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  1. saf
    Last night was misir wot. Stirred in some chopped roasted chicken (working down that freezer!). Got very nice injera at Black Lion Market on 14th Street. Also, salad. It was delicious - we finished it all. (So I had to use the leftover injera to make injera rolls for lunch with some lentil soup that had thickened to lentil paste in the fridge. Also tasty.)
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    Honeymoon Chicken is at 9th and Georgia and Upshur Street, in the space that was briefly Slim's Diner. They opened a few weeks ago. We got takeout Saturday - our usual 4 for dinner. Took it to our friend's house, so 4 blocks. Bucket of original chicken, which is a whole chicken and comes with 4 rolls. Also with 3 sauces. We got honey mustard, mumbo, and honey lime vinaigrette. Added a few small sides to try - Brussels sprouts and smashed potatoes. (I made a lettuce salad. Friend made cookies for dessert.) All tasty, although the rolls had a bit too much honey butter sauce on them. The sprouts were good. I would like to try them in house, to see if they might be a little crisper fresh out of the kitchen. The potatoes were quite nice. (The boy was disappointed in the potatoes. He thought they would be somehow smashed then fried? He did not expect mashed potatoes. Oh well.) The chicken was excellent. We will do takeout again, and hope to get in to eat in person soon.
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    Fell behind again! But it wasn't a very interesting food week. Did make another batch of the guchujang chicken - this time doubled the sauce, and added both carrots and cashews. Was very good. Today I did some cooking for next week, so we will see how that goes.
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    I read this, and it made me so sad. I love the dim sum here, and the people were always so nice. Clearly we need to make a point of ordering from here.
  5. saf
    I want to try this place - also want to try the Georgian place on Georgia Ave - but am afraid to. How were the cilantro levels? (When I was a child, I read a book called "Anything Can Happen," by a Georgian immigrant. It was funny, it was sad, it was such a good story. I eventually read all his other books, once I found out they existed, as got the Time-Life cookbook that he and his wife worked on. Ever since I read that book, Georgian stuff fascinates me.)
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    Harrar is my favorite coffee shop, and while I do not have a mail subscription, I understand they do them - I have a friend who does their pickup subscription and loves it.
  7. saf
    Your salads always sound so good, yet somehow I never get that ambitious. Our standard is: some sort of lettuce (There's a stand at the Mt Pleasant farm market that has lettuce almost all year round! GOOD lettuce!) Cheese (often blue crumbles from South Mountain, other times grated leftover cheese.) Nuts (often pistachios) Fruit (Fresh or dried, depends on season, currently pomegranate.) Thinly sliced red oinon Thinly sliced carrots He adds more things to his - olives, and sometimes radish slices, sometimes salad turnip slices, and sometimes cherry tomatoes. Dressing - generally house-made. Tonight was salad, then rolls (leftover from Saturday), and rum and chili chicken. Chicken slightly modified, as we had boneless skinless thighs rather then regular thighs. Also used roasted chili from the freezer rather than fresh. Quite tasty. (I love pineapple.) Later, ice cream. (Got some South Mountain ice cream this week.)
  8. saf
    Tonight was a freezer night. Pulled some of this gochujanag chicken out of the freezer. (We had added cashews too.) It was such a hit that he wants to a fresh batch of it next week. Also, salad.
  9. saf
    Calzones! We made what the boy calls the classic calzone, sausage and caramelized onions. (And cheese of course.) Also salad.
  10. saf
    Drinks at the Derby the other night. While the beer menu is shortened by the supply chain issues, they still have a good variety. And as ever, the service was amazingly friendly and helpful.
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    Mezcalero for dinner last Friday, with beer at the Red Derby for dessert. It's so nice to be able to eat there again. Queso fundido! Yeah, that just doesn't travel. And extra tortillas, which are so good. I had mole enchiladas. The boy had Camarones a la Diabla. Chili Relleno and chicken enchiladas for the others. Also a pitcher of margaritas. Very tasty. Service less scattered than usual.
  12. saf
    Have you tried Pearl's Bagels on 7th Street yet? I have only had them once, as they are not always convenient, but boy were they tasty.
  13. saf
    Went by this afternoon for a baguette for fondue. Plenty of bread today! Also, delicious again. Also got a little bag of crunched up biscotti to put in my yogurt this week.
  14. saf
    Last night we had folks over. Dinner and games. Roasted chicken, rolls, roasted carrots, and salad. Then earl grey cake with some chopped candied bergamot peel added. Was all good. Tonight was fondue. Or, as my fondue cookbooks called it, Kasspot. Also, salad. Had baguette and kielbasa to dip. It was good.
  15. saf
    That's what we do - grill them while he is grilling something else. I always plan chilis rellenos for a week when he is grilling, because I will not char peppers on the stove/in the oven. Mine is an engineer. Procedures are very important.
  16. saf
    I have the advantage - the boy LOVES to grill. The pepper plants are right next to where he grills. It was coming down to the get them off the plant or let them rot point, and he was trying to fit in a little more grilling for the season. So he picked the peppers, charred them, and then handed me a giant bowl of charred peppers to deal with. Thanks, I guess? But I am appreciating have roasted chopped peppers in the freezer now!
  17. saf
    I had a bunch of garden peppers at the end of the season too - we grilled them, peeled them, and froze them. Roasted peppers of various varieties ready to go!
  18. saf
    I hope they can last. My brother loves this place. I have found it reliable for food when doing the museum thing. And my friend Krishna, who came from Texas, LOVES the food here.
  19. saf
    Dinner here tonight. Delicious as ever. Only 2 of us, so the meat sampler, with veg sides. The kitfo was too spicy for me to eat! Also, tej.
  20. saf
    Tonight was pork chops (modified - no plain apple cider here. Only apple-cherry.) Also duchess potatoes out of the freezer (from Christmas). Also, salad. I was at yoga, so I set up the dinner and the boy cooked. He said it was easy. We agree that it was quite tasty, and the recipe is a keeper.
  21. saf
    Quesadilla night! Pepper jack, pulled pork, mushrooms. Also guacamole. Also, salad. I love guacamole.
  22. saf
    Chicken and biscuits (Bittman buttermilk biscuit recipe - the only recipe of his that has never failed me. ALWAYS perfect.). Also, salad. I like that chicken recipe, but if you use boneless skinless thighs, be careful how you cut them or you end up with chicken fingers, rather than outlets. Later, lemon poppy seed bundt cake - came home with 2 slices from a dinner and games night at a friend's place the other day. It was good.
  23. saf
    We have the opposite problem - always want to try other things, and sometimes manage to, but that chicken is so good that it wins 75% of the time. And since we can only afford to eat there so often.... we haven't tried a ton of the other mains.
  24. saf
    Thanks!
  25. saf
    I don't think he consciously thinks that, but it does seem to be the only place he eats it. I pointed this out and he said, "Maybe?"
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