What's for Dinner, Mon., Mar. 16, 2015
I'm about to make a big batch of tomato sauce to go with some delicious meatballs I made the other day.
If I have enough energy, I may do something with this sweet potato for a side dish.
Dinner last night at the skyline-view restaurant was very good. I had organic chicken and it was so flavorful that the RG remarked that the restaurant probably has sourced out a local vendor. It had the most beautiful brown to it and a most flavorful glaze. It came with risotto and butternut squash. For dessert we had apple tart.
What was really unusual was our appetizer--sliced salmon with beets. They served this on--are you ready for this?--something that looked like a slate tile! It was perfectly square and black. The bright color of the salmon, which had been marinated in beet juice to make it a magenta color, stood out. Then the rest of the plate was decorated with squares and circles of beets that they had cut with from larger slices of beets. They were stacked, kind of like a modern art painting might appear: square, circle, square circle.
We've decided we like dining there on Sundays because there's no crowd. We had great service, almost one on one.
Cher
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I see Chicken Tikka, some sort of chickpea curry, & basmati rice pilaf in my very near future.
I spent a week at a language school and then a week celebrating my precious daughter's wedding.
Between the two, I think I have gained about 20 pounds, lol.
Finally back home and cleaning out the fridge tonight.
Looks like we have one leftover chili relleno, one leftover pork tamale, some lettuce and one carrot.
Haven't gotten around to looking through the pantries yet, but I figure we have enough for a few days out here in the middle of nowhere.
Glad to be back and hope everyone is doing well.
Spanish or Italian? I hope the wedding was glorious.
I have had a great time, but am ready to get back into my simple routine.
Spanish at a school in Guadalajara. I know it helped, but I still feel like an idiot when I try to speak casually.
The wedding was indeed glorious. Very small and here in Mexico. Just perfect.
Hope you have been well and surviving your Chicago winter.
Unfortunately, I've been sick for two weeks with a bout with acute bronchitis that will not go away. I've seen the doctor twice and she warns that it'll take forever to go away. At least I'm feeling halfway human now, though still coughing quite robustly.
The wedding sounds lovely...quiet and in a beautiful location. I wish your daughter and her husband many years of happiness.
I caught a cold from my mother while she was here, but I'm hoping for a speedy recovery. I haven't had bronchitis since I quite smoking last year.
Don't crack any ribs with that cough!!
I hope that you do recover quickly! The bugs going around up here are nasty. At least mine didn't involve gastrointestinal symptoms, which I understand is the worst of the current bugs. Been a couple of years since I had bronchitis (I don't smoke) but this seems to be making up for lost time.
Feel better!
