Another pad krapow gai
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Is the bread and the cheese privileged information? Both look good 
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Today’s lunch was a quinoa salad with red pepper and cucumber. Apple slices and speculous cookies for dessert.
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Not at all 
The bread is a sourdough we’ve been obsessed with since we first discovered it last summer at a FM.
The spread. Like crack.
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Does the spread have scallions in it?Ah, I see that it does, that bread looks fantastic, enjoy all your goodies!
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It does, and thank you. It’s pretty expensive from the small local chain that came up wtih it, but there’s a copycat version a supermarket chain makes that is basically the same, for a third of the price. I should really track down a branch near me
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A hearty and enjoyable lunch of grease-less, nicely charred and wok-hay packed ’ Gone Chau Ngau Ho aka Fried beef with flat rice noodle Ho-Fun ’ plus a cup of smooth, strong and dense Hong Kong style milk tea from ‘Wing Tai’, Richmond Hill…Prett
y hard to beat!
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Scrambled eggs with spicy Spanish chorizo and feta, sliced cucumbers drizzled with EVOO and a side of toasted panne integrale sourdough.
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" ZEN, Woodbine & 14th Ave, Markham " - An enjoyable Sushi Goyen luncheon featuring a delightful assortment of well executed, small appetiser dishes.
Still reliable and consistently dependable, after decades of providing above average authentic Japanese fare to Torontonians.
Today’s luncheon menu offers an acceptable array of Nigiri sushi featuring Aburi Chu-Toro, Uni, Ikura, Kaki, Hata…etc. However, for me, the spotlight went to the delicate and lightly battered Tempura dish. Totally grease-less, super crunchy and pleasurable!
Of course, no meal at ZEN can end without a slice of their house-special ’ Mandarin Cream Pie '. Cloud-like fluffiness, refreshing, light and gorgeous tasting. Being a regular feature on the menu for 3 plus decades obviously has its special reasons!!
The only downside of today’s meal was the below-par, commercial quality soy sauce provided for the sushi. IMHO, a bit out of place.
Service by the brigade of Japanese staff was most communicative, friendly and attentive.
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Satisfying (with homemade substitutions for convenience items in this recipe) John Wayne Casserole.
2 c. batch of Homemade bisquick using butter
and half batch of Onion Chive cream cheese much-modified to use dried minced onion and dried chives.
I make a full batch of meat and save half for taco filling, then put a full batch of biscuit mixture in 8x8 pan, under the rest of the meat and top with the half batch of cream cheese mixture. Bake and top with the cheddar/mozz. cheese for the last 10 minutes.
Served with a bag Caesar salad, added snow peas and halved grape tomatoes.
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Didn’t @Desert-Dan make a John Wayne casserole once? 
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Yes… I made John Wayne Casserole, but Sunshine later admitted she really didn’t like it – so the recipe was pulled from the “Recipe Binder”
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Today’s lunch was provided my my local university’s Department of Clinical Research for a gout study that I was eligible to participate in. Let me explain. Based on a previous study that I was in for people with elevated uric acid levels and a subsequent diagnosis of gout, I became a candidate to be part of a new study where they are interested in testing out a skin patch/monitor that can be used to measure transient change in uric acid levels as your food intake changes throughout the day. For 6 hours today, I was subjected to 12 small blood draws and had to wear this small patch on my lower arm which two grad students from Cal Tech would monitor on their computers to see how my uric acid level changed over time. The hypothesis is to see if the skin monitor is as accurate as the timed blood draws. The piece de resistance of this study was to ingest a standard meal consisting of a high purine food. In this case it was a rather substantial amount of tinned sardines in olive oil on crackers, washed down with a can of sprite. Oh, what I love to do to support science!
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Our office has those same paper plates.
Like stacks of them.
Just typing for the sake of typing. Don’t mind me.
Carry on.
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It’s what I buy for our office as well. In BJs-sized packages of 3 packages at a time. Because they use them for everything. And I’m required to buy both 10" and 8.5" sizes. 
Lunch/snack. Ice cold sour beer and hummus and pita crisps on the deck. Beautiful sunny day after this morning’s thunderstorm.
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