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pork belly with a fried quail egg on top - just one perfect glorious bite

Breakfast - I love making an indulgent breakfast for dinner since most mornings only allow for oatmeal.

My mom, never the willing cook, got a recipe from her co-worker about making BBQ brisket on the grill. The recipe was simple - put meat in a roasting pan, cover with BBQ sauce and cook on the grill for 6 hours. What was implied was that the temperature be low, and mom check it occasionally. Neither one of those things happened so at 7pm on sunday night mom went to check her brisket, instead finding a huge black piece of what looked like petrified meat. The BBQ sauce had hardened leaving a cast imprint of the bottom of the pan. The meat was beyond recognizable. We laughed for hours while we ate chinese take out. Mom took the charred remains into work to "show off" her cooking prowess.

Poor man's sangria - or as its referred in Spain Tinto Murano:
Orange Soda (i use diet - you know....girlish figure and all) and red wine. Any red wine - squeeze a bit of lemon to "freshen it up" and you WILL be asked for the recipe - guaranteed.

I'm a sweet and salty person- so my favorite is some version of figs and goat cheese, and some honey perhaps.