drinks

  • On Brand – 18 Jan 26

    🍴: 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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  • On Brand – 11 Jan 26

    🍴: 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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  • On Brand – 4 Jan 26

    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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  • On Brand – 28 Dec 25

    🍴: 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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  • On Brand – 21 Dec 25

    🍴: 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…

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  • On Brand – 14 Dec 25

    🍴: Mon – rehearsal and dance class were both cancelled due to the threat of ice, so instead of random dinners, we bumped up a meal planned for later in the week. Good thing, bc this crunchy brown butter carrot gratin did take a while. Totally worth it, served with pork tenderloin, mash, and peas.…

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  • On Brand – 7 Dec 25

    🍴: Mon – we got home from PA last week to a leaking kitchen faucet (luckily only when turned on; it wasn’t running for three days) and an oven igniter that finally decided to crap all the way out. With him having rehearsal and me not being called for rehearsal, but having dance class, he…

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  • On Brand – 30 Nov 25

    🍴: Mon – rehearsal after dance class = forgettable leftover for a late dinner Tues – Arby’s in the car on the way to PA Wed – Davis family dinner, traditional Thanksgiving style. I did not feel like coming up with something the kids would eat, so decided on this salad to use up sweet…

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  • On Brand – 23 Nov 25

    🍴: Mon – Hampton had to be at auditions before I got home from dance class, so, as per usual when cooking solo, I attempted to recreate my favorite seafood antipasti from a restaurant that no longer exists in D.C. I was so ready to eat I had my arugula salad while cooking and it…

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  • Special Deliver(y)ies

    Special Deliver(y)ies

    It’s a good few days to be Flat 493! Last night, as we headed out to sit courtside, the mailman tossed (literally), this quarter’s Rancho Gordon bean club box. Today brought a new shipment, from Two Wolves Wine, owned by the singer P!nk. I was finally smart enough to have it delivered to the office…

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