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Above average happy hour, also.

Maybe if you bury them for a while.

Snap peas with balcony mint, lemon, walnuts and parm. Monkfish with balcony mushrooms and parsley. Those mushroom compost blocks are the gift that keeps on giving!

I'm so sorry for your loss. What an awful thing to learn while you're in a celebratory place. I'm glad the music helped you heal a little.

I attended a group dinner at Huda a few days ago. My expectations were not especially high, so I was very pleasantly surprised by how good the food was. We had… A bowl of cherries! Which life is not. Fluke carpaccio, refreshing and light. Smoky, oily pita. One of the stars of the evening: rakakat (cheese-stuffed phyllo with muhammara). Dandelion, which was just okay, too much going on here. Grilled squid, a little overcooked and too salty. Plus, the hummus was very loose. Another standout - charred eggplant. Steelhead trout, also too salty (stop over-salting fish!), but the shimeji mushrooms were great. And these two desserts. I have no idea what they were. Good, though! The menu changes frequently, based on what’s available, which is unusual for this kind of food. Strong recommend.

It's very attractive!

A Gramercy Tavern recipe for clam chowder with bok choy. Because I went to the greenmarket and bought (among other things) clams and bok choy.

Our yard upstate was full of violets last weekend, so I made violet syrup. Then I used it in a Southside, to make a Violet Southside. It doesn't taste appreciably different, but it sure is pretty!

Nice!

You need to burn some sage, maybe.

Wow!

I checked the vibes and arrived at the same conclusion

From the pantry and the balcony. Post-weekend away eating is catch as catch can.

And it's a completely believable arc. Deborah and Ava's relationship evolves, but Kayla might be the only character who does.

No heat in da house! Need soup.

People keep saying this, but I not find it tear-inducing. Loving Kayla more and more, though.

Blackfish with mushrooms and sage grown on the balcony. Asparagus and potato soup.

That story was crazy.

True, but so what? Every show on television has cast members who are not mentioned in the show's title.

George Wendt, at 76. Very sad to see him go. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/george-wendt-dead-cheers-norm-1236222950/

I watched everything, as long as my parents were out. When they were home, I was only allowed to watch PBS. The Green Acres / Petticoat Junction crossover shows blew my mind.

She still had a name. Bear was a chimp, and he still got named in the show's title, even though he couldn't drive a truck. Probably. I never actually saw that show (or McMillan and Wife, because I'm not gonna watch a show with sexism baked right into the title).

I think my first feminist act was to question why the show was called "McMillan & Wife" instead of McMillan and whatever the fuck his wife's name was. Was there a show called "Starsky & Male Partner"? No, no there was not.

I know where you live. Not your address or anything, but the general vicinity.

I’m in front of the tv, too (probably not watching sports). But way too clumsy to eat from a plate on my lap.