Our event in PayPal park was so fun that I couldn’t leave my seat to get food. Then an hour to return home…

10:30p supper cooking (Started thinking about it during the drive home)

Leftover Noodle pasta with clam sauce (canned clams)
first time I’ve cooked it - I first enjoyed linguine with clams as a child.

It strongly resembles Chinese chow mein and it’s definitely more Italian as it has butter & olive oil.

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My cousin and her husband are in town and coming over for dinner.

Hummus with pita chips and veggies

NYTs Mediterranean chicken with a lemon garlic yogurt sauce

Grilled romaine salad

Tomato, cucumber, pickle and parsley salad (if you want to feel like you're eating shawarma)

Naan

Rice
Berries with lemon marscapone and mint

Satisfying Japanese meal
 

After a rather disastrous Japanese meal the night before , we dined at one of our regular clubs & had Japanese again .
Had to try erase the memories of our bad meal , even when one has to be thankful with dining in possible with a friend . Also one gets travel through meals & to eat during these stressful no or restrictive travel times ..

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Ikura chawanmushi
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Tofu salad
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Tempura chasoba
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Sakura Ebi
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Shiosaba
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Ebi , love the Japanese mayo
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Momo / peach ice cream

What was I thinking ? I will be eating leftovers for a while. CE's steak dinner inspired me to try Wagyu. It is good but I probably won't buy again. Cooked to 126.
grilled Caesar salad
baked potato with sour cream & chives
broccoli & cauliflower with cheese
Steak with butter & thyme.
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Zazie Sf supper with friends. Zazie is one of the few ZERO TIP restaurants in Sf where one cannot tip.

dinner roll
french onion soup
lamb tagine stew


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Dinner last night was another batch of Atlantic ling that I caught, prepared as fish tacos.

Sort of. Cold Asian noodle salad with shrimp - but made at home.

How does this make you feel? Weird not to tip? I'd love to see all restaurants move to no tipping. At places here like Alinea or Next, one buys a ticket that's all-inclusive, so your tip is included in the ticket price. But until more restaurants get there, the non-ticket restaurants that are no-tip still feel strange to me. I have to fight the urge to leave a little extra in cash on the table after I pay the check.

Tonight, my wife is having a couple friends over. I reluctantly agreed to pick up Greek food from one of our local favorites, since they don't deliver. I'm craving gyros now but that might change by this evening :).

Rather eclectic meal including :

Grass fed New Zealand beef , Maine lobster brioche , potato purée , baby Chinese vegetables .. photo of main taken after the steak was consumed along with half of the brioche


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Dollop of potato purée , vegetables and part of the Four Seasons Hotel lobster brioche
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Blackthorn durian ice cream

grilled chicken thighs (Brazil lover style - 40 minutes on grill, turned over 4-5 times)
bbq sauce on the side
Baked potato
roasted beets / carrots
raw organic vegetables

Omg I love no-tip places. Or the Michelin places that have a flat 20-22% tip. Saison Sf was 20 and Singlethread healdsburg was 22.
I always otherwise overtip because it’s just brutal business which is why I’m so happy to reduce restaurants in my life. So zero-tip places are perfect for me.

Oh, me too. I want them badly. Show me what I'll pay in full before I order. I'm just not 100% comfortable with them yet, unless the meal is all paid for in advance, including tip. And I don't care what they include for the tip in their prices, because I can make an informed choice before I even decide to eat there. Competition will keep prices fair.

Burgers and roasted brussels sprouts. Nice simple summer dinner.

Omg braslvr grilled chicken thigh tip for the win. 40-45 minutes at LOW with 4-5 turns on the grill. Maybe it took longer than the 40 minutes they mentioned because I brined the thighs and surely didn’t perfectly dry them. Plus at one turn, I discovered that there was zero flame so I restarted the grill :-)

omg omg I love braslvr cooking tip. I learn so much here. My family asked me “what’s Brazil lover’s real name” so I responded “b r a s l v r” :-)

grilled chicken thighs (braslvr)
Baked potatoes
roasted carrots
raw carrots & cucumbers
sautéed beet greens

roasted beets (not eaten - too full but they’ll be a future salad!)

maybe sugar dessert


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Thanks, glad you liked them. All grills are a bit different and I'm thinking your "low" is a tad lower than mine. 40 minutes on my grill at low yields a definitely darker skin which I like. For me, on your grill, I would try bumping it up to between low and med next time.

thank you!
this was so delicious that I didn’t use much of the Korean bbq sauce I stirred up. Our child ate two thighs with zero sauce.
it’s really nice to now know that I can eat bbq sauce from the jar without needing to cook it. I never realized that it’s a condiment like ketchup or mustard.
I really want to cook these again and sooner than later. Mega yum. Omg.

Cast iron-seared salmon filet over black lentils mixed with sauteed leek, onions, carrots, and celery. Vibrant and healthful.

Trend for the day .. somewhat German

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Bratwurst and veal chipolatas
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French beans with egg

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Veal sausage omelettes

2 attempts with the omelette

My moms book club at NOVY, San Francisco CA

assorted mediterranean appetizers for table:
olives & feta
spanikopita
brussels sprouts with bacon

main:
lamb gyro with fries
2 fort point 6.3% villager ipa

dessert:
Easy Breezy froyo
tart nonfat
chocolate custard FULLFAT

I walked the 5,500 steps from home to supper. I got a ride home from another mom in their blue Tesla
I’m so wasted


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Now those are some nice looking fries! The gyro looks good too.

Georgia — but not really Georgia — peach cobbler, recipe courtesy Chicago: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...215-story.html

it’s the restaurant that once was pasta pomodoro location in noe valley before the neighborhood became mega popular. During the 80s & 90s I barely knew it and pre-pandemic I was coming there frequently each week.
the food is delicious and fries uber crisp. Love them so much. That said, I last ate there on january 17 2020 with my spouse. Carnt say why we’ve yet to return because I normally would get the chicken gyro. Now that I’ve grilled thighs ala braslvr, I’m not sure if I would ever need to order chicken at any local restaurant for the rest of my life.

We had dinner last night at The Goblin Market in Mount Dora. No reservations so we were invited to dine in the bar which gave us access to the pub menu as well as the dinner menu. Mrs BV and her dad ordered 5 spice duck breast. I had grilled amberjack off the specials menu. All were accompanied by crisp, thinly sliced vegetables. They had mashed potato as well. I had wild rice and some sort of orange puree to anchor the fish to the plate - it may have been sweet potato. Very nice bread service and excellent micro greens salads with the most delicate vinaigrette I’ve tasted. A bottle of California cab and a couple Drambuies straight up for dessert. Very satisfying. Unfortunately, the place was too dark for pictures and we all dug in the minute the plates hit the table anyway.

I would eat there just because of the name.

Tonight we are heading out of town for the 4th. Depending on traffic and how far along we are, I'm hoping our dinner stop allows my wife to try a Culver's butter burger for the first time ever. If not, maybe on the way home :).

My partner would say, "Depending on traffic, I'm hoping we can stop for a butter burger on the way and on the way back!" :D

(With a Heath Bar or Oreo Cookie concrete for dessert - contingent upon what the flavor of the day is!)

Halibut with an anchovy, garlic, caper brown butter sauce and kale salad

Spaghetti with Rao’s marinara & KS beef meatballs
rotini with Rao’s marinara & some KS beef meatballs
rotini with butter & pecorino with KS beef meatballs

Popeye's Fried Chicken sandwich !

I wish there was something more than a “like” button.

opinion? I’ve heard strongly positive comments. I’ve seen the Popeye’s queue at the Sf location.

How did this taste? Did the anchovy clash with the halibut?

It was great -- and no clashing. Anchovies add a nice umami flavor, and I suspect that if you didn't know there were anchovies in it, you'd never guess there were. I think anchovies are a great ingredient, and people who shy away from them do so because they don't understand their full flavor potential (or they bit into a filet in a salad and got pricked by a bone).

There are many discussions on here about it. There might even be a whole thread. This wasn't my first.

I can not do a whole anchovy but I agree....in many dishes, it just disappears and leaves a nice salty, umami, rich flavor. I just use anchovy paste (perfect for Caesar salad dressing) and it is very versatile.

I love the stuff in the tube -- so easy to use.

It’s my favorite of the spicy chicken sandwiches. I prefer it with a slice of pepperjack on it. Beats CFA by a bit, Church’s by a lot, Wendy’s by a bit. Haven’t tried the new McD’s one yet.

I love anchovies in pasta. Overdo it and make it bold! One of my favorite meals was my first night in BsAs and I ordered fettuccini with anchovies. I swear the Italian food in Argentina is on a par with the best of what I’ve had in Italy.

We got our shingles shots this afternoon (2nd for me and 1st for Mrs BV). We went to the brewery to celebrate. And thought we would eat dinner there. But the cook failed to show up for work. So we went home and I cobbled together dinner with cold turkey breast, sweet corn and chopped salad.

Is pepperjack cheese an option or do you add it yourself? I think it could use a couple slices of bacon.

Grilled chicken - braslvr style
baked potato
potato skins
purple rice
roasted carrots
sautéed onions
raw veggie tray
kim chee

bbq sauce
Korean bbq spicy sauce

I love braslvr!!! Soooo happy!!!!


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CFA has pepperjack. The two Popeyes I’ve eaten at didn’t have it. Good bacon is always a nice add on.

Friends over for a BBQ

Chips, dips & crudite

Smoked ribs
Corn on the cob
BLT pasta salad
Assorted popsicles from our local palateria

John's Grill, San Francisco. One of the rare downtown tourist spots that you really have to try. I'm a local and have been eating there most weeks for years. I rotate dishes, but most times I order an off-menu steak frites that I sort of invented, with the rib-eye and peppercorn sauce - they'll probably end up adding to the menu and naming it for me if I ever do anything with my life. :cool:

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