Weekend over-ambition and a rare return to Mastering the Art of French Cooking — côte de porc sauce moutarde à la Normande. The mustard sauce separating just a little more than I’d like after plating, but otherwise a resounding success. 🍽️

And from a couple days prior—the first pad ka prao with Thai basil grown on my balcony instead of from the store! If only I could get holy basil growing as well. 🍽️

This weekend’s new exploration—tonkatsu. I hadn’t deep fried at home before but in the wok it was surprisingly clean! 🍽️

Starting off the week with Korean-inspired ground beef for a delicious Sunday evening meal and plenty of tasty lunchtime leftovers.

Warm and lazy Saturday means lemon capellini and an Aperol spritz on the balcony. Not too hot for cooking properly, but certainly too lazy!

Sometimes a lazy Saturday means cooking for yourself just isn’t it.

Clean-out-the-fridge chicken fried rice to ring in the weekend.

I know there’s Polisky (which is the best name on this platform), but is there international development or development finance Bluesky yet?

Huge if true — Ivorian President Ouattara states that ECOWAS heads of state have approved military intervention in Niger to commence as soon as possible.

This is probably the single best article I've read in the FT since I first got access in grad school. Part history lesson, part deep dissection of a sector, part witty commentary, there's something for everyone to learn here regardless of their level of financial knowledge.

Well that’s never happened to me before and never will again…

Dan Dan noodles are quickly becoming a recurring part of the rotation now that I don’t have to make sesame paste from scratch.