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my buddy was in town over the weekend to do his oral quals, and of course ended up passing, so on saturday night to celebrate we did a little bar/restaurant crawl, and in sum total we ended up crushing (in order) a dozen raw oysters, an order of steak au poivre with pommes frites, little neck clams in a spicy tomato sauce, scallops with lemon aioli, a shrimp cocktail, fried duck necks and gizzards, two foielipops (foie gras hidden inside a puff of cotton candy and dusted with pop rocks), four pimento cheese deviled eggs, one charcuterie platter, and to top it all off one twenty-count order of chicken mcnuggets straight from the drive thru cuz of course at this point in the night what else can you do? so the next morning, feeling like shit, we went to brunch, and had fried jumbo shrimp, crab puffs, and fried oyster rockefeller bennies. all of these various foods were accompanied by various champagnes, red wines, white wines, bourbon whiskies, gins, vodkas, and beers. kids, the moral of the story is: when your buddy does good, you should always take that as an opportunity to drink copious amounts of alcohol and eat ridiculous amounts of luxurious foods; and when you feel like shit the next morning, you do it all over again

(foie gras hidden inside a puff of cotton candy and dusted with pop rocks)

navy bean soup and ham, green chile colby jack and beef burritos, good winter comfort food

Dragon & Phoenix from a wonderful Chinese takeout down the street

Empanadas de carne. I made them myself, so I'm quite proud.

i've been doing no added sugar now for a couple of weeks, feeling pretty great and nearly all cravings for sweets have subsided. most difficult task was finding compliant salad dressings (tessemae's are great); homemade greek yogurt dressing has been my favorite new discovery.

found some tasty looking no added sugar recipes here:
30 Days Of Meals You Can Eat During A Sugar Detox

highly recommend two ingredient pancakes (2 eggs to 1 banana per serving - with optional baking powder for fluffiness, or vanilla/cinnamon for flavor, topped with all-natural peanut butter drizzle or fruit) to everyone. here's a good recipe

i want to try that... but my coffee and tea :'(

About to have my sixth bagel + cream cheese dinner of the week.

seema’s old friend from london was in town so a great excuse to go some beloved spots. so oysters/merguez/stewed tomatoes for me, stewed chickpeas and fried/breaded eggs and toast for seema, and huevos rancheros for friend all at prune. then tandoori rabbit leg, jackfruit cutlet, kulcha and japanese cauliflower thing at baar bar.

weekly sushi joint blowout: miso soup and oshinko (went a quasi-soup-and-salad route), zaru soba, ohitashi, an eel roll, then tuna, mackerel, and octopus nigiri. thoxans: single-handedly depleting the world’s fisheries one gluttonous blowout at a time (funnily enough (i hate that term, ‘funnily enough’ (‘funnily’ sounds like a word that peeps who didn’t know words would say to make it sound like they knew some words)) this is on the more low key side of a sushi joint blowout for me)

homemade french onion soup. a childhood fav that i've never lost the taste for

at what point does a soup become a curry or something(?)

i dunno but i'm gonna make orange chicken

some low sodium tortilla chips (cuz i’m ‘healthy’) and some hot af salsa (cuz i also like it spicy)

i had a delicious salad of spring greens and spinach with a sliced honeycrisp apple, glazed walnuts and feta cheese topped with raspberry vinaigrette. it was 80F here today

homemade bbq brisket. homemade coleslaw. homemade potato salad. homemade mac n cheese. homemade pickles. storebought cheesecake (ya can't win 'em all)

thoxans wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:55 pmi meant to edit my last post; not quote it

but hey either way i just boosted my post count a lil bit awww yeah

Just finished Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270 ... _Be_Lonely

Now I'm reading Insomniac City by Bill Hayes

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300 ... mniac-city

wulff doesn't just read books. he devours them

omg. i made cashew chicken

rischka wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:39 pmcashew chicken

dang. that looks pretty good. and nice technique on dicing those green peppers

Been getting my fatty acids in lately

Salmon



Haddock

eww salmon



yay shrimp

All seafoods are good seafoods!

(Except sole)

What's everyone's desert island spices?

Whoa I somehow missed this Salmon diss????

patrick wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 1:12 am What's everyone's desert island spices?

paprika, cumin, cayenne, and the wildcard: sumac.

i don't normally go too much for salmon, but it looks really good on that salad.

patrick wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 1:12 am What's everyone's desert island spices?

like dried spices? crushed red pepper flakes

i'm good with that. sometimes i'll use basil or oregano, most typically when i'm making pasta sauce from scratch, and there's one indian dish my dad taught me that uses cumin, tumeric and coriander... but besides that and salt/pepper, i don't really use spices. other things i use to enhance flavour include sriracha, soy sauce, cayenne sauce, various vinegars, etc... much prefer that sorta liquid flavour i guess. never really thought about it!

cayenne, fresh ginger and lots of garlic. garlic is as good as ten mothers

Wow, this question surprisingly reveals a lot about a person !

Myself; everything must be teetering along the edge of being overseasoned with smoked paprika and cumin. As far as fresh herbs go, I'm a parsley and mint kind of guy. Alliums(?); chives and garlic. Acids(????); Balsamic vinegar and worcestershire sauce. Oils; olive and rapeseed