Homemade Pozole.
We freeze leftover various smoked meats over a few months, then make pozole.
This time it was tri-tip, turkey, lamb leg, and some Costco NY strips that were super tough originally.

Pot roast - Whole 30 cookbook. Cooked in the crockpot with beef broth, carrots, onions, celery, green beans and butternut squash. Seasoned with garlic and thyme.

mashed potatoes. Butter and almond milk add-ins only.

Caesar salad
Grilled avocado with blue cheese
Roasted Brussels sprouts with balsamic & honey
Grilled halibut w/cilantro, lemon brown butter
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Corky, you truly make the best looking food. Totally restaurant quality, Yum!

Aww...what a nice thing to say. Thank you. Actually, I should have cleaned up this plate a bit before taking a picture but oh well.

Pacific halibut from the dock. Caught this morning, and 5 lbs of fillets cut right in front of me on the boat. Possibly the best halibut I've ever had. Freezer is now stocked as well. Last years local catch was scarce, expensive, and soft/mushy textured. Not so good.

Pan seared halibut with garlic butter drizzle.
Farmer's market steamed broccoli.
Corn on the cob.
I'll figure out photos again one of these days.

Sports event:
bowl of round tortilla chips

post-event at home:
salami & Swiss on toasted arizmendi baguette
Trader Joe’s Hawaiian hickory chips


I will probably have a big ramekin of nuts.

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I found this at the bottom of the freezer, a place I haven’t been until recently as I continue to empty it.

I plan to do a stir fry. I have broccoli, green onion, carrots, bell pepper. I will add cauliflower fried rice on the side.

Edited to add: it came out nicely. The chili oil added a kick without being too much. I fried the riced cauliflower in sesame oil - one of my all time favorite flavors.

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Pot roast and a glass of Bonny Doon's 2013 Le Cigare Volante.

Cavatappi with pancetta, arugula, Gorgonzola and toasted panko
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Caesar salad (new best recipe book)

Dijon broiled salmon (nyt easy recipe)

first time I’ve done the new salmon recipe. Big hit. I haven’t made Caesar salad since Xmas Eve.


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Tonight's dinner, accompanied by a Boxler Sylvaner and a mostly syrah Rhone of which I don't recall the vintner.
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Those tomatoes might have been the best bites of the night.
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I don't like our State Bird, so they subbed a piece of Salmon on the same set up. (There was also a veg option to sub.)
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That tuna certainly wasn't from a can. And those peppers had names earlier that day before they sacrificed themselves for the plate.

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Who knew that plum ice cream could taste so good? I know. The almond cake that was soaking it up.

Happy Birthday!

🎈🎈🎈Happy Birthday!🎈🎈🎈

Thanks!