash, braised eggplant with mirin and shoyu. And rice.
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Looks good to me!
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You must have fixed something somewhere because it’s nice and clear to me.
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Hot Italian sausage, orecchiette, spinach, chicken broth and Parmesan all melded together. One of our favorites.
Homemade apple pie (well Pillsbury pie crust) for dessert with whipped cream because we were out of vanilla ice cream.
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Really nice.
Sunshine and I found a bag of sweet potatoes on clearance. She really enjoys sweet potatoes. The problem was… they were very small. So I cleaned, peeled and shredded them into (yet) another casserole. This one had sweet potatoes, hamburger, onions, mushrooms, corn & tomatoes, then topped with a little cheese and crispy french fried onions. In hind sight, I’m wondering if I should have added some tomato paste to the hamburger when I browned it?? Any who, it was Yummy!!
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No sugared rim, thankfully!
Another Wednesday, another ladies night. I wasn’t planning on one this week bc last and next were/will be social marathons, but a core member’s birthday was on Monday, so… yeah.
We got together at our usual watering hole, where I ordered an autumn salad with escarole, broccoli, hazelnuts in lemon buttermilk dressing. It was listed, however, like this:
escarole broccoli, hazelnuts in lemon butter
milk dressing
A bit confusing at first, and a little sweet for my taste. No pics cuz we were seated in a dark corner in the back. Fun night with a couple new ladies & a surprise bruise on my right knee this AM 
Hot pot night was planned for today - with or without a dinner guest - but temps aren’t quite chilly enough. We’ll find a way to use up the ginormous bag of baby bok choy I picked up one way or another 
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Send that on over here, please 
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Mixed Mushroom Japchae using oyster and king oyster mushrooms I picked up in Chinatown the other night.
Gratuitous and unnecessary steak on top (I had some cooked and frozen) that I ended up taking off because it was interfering with the mushroom-y-ness.
Other recent dinners:
HO group meal at Hakka Cuisine:
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French food, not once:
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But twice:
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No effin way was I gonna cook and muss up dishes tonight, so off to the new Vietnamese joint down the street.
Crispy, meaty spring rolls and the B4 vermicelli bowl with grilled pork, sausage and another spring roll. Very tasty and the place was rocking by the time I left.
I’ll be back to try the Pho 
Much needed addition to the neighborhood.
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Those spring rolls look amazeballz!
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Crunchy and meaty, just the way they should be 
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Change o’plans. The weather was too nice today to huddle over hot pot, so we decided to grill a couple of swordfish steaks seasoned with a mix of Penzey’s Greek & Lemon Pepper seasonings.
I roasted a couple lbs of broccoli according to the NYT “recipe” minus the garlic. Broc coulda been slightly crispier for my taste, and I found it rather bland, despite using Tony Cacheres instead of just salt, added grated parm on top, and ample squeezes of lemon juice before serving. Lotsa room for improvement and, perhaps not surprisingly, plenty of leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch 
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