Oh, the horror! You must be roasting alive! :rolleyes:

Oh, the horror! How will you survive 85f!

I am with you...we are having a heat wave too and I am dying. It is 84 already! 84!! I have fans on all over the house and so far the inside is cool but I know in a few hours I am going to want to pour ice on my head. My house really holds in the heat (flat black roof)......I want our nice low 70's back.

112° already in the West San Fernando Valley at 11:30AM with a forecast high of 117°. It was a pleasant 80° on the patio at Tidbits by Dialogue in Santa Monica for dinner last night.

It’s a big challenge.

Any roof still holds in that heat. It’s brutal. People here don’t get how we Western Californians aren’t into uncomfortable and hot weather with challenges in air quality.

That’s also brutal. But most importantly WHAT did you all eat for supper? I want to know everything!

Lobster tartlet with peaches and fennel

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Roasted cauliflower & shishito, meyer lemon, midnight moon cheese

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Soft shell crab, cornbread, melted leek, housemade pickled vegetables

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Hanger steak, sauteed scallions, maitake mushrooms, housemade steak sauce

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Joniel's honey nori cookie with black sesame ice cream

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Exactly.

I'm not sure what I'm having for dinner tonight, but I cooked baked ziti for a friend who had a medical procedure on Friday.

I can't see the photos!! damn. I didn't know that Dialogue had a spin off. I am going to have to look that up.
And it is now 91 in Redondo Beach. The beach should never be this temperature. aauugghh!

fantastic! I like sautéed scallion and sautéed onion with steak. I need to return mushrooms to my life for steak accompaniment because I used to love cooking mushrooms to go with steak. Swoon.

I’m so happy for you!!

It got up to 120.9 at 1:30PM at the closest NWS station closest to us. It has now "cooled off" to 117.9.

Tidbits by Dialogue is not an offshoot, it's their shared small plates operation on the second floor balcony while the tasting menu restaurant is closed due to Covid-19 indoor dining restrictions. This was last night's menu (PDF).

thanks for the link. Gorgeous menu.
about how large was the $32 hanger steak? 4-Oz?

Definitely more than 4 oz, probably 8 oz.

Now that I'm reading the online menu more carefully, last night's steak preparation was slightly different than what's shown on the linked menu.

Agreed - you had mentioned mushrooms whereas the menu mentions chimichurri and sunflower petals. :-)

8-Oz is a nice size for a small plate!

Instead of paper menus, they give you a small card with a Flowcode that when scanned with a smartphone opens the menu on the phone. The menus linked from the website and the QR code are ever so slightly different.

I also had a glass of Frosé and a glass of 2016 Two Shepherds, Grenache, Saralee’s Vineyard, Russian River Valley.

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We flirted with a sea breeze off and on today, but mid-afternoon it was at least 85, a good 15-20 degrees above normal here on the coast. It's probably mid-60's here at 7:30pm, which likely makes our locale the envy of the Bay Area right now.

Grilled strip steaks for dinner alongside zoodles topped with Rao's marinara and a sprinkle of reggiano parmesan. I think I still have some Comte in the fridge to help me finish a nice bottle of Wine Smith Meritage.

Wish I had picked up a bottle of Suntory whiskey the last time I was at Costco. Would have been a bawler finish to a good day.

A very decent cheeseburger from The Habit Burger Grill.

I have one of those near me but have never tried them.

Leftover ceviche with tortilla chips
Pineapple margarita with Tajin on the rim :tu: :tu:
Salad--dried hatch chilis, gorgonzola cheese, lettuce, Trader Joe Champagne Pear Vinagrette
Grilled boneless chicken thighs

We had a late lunch (Halal Guys) so skipped dinner. Though we did have cheese and crackers at 10 pm.

Before we went grocery shopping today, I told Mr. CE we needed to get more cookies. Actual conversation:

Him: No! No more cookies. We shouldn't be eating them.
Me: Fine, I'll just hide them
Him: You can't hide anything in this house* from me! I'll find it all.
Me: Really? Because we've had Jeni's Ice Cream (his favorite) in the house for the last month and you haven't found it.

(We only have two combo fridge-freezers, so it's amazing that conversation was 10 hours ago and he still apparently hasn't found it. But I think he forgot again.)

* He's a peanut butter addict, and at our old condo bought single-serving PBs and then gave me permission to hide them around the house so he couldn't eat them all at once. I had to keep a running list of where I'd hid it. Among the spots -- in the guestroom bedside table, in the water pan of our old-school radiators (this was in the summer), in the back of his closet, in the linen closet, in the wine fridge and in knick-knack accessory boxes in the living room.

Hot scorcher supper leftovers
poached salmon (cooked this morning and fridged for a cold supper)
raw fresh organic vegetables - radish carrot cuke celery
leftover fusilli with meatballs & meat sauce
cold hummus & pita

waffle cone with TJ’s chocolate chip & Robbins peanut butter chocolate
Bowl with Robbins Rocky Road & Haagen Dasz chocolate
waffle cone with Jaimito, tiny bit of Haagen dasz chocolate, and B&J milk & cookies

omg it’s still so hot. At least the air is back to moderate.
I know I kvetch about the hot heat & really bad air and I’m fully aware and thankful that I’m not living in a tent or inoperable car like I see everywhere both in my city and elsewhere in the media. And no queue for a food bank with these weather conditions.

the Suntori Toki $39.99 or a different one? I miss the days of Kavalan there as it’s so much better. I barely finished the Toki. I have a Kavalan and will open it when I finish the fruity liqueurs...

and it’s still a scorcher. 84 at 9p. Blah.

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say what?

yes, it is stifling hot. unbearable but like you said, we are lucky to have a house and fans and not living on the streets.
gaobest, you really need to try the Private Selection ice cream at Ralph's...it is obviously their store brand but it is amazing. I bought the Danali Moose tracks last week--giant chunks of really good chocolate. I used to be a brand name snob but this stuff is so good. Do you have Ralph's up there?

Nice. I've tried them twice and was not impressed at all.

We lack Ralph’s and I’m just sticking with Safeway. Dealing with their promos and “membership” is enough. I lack time to try Lucky’s and I still eschew WF because of entry queue experiences. I miss nothing there and i get my luxury supermarket things from Gus’s Market once a week. Just poached the salmon earlier on Sunday morning as I knew it would be good for a cold supper.

I bet bra lover and CBlaisd can grill their own burgers better. When I fetched the fresca at Target, I got the super duper burger food for my family but I refused to get anything for myself because I knew I can grill a better burger.
actually on Saturday I fetched chicken enchiladas for our pool host and still didn’t get myself anything. I went to the classic taqueria that was always fun before and after concerts at a mega indie dive bar, where I loved their tacos and food so much, and I STILL didn’t get myself anything. Just the enchiladas for our host. Omg.

?????

From Thursday-Sunday, I was given my niece and nephew so I had to make several different meals, but this morning I was able to smoke a 4# brisket flat along with split chicken breasts and chicken thighs.

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Brisket was on for six hours and Mom said, " It needed to be on for at least one more hour."


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gaobest heat dementia.

He loves to tease me about my lack of my favorite ice cream in Indonesia. At least I have pretty nice weather in BDO at the moment. Jakarta was pretty toasty when we left yesterday.

Kroger’s house brands will often be at all their different stores. So, for their private label ice cream, check to see if there is one of these brands in your ‘hood.

Kroger Co. Family of Stores includes:

• Baker’s
• City Market
• Dillons
• Food 4 Less
• Foods Co
• Fred Meyer
• Fry’s
• Gerbes
• Harris Teeter
• King Soopers
• Jay C Food Store
• Kroger
• Pay-Less Super Markets
• QFC
• Ralphs
• Smith’s Food and Drug

The Habit burger is not as good as The Counter, but their Ahi Tuna sandwich is fantastic, YUM! Brand owned or not.

Soy sauce and garlic pork chops wrapped in bacon, grilled over hickory charcoal
Corn on the cob cooked in foil on the grill
Asparagus and sugar snap peas cooked on the grill
Canned biscuits
Strawberries/blueberries/cool whip

Chicken quesadillas with Fairlife Cookies and Cream Ice Cream for dessert. The ice cream was lousy.

cherries jubilee indeed.

Did a tofu version of beef rendang (my wife doesn't eat beef). I tried to supplement the curry with extra fat (coconut oil and peanut oil, primarily, with a little butter for the animal fat), but it was still a bit dry given there wasn't all that collagen and fat rendering out.

Tofu rendang doesn’t sound tasty to me. At least you’re trying, for your wife. I love real rendang with toasted paratha.

Dinner on a friend's deck...she grilled swordfish skewers and made tabbouleh. I brought Denali moose tracks ice cream.
Vodka cocktails

we drove to the Oceanside and fetched more Mediterranean that had good homemade pita
hummus
israeli salad
pita
green tahini pesto
spicy sauce
tzatiki

Cold Poached salmon
baked potato / sweet potato
Roasted carrots / Brussels sprouts / zucchini

Moose Tracks(original) has become one of my favorite ice cream flavors over the past couple of years. I've tried many brands. Winco, Best Yet, Crystal, Signature, and a couple of others. My fav is Signature from Walmart. I don't have a Walmart nearby so I usually go with Crystal which is second best.

This was Ralph's Private Selection...huge chunks of really good chocolate. Actually, I think it was called Extreme Moose Tracks.
I am not familiar with Crystal.

Making an Ina Garten seafood chowder, with ciabatta toast. It's a cold and gray day here, so seems fitting for the first unofficial day of fall.

ETA: Recipe was delicious! In case anyone wants to try it: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/seafood-chowder-recipe-1925488

Watermelon, feta, mint salad with balsamic glaze
homemade Caesar salad
Leftover grilled chicken thigh

Fried clams :)

Trader Joe’s chicken enchiladas
housemade guacamole
leftover reheated Mexican rice
pita & hummus

waffle cone with Robbins peanut butter chocolate & Trader Joe’s chocolate chip
waffle cone with Jaimito, a smattering of Trader Joe’s chocolate chip, & B&J coffee toffee crunch

I'm embarrassed to admit, but my favorites will always be Friendly's fried clam boat. Of course, it is probably been 25 years since I've last had it, so calling it my favorite is relying on a very datef memory.