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fried crab cakes for b'fast......light and fluffy on the inside, crunchy on the outside.......

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and spicy cole slaw...and....dribbles of horseradishy remoulade sauce with white anchovies..(no salt  in the cakes)....... wonderful with the added calories of a topping of guacamole.......easier than making hollandaise...I  obtain  pre-made remoulade sauce from the DeKalb Farmers' Market....or get it, in a jar, from Trader Joe's.       If Lunch is already on the horizon.....one can 'step up' this relatively simple b'fast to a bit-more-complex food reportoire....     Yum, Yum, eat em up! How about "doing" basmati rice.... cooked in chicken broth with saffron.... topped with the crab cakes, smothered in ginger, carrot, and garlic sauce; puffy puri with ginger/garlic paste, fried, then baked; hot curried and creamed purple dal peas; spanakopita; miniature artichoke/mushroom quiches on wild grilled 'n' chilled radicchio and endive; and butternut squash soup, cold, to be "washed down" by blackberry cassis flavored cabernet sauvignon.............
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AS MUCH AS I LOVE TO SNACK ON CALIMARI.....I FEEL SO CONFLICTED ABOUT THE KILLING, COOKING AND EATING THESE INTELLIGENT, SELF-AWARE CEPHALOPODS

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Crispy Panko-Breaded Calamari with Fennel Pollen & Grapefruit Crème Fraîche and Grapefruit Salsa I'm pondering the utilization of squid 'ink' in my spinach pasta, even! The squid are not 'milked', like cows, after all.... They are slaughtered!
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SUPINE and LEFT LATERAL RECUMBENT DINING, ABED.....

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Sloppy Snacks' during today's watching of a floor gymnastics competition....in bed.......I'll accept a 9 point deduction for 'messy landings'.....and 3 points 'off' for a hot coffee spill avoidance subroutine.... Just put it in a bowl, when you've just changed the sheets.........OR....for more 'fun',  try licking up some quinoa tobbouleh from an accomodative butt cheek.....  (If a cheek bowl is not forthcoming.....I suggest dining from a bowl, atop a tray..with fold-down legs.....as you watch the tumbling gymnasts collapsing on theirs)
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THE PERFECT POTSTICKER..........

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First......fry the uncooked potstickers in a couple of tbsp of avocado oil.....then add a favored combination of Thai and Vietamese hot-n-sweet sauces and cook in a hot skillet until caramelized......then add a half cup of water or vegetable broth and cover, with a lid or plate,  to create steam to facilitate the dough's absorption of liquids, thus tenderizing and moistening the potstickers......with a metal spatula, unstick the ruffled, filled dumplings and their sticky pan goo residue and move them to a plate, to be eaten with chopsticks,  a spear.....even a silver fork.......
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Cooking, but 'not' eating..... This dog-vomitus-looking mess was too unappealing...even for me!

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   even the addition of some fresh salad greens were incapable of redeeming  this slimy, goopy glob of green oak, swiss chard, lolla rosa, tatsoi,  faro, crumbled feta  and goat cheeses, blueberries, wilted spinach and crushed garlic..... However, since the next door neighbor's dog licks up his own vomit, he thought of this as a delicacy!
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WHY THESE ARE CALLED "STREET TACOS" .....rather than "FINE DINING FINGER FOODS"

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      Try 'rolling up a 5" corn taco, filled with "stuff"..... here, with grated cheese, shredded cabbage, roasted chicken, tomato salsa and avocado crema....and eating it, without much of it ending up in its seated diner's lap.      I've been experimenting with Ways to roll these up, securely, into 'drippingless', 'droppingless' hand-held edibles that could be eaten with white-gloved hands......So far, this task has been an impossible one.....especially, while maintaining one's lips 'parallel to the tabletop'....   C'mon, Emily Post, you know you want another one!  I have a convenient 'Olympian' salad fork for scooping up the falling debris and a Belgian Linen lap napkin, with lace trim, to prevent those tiny bits of cabbage slaw from toppling down to the Silk Carpet.... There are specialized silver flatware devices that may be utilized, of course....for  the non-food handling, difficult  to catch and restrain,  'p...
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KROGER'S 'ASIAN INSPIRED STIR FRY WITH YAKISOBA NOODLES....

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COMES WITH FIVE (5!) PLASTIC PACKETS OF 'SAUCE' TO ADD TO THE TRAY OF FOOD....I ADDED TWO OF THE PACKETS, ONLY....HOWEVER, EVEN THAT AMOUNT WAS AS SALTY AS A COW'S SALT LICK....AND....ALMOST....INEDIBLE......EVEN AFTER HAVING ONLY A FEW FORKFULS OF THIS 'DISH' AND DOWNING A PINT OF HOT GREEN TEA....THE SALTY TASTE STILL LINGERS ON MY TONGUE...YUK!    SO....ZERO 'THUMBS UP' TO KROGER!   
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