On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 22:22:43 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> wrote:

>On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 3:41:07 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> I picked up a small chicken the other day and planned to roast it for
>> supper tonight. I had a big bottle of Pirri Pirri sauce from Costco. I
>> split the chicken in half, smeared it with the Piri Piri and let it sit
>> for about an hour and a half. I popped it into a 400F oven for an hour.
>> My wife par boiled a couple potatoes and tossed them in a pan with some
>> oil and put them in with the chicken. After the chicken came out of the
>> oven she steamed some asparagus and some green beans.
>>
>>
>> Everything turned out great. The chicken was amazing.
>>
>> Pardon the heck out of me if I didn't bother taking and posting photos
>> for Sheldon to disparage.
>We went to a steak house - Taiwanese style. It was served on a sizzling platter with spaghetti noodles, and a fried egg. The food came with a cabbage salad, corn soup, and a shaved ice. That was pretty radical.
>
>https://photos.app.goo.gl/JH3tgdvW6m4kwd5x7

Other than big rafts of meat drowning in too much gravy it looks good,
gravy could have been a brighter sparkly shade rather than that
dull/cloudy ecru. Would have been much more civilized with the meat
already sliced, thinly or julienned. That wee bit of brocolli does
nothing for me, a pile of caramelized onions with sauted green bell
peppers and bean sprouts would have been tastier, and wide egg noodles
with oyster sauce instead of that naked ****ghetti. That lonely
poached egg off to the side looks like an evicted Kootchie tumor. If
that's Taiwanese chow they will never see me there... I'm staying with
American Style Chinese cousine a la Archie Bunker (Chinks). Where's
my Fortune Cookie?
Let's not get all serious, I'm trying to have a good time on this
freezing snowy morning, was 10ºF earlier, now 20ºF, and report is
calling for ~20" of the white stuff here... already was out to plow
once, I've learned to push the snow a distance to make room for the
next dump. All I can do is hope the forecasters are wrong and the snow
stops sooner than they predict... sometimes that happens but could
happen they are wrong in the other direction. Already phoned to
cancel my dental appointment, just a routine cleaning, no emergency.

Dinner tonight looks like sliced kielbasa on seeded rye, perfect for a
snowy evening, and easy.