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I have found that adding an egg white helps with crunchiness. And for spicing, I have used and enjoy the baking spice mix from District Spice, but in looking them up to link here, it appears that they are closed for good, and I am sad. So maybe some other baking spice blend?

Lunch around here is generally leftovers, but today I got the husband to stop at Vace for lunch and we split an italian sub. Been a long time, so we really enjoyed it!

Thank you. I will try this because it sounds really good.

That sounds really good. Is there a recipe or do you just make it?

Last night, the husband did his favorite summer afternoon thing - grilled a whole chicken and a bunch of vegetables. He doesn't enjoy doing it quite as much this year, as he can't listen to baseball while grilling, but so it goes. It was quite tasty. He got the first corn of the season at the farm market on Saturday! There were also salads. I made shortbread and chocolate raspberry ice cream. Tonight I am going to try a new recipe from the NYT. Pork chops with brandied cherries. Did I mention that I love cherry season. I also love raspberry season. There will be raspberries on the salads tonight.

Takeout from Purple Patch tonight - we've done this several times during this mess. It travels well, and I love them, so am happy to support them. Even the lumpia do OK - usually have to pop them in the toaster oven to recrisp, but still tasty.

Pizza. Brie, blue cheese, caramelized onions, rosemary, cherries, and basil. I love cherry season.

That is very similar to my 2 favorite chocolate ice cream recipes, both from David Lebovitz. One with raspberries, one with peanut butter. Yes, I live with someone who does not love plain chocolate ice cream, and I love both of these, so it works.. Both recipes are from "The Perfect Scoop." They are online a number of places. Here is the raspberry one. Here is the PB one.

It was a relocation. Got takeout from here the other day. I had a craving for Chinese food, and this one is vaguely convenient. It was fine, but that's about it. I need a convenient, tasty option for Chinese food. All the Peter Chang places are further away than I wanted to drive on Saturday.

I am too. We have had takeout from there several times recently. Still good.

Wow. My dad used to stay there sometimes when he came to town for work. I'd go over and visit him, and we would eat either at Mama Ayesha's or (his favorite) New Heights. I liked it better when he stayed there than when he stayed at the Hinkley Hilton. Once Cafe Petitio closed anyhow. I liked getting treated to dinner at New Heights.

My first try with that base was also gummy. Later tries were much better. Still don't know what I did to that first one though.

Those are the best. Lately, the Columbia Heights Giant has been carrying those!

Paris - a number of places. Kenya - also a number of places, including half of the bathrooms in the home I was staying in (a college friend's parents' place.) Paris was a first place the husband had ever seen what some folks call Turkish toilets, and others call Indian toilets (my friend in Kenya was Indian.) He was astounded by them.

I think that is probably correct, and I agree with you.

Oh, that's too bad. We were hoping to order again soon. I hope all is well with them.

We got lunch from Buna the other day. Nice coffee house at Georgia and Allison. The husband has been going up there every morning for coffee since the closer coffee places have been closed. Gets him a good walk and a good coffee. Nice place. We didn't go much before, because there were closer convenient good coffee shops. Harrar is still my favorite, but they have been closed. Qualia is closer, but they have been closed. Anyhow, he likes their coffee. I've been getting my Saturday latte there too. And every time we are in there together, we look at the menu and say we should try the food. Friday was his day off. So we got lunch. They have a breakfast menu, a sandwich menu, and some Ethiopian specialities. He had a kitfo sandwich. Said it was delicious and quite spicy. I had vegetable rolls - injera with spinach, split peas, and lentils. Very very good. I would eat those again in a second.

Beau Thai, Mt Pleasant, again tonight. Spring rolls, Shrimp and Garlic sauce for him, Pad Thai with tofu for me. Very tasty. And again, the line was well managed, and everything went smoothly.

Man, that was tasty.

Didn't wanna cook tonight - tamales out of the freezer. Got to free up some freezer space and use the end of last week's pineapple salsa. Tomorrow I am going to make pizza with garlic scape pesto. Need to find that pesto recipe!

Here if anyone leaves gooshy food for any length of time, Margo comes and takes care of that. Bowls are very clean after Margo runs the scratchy tongue cycle on them.

But what did Spot have?

Tonight was our usual salad (lettuce, fruit, cheese, nuts. Strawberries are the current fruit, pistachios the current nuts), followed by this quiche, with asparagus rather than broccoli. Hey, seasonal eating! I would make the quiche again in a second, although it was a blue cheese bomb. Even the blue cheese fiend I live with thinks it should have a mix of cheese. Yeah, using down the back stock of things in the house. Puff pastry has been sitting the freezer for a while.

Purple Patch again tonight. We spend far too many nights at their downstairs bar in normal world. The food is good, we love the staff, and they have a good beer list, a decent assortment of affordable wine and nice cocktails. Their takeout has been good too. I hope they make it through, because this is one of my places. We got dinner, and I picked up dinner for our 2 regular dinner companions, dropped it at their houses, then we ate together over zoom. I want to be eating together at the bar there again. But the food travels well. We had an order of lumpia, that needed to be re-crisped in the toaster oven. Then he had fried rice with philipino sausage and an egg on top and I had chicken adobo radicchio wraps. And a bottle of white wine, but I forget what kind, and it is in the kitchen, and I don't feel the need to get up to look at it. Also, added salad that we made. One friend had lumpia and tocino and liked it. The other had sissig and papaya salad, and that was also good.

Luckily for me, the husband loves to grill. Give him even a tiny bit of a chance, and he will spend all Sunday afternoon in the back yard with the grill, a radio, and a cigar. Whole chickens are his favorite - they take so long! Also, he is a bit of a roasted chicken fiend. Although, this year is less his idea of heaven with no baseball to listen to. But as long as Sunday's weather is good, Sunday night is grilled dinner. When pepper season comes, I buy lots of Anaheim peppers, and make him grill them so I can make lots of chilis rellenos. Some to freeze, some for that week. Asparagus grills beautifully.