Another salmon and avocado salad sandwich with lettuce and thick slabs of tomato.
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I went for afternoon tea with one of my meetup groups today and it was hit or miss. I met up with a group of ten rambunctious ladies in an old house that had been converted to a restaurant. It was nicely decorated with wood paneling, chandeliers and curio cabinets with china tea cups, figurines and flower arrangements. They serve mostly brunch and afternoon tea but they also have drag brunches and dinners as well as bachelorette parties etc. Definitely a popular spot for the ladies. Our waitress was lovely but she had a tiny voice so when she stood at one end of the table to explain how the menu works no one could hear her. Basically it’s a set menu and it changes seasonally and she told us what type of sandwiches and pastries we got.
Tea chests were set out on the tables when we arrived so we could see what types of teas were available and what they smelled like so when our tea orders were placed, the chests were taken away and our tea arrived. I ordered mint tea and it was lovely.
Our towers came next and that’s the part that was hit or miss. The bottom row was our sandwiches which were served on toast points with various toppings. The egg salad one was the best IMO (it had a curried taste to it) and the carmelized onion and apple one had a little cinnamon in it and came a close second to the egg toast point. We had one toast point with bruschetta with a balsamic glaze that I didn’t like too much and the last toast point had carmelized KOS mushrooms that tasted kinda funky. The middle row had two unidentifiable pastries on them. They were flavourless so I couldn’t even guess what they were. The top shelf had pastries and the only one I could recognize was the eclairs in front. The whipped cream filling was tasteless. I haven’t been eating out too often these days so when I get a bad meal, it’s such a let down… Another blurry picture for your enjoyment:
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I think egg salad with a touch of curry powder is nice. But not everytime.
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First homegrown pickle of the season, garden tomatoes, half-cooked egg with furikake seasoning, celery, cheese (from Valley Shepherd, maybe Tammany?), olives.
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A reheat of yesterday’s onion potato chicken casserole. I made a half recipe (giving us 6 generous servings) using homemade equivalents for the French Onion sour cream chip-dip and also the cream of mushroom soup, both of those from Pioneer Woman online recipes. The casserole recipe itself didn’t say to thaw the frozen diced potatoes, but I should have guessed given the 30 minute listed baking time. Mine, frozen, took an hour to heat, plus 10 minutes for toasting the French fried onions topping. Today’s reheat in the microwave was much faster, and I added a round of topping for the necessary satisfying salt & crunch. Sides - broccoli and red grapes. I think I’ll keep this as just a potato recipe and make it the side for chicken or beef main.
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Not a Reuben but quite tasty…smoked ham, aged provolone, sauerkraut, and bottled 1000 island on sourdough, cooked on the griddle.
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That looks great! Now I need to go to the Thai Grocery!
That set up is great as little wraps in some Leaves(I use Lettuce) with Slivers of Ginger, Toasted Peanuts, Herbs and Lao Tomato Dip/Jeow Mak Len 
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I made a small test batch of Tuna Cakes from a recipe I found on the internet. I need to add a little more binder (bread crumbs) as one of the two test cakes fell apart. Sunshine ate the good one before I could get a picture of it, but gave it a thumbs up approval for a future dinner main course.
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Today’s lunch was a cauliflower salad with cucumbers, red pepper, celery, green olives and capers. I had a Cortland apple and a couple of shortbread cookies for dessert.l
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We were picking up a few things at Aldi and Sam’s near lunch time, and decided to give a locally owned sub shop a try that had been getting rave reviews in one of my local Fb food groups. We rarely go out for sammiches, but vicinity + timing + hunger = done deal.
We shared a 6" club with provolone, ham, turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo on their own bread, with a small cup of their house dressing on the side.
When I bit into it at home I tasted nothing. Like, zilch. A faint hint of smoky bacon. I swear if I had closed my eyes I would not have been able to identify any toppings, cold cuts, what have you.
The bread was pretty uninteresting, TBH, but I’m a bread snob 
I was mystified. Then I remembered I was on an oral rinse. I looked it up and — lo and behold, it attaches to your tastebuds. I had a similar reaction to a rinse I took in Berlin & stopped it just in time before an expensive sushi dinner.
I therefore held off on reviewing the place, but I also doubt we’ll be back. Subs are just too uninteresting for us…
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What oral rinse?
Chlorhexidine glutonate. Yummy shit.
The bread doesn’t even look that good - it looks more like standard issue store bought brown bread. I would be interested in hearing a post-rinse review although it doesn’t look like there will be one 
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Well, my PIC was on no rinse regimen, and he thought it was just OK. Certainly not worth returning. The bread was lame.
americano slice at Gino’s: bacon, mushroom, olives
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My daughter made a nice taco/wrap of a lightly charred HEB flour tortilla, a chopped up Dr. Praeger’s crunchy southwest sweet potato and black bean burger, chopped romaine, avocado, and HEB fresh salsa. Nom nom.
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