StephanieL

Fraudsters steal more than 22 tons of "high-value" Cheddar from Neal's Yard Dairy.

I still can't believe that Boone put in Nestor Cortes and not Tim Hill.

Is it a premonition of sorts that Fernando Valenzuela passed away this week?

The weather was quite lovely in Chicago over the past weekend. At least it looked that way out the windows of the convention center.

A lot of South African terms and expressions have crept into my speech over the last 17 years. Strangely, N hasn't picked up all that much Yiddish.

Dingbat of the day: my boss, for creating a Glassdoor account, complete with job alerts, using our department's shared Gmail address.

I have heard that it's a lovely weekend in Chicago. 🙄

I'll take 1977-1978. I'm working a meeting in Chicago, and I stayed up to watch Game 5 even though I was dead tired. I thought, "I'll just stay up to watch the 10th inning and will catch up tomorrow if they go longer."

Heartbreaker for the Yanks last night.

The Reblochon we currently have is so pungent that we're storing it in a glass container.

I have a picture of N riding the Cyclone, her face an expression of utter terror.

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.