usual dinner list

eatwell farm veggies
fruits and veggies from Eatwell Farm

Usual dinner ideas/running list to mainly keep track of recipes we like and what we're eating:

  • roasted chicken and chicken stock
  • steak frites (hanger steak w/ anchovy butter, arugula, fries)
  • buffalo or turkey burgers w/ fries
  • pasta bolognese (fine, it's spaghetti)
  • beef broccoli
  • pork chops (w/ some vegetable and starch)
  • tonkatsu or chicken katsu
  • shrimp or fish tacos w/ mango salsa (and red salsa)
  • ham and cheese quiche, spinach and mushroom quiche w/ salad
  • lentil and Swiss chard soup (w/ cornbread)

chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and cake etc…

chocolate chip cookies
cookies! photo from Star Tribune

"Go to" and "to try" recipes, I'll keep adding to this list:

King Cake season

King Cake from Haydel's Bakery
King Cake from Haydel's Bakery

We love us some King Cakes.

Haydel's Bakery is our favorite. We always get the sugar only (the sugar + frosting is pretty sweet) and we get the package with the coffee, bead pack, etc. because why not!?! The high costs of these cakes are due to FedEx shipping but good luck trying to find a legit King Cake outside of NOLA. Buy NOLA and support their economy!

Antoine's and Gambino's are pretty good too.

I have yet to try a filled King Cake which is usually cream cheese but there's lot of different options (flavored cream cheese, brownie filled, praline, German chocolate) so a bit of choice overload.

 

$1MM house rule

Noe Valley, SF Home
Victorian in Noe Valley SF, sold for $2.5MM, photo by Open Home photography

Here's the new rule. If you buy or own a house that's worth $1MM, it *must* have a toilet with a washlet (aka bidet).

$1,000,000 has to mean something. Used to be a house had a phenomenal view or had some historical or architectural significance or a truly killer location to be worth that million dollars.

Now, $1MM homes in the Bay Area are just houses — maybe 2 bedrooms and 1 bath, maybe in a generally ok neighborhood, maybe recently renovated, maybe near BART. None of those things combined or separate are enough to justify a $1MM price tag – ever. So install a toilet/washlet where you can at least say for your $1MM house, you have a toilet that washes your ass for you.

Don't even need to buy the most expensive toilet/washlet combo out there, a cheap $250 washlet will suffice. You don't even have to use it. It's the idea that matters.

See here/below for a decent toilet/washlet #lifegoals, #iwantone

toilet/washlet pic
Carlyle® II 1G Connect+™ S350e One-Piece Toilet – 1.0 GPF