Good game! At Dallas next week. Will try to be in Vegas for it. Dinner tonight is probably something light at an airport lounge--flying out again this afternoon.

Leftover pizza from cellarmakers, Sf (Friday night)
hot & spicy with pepperoni
vegetarian


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d889268fe.jpeg

[MENTION=7051]corky[/MENTION], your food pics always look near restaurant quality. When can I come for dinner? :) I'll bring wine!

wow...what a nice thing to say! You just made my day. ☺ No joke--- nothing would make me happier than to have people to cook for so come on over! And wine is a bonus.
There are plenty of times that I am just eating cheese and crackers for dinner.

Appetizer: goat cheese with cranberry and port sauce, Finn Crisp crackers

Main: grilled chicken patty sandwiches with Buffalo sauce, lettuce and fresh garden tomato slices

Sides: Ranch beans with jalapeños, ruffled potato chips, chopped salad with poppyseed dressing

Turkey tacos - while wearing TACO SOCKS

carrot cake
“baker’s special” cookie from Black Jet Baking


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...2729f15c1.jpeg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...cccab7efa.jpeg

In my view, all the dishes here look fabulous. Yours however always, at least to me, look as if prepared in a restaurant. For food like that, I'll offer to bring a bottle opposite the color of gfunkdave's, if it'll land me an invite!

My dinner was relatively spartan--several bowls of airport lounge chicken pieces mixed with shredded cheese and ranch dressing. With the recent disruptions and scheduling, wasn't able to eat for around 40 hours, and it actually tasted good! LOL Rerouted my cancelled flight to Vegas to spend the night before heading home tomorrow, and should have a really nice dinner tonight.

You are on!
A little sprinkle of herbs makes things look fancier. ;)
How could you not eat for 40 hours?? Is that a typo?

Roast pork loin with garlic butter and herbs (plus whole grain Dijon for me because I love mustard with pork)
Kale salad with craisins and poppy seed dressing

Ah, I've been mostly flying redeyes with AS connections in SEA which has been subject to some unexpected IRROPs, probably from a 10% reduction in capacity and inclement weather. We all have our quirks, and one of mine is that generally I won't eat any food before a long flight, especially redeyes, primarily because I don't want to risk getting sick and very risk averse before long flights. So, add all of the delays, missed and rearranged connections and unpredictability of flight scheduling, it all lead to a long delay before I was comfortable eating before my final short connection into LAS.

final leftovers from cellarmakers, sf
cheese pizza
spicy pizza

big mixed salad


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d5fcb3e17.jpeg



I took a red eye in October and had supper at Sfo giants clubhouse restaurant :-)

I hope you don't post your taco or food underwear. :eek:


You have to wait your turn, I asked her first. :p

Actually, I think I did. Many, many pages back in this thread. :p

I have the same socks in black, but I’m not posting pictures.

However, I have boxers with various fruits on them. You people better hope I don’t have pineapple for lunch today.

Too many croutons on the salad. I bet you were noisy.

They’re socks! They’re so cute. Taco socks.

Lol the dressing tamps down the noise. Yes they’re normally super BEC loud and still so yum.

I assume you have the entire set as well.


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...70a215c2a4.jpg

Where do I get those? I have the taco ones, but I do not have the rest of them... I NEED those. You've heard all of the stories about my socks, right? :D

No, I don’t know anything about your socks. Mine have been accumulated over the years from multiple sources. I’ve found Old Navy to be a good source although less so today than 3-5 years ago. Sadly, I only wear long pants a few days a year now and I have a solid collection that remains unworn due to looking weird with shorts.

Bagels and hot/smoked salmon
I’m pretty much at the point of getting all smoked salmon at Whole Foods. The KS value pack doesn’t get consumed on a timely manner even if it’s half the cost.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...edc2b02d8.jpeg


wear what you want - you’ve risked your life for our nation, you’re super hot, and nothing will look weird on you.
I tend to find any fun sock design at the mega cliche Sock Shop type stores.

I need to be on a soft diet for a couple days so potato gnocchi with sage brown butter and parm

LOL, I have a collection of socks with various prints on them, from foods to animals. :D

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...539036c8b.jpeg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...f39b62780.jpeg
Wings, fries and slaw with a Sam Adams Cold Snap. The sauce was not as hot as the name implied, but tasty all the same. Our neighborhood bar and grill is back open after a year and it felt like the whole neighborhood was there.

Sorry to be critical of your meal, but the sauce looks like gloppy BBQ to me. Glad they tasted good though! I've been overly sensitive to wings lately after our local NextDoor site had a long thread started by a person who moved here from Buffalo and was asking where she could find authentic wings. I was appalled by some of the places people suggested - confirming my belief that while Chicago may have a million places to get wings, they're not something we do well. I do have a few suggestions for anyone looking for wings here though :).

I can only imagine some of the places that were suggested. If I'm looking for true Buffalo-style wings, I'm heading to Buffalo Joe's. But as a Northwestern alum, there's a heavy dose of nostalgia in that decision. (Once upon a time YakZie's was also a fav, but I stopped going once the Diversey location closed.) Where do you recommend?

Im not a wing snob, but you are correct. These were not lovingly nor authentically produced. There are better places locally to get wings. My excitement comes from the reopening of the nearest bar and grill to my home, a drive of under 5 minutes. They kept it pretty quiet, but word got around. Now, if they can just retain their employees ……

I am surprised that Beef o Brady's has three locations in the Villages. I frequented them while living in PC. Only upside on the wings was that they had wing specials either Tuesdays or Wednesdays.
Last time I was at the BoB in Melbourne and the wings were so so.

Remember the good old days were the restaurant at ORD airport, AA terminals, sold the best wings. They were breaded and spicy.

We used to patronize the one in Lynn Haven when we lived in PC. There’s a strange phenomenon there - lots of dads would bring kids there on Sundays, I guess they got the kids on the weekend and needed someplace to eat with football on the TV. Other days of the week, it was more of an adult gathering place.

Lots of things in The Villages come in threes because of the three squares. The one we patronize is in Leesburg, 10 miles south.

I’m not a huge Beef’s fan or anything. The steaks there are particularly bad. But the wings are okay. I am of the unbreaded wing school.

Ramenwell, Sf ca delivery via DASH

souper spicy pork ramen (supposedly with ghost peppers)
chicken katsu app

very ace. My ramen was spicy. I loved the delivery convenience!

assd sugar gluten for dessert :-)

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c34c81958.jpeg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...dec18baf8.jpeg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0f21538c1.jpeg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d54b392ac.jpeg

Last night, I had finally gathered to courage to try pork chops medium. It was great! I had it with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc and can see enjoying pork more this year than I ever have in the past.

By the way, this dry January really isn't working out for me this year, thus far.

Grilled salmon, grilled asparagus, jasmine rice, no pictures.

Chicken and bok choy turmeric congee -- great cold weather soup with plenty of leftovers!

Grilled (in the rain) salmon
Mashed sweet potato with butter and brown sugar
Few bites of leftover Israeli couscous
No photo
Salted caramel truffle Gelato

Two of us at the SIN DO dinner had Tournedos Rossini , photo of mine is shown here

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...7349407f2.jpeg
Tournedos Rossini served with truffle mash

Part of our meal here
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/33906452-post58.html

Pasta with ricotta, lemon and spinach.

Actually, Buffalo Joe's was either the first or second most recommended. I haven't been there, but will try it. YakZie's was surprisingly only mentioned once or twice, but remember I'm in the north shore now. Honestly, I'd say I haven't found a great wing place yet. I think the most authentic and best I've had is Franks for the Memories in Mundelein, but that's a hike. I recall Gators in Wheeling were good but haven't been there for 15 years. It was mentioned quite a few times too. Besides the names I mentioned in this post, you would frown at just about every other suggestion.

Those may be wings, but not Buffalo wings. No breading allowed in the authentic version. I like southern fried chicken too, and Nashville spicy, which this describes. I'm not knocking the breading. It's just not Buffalo wings.

If we only help one person here on FT, it was worth it. :D
Seriously, glad you enjoyed it. I recall it opening a whole new world of lean pork possibility to me.

That actually sounds really good! Spinach is the *only* green veggie I can eat, and generally with lots of cream. My love for spinach probably stems from those old Popeye cartoons?

LOL...Especially when it comes to all thing culinary, I'm always open to new ideas! This way of having pork is game changer for me where it eliminates what was my prior issue, namely that I find well done meats too dry. Nothing wrong with well done for those who prefer it, but it's just not for me.

Squeezed right out of the can.
I don't know if this makes me too young or too old. I remember watching the cartoon, but I don't think I've ever seen spinach in a can. Always fresh or frozen - and frozen in those little cardboard boxes.

Back on the thread topic, I'm almost afraid to write this so I don't jinx it. My wife agreed to let me make my homemade split pea soup for dinner tonight. She claims she doesn't like it, so this is a big deal. Maybe it's just that her taste is only about 85% back after COVID :).

Anyway, my company gives MLK day off, and her company doesn't. So I will happily start putting my soup together around 2:30 today while she's working. Can't wait to smell those ham hocks simmering.

It would have been better if I had used full fat ricotta but I used low fat. Lots of lemon and lemon zest. I used frozen chopped spinach. Spinach is so healthy...I should eat it more often. I love it sauteed with garlic (and maybe bacon!).
I am so glad to spread the word to rid the world of dried out & overcooked pork. Go for it...pork tenderloin & pork chops await!! The exception would be tougher cuts such as pork butt which needs low and slow and long time cooking.

I have a relatively short list of foods that I have permission to cook any time. Pea soup is on it and I am grateful for that.

One of our favs: roast salmon over lentils with fennel, cucumber and herby yogurt sauce. I did the salmon in the air fryer and was impressed! (Plus Daisy dog will enjoy her crispy salmon skin.)