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Dinner at 23 Hoyt

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My albacore sandwich with ginger mayo, picked onions and avocado. So good!

jwa recently planned a ‘date night’, which was really very sweet of him. We went to dinner at 23 Hoyt and then to voicebox to sing. We even hit the end of happy hour at the restaurant which meant $5 cosmos, $1 salted, roasted almonds and $5 clams in wine, herbs, garlic and butter. SCORE!

I brought a camera…

cosmo
My cosmo

almonds
Almonds!

clams
Clams!

salad
Caesar Salad!

burger
Huge Burger!

Voicebox: “Asian pop-inspired environment, accented with awesome manga-style murals by local comic book legends, Arnold and Jacob Pander.”

Songs sung included: West End Girls, Here Comes You Man, some White Stripes, The Pick of Destiny, some Bob Dylan, Because the Night, Billie Jean, Love Cats, some Dr. Dre and the theme from The Golden Girls. It . . . → Read More: Dinner at 23 Hoyt

It’s Hot Again: Time for Zucchini Gazpacho (and a Dinner Out)

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We had a nice stretch of cool, 60′s to 70′s weather recently. That appears to be over. Hello, gazpacho! I recently got the new La Cucina Italiana magazine and found quite a few recipes in there that I wanted to try out. This is the first one. I think the second one will be fig and cocoa smoothie.

Anyway, back to the gazpacho — I really liked it. So did jwa. I have another recipe for a peach and tomato gazpacho and also a lima bean gazpacho. So there hot weather, I am ready for you.

Zucchini Gazpacho
1 big zucchini
2 yellow tomatoes
1/2 green bell pepper
1 small sweet onion, chopped into quarters
2 cloves garlic
2 slices white bread, crusts removed
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Tabasco
salt
pepper
3 tbsp parsley, chopped
juice of 1/2 an orange
extra olive oil for drizzling

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Blend the zucchini, tomatoes, onion quarters, bell pepper, olive oil and garlic in a food processor. Get it a bit combined and then add the bread, a bit of Tabasco, parsley and orange juice. Taste and add salt and pepper as needed.

Serve into individual bowls and drizzle with the olive oil. You’re done. Go eat. Or, you know, just go . . . → Read More: It’s Hot Again: Time for Zucchini Gazpacho (and a Dinner Out)

Dinner at Wildwood

Here I should admit that I cheated and snuck a peak at the online menu earlier, because I was curious and I wanted to start thinking about what to order as soon as possible. What? Is that weird?
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