Yes, I saw the pictures and it looks like just a relatively small section of the causeway collapsed, but no doubt the whole thing will have to be inspected. Not going to be a quick fix. They will be on ferry service I guess!

Cell service is sketchy so I am not getting a lot from the family there.

It all looks so awful.

Yes, I have been watching their local news all day and more and more drone footage is showing the mess. Lots of roads and bridges gone. Beachfront mansions. Gone.

I'm still getting used to my new double oven, which came without instructions.

So when I tried to make a frittata, I wanted to use the broiler to brown the top. But instead I burned it all entirely black.

And I thought, "Well, that's an hour's worth of cooking and food wasted. Or....I can take off the burned top and treat this like a kind of strata."

Eggs, veg, cheese. It didn't look great but the underneath tasted fine.

My thought was, "You know what fixes just about anything? A good cheese sauce."

Now it turns out that Bi-Rite makes latkes you can buy before Rosh Hashannah. Which I did.

So if you're thinking, "If you took that strata and those latkes and you covered them both with a gorgeous, savory, chedder-y sauce that'd probably taste pretty good."

And you would be right.

In conclusion: Cheese sauce.

Normally this would be TCG’s night to take ltc to karate, but they have Krav instructors guest instructing today. So, I had to tag along.

Yum, cheese sauce!

I am suddenly sad that my veggie-tastic stir fry doesn't have cheese sauce.

I also had no cheese sauce for my turkey burger. Tragic, in retrospect.

Our dinner was BBQ chicken and a broccoli/cauliflower mash, sans cheese sauce, which clearly was an error in judgement.

I took my leftover cheese sauce and put it on my roast beef sandwich and guess what? It was improved to the power of cheese!

Which is a mighty power indeed.