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The hollyhock is blooming which means that rainy season is coming...
 

Unlike our rice prices, veggie prices have gone down down down!

Made a batch of Yamagata style dashi

Interesting sandwich from Dean & Deluca...this had pastrami and cottage cheese...I was actually attracted to this when I saw the pickle relish

Glad I tried this, it was delicious, and was quite meaty 

V and blog reader Mona gave me a heads up about MOS burger's ebi ebi fry burger...it uses whole prawns 

This was delicious...two whole fried prawns with a lemony tartar sauce and veggies...thanks for the heads up!

The weather has been a bit chilly...so we had Paopao's jiaozi (suigyoza) with paitan soup, kale and tomatoes, the other night

Tried Shake Shack's single smashed onion...a smash burger topped with onions, cheese, pickles and dijonnaise

I wish this had more onions and less mustard (don't think it was dijonnaise)....

The fifty-fifty (lemonade-iced tea) reminded me of Hawaiian Sun Iced tea

Found some reasonably priced peonies at the market...I usually choose the “buds” but chose those that were already kind of blooming, hoping they will all bloom

The weather dude says we haven’t started rainy season but almost every weekend we have had rain and on the days that it isn't raining it is overcast and gloomy.

I think this past Wednesday was the first day we had sun.

It is raining today and the temps are apparently March temps..brr.

Have a safe weekend.