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More champagne.

Champagne with blueberries.

@Franci Naples should have some really good grouper and stone crabs. When we stay in the area we go to Goodland (small island off of Marco) for very fresh fish. I am super jealous. But beware— it’s the land of Lily Pulitzer and Tory Burch.

I’m tempted to use the Mama noodle “oil” packet and flavor packet to boil the rice in. I really like the Nisheki rice. I really want to try making onigiri since I used to make it often when I was a teen. Plus, yum! Hmm. I think I have dried nori sheets in the pantry. A good super late night snack.

My local Wegmans has pitted Castevetrano olives. They’re my favorite. The non pitted ones have a much creamier flavor imo but these are still good.

Oh. Maybe I can use jasmine.

Thanks! I have a lot of Nishiki rice as well as Jasmine on hand. I’m thinking no to the jasmine though.

Does the type of rice matter when making congee? This looks like comfort food to me and I’d love to make it.

I’m glad this tread was recently posted and caught my eye. I have been reading old blogs here and @snowangel posted about MAMA Thai noodles. I dipped my toe in with the basic “chicken flavor” and didn’t use the chili packet as I’m a spice wimpy but I’m a fan. The noodles are superior and the flavor is good. And MAMA has so many flavors— I bought a 10 pack for about $10 on Amazon. I recommend it.

Idk it’s that expensive. It’s basically a KA with a grinder attachment so about $350-400. Not cheap but not $800.

@Franciif you will be in Southern Naples— visit Marco Island if you can. Excellent restaurant there— Fin Bistro. https://finbistro.com

Filets, baked potatoes, steamed broccoli with bernaise.

Dinner tonight was all done on the BGE. Two dozen little neck clams )all of them opened!), teriyaki shrimp skewers and fresh sugar snap peas. a bit chilly but worth it.

It will just be my husband and I. My parents have made it clear they’re uncomfortable coming to our home or vice versa and I get it. Plus my dad’s allergic to all forms of poultry. So turkey probably won’t be on our menu. I think we will depend on the weather and our local butcher. If the weather is nice, we will smoke and grill. If it’s not? Well there’s a ton of football games so I’ll try out my air fryer wings, puff pastry pizza with some bacon wrapped scallops and some type of potato!

How is it, in terms of reading? Similar to DDR or more of a cook book, less than a personal one, if that makes sense?

It’s not quite cold enough but I wanted lasagna. I make my sauce from scratch. I know some of you use cottage cheese but that makes me nuts. I used sweet Italian sausage on my sauce. Not my best effort but it was delicious. Cheesy, meaty and delicious. I’m tempted to go get more.

I think I might try it. I need a proper opening knife thingy 😂 and can get them at my local speciality grocery stores. But how would I know if I got a “bad” one? I reallllly want to be able to grill them on the BGE with different types of compound butters. We had them served that way in Napa a year and a half ago and I still think about that meal often. also, @Shelby that calamari looks better than most I’ve ever had and the idea of adding capers to the marinara is brilliant!

I remembered her birth year since it’s the same as my husband’s.

Omg girl! Did you just forget? I remember from a PM ages ago that you were born in ‘74 😂 Hope you had a fabulous day! (Also pandemic birthdays don’t count. I turned 40 in March but since my birthday trip was cancelled I am not copping to being 40 yet!)

@Shelby wow!!! Looks amazing! I wish I knew how to shuck oysters!

This cookbook was recommended to me by bookbubs today-

What Daniel has done at Mekelsberg in Brooklyn is pretty kick as.

I like making chips in the air fryer occasionally. I bet good recipes for various potato soups would be welcome.

Does anyone have a source for peameal bacon in the US? I’ve always wanted to try it.

I wouldn’t even bother to take laws into this. America is litigious enough. One example, you didn’t know what fennel was. Well, why not ask your server? Why just... blindly order? Especially being diabetic. If I had an allergy or health reason to avoid anything, I would tell my server to give them a fair chance. Tell me while I think Z sounds good, it won’t work for me entrees Y, W, etc would work or they could omit xyz. The restaurant in Jersey was wrong, absolutely. But from your description it was not a costly loss. Shit happens. It happens when you think you bought a perfect tomato and it’s mealy inside. Or you buy fresh corn and the critters got to it. Or you spend a ton of money on a cut of meat and follow cooking instructions/ recipe and it comes out poorly. it happens in all aspects of life. I just chalk it up to, things happen. Of course it’s upsetting. But I never ever take it out on the waitstaff. I haven’t ever not left a tip and in America, to me, there has to something really wrong to not tip your waiter— it’s a shitty thing to do. Also? I wish I could recall bad meals like you can. God knows my bad recollections are a lot more significant. Pay your bill, write a Yelp review and move on. Anyone who would even contemplate the concept of pursuing legal action against restaurants, which are among the hardest hit by COVID has way too much time on their hands.