StephanieL

A kind of coronation chicken-type salad, with packaged sous vide chicken breast (from Roli Roti, a very popular rotisserie chicken truck here), barley, and RG Buckeyes.

I had to cheer for the Mets in the 1986 World Series, because there was no way I was going to cheer for the Red Sox.

Believe it or not, the banana tree did so well this year that we have an absolute surplus of fruit. N made a banana-chocolate sorbet (blend it all up and freeze), and for breakfast today I decided to make challah French toast with a side of bananas cooked in a brown sugar-butter sauce.

Another hot weekend, another salad: a variation on RG's recipe for Salade Nicoise, using Royal Coronas. No green beans, because we're long past that season, so I threw in an avocado for something green (besides the parsley).

Good lord, triple digits in October in my part of the East Bay.

Chicken in a piperade sauce over spaetzle. Simonsig 2019 Chenin Blanc to drink (which also had gone very well with the sardines & beans).

Shlep into the city, get to the office, find out that an area power outage had started 5 minutes before with no end time given by PG&E, shlep back to the burbs, and get a text that power had been restored 10 minutes before I got home. It wouldn't have bothered me so much if I hadn't already paid for the train and parking.

Because we're experiencing little heat blips in the Bay Area, I made the recipe for Tinned Fish with Warm Beans and Herbs from the latest RG book. It's very versatile--you can use any white bean and any tinned fish--so I made it with the Baby Green Limas and some Spanish sardines in olive oil. Since I added all of the sardine oil, I used both lemon juice (per the recipe) and a little sherry vinegar to cut the richness. Also, a large shallot is a good substitute for the white onion.

Fried egg sandwich, using sourdough English muffins I got at the farmer's market in Lincoln, CA.

Nearly an unbaked kugel.

I do love going to Anchor when I'm in the Castro and the wait isn't too bad. For dessert, I recommend both Castro Fountain (homemade cakes plus ice cream sundaes and milkshakes) and Aegean Delights (a Greek/Turkish shop with lots of baklava and the best Turkish delight I've ever had).

We had a lot of Tupperware. I still remember the big mixing bucket (used for pancake batter) and the ice pop molds.

N likes that sound too.

Smoky black bean, corn, and sweet potato chili, served with avocado and tortillas.

--Pan-seared baseball steak --Baked Russet potato --Sauteed mushrooms and greens, plus a small roasted Japanese eggplant from our garden

Signed by the maestro himself at Omnivore Books.

I must look old enough now, because I've gotten seats offered to me on BART. I always take them. 😉

They're repaving the streets everywhere, and of course there are signs stating the no parking dates and times. As I started my walk from home to BART, I saw one of those signs on my block laying on the ground and I foolishly thought to open it and prop it back up. Well, those things are METAL, and when I got it open it immediately closed right on my finger, and I couldn't pry it off for several seconds. My fingertip still feels funny, so I have a date with urgent care (out of network, natch) in an hour. Oh, and in a separate incident about 20 minutes later I took a hard fall near the station and scraped up my hands and knee. Sheesh.

I saw him on Broadway in You Can't Take it With You in 2014. It made me wish I'd gotten a chance to see him onstage in his prime.

Speaking of lentils....N made a salad with RG's French green lentils last night. She first cooked them with shallots carrot, and bay leaves and then mixed the cooked lentils with sliced radish and cucumber and a whole-grain mustard, white balsamic, and olive oil dressing. The lentil mixture was then combined with arugula, roasted beets, smoked salmon, and a topping of mascarpone cheese, fresh dill, and dried Meyer lemon zest. Shelf-stable smoked salmon in those flat cardboard boxes is a great staple to keep in the pantry.

From long COVID. My parents had albums from Brasil '66 and Brasil '77; the 1977 one got played a lot when I was growing up.

Do drinks books count? I just got a free copy of Gary Regan's The Joy of Mixology.

Now that I know youth ice hockey starts in the fall, I'm not surprised that my nephew is starting fall baseball on Monday.

Fagioli alla Venezia, or Venetian sweet-and-sour beans, using RG Borlotti Lamons. It's usually a starter or side dish, but we turned it into a main dish with the addition of greens (spinach and lamb's quarters) cooked in the sweet-and-sour sauce and chicken Italian sausage from our butcher.

My condolences, @maison rustique.