Dinners at the Orange Door Inn vary drastically according to the Innkeeper (aka me). Sometimes, we'll have a tried and true favorite, like Dalia's poppy seed chicken casserole or chicken chili with buttermilk cornbread. Other times, I'll try something new, like Hong Kong style baked tomato pork chop or cioppino night that we had a couple of weeks ago (thanks to Chris Tan, who offered to buy all the ingredients if I'd help him turn it into the fisherman's stew--the stew was to die for, by the way. We were very proud of ourselves.)
cioppino with crusty pugliese bread and parmesan twists
Tonight, though, the Innkeeper felt like pancakes. So we had... buttermilk, chocolate chip, banana, banana chocolate chip, and raspberry chocolate chip! And... to round out the meal, Wayne also had a cup 'o noodle.
Wayne is trying to fend off Lucy from our pancakes.
I suppose my capriciousness in menu planning will need to end when we have kids with actual nutritional needs... but for now, I enjoy the variety!
While looking for material for my MOH speech, I found one where you had visited Wayne and made a fried rice out of all the stuff you found in his fridge. You wrote, "Wayne will have more creative dinners like this if he marries me some day!" So true...
ReplyDeletehahahaha, oh, yes. i do remember that. :)
ReplyDeleteoh, AND the raspberries were ones that i wanted to use up from the freezer!
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