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Lunch was twice fried russets, bagged cabbage slaw mix dressed with sour cream, mayo and homemade sweet pickles which were served with fried turkey wings. The wings were previously cooked sous vide and I gave them a quick fry to give a little color. The potatoes and slaw were the star of the meal and the turkey got a passing grade but barely. Thanks goodness that I fried them outside on my grill's side burner. There was a lot of sputtering and cussing while frying the wings and I'll probably use about a half a bottle of Shout Out on the grease spots on my shirt.

Rapeseed (Raps), a common source of neutral oil in Germany.

For my last meal before heading home to CA we went out to Lee's Bakery on Buford H'way, which is essentially one very long stretch of ethnic strip mall food, including many Vietnamese. joints. Lee's makes excellent banh mi. They bake their own rolls. I was hoping to score an egg coffee, but they didn't make them, so I settled for Vietnamese iced coffee. In Oakland we used to get Viet coffee served dripping in a glass onto the sweetened condensed milk. About halfway through your meal all the coffee would be dripped. You stir it up together and then a second glass is provided with ice and you pour the coffee mix over the ice. Lately I 've noticed very few places do it that way any more, they just bring you a pre-mixed drink. Too bad. The other way is more fun to wait for and the coffee is always freshly brewed. Our next meal will be dinner on the plane. If inedible as usual, you won't hear it from me. My opinion, not shaken in years, is that the best meal on a plane is the PB &J sandwich that you make yourself at you place of origin and which sits in your backpack for at least six hours until you are starving. My next trip to Asheville and Atlanta won't be until October. If @gulfporterand any other birders are interested I saw two new birds to add to my list, both on Edisto Island: Laughing gulls and Boat-tailed grackles, both probably common on the east coast, but not on the west coast. Here in Decatur and all over the island the cardinals are screaming for their girlfriends, loud and louder. Sadly, my eyesight isn't what it used to be, so major birding in the Carolinas and GA is no longer happening. On the beaches on Edisto there were large flocks of pelicans flying back and forth all the time. So lovely. I did learn one maybe useful fact about South Carolina wildlife, the difference between a Coral snake and a King snake. If red is next to yellow, it's a deadly fellow. If red is next to black you're all right, Jack.

@Duvel what is growing in those very yellow fields ?

After a relaxing flight over the German spring landscape, got somewhat stuck in a theme … 😉 BBQ (because of the nice weather) & Spargel (just because ☺️). This time: Spargel vom Grill ! Freshly peeled asparagus, doused with Pinot Gris, salt, sugar and butter, tightly wrapped and steamed on the BBQ for about 15 min … Dressed with egg & parsley … Served with “the usual” BBQ items: belly skewers, pork collar, some sausages & cheese. Potatoes, salad & potato salad, too … Hollandaise ad libitum … No complaints. And because of the presence of my in-laws served with a nice red instead the usual chilled white. Not bad at all 🥳

Riff on Parsi scrambled eggs with bay scallops: sautee onion, jalapeno, garlic, and ginger in ghee. Mix in chopped cilantro and mint, add scallops and partly cook, and then finish with eggs beaten with milk. I meant to add some soft feta but oh well. Cukes on the side.

Long Island scallops (like 60 grams a piece), Carolina gold rice, avocado, tomato (Campari), cucumber. Pan jus.

@Tropicalsenior Thank you for posting the link, but after some googling, @Katie Meadow is right - they are different from chokeberries.

Incoming package from Paris 🇫🇷. Picked up the 3rd size flat bottom bowl i had been wanting as well as some small tools Unboxing pictures!

Last night's dinner. Decided to make Greek chicken souvlaki with rice and Greek salad. Dined while watching the election results.

They are different species.

I'm looking forward to that (I think). I'll never forget the first time I tried this: Talk about healthy! https://www.mestemacher-gmbh.com/

They might have to be polarized sunglasses! An abundance of pulverized freeze dried raspberries added to confectionery sugar does the trick, same for freeze dried strawberries, I imagine blueberries would be absolutely startling!

Yeap … see here for my definition.

I'm not sure if what you have is the same thing that we had on our farm because we called them chokecherries. My mother always made jelly with them. I found this recipe online and by a fortunate coincidence, it calls for 2 lb of chokecherries. We never had them any other way and the ones that we had we're almost inedible fresh. They call them chokecherries for a good reason.

Blinded by the light I am. My grandgirls would think it was the second coming.

Sunglasses required for these cupcakes! Freeze dried raspberries were the basis of the frosting and the cupcakes were Intensely flavored. The cupcake itself was originally vanilla flavored but I used a tablespoon of uncooked lemon jam which gave a big hit of lemon to the cupcakes. Four were plenty!

My dear husband has been cooking most of our meals lately as I am busy organising my trip to Europe which starts this weekend. This meal was his chicken fillet and onions, olives, bacon and red pepper with mashed potato.

鱼香肉丝炒面 (yú xiāng ròu sī , fish-flavour* pork slivers with fried noodles, 老干妈 (lǎo gān mā), Laoganma chilli crisp and deep fried tofu. Simple nut tasty. *No aquatic animalia involved; it means cooked with flavours more often associated with cooking fish in Sichuan.

I'm intrigued by this recipe. I'll run it by my Sweetie, and is she gives me the go-ahead I'll give it a try.

yes, I can help with that too.

Way cool If I had the space, I'd grab it.

This isn't something I've gotten, I just saw it on FB, but... not gonna lie, I kinda want it.

Iberian Linguica and Chicken Stew from Wright’s “Real Stew” - first you poach a whole chicken with onions, carrots, celery, white peppercorns, oregano, thyme and bay leaves to make shredded chicken and chicken broth. You use the chicken broth to cook linguica, potatoes, carrots, ancho chile, pearl couscous, saffron and collard greens before adding the shredded chicken