2 Cooks in the Kitchen

We had to make a trip to San Francisco this week for a little surgery so of course it was an excuse to eat at two of our favorite restaurants. First one was Copra for some Indian food, located on Filmore so just a couple blocks from our hotel (Enso). That first picture was an amazing dish recommended by our bartender and we need to have it again. You put the stuff in the lettuce with a bit of the avocado sauce. We also enjoyed a chicken and a lamb dish with appam, the bread stuff. We had a couple beautiful drinks there too.

Then we also went to Nari, located downstairs in the Kabuki Hotel (Japantown area). We've been here a couple times before. We first went upstairs for some super interesting and pretty drinks. The drink shown was like a dessert! This place is Thai food and they have one Michelen star. Really beautiful food, tasty, interesting and great service.

Oh and that crudo plate is from Waterbar. If you have a chance to go there, you should. They had an oyster special, 1.55 for chef's pick of oysters. Not sure which kind we got but you can't beat 1.55 vs. the 4.50 regular price. That was a good lunch! Well, we didn't get breakfast that day because of the surgery so it was extra good!

Another trip in 2 weeks for post op so now we are looking at where to go. It's quite possible we'll return to Copra and possibly our favorite sushi place to see how the new owner stacks up to the previous--we've been going for at least 10 years so we shall see.

I should add that the only pictures we took were food and drinks and one quick selfie which helps us remember where we were.

What's in your garden? Here is our first harvest of enough cherry tomatoes to go in tonight's salad.

Thai Beef Bowl with garlic and spinach. SO good!

Matthew whipped up some beef ribs which he'd been craving for a very long time! Little side of homegrown broccoli w/ranch.

This is something Matthew does really well with his precise cutting. Some of us like quick and easy and he enjoys taking his time.

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When we're home we consistently have a big salad every other night. Last night we did home grown lettuce and a little broccoli with some stuff and shrimp topped with a home made Chipotle Ranch dressing. Not too bad!

Photo from 10 years ago which was apparently the first time we shucked our own oyster. We don't do it often enough for living right here where the oysters come out of our bay. It also takes Kelly 30 minutes to shuck a dozen, so there is that.

Loving the pictures from 2020 that come up in memories because we were really going all out with food during that time. So much so we both weighed the most we ever have in our lives! BUT...here we have Venison Diane (like Steak Diane). DIane the Huntress was actually Frank the Hunter. Our son-in-law has always been generous with his "buck meat." SO good! If you are gifted some venison then this is a highly suggested use for it.

On this day in 2020 Matthew made a Blueberry Cheese Danish. I am pretty sure it was my request because I love a good cheese danish! Of course he made it beautiful.

The 2 Cooks garden is starting to show off! We don't have a lot of hobbies--gardening, puzzles and food. Not necessarily in that order.