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🍴: Mon – this was a calendared total rot day to recover from all the Seagull dramatics and the cast/Super Bowl/birthday party. Neither of us ended up drinking very much at said party, but we stuck to the script and ordered Papa John’s. Plus leftover boneless wings and cruditĂ©s also from said party. Tues –…
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🍴: Mon – a WFH day meant weeknight polpo e patate thanks to our fave sous vide recipe. Served with crispy haystack potatoes and arugula salad. Tues – pork tenderloin with duck fat smashed sweet potatoes and sautĂ©ed zucchini Wed – grilled chicken thighs topped with spinach artichoke dip (because I ate all the tortilla…
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🍴: Mon – chili with all the Rancho Gordos because ice day. Tues – Chicken and Rice Bake with olives, capers, artichoke hearts, and feta. Wed – Margarita Shrimp with Pesto Zucchini Orzo with Charred Sweet Corn. Thurs – pork chops with Caramelized Sweet Potato and Kale Fried Wild Rice. Fri – Mushroom and Brussels…
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🍴: Mon – I forgot to verify an ingredient for the dish I planned to make was in the pantry, and, of course, it wasn’t. Adapted this with the chorizo I had already thawed and pine nuts, and it was a comforty delight on a headachy holiday. Tues – Soy-glazed pork cutlets with Japanese slaw,…
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These [David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Robert Plant] weren’t icons reading because it was virtuous. They read because it was essential—like breathing, like music, like love. When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn’t stop people from buying dangerous books. Now that books are considered virtuous and educational, nobody wants them. — Staci Wilson A…
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🍴: Mon – last week, Hampton impulsively picked up a bag of unicorn cornmeal at our butcher. We put it into action tonight to make corn pone in a take on shrimp and grits using TJ’s frozen black tiger shrimp and the tomatoes he brought home recently because they’re the closest thing to those we…
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🍴: Mon – SautĂ©ed Lamb with Mushrooms, mashed potatoes, garden salad. A new-to-us recipe with some stew meat that had been in the freezer for far too long. With definitely do again! Tues – pork chops with sweet potato/goat cheese mash, garden salad Wed – a grilled Smoke City Meats ribeye with glazed carrots and…
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This was seriously done and drafted but here we are, another year, same as the last. 🍴: Mon – Farro Risotto With Sauteed Mushrooms and Fennel — sliced the fennel instead of wedging for my texture preferences, sliced the mushrooms instead of chopping to make them more meaty, and added some Aleppo and ACV for…
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🍴: Mon – Pork Chops with Mushroom Cream Sauce, wild rice, sautĂ©ed zucchini Tues – arancini with last Saturday’s leftover shrimp scampi risotto, bresaola salad Wed – Smoke City Meats filets for Hampton’s mom and stepdad, house mashed potatoes (plenty of horseradish pub cheese) and arugula salad Thurs – brunch at Hampton’s sister’s and then…
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🍴: Mon – leftover pork tenderloin and Hampton-made baked Rancho Gordos, salad Tues – Twisted Pine with a Seagull castmate. Kady came to Flat 493 to review things with Hampton and took him downtown before I got off work since he (finally) had a production meeting before our rehearsal. She and I then got a…
