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With a surplus of broccoli, I did what any self-respecting Italophile might: pasta with broccoli (not rabe) and sausage.

Tomato broccoli fried rice.

This is starting to sound like an interesting premise for…I dunno…Netflix? Need I say more?

I think I do!

I think this would be my main objective. But, you know, I don't have an "outside!"

Too many?!

In my younger days, a Kamikaze was always equal parts vodka (forgive me), triple sec and lime juice, shaken and poured into shots. Don’t ask what else we might have been indulging in, but we could do any number of these.

Coq au Vin. Mashed potatoes.

Yeah, this has never happened in my kitchen. But it's def a technique restaurants use for any number of different rice dishes. In school, we learned the "French" way of cooking rice, which is sorta like cooking pasta. What do the French know about rice anyway?

I have both varieties as well, either from Carolina Plantation or Anson Mills, both fully milled (i.e.: white rices). On one bag (Carolina Gold), the instructions imply that it is the variety which might be more suitable for risotto or rice pudding...I've used both interchangably, but never for a risotto.

There are both Carolina Gold and Charelston Gold rices. Charleston is an offspring of Carolina rice, with slightly different aromatic and finished product qualities (Charleston being the more aromatic of the two).

Lemme sound like one - for you, of course. Paying for each round separately, if you're gonna have more than one, is really fucking annoying to the establishment. Since these kids are so great with their phones, why doesn't one pay for the evening, and everyone just Venmo their share to the payer? Re: driving...no one in NYC drives, so that's a moot point here (but even when we've driven out of town for a vacation or whatever, I won't drink anything and drive). Anyway, the bottom line to me is that everyone I sent the article to had something not that nice to say about the etiquette and habits of Gen Z when they go out. And it wasn't just old people I sent the article to! FWIW, I like to leave a card, and tip in cash.

I'll probably have a Stiegl tonight at Cafe Katja!

Now I'm torn.

Because they don't have proper bar etiquette! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/business/gen-z-bar-etiquette.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.DUGp.xAEKuNmLw4J-&smid=url-share It can certainly add up for the establishment, and just another reason why cocktails are $20+!!