I had big plans to make potato leek soup today, but couldn’t muster the energy and effort so I made macaroni and cheese with quinoa.


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Three meat platter with cornbread and macaroni and cheese for lunch.

breakfast... bowl of corn flakes!

Japanese restaurant luncheon with a friend I last saw in 2019! Yay for vax

shared agadashi tofu
ramen - pork

Dinner tonight:
Eggplants with chicken and basil
Pork wantons with TJ's sweet/spicy sauce
Rice & salad

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I bought two of these pints back in February, ate one right away, and have been hoarding this one for nine months. Thankfully it’s not freezer burned. It’s as delicious as I remember, but I woke up at 1 am in the armchair with a cat on my chest and my innards creaking. I sometimes forget I can be lactose intolerant.


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Dinner last night was at Bond 45 for my mom's anniversary. The band leader is best friends with my stepfather and it was a great show.
Oh yeah! We ate... pizza, fried calamari, grilled octopus, Caesar salad, and artichokes. Those were shared appetizers (we were a big group). I couldn't stay for the actual dinner since I had work early this morning (or so I though), so I picked up chicken over rice from a halal cart on the way home.

Used to love Corn Flakes, it was one of my favorites. I still like it but I prefer All-Bran now.

The biggest ice cream discovery I made this year was the 7-Select "chocolate fudge tracks" from 7-Eleven. I'm not big on chocolate but my friend is, and she said we should try it. It was some of the best chocolate ice cream either of us ever had.

Breakfast: oatmeal
Snack: poppy seed bagel with cheese
Lunch: BLT (with turkey bacon) on whole wheat
Afternoon snack: seafood salad

-J.

mapo tofu with LKK sauce - only 1-1/2 tbsp because it’s 550mg sodium per tbsp
sauteed / darkened spicy cabbage (hot sesame oil & chili garlic sauce)
leftover basmati rice

the lkk jarred sauce had the best mouth-numbing tingle that all my attempts with Sichuan peppercorns never achieved. Can’t believe it and I’m a jar convert. I grew up with lkk sauces and really thought that I could make my own mapo tofu. Ah well. At least I know that my mapo tofu never bested lkk.


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humphrey Slocumbe ice cream is a gem although I rarely eat it. I still wouldn’t try the prosciutto ice cream because I prefer sweet child flavors and none of the savory adult flavors.

Chicken rice ice cream...

A couple times a year I throw caution to the wind and order from the local pizzeria. Ham, sausage, pepperoni, green pepper, onion, black olives.


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Dinner: light chicken noodle soup, baked sweet potato, cucumber

-J.

My last meal on the island (Kaua'i) a carne asada bowl with Mexican rice from Da Crack.

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Up early this morning, and recall the pic of your ice cream. So, I'm going to follow suit and have some ice cream too; though, mine is simply Haagen Dazs Chocolate, not nearly as exotic as yours.

I had a Groupon to a past favorite BBQ place that was going to expire while we’re out of town. This place would never pick up the phone, and just had you leave a message. I wasn't 100% certain they were open every day.

A friend who works nearby was coming by for a visit, and offered to pick some food up. So we got to have some wonderful baby back BBQ ribs.

That was nice.