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Mon – We had beet tops, so planned a meal around a borani. Rack of lamb with all the Mediterranean/SWANA spices, pomegranate molasses-glazed carrots, and sauteed zucchini.
Tues – sticky chicken thighs with Chinese sausage/mushroom/red bell pepper rice as inspired by Woks of Life, but minus the work of deboning chicken.
Wed – Hampton decided to make baked beans… and realized we had neither brown sugar nor molasses. He still killed it. Served with sweet and savory pork tenderloin and salad.
Thurs – creamy Mediterranean shrimp orzo, plus some saddening yellow squash and kalamatas, and salad
Fri – boneless pork chops with roasted delicata squash and beets with candied pecans and a dill horseradish crema inspired by this. Hampton just saw the title and assumed we didn’t want to bother candying walnuts when he sells the pecans and while I was planning on candying walnuts, zero percent mad at it.
Sat – Oktoberfest at Lesser Known. So… brats. And some nachos from the taco food truck also onsite. And then some leftover orzo when I got home.
Sun – veg night inspired by this. Subbed a pie pumpkin bc they’re in, farro bc we had it, burrata for extra melty creamy, and added some chickpeas for protein after walking six miles roundtrip to yoga.
🥃: As mentioned, Oktoberfest.
Ran into a theatre acquaintance and stole the end of their table. “You can talk to us as much or as little as you want.” Good people.
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📚: A smidge late here, but congrats to E. Denise Billups on another win with Beneath Beauford Grove. While Billups’ other books I’ve read have been supernatural, this one definitely veers toward horror – in the best way, creepy and compelling. The olive-haunted Beauford Manor made me think of Tanarive Due’s The Good House. I was captivated by Eva’s mission and can’t wait to see what happens next!
🎭: I thought this fall was going to be calm, anyway…
Tickets still available for the Mystery Men fave Murder at the Buffalo Speakeasy on September 21 at Grapes & Grains in Greensboro.
The next week, Hampton is doing a staged reading of one of his dream shows, Sleuth, with a man we first met when he played my Nathan Detroit. I heard their first read, someone let them do this as a full show already. But also come to the staged reading, it’s freesies.
The week after that, a one-off week of choir.
Then, slightly later in October, I’ll be doing a one-matinee-only performance of Mordreadi!, which is a takeoff from a staged reading I did the other summer (clips of the first concept cast here), written by a local comp sci professor and team.
The following Sunday will be a brand new Mystery Men show about Jimmy Dawn (who is not at all James Bond). Tix for the public premiere at Radar Brewing here, and we will have several more performances of that over Halloween season (along with a Buffalo Speakeasy the day before Mordreadi!).
A few weeks ago, we went to see some friends in Poe on the Rocks, their take on the “drunk Shakespeare” trend, with the thought we would join their roster next year with some of the other productions they have in mind. Welp, next year might come sooner than expected… stay tuned!
And ballet starts back tomorrow! Well, let’s face it, tonight, since I didn’t post on time. Things really are back to normal.
Ann Davis-Rowe 
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