An evening of fun fellowship & food .
Photos of some of the meal , sans fruits , ice creams and some others .


Tahu goreng

Dry mee siam



Egg , tau kwa and three layered belly pork

Prawn sambal


Chap chye



Beef sio ? Or another rendang ..

Beef rendang

Chocolate fudge - surprise birthday cake . And yes , from Lana again

That pork belly looks so good!

ever buy it at Costco? Or anywhere I guess. It looks tempting although I have enough things to cook.

I had no idea Costco carries it, but will look for it next time. I generally only to the SF Costco, roughly in which section would I find it?

Nothing wrong with that. I know my taste buds have changed over the years. Things like coriander and durian.... right now, I still don't like a strong blue cheese flavour and gag when I smell it.

There are a lot of cooling foods that taste good (assuming done right of course). ma tai ko (I think that's how you spell it... the jelly with the wolfberries and lotus petals in it) is an example... mangosteen... many other sweet fruits...most forms of sashimi that I know of... I agree that there are more "heaty" foods, but it's not too hard to balance out. I like at least partially cooked bitter melon (don't like it raw, but if you stir fry it a bit to retain the crunch it's still good). One version I often get is flat rice noodles with beef and bitter melon in a black bean sauce. BUT you have to get it outside of northern China (I've never tried the stir fried beef in central or southern China outside of HK)... the reason I say that is the beef (or how they prepare it) up there just sucks. If you've had "beef hor fun" or the black bean version outside of China and compare it to the northern part, BIG difference.

tau yu ba! I haven't had this in years... now you're giving me ideas. The only problem is that you can't make just a one person portion. This is like a 4-6 person dish.

Dinner last night... yogurt and blueberries followed baked chicken with carrots... and some homemade hummus

Cool, somebody besides us makes homemade hummus! Mrs. braslvr has it down pat. Doesn't take her long either once the tahini is made.

Up until a year ago, my daughter didn�t know they sold ready made hummus at the grocery store. She has been making it for at least 10 years.

For Sf Costco I�ve seen pork belly in the 3 refrigerated cases that are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the case that has all the cow meat. These 3 cases have display shifts so the pork is there at different times and usually closest to the Candy / sweets (is closer to SCO than to the prepared food refrigerated shelves).

Spinach and ricotta stuffed shells

Tomato & zucchini gratin
roasted baby fingerling potatoes
lobster claws with butter, lemon and garlic

Saturday supper at Trattoria da Vittoria

shared apps including squash blossoms

papperdelle with oxtail ragu


easy breezy fro yo:
pumpkin
strawberry
Toppings:
Graham cracker crumbs
Heath bars







Halloween party before the adventures:
pizza!
butterfinger
kit kat

we also got a lot of candy! Plus I got a hard seltzer because of my david s pumpkin suit!

Just ordered some Jersey Mike subs Sunday afternoon, so we could all get prepared for halloween. #13 and The Big Kahuna are our favorites.

Our local shop only had 4 subs types listed for cold subs instead of the usual 12-13. I called them up, and they said they had run out of some, on Saturday. They got in more meats Saturday evening, but their manager didn’t update their online portal. Took 90 minutes for all the subs to finally show up online after I called on Sunday.

At least they have the ability to remove them from their portal if they don't have the ingredients, but that's still annoying.

Dinner last night... grilled cheese sandwiches, and carrots & celery with dip.