Topic: What are you eating / What did you eat.

[8ullfrog]

We tried a nearby pizza place. The large ran $18, and they taped the box shut.
It felt light, but they already had my money, so I took it home. Once I opened it, I realized why it was taped shut.

SIX SLICES in their large. I'd say the slices were some of the thinnest pizza I have ever had.

I learned my lesson; I won't be going back. They've got a 4.3, but apparently that's coasting off a prior reputation, lotta 2's lately, several of the reviews are asking if a former chef died.

I will say the pizza was absolutely delicious, the cheese was amazing, the sauce was perfectly seasoned and not overly sweet or acidic, which are two of my most hated pizza crimes.

But the size and the thinness cannot be denied.

Specifically, a Little Caesars hot and ready is thicker and bigger. And their slice count is 8.

[6pairsofshoes]

I love a good pizza but most pizza isn't very good.  I'm glad your new find was delicious.   Sometimes paying a little more and having a side salad to make up for the smaller quantity is the answer.

Late last night I heard of the poor gluttonous experiences of a wayward opossum in Omaha, Nebraska.  I've been to Omaha.  I can see why someone would want to dull the experience of being there with an excess of chocolate cake.

[8ullfrog]

I really miss my opossum buddy. The first time I saw him I thought death had come to claim me, but he was just chilling on my fence. He ate the noisy bugs and apparently my bedroom light helped in some way? I asked about it on reddit.

Reddit dude told me it wasn't ONE Opossum, because they only live for two years. I had a family of protectors!

And I never once thought to get them a cake.

Tonight, I had a Pepper Turkey and Palmetto cheese sandwich. I'm a big fan of cheese spread, and made the mistake of buying a local delicacy,
palmetto cheese.
It's like, a goo with shredded cheese. Looks nasty, texture is nasty, tastes amazing. I swore I wouldn't buy it again.

Aunt brought over a tub because she's a troll and she knew the cheese vexed me.

The cheese is spicy, the pepper turkey was spicy, and it made for a fantastic sandwich.

I just looked them up, they DO have just cheese spread. WOOHOO!

I was going to post a link to their website but then it blasted audio out of my speakers. So, I won't.

[6pairsofshoes]

A friend of mine sometimes leaves a sliding door to her garden open so her cat can come and go.  A baby opossum decided to come in and have a look around.  She snapped a photo of it in her dishwasher.  I guess it had a warm moist welcoming environment.  The cat food was a bonus.

I got some sleep for a change and had the usual tea and cream scone with jams.  No big surprises there.

[goldshirt*9]

At this time of the day
Anything I can get my hands onto 

[6pairsofshoes]

Cup of decaffeinated English breakfast tea from Taylors of Harrogate.  It's mediocre.  I won't buy more.   I prefer Yorkshire Gold.

[6pairsofshoes]

There's a very good bakery near me that produces a genuine French fougasse with duck fat and calamata olives.  It's so wonderfully salty.  It's like a shaped focaccia.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fougasse_(bread)#:~:text=In%20French%20cuisine%2C%20fougasse%20(Occitan,resembling%20a%20head%20of%20wheat.

I got one today and had a few slices to go with the vegetable soup I made last night for dinner.  I am ready for a nap.

[8ullfrog]

Vodka fries.

Frozen fries
vodka sauce
mozerella

I've been chasing this beast for years and I always golly it up.

This time it was my convection oven. It decided to top out at 220F. 220F is WEAKSAUCE and will not broil cheese.

So I brought in the toaster oven as a pinch hitter.

Not only did dinner come out instagrammable, it came out tasting perfect, which is what is really important.

But when I was dishing up, I touched my bless'ed ring finger to the heating element.

I've never injured my ring finger before.

IT'S VERY INSISTANT.

So... don't do that.

I don't have a proper recipe it's diner food so

Frozen fries - cook them
Vodka sauce - heat it
Mozzarella - broil it

DON'T TOUCH HEATING ELEMENT WHILE SERVING.

golly.

[6pairsofshoes]

I had some really good quesadillas for dinner.  Heated flour tortillas, grated pepper jack cheese, spiced black beans, cilantro, scallions, tomatoes, avocados, hot sauce.  Two of them were plenty.  It's a lot of prep cutting stuff up in advance but they go together quickly and they're tasty.

[goldshirt*9]

Pesto pasta with chestnut mushrooms and chilli's (cabaneros)

[6pairsofshoes]

That sounds really good.

[6pairsofshoes]

I'm making a curried lentil soup.  It smells great.  So that's dinner.

[6pairsofshoes]

Tea and scones.  With a couple new marmalades I made.

Where's 8ully?  Surely, his forays into novel culinary concoctions have not ended.

[8ullfrog]

Not a lot going on. Had a complaint about my grilled cheese sandwiches coming out too dry, but I hit up the bing ai and it told me to do bake instead of toast.

Had a fantastic garlic and parmesan grilled cheese for dinner.

It's been about 82f for most of the month and I am not a Gila monster. They do look cool though.

[6pairsofshoes]

82 sounds just ducky.  It's been cool in CA.  Even cooler on the East coast.

I had roasted vegetables and blackened salmon for dinner but they didn't turn out particularly well.  I need supervision for the fish.  My husband usually cooks it but he's not here.  It will be nice when I'm back on the other coast.