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Dinner tonight is Mole Roasted Chicken, served with rice, black beans, sliced avocado, lime crema, corn tortillas, and extra mole sauce. 👩‍🍳

Dinner tonight is Roasted Pork Bánh Mì, served with Vietnamese Cold Noodle Salad and Spicy Sriracha Asian Coleslaw (two new recipes that I found online). 👩‍🍳

Oh wow. That is the tackiest thing I have ever seen. But I assume that what’s really going on here is they’re having to label everything so that Captain Dementia doesn’t get lost.

I have done the Very Important Task that I needed to do today and now I can spend the rest of the day just toodling around.

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday):

SAT: Salt Lick BBQ Chicken Wings
SUN: Roasted Pork Bánh Mì
MON: Mole Roasted Chicken
TUE: Takeout
WED: Baked Penne
THU: Chili Con Queso
FRI: Pad See Ew

Two cheese nights this week because husband has an event to attend on Thursday. Yay cheese! 🧀

The filling is basically a potsticker or gyoza filling (pork, garlic, ginger, green onions, soy sauce) instead of the usual beef or chicken with taco seasoning. Pretty good! I used this recipe as a guide: www.allrecipes.com/smashed-dump...

And yes my power came back on quicker than expected, yaaay.

So I was going to do Smash Dumpling Tacos but realized it’d be more work than just doing Dumpling Tacos. So I made the filling and cooked it all at once in a pan instead of smushing it on tortillas first. Served with tortillas, bell pepper & red onion, avocado, rice, and a sauce. Delicious. A+

The power is back on! And before I resorted to making peanut butter sandwiches so we’re going to have pizza after all. With lots of cheese. Yaaay 🍕

Yeah!! LOL 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

I’m so bummed I can’t make the French bread pizzas but I do really like a good peanut butter sandwich on occasion. And I think I’ll have a cocktail too (I can make a cocktail in the dark no problem). 🤪

Goddamnit, the power is out. WTF. Our power only rarely goes out. Like when everyone else’s power was out for a week, we only lost power about an hour. Estimated restore time is 8:30 pm. I guess we’re having peanut butter sandwiches for dinner.

Wooo! 🥳

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

I hadn’t heard yet! So you got to be the one to tell me too lol

Got some stuff stressing me out so my working-from-home breakfast this morning is hot chocolate. Hot milk, fancy cocoa powder that I bought yesterday, Ghirardelli semi sweet chocolate chips, sugar, and vanilla. It’s very good.

20-Minute Mole Sauce This 20-Minute Mole Sauce is full of the sweet and savory rich flavors of traditional Mexican mole, yet it comes together in a fraction of the time.

It’s this one, “20-Minute Mole Sauce.” I also have the recipe for Fonda San Miguel’s mole (which is really really good), but it’s a bit daunting so I haven’t tried making that one yet. I just wanted something that I could maybe make more often.

www.gimmesomeoven.com/holy-mole-sa...

Sunday food prep. Made the marinade for tomorrow’s Huli-Huli Chicken. Made Greek vinaigrette for my lunch salads. Bought pagnotte at Central Market and made bread crumbs, to go in the freezer (for future chicken parm etc). And made a test batch of mole sauce using a recipe I found online. 👩‍🍳

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday):

SAT: Chicken Parmesan
SUN: Greek Chicken Pitas
MON: Huli-Huli Chicken
TUE: Takeout
WED: French Bread Pizzas
THU: Smash Dumpling Tacos
FRI: Burgers

One new recipe: Smash Dumpling Tacos. It’s based on a viral recipe for smash burger tacos.

I think we got just 3 trick-or-treaters. I guess maybe we should decorate a little more. Kiddo answered the door, said Happy Halloween, asked if anybody is allergic to peanuts (no), and then said they can each take a handful from either bucket.

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🧟‍♀️

So many spam calls. Sooooo many spam calls. Why do they keep calling? Does this actually work often enough to make this worth it? Not going to pick up. Ever.

We got a cold front. It was in the 50s this morning, I’m wearing my favorite sweatshirt, and I plan to make soup for dinner. Yay

A haunted house but every room is just somebody asking you to share a fun fact about yourself

Ooooo that looks good. Yeah one of my favorite things to do is marinate chicken thighs in a sauce and then roast them in the oven. Tonight I’m making Thai roasted chicken. The marinade recipe is from the Cravings cookbook (Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce), but I couldn’t find a link for it online.

It’s a meal kit recipe (link below): coat chicken breasts in seasoned flour (flour, salt, pepper, paprika, and garlic powder) and pan-fry in a little oil, until cooked through. Serve with gravy, mashed potatoes, etc. Your WFH lunch sounds amazing! Yum!

www.everyplate.com/recipes/dinn...

My working-from-home lunch today is a salad with cherry tomatoes, celery, avocado, and homemade ginger vinaigrette. And some leftovers from last night: diner-style chicken, mashed potatoes with onion gravy, peas and corn with lemon zest and garlic, and garlic-butter green beans. Mmmmm.

There is a slow moving category 5 hurricane hitting Jamaica right now. Max winds are at 160 mph. 😬

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday):

SAT: Cornish Hen Au Vin
SUN: Diner Style Chicken & Gravy
MON: Thai Roasted Chicken
TUE: Takeout
WED: Broccoli Cheddar Tortelloni Soup
THU: Skirt Steak Fajitas
FRI: Beef & Veggie Stir Fry

One new recipe this week: Broccoli Cheddar Tortelloni Soup. 👩‍🍳

Speedy Smash Dumpling Tacos All the flavor of juicy dumplings, without the faff and in a fraction of the time. Switch up your taco night with these super speedy, super easy smash dumpling tacos. Just press your dumpling filling ...

Oooo I think I’ll try this sometime: “Smash Dumpling Tacos.” Apparently there is a viral recipe for “Smash Burger Tacos” that everyone loves and this recipe is based on that. Betcha it’s really good. 🌮

dishedbykate.com/smash-dumpli...

LOL. According to aptitude testing, I’m 99% introvert. I think John was in the middle, so probably one of those too