Another work lunch hit
2026-Jun-09, Tuesday 13:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Last night as I was prepping my breakfast for the next morning--getting the rice in the rice cooker to sit overnight, cooking the salmon, etc--I realized that I couldn't do my normal salad for lunch since we didn't have any lettuce or spinach or anything, since ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee used it all last week to make a giant dinner salad to stop it the CSA greens from going bad like they had the previous year. So I opened up the work food app to check what the pop-up restaurant was going to be the next day to see if it was worth just ordering that, and I was happily surprised to see Teranga was listed. Terangais a Senegalese restaurant that's up by where we live and I've been meaning to go for a while, so this was the perfect opportunity.
Tilapia filet with peppers and onions, with a bit of spicy sauce, jollof rice, and an extra--fried plantains, which I hadn't originally ordered but when I got up there the guy told me that I got to pick and extra side. I mentioned that I lived nearby the actual restaurant and I'm glad they were there so I could try it, he gave me some spicy sauce, and it took it back to the AMA part of the building to eat.
It was delicious. The sides were actually the best part--the fried tilapia was tilapia, and as the culinary advice I've seen goes, tilapia "takes on the flavors of what it's served with" meaning it's tasteless. The spicy sauce helped a lot with that, though it was pretty spicy with a slow-heat spice. The jollof rice was flavorful and a bit spicy itself. I did notice that the Teranga menu had a lot of fish on it, though, so I'd love to try again at the actual restaurant. Definitely going again if they come back.
Did some training of a new employee today. We're working on a specific project that isn't really like the other projects--there's a lot of redundant data that we're just skipping past, so we had some time to chat. It turns out she watches anime...just only Solo Leveling and Kaijū No. 8. Not what I would have expected for a woman in her 30s. Solo Leveling has never interested me in the slightest but Kaijū No. 8 did look kind of neat. If only I had time to actually watch much of anything.
sashagee used it all last week to make a giant dinner salad to stop it the CSA greens from going bad like they had the previous year. So I opened up the work food app to check what the pop-up restaurant was going to be the next day to see if it was worth just ordering that, and I was happily surprised to see Teranga was listed. Terangais a Senegalese restaurant that's up by where we live and I've been meaning to go for a while, so this was the perfect opportunity. Tilapia filet with peppers and onions, with a bit of spicy sauce, jollof rice, and an extra--fried plantains, which I hadn't originally ordered but when I got up there the guy told me that I got to pick and extra side. I mentioned that I lived nearby the actual restaurant and I'm glad they were there so I could try it, he gave me some spicy sauce, and it took it back to the AMA part of the building to eat.
It was delicious. The sides were actually the best part--the fried tilapia was tilapia, and as the culinary advice I've seen goes, tilapia "takes on the flavors of what it's served with" meaning it's tasteless. The spicy sauce helped a lot with that, though it was pretty spicy with a slow-heat spice. The jollof rice was flavorful and a bit spicy itself. I did notice that the Teranga menu had a lot of fish on it, though, so I'd love to try again at the actual restaurant. Definitely going again if they come back.
Did some training of a new employee today. We're working on a specific project that isn't really like the other projects--there's a lot of redundant data that we're just skipping past, so we had some time to chat. It turns out she watches anime...just only Solo Leveling and Kaijū No. 8. Not what I would have expected for a woman in her 30s. Solo Leveling has never interested me in the slightest but Kaijū No. 8 did look kind of neat. If only I had time to actually watch much of anything.
