Outer Orbit with most of the other moms in book club

shared Brussels sprouts
japanese curry chicken katsu

shared hawaiian donuts

Steamed with baby carrots. Lots of real butter and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a fresher cabbage. That may be the reason it tasted so delicious. But it may just have been the butter which is a rare treat for me.

Actually the carrots weren’t babies. They just didn’t grow very long despite spending 4 months in the ground. I have until the end of tomorrow to complete harvest at the old patch as it’s been promised to a couple starting Sunday. Good timing as we are forecasted to reach 35 Saturday night. I will start planting the new plot on Monday. Frost begone!

Original Joe�s lasagna
mixed green salad with BEC croutons

Los Laureles Mexican restaurant: carne azada, lettuce, pico de gallo, refritos, rice.

Grilled rib eye from Trader Joe..not great
Baked potato with butter and chives....the first time I have made an actual oven baked potato (not nuked) in forever. Big difference ...delicious
Daou Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles

We shared


Galician Octopus

Asparagus with macadamia

Butternut squash and pumpkin veloute


Black Angus SHORT RIBS 100 DAYS Grain Fed


Beef ribs with gravy

Pasta with cherry tomatoes , macadamia and pine nuts

Steak - Argentinian grass fed Angus rib eye



Iberico pork Secreto

Strawberries vanilla choux

Chamomile Mango roll

No photos -- sorry! We got to our neighborhood pub on the early side last night because they make a fantastic corned beef, and we missed out last year when they sold out right before we arrived. Last night we had poutine, corned beef and cabbage over garlic mashed potatoes with a mustard sauce, and a Reuben pizza. All were excellent. Mr. CE has been lobbying the chef to add poutine to the menu (they already serve cheese curds and fries), and it's one of their March specials. Mr. CE has now moved onto lobbying the owners to make it a permanent addition.

(Being married to a Quebecer and living in a city where a fair number of places make poutine, but very few do it well, can cause some headaches. There's a place near us that not only serves it, but includes a challenge on the menu that says it stacks up against the best Canadian poutine. I never heard the end of it after we ordered that one. (Spoiler alert: It did not stack up.) As it is, he's ordering a modified version at our local pub because there's an inauthentic ingredient being included.)

Oh, and Guinness! I've avoided beer for the last month on the theory the histamines were exacerbating my migraines, but decided to give it a shot last night and felt fine this morning. That said, I need to do more digging about histamine levels in specific types of beer. I was able to find an abstract of a research paper -- which costs $55 to access -- that says:
Porters are typically made with malted barley while stouts like Guinness are made with unmalted barley, so it's tough to know where stouts fall in order of histamine levels.

Looking for a way to use leftover ham. Made chef salads using romaine, green onion, cucumber, grape tomatoes, red pepper and garlic olives, bleu cheese, ham, hard boiled egg. Citrus dressing.

Dessert was cottage cheese with canned peaches.

Split pea soup (either homemade or enhancing the canned stuff)... egg salad? Omlettes/quiche? Pizza topping? Fried rice?

Beef ribs from the oven, using a Sam the cooking guy recipe, with roasted potatoes and tossed salad.

Ice Cream

Egg salad is something I hadn�t thought of.

Crooked Spoon - Clermont, Fl: Blackened grouper BLT, kettle chips.

Sourdough roll with tapenade
Saut�ed Sand Dabs and pasta puttanesca
sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand
I wish I had thought to take a photo

nfl match
Chase center, Sf ca

hot dog & fries
shared nachos