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It’s been a while since I have highlit a whole meal and wholey heck, is this a good one. Hampton’s mom and stepdad drove here from Raleigh to see his opening weekend matinee. Because parking is difficult at that theatre at the best of times and Tom has some mobility issues, they drove to the
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🍴: LAST WEEK OF FAST PRE-THEATRE MEALS HUZZAH Mon – lobster tails with fanciedup boxed mac and cheese, arugula salad Tues – steak and eggs, side salad Wed – southwestern salad with grilled chicken Thurs – cooking for one because I had a late meeting and Hampton had final dress meant a take on Marry
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As briefly mentioned in last week’s roundup, I had two super fun performing events last week. The first was Storytime with Piedmont Opera. It was a lot of fun to get to perform while pretending to use my masters degree in library science for once. After learning a little bit about the opera and the
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🍴: Mon – ramen noodle salad with Chinese sausage as inspired by this month’s Food & Wine. Tues – cider vinegar-braised chicken thighs, also from this month’s F&W. Wed – Domino’s. Because we won’t talk too much about what happened last night when Hampton tried to braise chicken thighs before rehearsal when he was already
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Democracy will not comeToday, this yearNor everThrough compromise and fear. — Langston Hughes, “Democracy” I somehow recently ended up on the mailing list of the Mellon Foundation, and they recently re-shared a story from 2021 about the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month. In it, they had three contemporary poets read historical poems, and these
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🍴: Mon – TJ’s lemon ricotta ravioli with the end of a pack of speck and a leftover Comte cheese cream sauce with some horseradish, salad. Tues – pink peppercorn steak frites, salad Wed – vaguely SWANA-esque chicken thighs with lentils, asparagus Thur – Thai-ish mussels Fri – a borlotti lamon smash with roasted romanesco
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The other week, a colleague — a former professional dancer and teacher — asked me if I would be interested in teaching a tap class for drama students. I said heck no, but what is the stipend because I know people to ask. Turns out I misinterpreted, she had the time to teach, but wanted
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🍴: Mon – grilled chicken thighs and crispy herb butter oyster mushrooms with arugula and labneh. Tues – one of our fave takeaways from Vietnam was banana flower, sliced up into salads. We both hate bananas, but were stoked to find the flower at Super G last weekend. We added it and green mango to
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🍴: Mon — bacon/smoked gouda burgers with fries and salad Tues — Hot dang this take on http://fennel-twist.com/2011/06/26/mango-mango-mango-grilled-chile-lime-arctic-char-with-mango-slaw/ Hampton is rather spice averse but decided he wanted habanero in the slaw. Soaked it for a bit in vodka to pull out heat, added corn + peanuts for extra texture, subbed ancho for chipotle on the
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I grew up five minutes from the Mason-Dixon Line and 45 from Gettysburg, and Hampton’s dad is a rare book dealer with a specialty in Civil War ephemera, so I was tickled yesterday to learn a story we’d never heard before to mark the 150th anniversary of the war over “states’ rights”. [the right to
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