Anna N

Can you paraphrase for those of us not prepared to buy our way into the New York Times? I understand if you choose not to.

My apologies. I missed that! Goes to show you should always gas up with caffeine before risking making an ass of yourself.

Used my iPhone and I’m not sure how blue that plate is and how much my white balance is off. I think it’s the white balance although I think there is some blue in that plate. Oh and they were not abnormally large peas. It’s just the perspective. When I get hangry the niceties of photography and just about anything else go out the window.

I went digging deep into my freezer drawers yesterday and unearthed two skinny lamb shoulder chops. I sous vided did them for about four hours at 54.5 and then attempted to sear them. They were cut so unevenly that searing them was almost impossible. But served with some peas and mint sauce they still made an adequate meal.

Not really surprising since as I understand it the name simply means the best spices that the merchant has to offer. So there are likely as many combinations as there are people who can combine them. Much like garam masala, no two are alike.

Here you go.

Store-bought garlic naan with grated cheddar and Parmesan and lots of Timur pepper. Served on my finest dinnerware. Some might call this lazy but it’s really just energy conservation and aren’t we all being urged to conserve? Yeah... about the dinnerware… oh well.

Wow. Thanks. I’m inspired.

I have used club soda to make tempura batter.

Me too.

If you ever read of me cooking or eating turkey you will know I have finally flipped my lid. I consider it the tofu of the animal world.

I think this will end up being brunch. inspired by @blue_dolphin, Martha Stewart (Rose’s baked artichokes) And Nik Sharma (baked eggs with artichoke hearts). Frozen artichoke bottoms, cheddar and Parmesan cheeses, bread cubes, Italian seasoning, olive oil and lemon juice and a separately fried egg. On more than one occasion, @Kerry Beal and I served the Martha Stewart dish at Eggfests and it went over very well. This mashup of more than one recipe did not work out quite as well as it might have. I found it a bit on the dry side and it could certainly have used more cheese.

This or a variant of it has become my go-to meal for breakfast, dinner or lunch when I’m too lazy to think of anything else or too tired to make anything else. Today it is Trader Joe’s cave-aged raw cows’ milk blue cheese on skillet toasted rye bread with sautéed mushrooms. I skipped the honey this time and think I like it better without the sweetness.

Pretty good? It looks amazing to me. Did you cook the octopus yourself? I ask because there is a Korean grocery store here where you can actually buy already cooked octopus. It always looks so good and I’m tempted but it’s not cheap. Also are those roasted tomatoes that I am seeing?

Neither to be honest. Kerry neither encourages me nor discourages me even though she never drinks at lunchtime because she’s driving. And my daughter doesn’t influence me either. Today I behaved myself on account of the appointment which would follow immediately after lunch. You know how these doctors have a way of dehumanizing one. — LOL SOB (little old lady short of breath) . Well I really didn’t want to add to their list ... LOL SOB and smelling strongly of alcohol.😂

I’ve inspected it carefully and I don’t see any chickpeas in there. Unless they’re hiding that looks like a perfect salad. I would love something like that. What did you dress it with? Or did you not bother? It looks good enough to eat without a dressing.

You are just trying to make me jealous and by gosh you are succeeding. 😂

Very similar to yesterday‘s dinner but there was a bit of cheddar and three mushrooms that as my sister would say “want using up” and while I’ve never subscribed to the notion that mushrooms or cheddar cheese want anything, nevertheless... The skillet toast is spread with some multi-grain mustard.

Could not have lunch this week with @Kerry Beal. She’s got some nasty cold germs and I don’t need to go back in the hospital again and starve. But I had a couple of appointments today and my daughter drove me to both of them and in between I treated her to lunch. Her favourite place is Bamboo Legend. She had the creamy coconut chicken curry. I had the spicy basil chicken. We each had a salad which I forgot photograph. I drink water and my daughter had tea.

I was about to make some smart ass comment about it was perhaps considered much more likely to be your last meal in those early days of flight. But then I looked up the year and it was 1965. Oh how times have changed.

The name is new to me but the product not so much. 😂 Probably a somewhat different preparation than I am accustomed to. But it’s pork. It’s fatty pork. What’s not to love?

A small but potent umami bomb. Garlic toast topped with blue cheese and then some well sautéed mushrooms and a drizzle of honey.

I wouldn’t have thought about it for a nanosecond.

“Millionaires” hermit cookies. I renamed them because these have dates, currants, Brazil nuts, and almonds. Just one of these is a total meal replacement. I need to get them out of my house ASAP. This is less than a third of the batch I made.

The “perfect” egg and Spam onigirazu. and then just for @Shelby, the”hole” truth.