Dinner tonight - or last night.

Sigh...

You know what's strange? I do clubs only when I travel. We used to go to the SF Symphony, but I got tired of driving the 45 miles into San Francisco every Friday. I can still remember Michael Tilson Thomas, the great conductor, and that was several decades ago. He brought great music to SF and the Bay Area. They played at DeAnza College in Cupertino once in a great while, but they stopped doing that long ago.
When I used to travel to Chicago, some locals and I used to go to listen to blues and jazz. Them were to 'good ole days.'

We're very lucky - Hirut is walking distance and has jazz nights, blues nights, open mic nights, comedy nights etc etc. Because the owner and her husband are jazz musicians from Ethiopia, they pull in some phenomenal musicians and sometimes people doing big shows downtime drop in and sit in after their regular gigs.

I'm working to organize a dance/music/magic there right now. Great welcoming space.

For the last year we bought season tickets for the Philly Philharmonic and we are fortunate to be able to catch an early train into philly from Parkesburg Pa (we usually go with two other couples).
Coming home, (no trains) One of us will rent a limo for the 75 mi trip but I only have to pay 2 times for the season. We are good tippers so the drivers are quite accomodating to a bunch of farmers leaving the town.
Usually eat a meal at some great place near center city or at some great place in the Italian Market

I remember when my wife and I visited Philly, we ate at an old train station converted into a market and eating place. There are many good restaurants near Independence Hall where we stayed at a hotel close by. You also came, and we spent the day together. How long ago was that?

tonight? 3 teacup sized servings of noodle soup with broccoli, oyster mushroom, green onion and lime. then a half cup of just broccoli with butter

I love broccoli too, but with mayo.

Legume amendment.
I meant cannelli bean, not chick pea. The salad with parsley, onion and olive oil.

I love rib bark.
One of my favorite ways to achieve bark is cooking the ribs in the oven. On an upper rack, shallow pan of water under it, two hundred and twenty five degrees fahrenheit , minimum six hours. Then grill if saucing, until sauce caramelizes multiple times.

I like cannellini beans too..

Not for hummus (which sounded like your ingredients except that I pureed the chick peas), but just as beans, and sometimes for pasta e fagioli, though I usually use pintoes for that.

Good stuff

caramelized onions with fresh mushroom saute . Mrs F made chicken teriyaki, mall portions.
Lemon jello with meyer lemon chunks for dessert.

Oh, my, that sounds good.

Mmmm, I heated a couple of the aforementioned ribs, and heated the bbq sauce, scarfed that up. Had a half glass of a beer I'd never heard of, Newcastle Brown. Put away the laundry. Had some of that cabbage salad I made. Am now having a fruit yogurt cocoa smoothie that is merely ok. Needs some sugar.

I'm off to try and finish the Isabel Allende book. By now, most of the characters annoy the hell out of me, but I want to find out what happens. (She is good at developing characters, I'll give her that - they're as complex as people in real life.)

Salmon with lemon and capers (heaven!!); I needed a fix of fermented food, so this awesome sauerkraut, and a little kale and spinach salad with cukes, portobello shrooms.

My tummy loves me now.

just grilled up some lamb sausages

they're now cut up and in a pot with a nice moroccan soup

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/dave-lieberman/moroccan-spiced-chickpea-soup-recipe.html

(no spinach since I'm planning to add asparagus to any leftover soup tomorrow)

went to Lucky Red with my friend Anna last night



http://www.luckyredshop.com/menu.html

we shared fish bao, duck gravy poutine, and Korean fried chicken

insanely wonderful housemade hot sauce - Scotch Bonnet + nectarine!

we each had a



it was a perfectly sublime meal, right to the moment we couldn't find the exit as they'd pulled a heavy black velvet curtain across the door to keep the blizzard winds out


I think this photo was taken from where I sat yesterday ... imagine the entire left side hidden behind black draperies. It was a truly funny moment.

we stood up to leave ... and there was no door ... or window

Yeah, yeah!!

three doors from the place you and I ate on Spadina

I don't recall any alcohol there?? Or has my memory gone completely?

they had booze
we didn't
not sure why not

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tonight - a bowl of an awesome butternut squash/red pepper soup with lots of veggies - celery/carrot/onion/leek/more carrot/tomato

dollop of yogurt in the bowl



a sesame ring from the Serbian bakery, with butter on the side



soooo good