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steamed rice, deep-fried and deboned marinated milkfish, served with salted egg, fish sauce, and chopped tomatoes. mint tea. i have a colonoscopy scheduled for next monday, so today is my last day of freedom before starting a low-fiber diet. on sunday, i’ll transition to a clear liquid diet. i am seriously not looking forward to this. 😬

oatmeal with butter, salt, cinnamon, milk, pine nuts, date molasses, and rosewater

sunday baked salmon. roasted vegetables (carrots, spring onions, zucchini). boiled potatoes. italian fruit salad - this is just cut up mixed fruit tossed with lemon juice and splenda.

saturday meatballs in tomato sauce; braised greens (spinach, watercress) with boiled potatoes, dressed with lemon juice and extra-virgin olive oil we spent $330/€300 on 12 500 ml bottles of olive oil from a friend’s grove in puglia. that was in november 2024. can’t wait to see what it’s gonna cost this year 😬

baked pork chops potato salad with spring onion and capers broccoli with garlic, lemon, and chilies

fava bean salad with roasted asparagus, prosciutto, egg, and arugula

spanish-style lamb stew; green salad with vinaigrette; fruit salad. this recipe features homemade chicken stock and some rioja.

asparagus, fava beans, spring onions, carrots, potatoes, flat-leaf parsley, broccoli, cauliflower, mesclun, spinach, valencia oranges, strawberries we’re on our way to get the meat at a local supermarket: lamb stew meat, chicken, pork chops. and some prosciutto for tomorrow’s lunch.

these were $8/lb

it’s not a good solution, but you can look things up via the wayback machine

i feel like i am reading a gussied up version of eater click “Food, service and design are the holy trinity,” he said. “You need to have two out of three. You don’t need to have all three.”

braised chicken, roast pork, and roast duck over rice, with steamed cabbage and ginger-scallion paste, from win’s restaurant (3040 taraval (41st avenue)) it reminds me of a hole-in-the-wall near the roosevelt avenue subway station in queens when i lived in jackson heights in the late 1990s.

epilogue “André would be very unhappy with all the waste,” Mr. Pépin said with an ironic smile, indicating a half-eaten plate of smoked salmon crepe in front of him. Mr. Soltner’s propensity for economizing had been recalled by Mr. Dopf upstairs earlier, with reported habits like judiciously saving wine corks to use to balance unsteady dining tables or placing burned out lightbulbs in the freezer with the belief that the cold could revive the filament.

oatmeal with raisins, walnuts, unsalted butter, salt, cinnamon, milk, date molasses, and rosewater

sunday minestrone. green salad with champignon mushrooms, shallot vinaigrette. macedonia di frutta for dessert.