StephanieL

N bought frozen shredded potatoes and made seasoned hash brown waffles, which we had with lettuce, sliced radish & cucumber, creme fraiche, and smoked salmon.

I have a sensitivity to opioids, meaning that I can't take anything stronger than Tylenol with codeine or else I feel very nauseous. I won't get addicted, but that reduces the pain medicine armamentarium significantly.

As relbbaddoff said, they can still be found in Europe. The Four Seasons Berlin had one when I stayed there in 2019--it was most lavish buffet I've ever experienced--and so did my hotel in Copenhagen two years ago.

What are the top and bottom dishes?

I used to follow Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post; when she resigned in protest and founded a Substack newsletter called The Contrarian, I subscribed. On Fridays, they print a recipe. I saved the one for a Citrus Curd and Raspberry Cream Cake and made it over the weekend for N's birthday. We're growing passion fruit and N had frozen some pulp, so I made a passion fruit & lemon curd for the filling. While I'm sure this would go well with strong black tea, we've also been having it with Tiny Umbrellas Moscato, one of the bottles given to us by voyager.

The Mexico-England game was a match for the ages.

Last night was worse of a war zone than usual. I think a lot of folks were like my next-door neighbor and going all out for the 250th.

Thank you both. I don't understand what would possess a guy walking his dog and pushing a baby to engage in Jew-baiting on a nice Sunday morning.

The refereeing was on par with Uzbekistan's play during the tourney.

Can't say too much without veering to political territory, but on my morning walk today I had the pleasure of antisemitic remarks being thrown at me.

Paraguay and France did not look happy to be playing in Philly this afternoon. The Paraguay players were ready to start a brawl by the end.

Braised chicken Basque-style--lots of pepper and onion and a hit of Pimente d'Espelette powder. Couscous on the side to soak up the sauce.

My parents in NJ lost power, internet, and landline phone service for several hours. Thank goodness they have a generator.

Great yield at the U-Pick farms in Brentwood: 7 lbs. of Westley apricots at one farm and a mixture of pluots, white peaches, nectarines, and nectaplums at another. N has big plans for jam and schnapps making.

A whole article about car repossessors and not a single mention of "Repo Man"?

Sandwich using Monday dinner leftovers: half a pork chop and sauteed onion on a sourdough roll with greens. Last of the mashed sweet potatoes on the side.

South Africa makes it to the knockout round for the first time!

I did, and things slipped. One of those weird accidents. At least it's healing up well.

No idea that Arista was named after the honor society of the same name found in NYC high schools, one my mother belonged to.

I found out through a mutual friend that a guy I was friends with in college, who I'd lost touch with but reconnected via FB, was charged in October with an absolutely heinous crime. It sounds like they've got good evidence against him. I never thought he would have been capable of something as awful as this.

Slicing mishap with the mandoline. I'll be OK. :-)

SO bummed that I had a dinner to go to and couldn't watch the game.

Back to NOLA in October for work. I have a visit to Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29 planned (in my head, anyway).

Are you going to the Jewish Heritage Night game on the 7th? N and I will be there. Drop me a line, and maybe we can have a meal or a drink.

Oh wow--I remember when it opened, just a few blocks from me. A bit of a splurge for me at the time, but it was very good.