So...whats for dinner?
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So I made couscous for the first time to go with sauteed asparagus and leftover salmon. Anybody have a good idea for the leftover couscous?
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I've used it as the medium to make a "tabbouleh" like cold salad (parsley, diced tomatoes, lemon juice, blah, blah).
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Thanks Wally. Even though the package I cooked had some pine nuts & supposedly garlic & onion (powder?), it was as bland as eating cotton balls or paper. I found some possibilities on google, but don't want to throw good ingredients at something that's a loss. Nor do I want to waste the calories when I could be eating pasta or chocolate.
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Yesterday for brunch I made a Denver omelet--good thing because due to first traffic and then massive transit snafus we missed our dinner res at Ravinia's buffet--all we had time for was to-go from their "Market Place." Unfortunately, thanks to pandemic supply chain issues they were out of napkins and all utensils except knives. In order not to cheat on my diet, I had to stab the brisket chunks in the sandwich with a plastic knife and then use half the bun as a plate for the coleslaw, fow which I used the knife to scrape it into my mouth. Not fun. You can bet that when we finally made it home near midnight (more train delays) I had myself a slice of the aforementioned coffee cake one of Bob's patients brought him. Definitely not cheat-worthy, so I will not be tempted. Did have a bowl of keto "nutnola" and almond milk at bedtime.
This afternoon I made a "Margherita pizza" out of a low-carb tortilla, which I toasted and topped with an egg-white wrap, tomato slices, basil leaves, mozzarella, and olive oil. Pretty tasty. Bob had a very late steak lunch en route home from work, and didn't want dinner. I nuked a couple of keto chicken enchiladas verde, followed by a handful of nuts, and sour cherries mixed with Greek yogurt and monkfruit-vanilla syrup.
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Friday night we had a Thanksgiving in July meal over on Mary's deck. She is a big fan of turkey and always cooks a turkey and fixings once or twice during the summer. I made a pea salad as my contribution.
Last night Brian and Dana supplied the meat for a taco dinner and others brought the sour cream, cheese, tortillas, etc. I made guacamole with a couple of ripe avocados and chopped tomatoes.
Tonight I plan to cook green beans I bought yesterday at the farmers market with new potatoes also purchased at the market. We have leftover turkey from Mary
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Divine, we had the same stockings, but ours had yellow delicious apples. We also weren't allowed desert and had none of those things in our house. Desert was whipped cream on fruit on Sundays. We used to go to her house in Michigan in the summer and she made the best yellow squash, just mashed it up and put a ton of butter, salt and pepper on it. I believe that I make it the same, but it doesn't taste the same because she didn't make it. We also picked gooseberries, which are a little sour, but she made gooseberry pie. For anyone who remembers me, I work occasionally, finishing next week. I decided to fill in the "Divot" from the lumpectomy and will get some fat from my stomach for it. Twofer!!. Just eating cheese sandwiches with mustard, as I'm lazy. I am so glad to see that everyone is still here 10 years later. My love to all of you
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Just reading these recipes and looking for something cool to eat. So glad that you are all here. I'm doing well and love to all.
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If anyone has a favorite grocery store frozen pizza they love, can you please share?
Tonight will be tofu, bok choy and sweet potato. Still up for grabs on how I'll prep it.
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Oh BEDO !!!! So great to see you.
Wally - sorry, I gave up frozen pizza in favor of the individual Naan pizzas
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Bedo! Nice to see you and I hope you are well!
Thanks for the birthday wishes. It was a low key birthday, suitable for a 74 year old I suppose. My celebratory dinner was three lobster tails from Costco, some very disappointing corn on the cob and new potatoes in herbs and butter. I had enough leftover for a lobster roll for lunch the next day. All pretty tasty. It was over 100° so much too hot to bake, so I told DH to buy a cake instead of making it as he usually does (from a box of course). My favorite cake is white with white icing (wedding cake) so a pretty easy order. There are only grocery store bakeries near us so he got one at the local grocery, which was predictably only ok. But it was small, so that's a good thing. The icing was gaggishly sweet and scraped off before eating by me.
I'm a member of the "two chocolates after dinner" club. I like Lindt or Ghiradelli as well as the Godiva ones from Costco that Minus mentioned. Currently I have the dark chocolate sea salt caramels from Costco. They are largish so one of those is sufficient.
I was an only child and we never had Christmas stockings. I was blessed with over indulgent grandparents who spent a fortune on their grandchildren at Christmas so a stocking was not something I ever missed (plus we never had a mantle). As a married adult, we always have had stockings and they're one of my favorite holiday things to do. One gets all sorts of things in a stocking at our house - anything from underwear to bottles of liquor (small bottles). And always chocolate.
My mother was not a good cook. I never remember her baking anything but cornbread, which was the best thing she made. Fortunately I had three grandmothers who were wonderful cooks. My great grandmother could bake anything out of what seemed like nothing and without ever looking at a recipe. Eric - we had those same pie crust trimmings every time she baked a pie, which was weekly for Sunday dinner.
I've never found a widely available frozen pizza that I like except for Trader Joe's margherita and Amy's margherita pizzas. There are several local restaurants here that sell their frozen pizzas at the local grocer and they are really good.
All of your meals sound better than mine. I love reading about them. Last night was grilled lamb chops, some utterly delicious just picked corn on the cob and a tomato pie. Probably the best meal I've made in a while. However, tonight's offering is grilled lemon garlic chicken with some less than tender green beans that are being cooked to death with some onion and pickled pork - leftover new potatoes to be added, and some more delicious corn removed from said cob. I bought a dozen ears so we'll be having it for a few days.
I love orzo. This is my favorite orzo recipe. Sorry if I posted this before.
Creamy Orzo with Asparagus & Parmesan
Ingredients:
1 cup orzo
1 cup asparagus, cut into 1 inch pieces
1 tbsp butter or margarine
1/4 to 1/2 cup cream
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Salt & Pepper, to taste
Directions:
Bring a large sauce pan of water (filled about halfway) to a boil over medium heat. Cook the orzo until tender, about 10 minutes.
After the orzo has been cooking for about 5 minutes, add the asparagus to the same pot (this will allow the orzo and asparagus to cook in the same pot and keep the clean-up to a minimum!).
Once the orzo and asaparagus are cooked and tender, drain and return to the pot.
Quickly add the parmesan cheese and butter. Stir thoroughly, allowing both the cheese and butter to melt. Slowly add the cream to the mixture, while stirring. Continue to stir and add cream until you reach your desired consistency.
Season with salt and pepper.
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auntienance, that recipe sounds great, I saved a screenshot for later, thanks 🙂
Tonight was soup and salad. This new chemo has really turned me off meat, I’ll eat some but cooking it has no appeal.
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Even though I was raised Jewish, we still had stockings at Christmas--which usually overlapped or followed Hanukkah. Our parents weren't into giving one present per kid each of eight nights (basically because we were not only Reform but couldn't really afford it). We lived in an apartment with no fireplace and therefore no mantel--so our parents would hang them from the top drawers of our bedroom clothes chest. They were just ordinary knee socks rather than actual Christmas stockings, and we got tangerines, chocolate coins ("Hanukkah gelt") and a tchotchke or two.
When I could eat "normal" pizza and didn't want to order out, I was partial to 365 Margherita. Nowadays, I get Quest four-cheese (which I supplement with peppers, mushrooms, tomato slices & basil) or Supreme (I hate pepperoni, but there's enough sausage & veggies on it that I can pick the pepperoni off it). Its thin crust is "meh," but at least it's on my diet.
Got up early so skipped breakfast before Lyfting it down to 900 N. Michigan for Bob's haircut. There's an old-fashioned British-style barbershop in there (formerly Truefitt & Hill, now called Merchant & Rhodes) he's liked for over 35 years. He's had the same barber now since 1995. We went downstairs to Aster Hall, the high-tech food court; but nothing really appealed to me that I could eat. So we opted for Adorn, the restaurant in the adjoining Four Seasons hotel. Bob had a bagel & lox. I had their summer-veggie hash with a poached egg--and they made it from scratch for me without potatoes. Tricolor cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, red pepper and eggplant, Boursin cheese, no meat. We skipped our usual trip to Teuscher for chocolates, because we figured they'd melt in the heat.
We took the bus to the Art Institute for the Cezanne exhibit, plus the antiquities collection and sitting by the Chagall windows (the third set I've seen, the other two being in the museum in St. Paul de Vence, France and the Hadassah hospital outside Jerusalem) to take a load off my aching left foot. Then a shared early dinner at Cindy's Rooftop atop the Chi. Athletic Club: a dozen oysters (6 each Island Creek from Cape Cod, and PEI); and a porterhouse that came with generously-sized portions of spinach/arugula salad, grilled asparagus and maiitake mushroom. (Gotta see if I can find one of those at the grocery--it was interesting & very meaty). We took half the steak home--was able to hail a cab right away. Bob swears that next time we eat there he's going for the "grasshopper" ice cream sandwich for dessert. We opted for cappuccinos instead...that were the size of huge lattes, and even comped.
At home for dessert I had some Ken's keto "Swedish pistachio" ice cream with five of the remaining MI sour cherries. It took me back to my Brooklyn childhood, when Cantonese-American restaurants served maraschino cherry-pistachio ice cream for dessert (along with kumquats, litchis and pineapple). The only other place I've encountered that flavor was Knott's Berry Farm.
My oyster preference is Pacific (various Hood Canal, BC, OR); but this summer there's a bacterium that has hit the West Coast oyster beds, whether wild or farmed. Of course, the best I've ever tasted were LaRochelles from western Brittany near the Atlantic and also some from Normandy--but those don't cross the pond.
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I have been lurking but not posting as often as I used to. But (Nance) you mentioned tomato pie and I have to share. I made the Lee Bailey "Savory tomato pie" as a side to grilled meat last evening. Really good but rich due to the cheeses and a dab of mayonnaise to help things hold together.
Tomatoes, basil and chives from our deck garden made it extra special.
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Reader, I've never had tomato pie, but it looks like something I'd like to try!
Weighing in on the dark chocolate topic, I've never cared for it. I know it's supposed to be a better alternative to milk chocolate but I don't like how it tastes. Even if it's an addition to something, like dark chocolate covered raisins, I will pass. While I like regular chocolate, I'm not a chocoholic but more of a person liking the whole gamut of different kinds of sweets. I cut back on potato chips and salsa and chips as I'm in the prehypertension category and watch salt intake. Occasionally I'll treat myself to Utz barbecue chips.
Wallycat, we haven't bought frozen pizza for years. There's a proliferation of pizza shops around here—along with plenty of churches and bars; standard joking material for our town. I'm in the land of square pizza and not complaining about it! Easily purchased and consumed. When ds lived at home, I always bought Stouffers French Bread pizza. It was a favorite snack at the time, I loved the crunch. I tried some a couple years ago and it tasted very salty to me.
Another funny story of my grandkids. We once ordered pizza while they were here and dh went to pick it up. When he was gone, my granddaughter said, “We don't have that kind of pizza place where we live (a large metropolis)." I asked what she meant and she said, “Where you go pick it up yourself." Apparently, they only get delivery! It was so funny that she thought their shops didn't offer pick up! Dh and/or I always go get food takeout orders, opting out of home delivery.
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Hi all
I've been having home made pizzas too this last week, even had some for lunch today. I just put tomato, onion, mixed herbs and cheese, sometimes I have meat on it as well. I've been making vegie soup as well and enjoying it. I had some tuna patties and roast vegies tonight.
It's my Dad's 80th birthday in August so my family are deciding where to go to celebrate. It will probably be at the Casino, they have 2 different buffet restaurants and one is dearer but a bit flashier. We have been to both before but not for ages.
I've started doing volunteer work at a charity shop once a week, I worked in retail for years so it's pretty easy. Some of the stuff people give to charity is interesting!!!
My Mum who has dementia now used to cook and bake all the time and one of the first things that she forgot was how to cook. I still make a few of her recipes now.
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Aussie, working at a charity shop seems interesting.
Our dinner last night was warmed up Thanksgiving dinner in July that Mary gave us. Turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, dressing and winter squash. It tasted good and was so easy.
The frozen pizza had an Italian name that I don't remember. The pizza was quite acceptable with a thin crust. I'm probably not as "picky" or discriminating as some of you. I've even wondered if "taste buds" age along with the rest of the body.
I've never eaten a tomato pie but it has appeal since tomatoes are my favorite produce out of the garden. The ones grown in a greenhouse are available now at the farmers market. In the next week or two the other veggie vendors will have more normal tomatoes that don't look artificially perfect. Corn on the cob is available on many street corners, being sold out of pickup trucks.
Tonight we'll have fresh green beans and new potatoes with something else not yet decided.
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Aussie, would you care to mention a few of the more interesting items you've seen donated?
Carole, it makes sense that taste buds might age. Or at least change as we grow older, as mine seem to have done. One reason could be from taking oral chemo for two years. No drastic changes, just subtle ones over time. My whole life I loved diet soda, allowing myself limited amounts since it's not good for you. It was always a delicious guilt-free treat from time to time, but the past year it tastes odd to me. I used to love green peppers but they taste too strong now. Never use to care for blueberries but put them on my oatmeal these days. Small changes from previous tastes.
Aussie, nice milestone for your dad, getting ready to celebrate his 80th birthday!
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Aussie - Yes, I'd like to see the "interesting" donation items too. Good for you for volunteering. I'd planned to volunteer with Friends of the Library sorting donated books for use in the library system or for sale, but everything changed with Covid. Maybe next year.
Nance - thanks for the Orzo & Asparagus recipe. I also like the Costco dark chocolate sea salt caramels. And you're right - one is enough (usually).
Devine - I never used to eat dark chocolate at all. It meant my Mother had half the See's chocolate box all to herself. But as I've gotten older, I like it better. Mind, I don't care for the really bitter stuff.
Mae - sorry meat's not appealing. Hope you're not dealing with any more serious side effects? Are you back at the cabin?
Carole - saw on another thread that you had to turn your heat pump on last night. That does make turkey sound reasonable. We had a relatively cool day yesterday too...down to 101.
Reader - nice to see you. The tomato pie does sound good.
I ordered Godiva milk chocolate pudding mix from Amazon since I couldn't find it in the stores. The dark chocolate variety was $7.99 each - for one box of instant pudding!!! - so I passed on that. Anyway I made a batch yesterday substituting some of the cold milk with 3 Tbls heavy cream and one jigger of Tia Maria. Delicious. Dinner was salad again, dressed up with leftover asparagus & the last of the salmon. I'm in love with HEB's ranch dressing.
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My taste buds loved last night's dinner. I cooked the fresh green beans and new potatoes in chicken broth and seasoned with a section of ham steak. Also onion powder and garlic powder and black pepper. The other dish was eggplant lasagna from the freezer, heated up in the outdoor grill/ oven. Delicious.
DH will grill a ribeye tonight. Also slices of eggplant and zucchini. I may make a salad but the steak and veggies will probably be enough food.
Mary's three tomato plants are producing some ripened tomatoes so I have been enjoying ham sandwiches with slices of tomato for lunch.
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Carole, your meals sound wonderful. DH does not like eggplant, but I adore it. It is nearly $3.00/head here so I don't buy it frequently. When it goes for a reasonable price (I'm spoiled from having lived in the midwest for 30+ years), I grill and freeze a lot of it.
We had leftover tofu stuff. Tonight, rockfish on a bed of diced zucchini, corn (sadly, canned) and black beans. I may toss some salsa onto that, put the fish on top and stove top steam it all.
It hit 82-83 here yesterday and another few hot days. So few people have a/c out here. I'm grateful for our heatpump, even if I can only let the house hit 71. Sure wish I could be a bear and hibernate from June to October, when I emerge, refreshed and avoiding all this HOT. I realize there are folks with worse temps and i feel for you.0 -
Yesterday I made haluski with cabbage from the garden and we had it with take-out sausage sandwiches. I also roasted tomatoes and zucchini from the garden along with store bought baby bella mushrooms then added some cooked penne pasta and Romano cheese. I forgot to use garlic so it looks delicious but tastes a bit bland. I'm still tweaking the recipe from last year trying to find the right flavor notes.
Today I'm baking a couple loaves of zucchini bread. I really like the recipe I have, it calls for brown sugar rather than white and not nearly as much of it as many online recipes call for. I'm a big fan of using brown sugar in place of white in recipes when I can; it adds a subtle, richer flavor. I will swap out the raisins and walnuts for blueberries and pecans. The blueberries take it to the next level!
My pasta & roasted vegetables:
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We're not sure what to cook tonight.
Yesterday and today we did another "bring stuff " trip.
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Never liked milk chocolate--to me, it never tasted "chocolatey" enough. My dad got me hooked early on "Semi-Sweet" and even bittersweet. Gordy's Halloween haul was always safe from me...except for the occasional Hershey's Special Dark miniature or Milky Way Dark. You could put a bowl of Hershey's Kisses in front of me and it would remain undisturbed for a year. If the only mousse a restaurant has is milk chocolate, I'll pass. Even Baker's Square's French Silk pie left me cold.
Nancy, hope you're safe from that horrible STL flooding. 10" of rain in as many hours? Even that much snow creeps me out. Check in here to let us know you're ok.
Last night I reheated half the leftover steak, along with roasting the last of the Brussels sprouts in my crisper (Sur La Table seasoning & olive oil) along with rainbow baby carrots (butter, cinnamon, allspice) in foil in the toaster oven. Sadly, the steak was overdone but still good. Had it on the deck as the sun was setting.
Tonight, we walked to Regalia. Gazpacho with shrimp to start. Bob had fettucine "mare e mare" (Manila clams. calamari & shrimp) as his entree and I had seared striped bass with grape tomatoes over spinach.
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Bought a small eggplant--might make a parmigiana tomorrow (mine will be coated in only grated parm or asiago; Bob's will be those cheeses mixed with Progresso bread crumbs). We'll use Rao's marinara and Galbani whole milk mozz.
As for salted caramels, Whole Foods' dark version (as well as its mini-grahams) are like crack for me. I don't let them into the house (last time I did was 2 yrs. ago, when Gordy sent them over to me in a "CARE package" when I was recovering from plaque brachytherapy for my ocular melanoma).
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Camille, I used to like diet sodas in my youth--but they were different back then. Remember "No-Cal" brand (some of which actually had up to 4 cal./glass)? And Tab? They were sweetened with saccharin and even (till 1970) cyclamate, aka Sucaryl--which to me was the most purely sweet and "transparent" artificial sweetener, with no aftertaste. When it got taken off the market (because, in massive doses, it gave Canadian lab rats bladder cancer0, diet sweets--especially soda--went to hell in a handbasket. For years, Canada did not care about its lab rats and Sucaryl was legal--I used to have friends smuggle it back to me. Sweet & Low tasted particularly gross to me--there was filler in it that made the saccharin taste even more fake. (Still does). Aspartame/Equal/NutraSweet was good for awhile...until heat and age made it break down after only a few months. (Ever taste a can of Diet Pepsi that's sat in a warm warehouse for 6 months)? One of my friends swears it tastes like mold to her (sort of the way patchouli smells to me). Splenda & Acesulfame-K (aka SweetOne) make everything taste one-dimensionally sweet, eclipsing the actual natural flavors of the food & drink. Stevia is just plain bitter. Erythritol tastes the closest to sugar, but not quite--and it requires much more of it by volume than cyclamate ever did. And maltitol? Great...until you realize you're nowhere near a bathroom (or you "make music" to rival that caused by beans gone bad).
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Last night's dinner was another good one, thank to dh. It was his idea to grill eggplant and zuccini slices as the side to the ribeye. He is a good "griller." We both enjoyed the meal, which was enough with no leftovers.
We learned the technique of cleaning and oiling the grill from either ATK or Cook's Country, probably both. Heat the grill, remove the crud with a steel brush and then swipe with a folded paper towel saturated with cooking oil.
I also got the idea of slicing the steak into strips from a cooking show. Before that, we cut the steak in half. We like thick steaks that weigh at least a pound so one steak is enough for both of us. Ok, too much but we eat it anyway! WW says 3 or 4 oz is enough.
Corn cut off the cob will be on the menu tonight.
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A day of weather relief for now. High of 71 at the moment.
We are having Caprese salad. I will be unconventional and add a little garlic and lemon juice.
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Drove an hour North yesterday to have lunch with my BFF. Food was forgetable - cheese burger was WAY too well done and rock hard. Mind you, I love steak rare, and don't want my hamburger's bloody, but this was beyond ridiculous. Oh well - it was great to see my friend. I helped her figure out how to ste up file folders & transfer photos from old camera SIM cards to her computer.
Ran errands today so I treated myself to a lemon Nothing Bundt Cake - since I had a coupon to buy one, get one free. That was my appetizer tonight (twice the size of two standard cupcakes with cream cheese icing). Delicious. The "free" one is waiting for tomorrow - 'white chocolate raspberry'. I stopped at Chicken Salad Chick to get some of their wonderful broccoli salad. I had no intention of getting chicken salad too, but the salad of the month was dill & cucumber so I couldn't resist. Dinner was two Hawaiian rolls with this Dilly Delicious chicken salad. A friend came over before I ate with a lovely bottle of Malbec and we each had two glasses. Kind of heavy for 102 degrees, but very good.
Excitement of the day, we got three MINUTES of rain. Lest there be any confusion - yup - 3 minutes. I dumped the rain gauge. Not quite one tablespoon.
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Minus - I would gladly send you some of ours. Nine and a half inches was a bit much.
We are fine. Fortunately we live in a higher area. However, we live in a lake community (although not in one of the expensive houses ON the lake) and it’s been a wild one with boats breaking free of their moorings and floating off their lifts. They had to have a boat rodeo yesterday morning wrangling all the loose floaters. I’m happy not to live on the lake right now
Dinner tonight was brats poached in beer then grilled, spiralized squashes with tomatoes and onions and more delicious corn on the cob I’m gonna miss that when it’s gone
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Dinner tonight was reheated leftover steak, plus tomato-basil salad (homegrown tomato & basil over arugula--the burrata had spoiled and had to be discarded, so not a real Caprese) and a smashed baby Persian cuke dressed with sesame oil & sriracha. For dessert, the last five sour cherries plus some blackberries & raspberries and a small segment of an Endangered Species 72% Chocolate & Espresso beans bar. We're going to Chez Joel tomorrow night.
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