because sometimes, “ enough is enough”! And it was, so I didn’t! I wasn’t deprived in the least.
ETA. I had half tonight with plum gelato.
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Cowboy soup and corn bread for lunch today. A nice summertime departure from chili, with ground beef, cumin, potatoes, pinto beans, broth, corn and Rotel. A half recipe makes about 6 servings and is reasonably fast to make, about 40 minutes.
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Fish cakes, from leftover salmon, shrimp, black cod, mashed potatoes, with panko, egg, and capers. I crisped up the skin from the black cod separately. Leftover Greek salad.
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Deli sliced “Cajun”, oven roasted chicken, Swiss cheese and pickles on a baguette with Dijon & mayo.
I had some marinated tomato/cucumber/purple onion salad that needed to be used up, so I whipped out my trusty Magic Bullet and turned it into gazpacho. Very tasty and refreshing on this super hot day.
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I mean why stop now?
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The fish cakes from yesterday, with bacon and thick slabs of tomato, dijonnaise, on whole wheat english muffins. I crisped up the fish cakes in the bacon fat.
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Tak-Fu Dim Sum Emperor, Scarborough - Close encounter with one of the best GCNH in the GTA!
A surprisingly well executed and tasty ’ Gone Chau Ngau Ho ’ aka Stirred Fry sliced Beef with flat rice noodle Ho-Fun, at this hidden gem, Dim Sum speciality restaurant…of all places?!
Lovely smokey wok-hay aroma. Generous amount of gorgeous, caramelised and mildly charred, tender and nicely seasoned beef slices. Same with the slightly charred and well dressed noodles. Barely cooked, crunchy vegetable accompaniment!
At only $13.99 for such a generous portion. What a steal!
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I want to face-plant in those noodz!
Today’s sandwich of the month, still tasting might fine, plan on making more! Sourdough sandwich loaf from a local bakery, Dukes, iceberg, crispy bacon.
Dessert was a slice of yesterday’s crustless pistachio ricotta cheesecake with raspberry compote.
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Hi, Nannybakes, I just wanted to say you are the Martha Stewart of this forum. I’ve lurked on here looking at your beautiful photos of your lunches! But it’s usually on my phone and I’m too old to type as well on it as I do on my laptop. When I had my old qwerty button phone I could go fast, but not on these fat fingering smart phones. And it seems I rarely look or log in on my laptop. I’m going to make that plum frangipane one of these days that you made, it made my mouth water and I found a seemingly good recipe! I started to last year but I will never buy rock hard plums to ripen in a paper bag at home again, rotted and still hard at the same time! Same goes for peaches.
It’s just a wonder to me how you can create these beautiful tasty dishes and desserts on an almost daily basis, it takes me so long just to cut up produce, I’m very slow in prep. Anyway, well done, you definitely have a gift.
Also, we’re still enjoying our ice cream spoons! 
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Post-workout, post-FM visit lunch: another burrata Caprese, this time sans avo cuz I had none, and the few basil leaves from the Wegmans family pack clamshell that hadn’t gone bad 
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Well welcome back, you haven’t been here for a long time! Thank you for your kind words and thoughts, I’m so glad you are inspired to make a plum frangipane, and I’m not as quick at prep as I used to be 
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Happy to hear the spoons are still in good use, and that your boys are still enjoying your cooking endeavors. Hope to see you on HO more frequently!
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Here’s the recipe for the plum tart that I roughly followed. I didn’t prebake the tart shell , I froze it and then added the frangipane and very thinly sliced plums and baked at 375*. Hope you get to try it!
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Thank you so much Nannybakes! This is the one I had found but I will try yours first because of your impeccable taste!
BTW, boys are flying the coop, at least one has!
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That recipe looks equally good, actually relatively similar, I’ve now saved it in my notes along with the other one.
I think it would be just as successful.
Hope your son has not flown too far away!
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I haven’t compared them yet, but will when I get the gumption back to make it and/or come across some good plums!
He’s not too far, I don’t see or talk to him often, but I’m here if he needs me. I did send him a text about Gerber’s chicken leg quarters on sale this week in a regional grocer for .79/lb in a 10 lb bag, ha!
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