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🍴: Mon – I forgot to verify an ingredient for the dish I planned to make was in the pantry, and, of course, it wasn’t. Adapted this with the chorizo I had already thawed and pine nuts, and it was a comforty delight on a headachy holiday. Tues – Soy-glazed pork cutlets with Japanese slaw,
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These [David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Robert Plant] weren’t icons reading because it was virtuous. They read because it was essential—like breathing, like music, like love. When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn’t stop people from buying dangerous books. Now that books are considered virtuous and educational, nobody wants them. — Staci Wilson A
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🍴: Mon – last week, Hampton impulsively picked up a bag of unicorn cornmeal at our butcher. We put it into action tonight to make corn pone in a take on shrimp and grits using TJ’s frozen black tiger shrimp and the tomatoes he brought home recently because they’re the closest thing to those we
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🍴: Mon – SautĂ©ed Lamb with Mushrooms, mashed potatoes, garden salad. A new-to-us recipe with some stew meat that had been in the freezer for far too long. With definitely do again! Tues – pork chops with sweet potato/goat cheese mash, garden salad Wed – a grilled Smoke City Meats ribeye with glazed carrots and
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This was seriously done and drafted but here we are, another year, same as the last. 🍴: Mon – Farro Risotto With Sauteed Mushrooms and Fennel — sliced the fennel instead of wedging for my texture preferences, sliced the mushrooms instead of chopping to make them more meaty, and added some Aleppo and ACV for
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In honor of Mrs. Jones and Auntie Una, Flat 493 (now in a house) reinstated our New Year’s Day tradition last year. This year, I was much smarter and cooked most things the day before instead of my Yankee ass wondering why the dang collards wouldn’t cook down faster as guests arrived. Thank goodness the
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🍴: Mon – Pork Chops with Mushroom Cream Sauce, wild rice, sautĂ©ed zucchini Tues – arancini with last Saturday’s leftover shrimp scampi risotto, bresaola salad Wed – Smoke City Meats filets for Hampton’s mom and stepdad, house mashed potatoes (plenty of horseradish pub cheese) and arugula salad Thurs – brunch at Hampton’s sister’s and then
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🍴: Mon – leftover pork tenderloin and Hampton-made baked Rancho Gordos, salad Tues – Twisted Pine with a Seagull castmate. Kady came to Flat 493 to review things with Hampton and took him downtown before I got off work since he (finally) had a production meeting before our rehearsal. She and I then got a
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🍴: Mon – rehearsal and dance class were both cancelled due to the threat of ice, so instead of random dinners, we bumped up a meal planned for later in the week. Good thing, bc this crunchy brown butter carrot gratin did take a while. Totally worth it, served with pork tenderloin, mash, and peas.
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🍴: Mon – we got home from PA last week to a leaking kitchen faucet (luckily only when turned on; it wasn’t running for three days) and an oven igniter that finally decided to crap all the way out. With him having rehearsal and me not being called for rehearsal, but having dance class, he