What did you cook or eat today? (October 2025)

My mother used to make whitefish in the oven on a sheet of aluminum.
That's all I can remember. I was just a kid.
But I could always pack away a huge amount of seafood. There were just four of us, and sis always ate like a bird, but out of a whole sheet pan filled with fillets we never had any left over.
I can eat seafood till I can't move. I'll be eating it and know I'm full but...
 
Halibut with a tapenade I made with Sicilian olives, caper berries, fresh parsley. I threw on some teeny weeny garlic cloves from the garden.
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When Covid hit, the town grocer had a literal wall of TP as soon as you entered the store. It was well over my head, maybe 12ft high and the length of the shopping cart area, maybe 50ft.
It took them several years for that wall of toilet paper to whittle down :laugh:
Obviously we did not experience the shortage some predicted.
You're lucky. I managed to snag some online at Wal-Mart by staying up really late and refreshing every few minutes. When we went to pick up, I went in while Craig drove around. On coming out, I was really worried given the looks I was getting since it was a giant sized package. We were going to grocery shop after, but decided to go home and drop the TP off since even Craig noticed and we were driving my car that was an SUV with no trunk.
 
Neighborhood Gal Pals Luncheon

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Martini

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Lump Blue Crab Dip for the table

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My plate, Red Wine Braised Short Ribs, Roasted Butternut Squash, Garlic Smashed Potatoes and Creamed Corn - that's Diane Sauce atop the Short Rib meat, that was pulled off the bone --- probably just fell off, it was that tender!

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Mrs. Next Door Neighbor's lunch of Pulled Pork Sliders

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And the birthday girl's lunch: Steelhead Trout, Garlic Smashed Potatoes and Roasted Beets & Carrot.
Everything was wonderful!
We had been to this restaurant just once before.
The service was great and the food even better.
We all decided that we needed to come back here again.
 
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