What's For Dinner #122 - the Autumn Leaves of Red and Gold Edition - October 2025

A stunning, late fall day with temps in the high 70s couldn’t have been more perfect for taking a nice long walk downtown with similar-minded folks.

Blue skies, sunshine, and community followed by a lovely lunch with friends, although that turned out to be more leisurely than expected. The newish, family-run Iraqi place makes a killer falafel, but boy does it take them forever to get an order ready :flushed_face: We shared a quick pint at a pub that was having a benefit for a local non-profit helping people with health care costs, then went home to check on the kittehs.

We were able to treat one of them with an eye ointment & trimmed both their razor-sharp claws without our hands & arms being shredded to pieces, and introduced them to more rooms in our house. I’d say that’s not too shabby for their first full day at casa lingua :blush:

Dinner was leftover hand-cut noodz with fatty beef from Wednesday & red wine braised short rib from Thursday that I mixed up with stir-fried veg (onion, celery, a 5th of green & sweet pepper) from the crisper that needed to go, plus the last of a bag of frozen green peas.

The noodles were expectedly on the mushier side, and everything was very brown.

We are sated, and low-key effort means MOAR time spent with the boys :hugs:

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