Yaki udon with chicken, shrimp, pork belly, cabbage, mushrooms, onion, and bell pepper
Appetizers for lunch - I played in my kitchen this morning and tried 2 seafood stuffed mushroom caps recipes - 1) Baby Bella mushrooms from raw with (mock) crab/cheese/sour cream/ w. sauce and 2)white mushrooms par baked then stuffed with shrimp/cheese/Old Bay/minced red peppers/Panko. Both had lemon juice and garlic salt in the mix and cheese was combo of shredded cheddar and cream cheese. All were broiled 10 minutes to finish cooking. The shrimp version was slightly more flavorful but crab version was decidedly easier to prepare. Served beside some Costco spanakopita (still working our way thru the giant box of 48, purchased before Thanksgiving), and grocery deli fresh fruit mix.
Trout roe and cream cheese on toasted challah bread.
Baba au rhum, warm raspberry jam, raspberries and crème fraîche.
Good ratio of egg:rice ![]()
Scrambled eggs/feta/chorizo and scallions. No “proper” bread for toasting so I used a couple of toasted dinner buns.
*dinner rolls
dinner buns sounds sexier
Jambon-beurre on olive-garlic bread. Okay, yeah, it was just regular ham. But pretty tasty and “a” favorite sandwich - I probably have a bunch that I consider favorites.
And nice because I haven’t made a baguette recently, and thought all the olive bread had been eaten and I’d have to settle for regular loaf bread. But I found my wife had bagged and stashed a fair chunk of the olive bread in the fridge.
Crunchy GC&B on uber fresh pane Pugliese with a side of crispy, baked, wedge cut potatoes and a dollop of catsup.













