tonight was potstickers, airline pretzels, two Pirate cookies, and a navel orange

I made Leczo.


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I used smoked Hungarian kolbacz. I added chicken breast to the recipe.


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It came out like this. There rice underneath and sour cream on top. That’s me in the spoon.


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semi-fatty BBQ pork and roasted pork rice with salted egg.

Tonight, we returned to one of our favorite buffets, Ginza, where we haven't been since February 2020. Although they have signs, "requiring" face masks and plastic gloves. they can no longer enforce it due to DeSantis' ruling. I would say 90% were masked walking around, but only around 50% used the provided food service gloves. My wife and I used a pair of gloves to serve ourselves, and changed them when back at the table as the food could be a little messy. I had only a few items, snow crab, raw oysters (huge) about 3 dozen, ginger scallion lobster in shell, cut up into small pieces, and some pan fried gyoza. We tried to put Diwata into her crate before leaving, but she knocked over her water onto the mat and soaked it. We tempted fate, and left her outside the crate, but confined to the family room only. She was very well behaved, not doing anything besides eating her food and playing with her toys. We rewarded her good behavior with a treat when we got home.

Youth baseball team party, held at a park after the final match of the season:
Goat Hill pizza - meat combo, veggie combo, cheese, pepperoni
tri tip sliders
grilled hot dogs
spam musubi
L & L bbq teriyaki chicken musubi
bbq pork buns (from a dim sum spot)

now valley baking cakes:
strawberry (very fresh!)
chocolate Oreo

we brought Gatorade and I noticed Capri Sun. There was also sangria, fresh lemonade, and Izze drinks.

I ate way too well. Yummy. I haven’t had some of this stuff in over 15 months!

How was your sushi?

Thanks again - Trader Joe’s has the slot & sign for it and lacked it when I was last there. I know what to get :-)

I don't necessarily have to buy my pepperoni at a certain store and I think there are lots of good pepperonis out there. I like Hormel or Boars Head off the top of my head. It is not something that I am overly brand loyal about. Because of Trader Joe's business model, in most cases they will only carry 1 or 2 brands of a product or only their private label. Most groceries or deli markets will have a much bigger selection.
And Volpi is carried many places.

I plotted fish tacos for supper tonight although I need bell pepper - Costco this morning lacked peppers. Grrrrrrrr - i went to a different location than my “usual” Costco.
i might settle for pickled peppers as I have them in a jar and can just rinse & use them for cooking. It’ll cost me more but…

my spouse heard about lobster tail idea yesterday and seems to prefer it, yet Costco had zero lobster and zero lobster SKU. I really don’t care if I have lobster or fish tacos or shrimp tacos because it’s all yum.

ooh I can check at Safeway.
granted I did have pepperoni on pizza last night and it’ll probably realistically push back pepperoni pizza desire for several months. Oops. I can have salami on pizza and I can’t imagine pepperoni on a sandwich. It’s a mental block.

Had a mix of home cooked & take out


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Roast chicken and pork , dark sweet sauce and chicken rice
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Stewed beancurd skin , pork ribs with peanuts ; stir fried Chinese cabbage and carrots . You also see the chilli padi with soya sauce & chicken rice chilli - this version is “ to die for “ for some
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Char siew and pork satay ( Peranakan style )

Cheeseburgers and oven fries

I made the mistake of putting an egg into the burgers, as my dad was saying you need it to hold the burgers together, and perversely it actually made the burgers fall apart.

also two cocktails: a gin and club soda into which I juiced a lime (refreshing!) and a Negroni with Lillet instead of sweet vermouth.

All in all, a nice Sunday dinner with not too much effort.

A retro meal right out of my mom's old recipe box!

Sweet and Sour Meatballs I used ground chicken instead of beef.
Serve them over mashed potatoes with green beans.
We still have cool weather so it sound about right. :)

Went to a great new French-Mexican restaurant --Tzuco. Would definitely recommend it to Chicagoans and visitors. Steak tartare, mussels and grilled red snapper.

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I had made a pie to go with dinner, but lunch was late so the pie was dinner. Raisin a la mode. One of my all time favorites. . I almost burnt the crumb topping. :eek: I should have put foil over it or watched it more closely.

Caesar salad
grilled pork chop with peach jam/chipotle mustard glaze
roasted Brussels sprouts with prosciutto and dried cranberries (tasted much better than it looks)
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I made my favorite dish of all time... mapo tofu. :cool:



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