Lovin' You is Easy Cause You're Beautiful

Chocolate Chip Brownies - I had time to make these because I didn't slave over dinner.

Because....Freddy's Truck to the rescue again!  A beefy burrito

A fajita plate (chicken underneath the mound of fresh guac and lettuce, pico)

Carne Asada nachos - all from Freddy's Truck, our new obsession and neighbor. High respect for his talent with flavors and his prices are so insane.   Even if he raises the price, it will all still be well worth it. I couldn't make this heap of goodness
and there are enough leftovers to take for lunch the next day.

For breakfast, I did make poached eggs on avocado toast with chili crisp

It's finally looking like full fall towards the end of November.

I've already started working on my Christmas card but will be lucky if I get it sent out in time for the holiday as I am a chronic procrastinator.

God Only Knows What I'd Be Without You

Brothy Chicken Noodle Soup

Hot and spicy broth for me is healing and revitalizing.  A hot soup should transform and cleanse.

Chicken and Noodle soup with spinach, mushrooms, and rich broth for the noodles to absorb and swim in. My signature broth is fortified with a cup of homemade hot sauce, freshly blended, very much like a sofrito and added to real chicken broth.  All soup is good right? But if you made the stock fresh, and everything you add to it is real and made for the pot, it truly can become medicinal and healing.  This soup and others like it have saved my soul many a cold day.

Come As You Are

Freddy's Food Truck tacos along with my homemade mexican rice.  I met my local vendor halfway by providing the side to a great lunch.  

Mike's Coffee Shop Counter Breakfast

For breakfast, we graduated to counter eating at the local diner.  This is an honor you feel comfortable accepting once you've patronized the establishment a number of times and have made nice with the waiters.  There we witnessed a very New York racist-esque banter between a fellow counter eater and the busboy in the humorous way that can only be funny when you witness it first hand.  New York must remember that which made it so very special was the ability for each individual of any race to speak to another in a brutally frank way with humor and slightly muffled love, in order to release a bit of the steam building in the melting pot, enough to relax and live with each other.  Trusting, a bit of rubbing will not break the other. This is of course most common in the blue collar working communities where we are put together in trains, work environments, and eateries.