These are going in reverse chronological order
First meal I made after my oven died was shakshuka – so I was toasting the bread on a skillet while I was poaching/braising the eggs, but you need toast to dip into the yummy!
There’s a lot of regional rivals over which local convenience store or gas station has the best food. I don’t think there has to be a best, but if you’re looking for some of the menu standouts at Wawa, I recommend this pierogi quesadilla. It’s mashed potatoes inside a tortilla with two kinds of cheese (I picked cheddar and pepper jack). I like adding pickled jalapeños and getting a side of sour cream.
If I ever end up with leftover mashed potatoes (highly unlikely) I would make this at home.
One of the other things I recommend from Wawa is that they make their hot chocolate by melting mini chocolate chips in steamed milk!
I am still – as much as possible – eating outside. Partly because of covid, but also because even before that I significantly preferred outdoor service. This is New Deck, an Irish pub that’s loud and crowded inside and probably has sports that everyone is shouting over. But outside I can eat my meal in peace. And there’s even a heater for their outdoor tables!
(By the time I left, there were two other tables of people eating outside as well)
This was an exceptionally mild and tasty grapefruit! I got a bag of five of them from Weee!
Okay, I ate indoors for this one. But Amma’s is so good and it was very late at night with no one sitting near me. It was my treat for getting the laundry to the laundromat before they closed.
I ordered the prix fix South Indian dinner (with meat) and got this stunning thali.
I don’t actually know what’s in the pretty little dishes surrounding the bowl with rice, but it’s two soups, 3 veg dishes, 2 meat, 1 biryani, a pickle, raita, and dessert.