You know, cause a girl’s got to eat. (descriptions correspond left to right, top to bottom)

1. Salad from Country Cafe downstairs in the Trump Building. I think I filled it up with greens, onions, chicken, shrimp, avocado, tomatoes, olives, artichokes, and orzo salad. Yeah.
2. Pork belly kakuni (thinly sliced pork belly braised in a chilli soy sauce mirin glaze) and roasted “fancy” potatoes.
3. I also just fried some rice with American Jasmin rice cooked with a tablespoon of butter. I used the cooked braising sauce from the pork belly kakuni.
4. I love this dumplings and rice cake soup from Soma by Nature, near Wall st on William st. The beef consomme is delicious. It’s hearty, filling, and warm. I usually get a large soup for around $8, but this day, I ordered a small w/ another coworker for $4.50.
5. Thick pork tenderloins and roasted onions over rice w/ tonkatsu and sriracha sauce.
6. Momofuku picked shiitake mushrooms – A definite winner. You can eat them as pickles on the side or over rice. DELICIOUS, if just a bit too salty – It’s like a sucker-punch of flavor!
7. Jay and Kate brought us over some gourmet cured bacon, which we cut into slices and had during brunch with eggs. THe cast-iron is a win, since the eggs this time didn’t STICK AT ALL! The bacon was crispy and amazing, pretty damn good. On the side is some left over frozen (and toasted) home-made bread.
8. We cooked an extra tenderloin that we didn’t finish the other day, so we pan roasted/charred them with extra seasoning and used it as a topping for Ryan’s specialty pan fried lo mein.

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