perfect meal.

Ooh I love stone crab. Just had them in Chicago at Joe’s

where do you get stone crab??

Successful attempt at chawanmushi ! Think third try .

Also nasi lemak with fried ikan bills , Japanese cucumber , kang kong ( water spinach ) , deep fried chicken coated / sprinkled with crisp fried herbs & lemongrass , tuna bergedel , .. papaya

Great dinner tonight, a recipe that is new to us. I'm too lazy to Google, but a Melissa Clark recipe of stir fried ground pork and bok choy (Mr CE added shiitakes too because we had some) with rice noodles and basil. Highly recommend! (And bummed we didn't discover the recipe before our Thai basil died in the garden.)

What kind of sauce--spicy?

fun! I love shiitake mushroom but lack space for both that and the cremini which are more popular and less expensive :-)

The recipe called for a habanero but we had jalapenos in the house and so he used that. It was a thinner brown sauce, soy sauce based. I suspect there was also some rice wine in there, and maybe some fish sauce. Garlic and ginger too.

Fresh Market near me has a nice weekly sale on chicken cutlets ($3.99/pound) and this week I marinated the chicken in some balsamic vinegar with a splash of olive oil and salt and pepper. Stuck them on the grill for about 10 minutes and they were a delicious base for a caprese sandwich dinner (sadly the tomatoes are firmly out of season but at least we're still getting good basil).

The leftover chicken will go on some homemade pizza tomorrow night and which should be delicious.

Ok, this is a day early, but won't have time tomorrow...we just ordered "Alinea Group To Go" for Friday night. Fully cooked, must be warmed:

1. Beef Wellington, Robuchon-style 50/50 potatoes, dark chocolate pot-du-creme (Alinea)
2. Slow braised pork shoulder, creamy polenta, fried artichokes, ricotta cannoli (Next: Sicily)
Additional starters of Beef Short Rib Arancini and Soft Pretzel with beer cheese fondue

We haven't decided who gets which meal yet. We both were having trouble deciding between the same two, so just ordered one of each. Maybe we'll share, maybe not :).

Nice! In my experience, you'll have leftovers. The Robuchon potatoes are so rich that a couple bites was my limit.

These both sound very nice! Beef Wellington is one of my favourite winter dishes, but I only have it once every 5 years or so.

Those are the potatoes that I am making for Thanksgiving.

So awesome about alinea! Back in July 2015, I helped watch our friends’ daughters so that they could enjoy Alinea; we all live in San Francisco and it was pure lucky that this occurred! I drove from my Chicagoland suburb to their rented condo in central Chicago (hard to find on google maps), then drove back to Chicagoland for Sunday supper and then returned the daughters to our friends in some other suburb parking lot. A week later we ended up on the same virgin flight and it got awkward for me because their seats were behind ours.

Thursday supper:
French toast and plain cold tofu
steamed bbq pork buns (frozen)
white rice
orange chicken (Trader Joe’s)
steamed shrimp dumpling (frozen)
steamed seafood dumpling (frozen)
baked green onion pancake (frozen)
steamed tofu & bok choy

i love the dim sum! I’m so happy to never return for carryout dim sum. I love garykung!!!!!!!

that said, I need to figure out the Panda Express orange chicken recipe. A healthy version.

1/2 grilled artichoke
Butter lettuce with gorgonzola, candied walnuts & dried cranberries
Roasted brussels sprouts with panko and crumbled bacon bits
Grilled halibut

Tonight we will be making home made sushi for the first time. We've bought the mat, the nori, the sushi rice, the ginger, we have the store cupboard ingredients and we'll go to the fishmonger later this morning when the sushi grade fish arrives from the coast. Can't wait!