Food

I was talking to a friend this morning who mentioned that she loved when I wrote about food but eschewed the political stuff. I get that. Although, like her I have no political affiliation, and abhor both the far left and right, my brand of centrism is obviously a different flavor than hers.

In any case, it's a dead horse. Maybe I can talk about food?

Although I haven't been cooking too much, I have been eating.  A lot of eating. Won't even tell you what I weigh but I have set a personal record, not even trying. Will have to deal with that later I suppose...

So what have I been eating?

Jim and Debbie were down to their last steak so I bought another beef subprimal and we broke it down into sixteen beautiful New York steaks. 

Price has gone up about twenty percent but it is still doable as I think that they are apt to go quite higher for a variety of reasons.

Buy it while it is reasonably affordable or get ready to eat a lot of chicken.

Took half home, seal a mealed them and stuck them in the freezer.

 I cooked one up the first night. 

Probably the best New York yet, tasted dry aged, a lot of intramuscular fat, definitely the consensual favorite over the ribeye and Top Sirloin.

If it was not a prime it missed it by a hair.

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We had three racks of ribs in the freezer and decided it was time to do an oven rib night.

Two beef, one pork. 

Both good but the beef were superior.

I was going to make homemade sauce but Les said not to bother.

I made a special rub and we had a whole row of sauces to try, came down to these two after the taste test.

Both great.

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What else?

We made a nice jidori chicken piccata with angel hair, mushrooms and artichoke hearts.

I got some grief for adding too much butter to my olive oil but I think it tastes better.

I added a little too much wine which we had to cook off.

The jidori chicken has so much flavor!

Not exactly a pretty plate but delicious.

We often favor bucatini but it was nice to go to a lighter pasta for this meal.

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Pretty much everything else has been restaurant food with all my trips to the doctor and San Diego.

Pulled noodles with cumin beef and cabbage at Shan Xi Magic Kitchen.

Serious comfort food,  noodles with a bit of tooth and a bite.

I always get the wider hand ripped noodle, this was a treat!

Next day Wagman and I went to Jasmine and had an expensive dim sum lunch, barbecued pork, roast pork, duck, flanken, shumai, the works.

Then it got really expensive. 

I screwed up the apple pay in the parking lot and got a sixty dollar ticket.

I called Diamond Parking and the guy was nice enough to lower the ticket to fourteen.

Thank you, Moses!

Picked up cumin lamb from Spicy City for my wife. Her favorite.

I think that is all the food for now.