This week as challenging.  Starting Sunday, I started a downward descent into a very painful throat issue.  So much so that on Wednesday, I headed to Urgent Care to have a doctor opinion on the matter.  While it appears as if both from the long and short strep tests came back negative (just got the negative culture test result this morning), even though I covered the vast majority of symptoms (pretty much all of them) of Strep.  So as swallowing has been painful, it's been kind of a horrible food week.  That being said, I'm well on the path to being well, with Thursday being the bottom of the pit.  Things are still mildly swollen, sore, but swallowing bread no longer feels like sandpaper.

That being said, I had enough pain killers (over the counter) to have an enjoyable dinner with Shannon and Eric at Reed's Hollow (at least until the end when I desperately wanted to go home and take some more ibuprofen).  That food...damn.   Bison Made Right?  Go, eat it...

Celery Chicken (lets try again)

Pretty good...could've used more celery.

Skirt Steak with Basil & Garlic Scape Pesto

I wasn't feeling 100% (to say the least) so as long as I had to eat something, it might as well be something I had to chew on for a while before taking the painful, at the time, step of swallowing.  So I skipped the pesto part.  Steak was enjoyable spikes of pain here and there.

Burmese Chicken Salad

Vaguely followed this...ok I used some of the ingredients, and then ended up with a  spicy chicken salad.  I used some pickled goat horn peppers, diced fresh jalapeno, diced scallions, diced pickles, diced onions, dijon mustard, mayo and cooled, pulled rotisserie chicken.  Good stuffs.