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    Oh. My. Goodness.
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    Quick note to say that I've enjoyed both recent trips which happened to be on two consecutive days. The menu is confusing but i really enjoyed both meals. All good: cauliflower side boc choy side eel lunch bowl shrimp/sweet potato/squash thing on the lunch menu
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    How Do I GET the Lunch Boxes Back From The School without going to Fetch Them Myself? !! ???
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    I've been twice in the last two years. Both times those bastards "poisoned" me, AKA exposed me to food allergens that I declared. The food is forgetable and service old-school good. Expensive IMO, considering the bla-ness of the food. All that said, my review is skewed by the inability to swallow at the end of both meals. It sort of ruins an evening.
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    Dinner: Salmon with soy+stuff glaze, rice, broccoli at the request of Big J. Little J will eat anything. (I'm trying out different code names to see what works) Feeling oddly proud of my school lunch box game recently. Tomorrow will be chef salad with the left over grilled chicken from last night and lots of other random stuff. My kids like a lot of little things and I think the end up eating more when I prep this type of lunch. I tried "warm" food once but too much of a PIA to be worth trying to master it.
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    I almost spat out my lunch Sundae.
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    So Leleboo: When are we going to call time on "a bread" comments. Today, both my kids for pre-bed snack had water and two slices of "sara lee whole wheat" bread. It's like squishy wonderbread dyed brown. And, while I was preparing their prison rations, they were eating the remains of their lunches! To quote all parents: "kids are weird" In other news, I've mastered bento-box like lunches. Girl likes salad, even grain salad, various pickled things, and variety. She tells me "you didn't pack enough of stuffes." She means different things, not general volume.
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    Loved it. "Never Let Me Go" should go on y'alls reading list next. I've tried every Ichiguro and these are the only two I finished yet both rank very high on my all-time favorites list and I'm thinking of reading them both again, which I almost never do. FWIW, I read very very fast and have read a lot of crap and literature so feel like my book recommendations are far better than my food reviews.
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    Love this.
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    that's y'all https://www.npr.org/2019/03/09/701701825/yall-heard-an-argument-for-the-great-southern-pronoun
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    Sundae: Good luck with the food issues and I hope the OT helps. Just came on here to say that my little asked for a bread again last night, looked at the options and chose the ultra healthy seed filled sprouted organic thing over the bagels and tortilla. Good for her! in other news, why does my big eat beans at school but not home? They cannot be better at school. Don't we open the same can? (baked, re-fried)
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    It opened in August of 2018. A redo in less than a year? Why?
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    Peeps: The con closed before we could test it. Can I make fun of la finca or am I being too trite recently? Le Kon's sign was blocked by the overhang. The professional exterior was marred by stupid sticker letters announcing "tacos" or some such nonsense. And ARL messed with the location just as they opened. Anybody have anything positive to share?
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    Lunch today was good enough and for the record, by the time I left at 12:45, completely packed. Egg drop soup could have used some salt IMO. Loved the garlic eggplant (not to oily) but the ...seafood thing was lackluster, maybe needed salt too. I'd go again because something about it delighted me.
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    Curly Deon does have its charms.
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    Should a restaurant's name require/inspire 6 or more posts on pronunciation? That said, thank you all. I now know how to pronounce it and will remember (thanks to the multiple posts...makes me feel not alone in confusion, which is nice)
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    I've got a little sleep avoider (5) who also eats an early dinner. When she asks for food before bed, based on internet advice, I give her "a bread" or a cheese or something equally as bland. If she's hungry, it will suffice. If she's not, it won't and that's how I know if she's really hungry or just delaying bed. Husband's traveling so breakfast is "a bread" chicken cold cuts and strawberries and milk. I think I covered all of the food groups and momma's tired and lazy and it's lent and for lent I've given up trying too hard.
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    More news on my girl. She ate $17 worth of oysters at the Wharf today. FWIW: she likes the medium between salty and sweet. The other one at quite a bit of burger. He's not food adventurous. Rappahannock oyster bar is expensive and not child-friendly (it's an actual bar) but the staff was really, really nice. I had fried seafood everything. That was amazing but then again, I never eat fried food so maybe it was just the fried-ness of it.
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    In another thread I mocked the concept of Cajun crawfish in the same restaurant as sushi. Well, last Sunday on girl-date, my daughter (5) requested both at the Harris Teeter. I got them, made them and she loved the meal. Of course!
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    Am I the only person who can't pronounce "Sfoglina" ? I also went to Sfoglina and enjoyed the food but here's the thing; I remember the Casa Luna lunch still, but not the So-fog-lina lunch. That's how my brain pronounces it...I know it's not correct but there it is.
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    My kids have critiqued the sweetness of various fruits and candy. For example, grapes are generally too sweet. OTOH apples can go either way. They prefer dark to milk chocolate.
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    I've noticed that when my kids eat an early dinner, they want more/another when husband and I eat. Last night we had drop-in in-laws so I made the absolute best Thai food that I could order over the phone. Kids came sniffing around at white rice and mango sticky rice for second dinner. Not bad. In other news, my 8yr old boy has declared himself to "not like meat" but when offered he'll eat fish sticks and chicken nuggets. What the heck? He used to love salmon and pollo a la braza. But I guess that was 2018. They will still eat potstickers even though they are not homemade. Very often that's their second dinner. Or bread and cheese when I think they are faking hunger.
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    Regarding roux: If you mess it up the first time, start again. It's just flour and oil. Go slow, stir a lot and watch it. It turns from "clearly not done" to "copper penny" in an instant. In the next instant, it's burnt. All this happens in what, about 2 or 3 minutes? It takes for-ev-er, though, to get to that point.
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    No but I looked at the menu while walking past. It's Mediterranian ...and across the street from Zaytinya. Not sure that's a good idea.
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    Re; Peanut butter...that sun butter is pretty good according to my 8 yr old and is what's used in arlington public school lunches.
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