Dinner tonight - or last night.

That's pretty cool. Hope you enjoy.

Some day I'll cross over the Sunshine bridge when I've got a date up that way again. Budget is mighty small lately.

I hear ya, Ragman. Good thing I've got a dining history behind me to sustain me w/mems and enjoyment of what I read.

But stuff can still be good. Roger and I went this afternoon (after taking Katy for a nail clip and before his near four hour drive home with rain projected) to the Donut Mart. I don't know if that's local or national. I like the place, in particular the owner of this particular space, and the odd fact that the clientele is mixed, maybe from the neighborhood and those who drive down Coors on a given day. The donuts are, eh. The coffee is not bad (says ms. cranky). I ordered an everything bagel, toasted with cream cheese on the side.

Now I'm well aware of what a real bagel tastes like, having haunted a place on Temple in LA at 1 a.m. (I M Joy) after concerts and so on. This thing from the donut mart is not actually a bagel... but it's something else, a tasty faux bagel. Whole wheat (which I sometimes don't like as it is as blando as white Weber's air bread but tastes worse), this time really tasty whole wheat, and the bagel was, gasp, chewy.
Dammit, now I'm going to have to play with making my own bagels.

Do you know about La Brea Bakery bread? I'm a fan of Nancy Silverton, who began all that. She said at some point that she got the idea for the 'starter' from a local bagel maker, using grapes to ferment.

So, dinner - it'll be turmeric garlic scrambled eggs and a half of a previously cooked red potato smothered in butter and black pepper, with a side of spicy prev sauteed broccoli.

If you ever come to this area for dinner let us know first. We would love to meet you, and if were not around still let us know. Morgan knows most of the restaurant owners in town and can get you a good discount. Probably two for one.

We stayed in tonight, ordered take out from the Queen and I. Put Antonio to bed and now relaxing having a glass of wine and watching some TV.

had MEAT LOA, gravyF and taters and sides of greens and apple sauce at the Mountain Top Diner and had a great piece of apple pie with homemade ice cream and coffee. It was down home comfort food as the max.

went to the Noodle Bowl on Bloor before a concert



had a great serving of crispy chow mein (hold the shrimp)




tasty and enough leftover to share with the dogs when I got home (no cabbage for them)

lucky dogs...

canned chicken noodle soup and a rockin' turkey and bacon sammich with all the trimmings...

That looks like a neat place!

Marco is making dinner for tonight. He’s making Mexican chicken chili, but I made a vanilla pound cake for dessert. Our neighbor from our old house Gilbert is coming over for din din.

The Puerto Rican and I are having some cheese and wine while he watches some silly football game.

Your cheese looks young.






Teasing.

I would be honored to meet you guys. I'd definitely like to plan for that somewhere in the next 2 weeks. I think we'd all keep each other pretty well entertained.

Back to thread topic,
FWIW, my potential social plans today to gtg with new lady friend didn't quite pan out due to her obligations for the open-house on her townhouse. I'm dining solo. I'm heating up some 'healthy' sausage to add to either a red sauce for home-made pizza or past can't decide.

Taco Tuesday at my house tonight, both soft and crunchy.

Apparently it was ravioli in an extremely spiced sauce of the tomato variety. The raviolis were rectangularish and filled with cheese. The sauce wasn't bad but could have done well with some garlic.

Potatoes and left over pork adovado with late added chopped cabbage - see, I'm always trying to somehow recreate a dish an instructor's wife made for us.. a casserole of potato and broth and cream (half and half?) and good pork sausage and cabbage with, I assume this and that (fennel?).

Ok, but not the great dish of yesteryear.

I’m still waiting on the evil queens arrival, we still have no idea when she’s coming, she’s like that, she will wait and call the night before and say I’ll be at the airport tomorrow! Geez she's work!

We are just about to leave, having din din out tonight, meeting Anthony and Jeff, I’m fearful of what he’s done with his hair again.

Have fun.

Tonight is thawed 'brazilian' chicken (that recipe has a good marinade/sauce)
and that's probably all - I'm saladed out after scarfing a lot of tabbouleh earlier.

Last night we had dinner at Tryst in downtown St. Pete, they have been open for just over a year now, I never thought they would make it that long, I guess the owners have some money to back them.

I don’t really care for the place, it’s way over priced for what you get but the service is good. I had the seared tuna steak.

Anthony brought his hair with him, all three colors too. He probably should have stayed home and had a bowl of fruit loops!

met Victoria after work - we went to the Noodle Bowl. Victoria ordered a Vietnamese plate that included a spring roll, grilled chicken, vermicilli and something else (too much food on that platter) . I started with a bowl of Tom Yum Kha soup and followed that with one of the specials posted on a piece of paper on the wall. Green beans and beef with black bean sauce on rice. Tasty but too much. Set and the dogs had some of the leftovers when I got home. The dogs got the last green beans and rice in their lunch soup today.

We walked around a bit and then went to Future Bakery. I had a Vanilla Chai tea in an e.n.o.r.m.o.u.s. mug and a crunchy chocolate shortbread cookie. Victoria had a jumbo coffee of some fancy sort and a huge piece of lemon mascarpone cake.

We went to a concert of medieval English music. During intermission, Victoria had a large cookie and coffee while I went for a short walk.

After the concert she wanted to go out for coffee and dessert

I went home.

For a tiny woman she can sure eat and eat and eat.

I'm downtown at Bella Brava having din din with my two favorite people.

Tonight I'll be making a warm pumpkin & chick pea salad with a tahini sauce. The recipe, which I just found, really appeals to me.
The salad part consist of roasted pumpkin, garlic, allspice, chick peas (which I've soaked overnight & will cook later), some red onion slices & fresh, chopped coriander.
The sauce sounds terrific: garlic, lemon juice, tahini paste & olive oil.
I don't think I can go wrong with this one!