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Late this time for the best of reasons — new rehearsals! (scroll down for details 🤗) 🍴: Mon – Sautéed Chicken à la Ronsard. Pretty sure I’ve never made a sauce that was strained? So easy/fancy/French brasserie at home. Tues – SCM bavette with pan-roasted duck fat potatoes and attempt at these feta-bakes brussels. As…
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Despite only hitting the solstice last week, Flat 493 has been in the dog days of summer this month. Nothing *bad*, just v. little to write home about. I volunteered for Triad Pride Performing Arts’ spring concert and tent at Pride and hit my workout goals for the month early, yay, but also read a…
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🍴: Mon – last Monday, we tested out some new steaks from TJ’s that were decidedly underwhelming. Their new bone-in ribeye worked out much better this Monday. We have had fun cooking massive ones from Smoke City Meats, but these smaller ones are definitely more convenient. Pan-roasted spuds and salad to go with. Tues –…
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Time flies when you’re having Sunday night fun. And then on Monday, when Hampton’s car dies in the middle of the street on the way to his 6 a.m. shift. On a holiday. In the rain. 🍴: Mon – We tested out TJ’s new line of steaks. And realized how spoiled we are by Smoke…
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🍴: Mon – Spanish garlic chicken with roasted carrots, arugula salad Tues – Jaegerwust from Smoke City Meats with baked spaetzle and cheese, kraut, pickled beets, and arugula Wed – NY strip with warm Brussels panzanella inspired by this. We had some leftover garlic bread (how) tore it into pieces and crisped it up in…
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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…