Made oyakodon* for dinner tonight -- a nice comfort-food meal that comes together quickly on a Friday night. When I was born, our next door neighbors were a Japanese family on assignment to the US, and my Mom, who has always had an adventurous palette and been a great cook, asked the woman for a recipe for katsu donbur**i. As my Mom tells the story, she hemmed and hawed before finally sharing a recipe, and my Mom always interpreted it as a reluctance to share a homestyle dish that (50 years ago) you'd never serve to guests or eat in a restaurant. (Maybe the US equivalent would be chili mac or tuna noodle casserole.) Anyway, I grew up eating homemade dishes like katsu donburi, paella, and mu shu pork, among others, and it's definitely influenced my palette!

Fortunately my husband is equally adventurous (or he wouldn't be my husband). Years ago I went on a date with a guy (Chicago firefighter) who told me he'd never eaten Chinese food. (You live part time in a firehouse where everyone cooks and you've never had Chinese?!) He then proceeded to order a caesar salad, hold the anchovies, dressing and parmesan (in other words, romaine lettuce with croutons). Needless to say, it didn't work out.

* For those who don't want to google, oyakodon is chicken, egg and onions simmered in a soy/dashi broth, then served over rice and topped with scallions.
* Katsu donburi is the same onion and egg mixture simmered in the soy dashi, but you fry a panko-crusted pork cutlet, slice it, put it atop the rice and then put the onion/egg/broth over it.

King crab legs (optional garnish but it’s best eaten solo!)
oven steak fries
mixed salad

Never eaten Chinese! Wow. In my experience people who have bland palettes have bland personalities.

Agreed!!!

Last night my better half made Cooks Country's slow cooker sausage ragu with egg noodles, garlic bread, and a Caesar salad. So simple, yet so good.

Leftover Persian fish stew. We both had big (leftover) lunches, so didn't feel like cooking dinner.

Grilled filet mignon and Italian sausages
Grilled asparagus
Homemade cornbread muffins
Strawberries with whip cream
Jelly beans for dessert

St Louis cut pork ribs smoked 5 hours in the Traeger, macaroni salad, baked beans. Lacking greens because, well, we didn't have any in stock oops . Mrs. braslvr's usual birthday request dinner.

Grilled steak
mashed potatoes
beef broth gravy
grilled onions
grilled mushrooms

ice creams:
Robbins Cherries jubilee & Haagen Dasz chocolate
Haagen Dasz chocolate & Robbins rocky road
Robbins rocky road & Robbins peanut butter chocolate

super delicious! Yummy

BBQ chicken with a potato salad of potato with broccolini, asparagus and a chimmichurri sauce

I had some Royce Nama chocolate for dessert last night. My first time, pretty nice!

Tofu Salad with Goma Dressing , Deep - fried Kawa Ebi , Deep - fried Soft Shell Crab , Beef Inaniwa Udon with Japanese Kagoshima Wagyu / kelp / Wakame seaweed and for dessert , Momo Ice-cream ( Japan - made Peach Ice-cream ) .
All downed with iced Japanese green tea and iced water , both with lots of ice cubes

Leftover mashed potatoes
leftover steak (still a bit medium rare/medium)
grilled evergood hot link sausages
gravy
raw vegetables

the leftovers were warmed up so well!!

You put gravy on steak?

Homemade beef pho for dinner last night. I think Japanese curry is on the menu tonight.