Last night camping - we made pulled chicken burritos with the works (black beans, corn, avocado, salsa, sour cream, and cheese), Caprese salad, leftover COTC, and doctored sweet kale salad.
Melty ice cream over FM peaches topped with salted caramel sauce for dessert.
Nice fish! Thanks for including the recipe. I’m always looking for new ways to cook fish.
Family visiting. Big salad of farmers market veggies: two kinds of green beans, cukes, tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, radishes plus artichoke hearts, black olives and feta. Served with sourdough anchovy croutons I made with my nephew and smoked chicken from the farmers market.
That looked really good.
Thank you. It was delicious.
Jerk chicken skewers (using Daring “chicken”) with tomatoes for COTQ. Leftover okra from Friday’s dinner. Fresh batch of rice.
We used half bottled clam juice and half boxed chicken broth in place of the amount of water called for. The vegetables took longer to cook than the recipe says. We added the pieces of fish whole to poach in the liquid when the veggies were tender so it didn’t flake into tiny pieces. We’re going to add some mussels to it the next time!
You put all mortal campers to shame! This weekend we went camping too and our single dinner was hot dogs and a bag of lays. 
One of my favorite August dinners… lettuce from my pots (bitter, just bolted), my basil, local heirloom tomato, store bought burrata, lots of S&P, white vinegar & OO.
SE’s gai yang with spicy dipping sauce. New to me recipe. The flavors on the chicken could’ve been a bit punchier (my marinade didn’t come out as a thick paste - more like a chonky dressing), but the dipping sauce is great. Can’t wait to dip more grilled meatz in the next days.
Garlic noodz and COTC rounded out the meal, but I blanked on taking a pic of my plate.
@AudreyFromNE Lovely salad - we are big salad eaters. And is that a Bee House salt cellar in the background? 
Pasilla pepper, green chili, prawn and cream pappardelle.
Dinner was Pakistani food from Little India (even though I cooked plenty today).
Long and stressful day at the hospital with a friend who had brain surgery (which went swimmingly, thank heavens - but it’s step 1 of 4). I cooked a few things for him to cover various meal restriction and altered appetite scenarios and took them along. He wasn’t allowed to eat until dinner, and the hospital meal was better than we had anticipated, so what I cooked went home with the guys (his “caregivers”) and will be lunch tomorrow when he gets home.
We walked over to Little India post-hospital where we bought a bit of this and a bit of that from a couple of places for compare-and-contrast. Also de-stressed and vented about the interactions of the day, and the recent past. (Lots of drama between his separated spouse and his family who had to come in from overseas due to her recent drama.)
We had chicken seekh kabab, chapli kabab, tandoori roti, and chicken biryani. Hit the spot. (Not the best of any single thing, but far better than most other available alternatives.)
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A New York Times recipe: pork and ginger meatballs with peaches, basil and lime. Roasted green beans. Steamed rice.
I slipped a little grated zucchini into the meatballs because why not?
Shallots, beans, basil and zuccs from the garden.
Meat loaf sandwiches…I’m so glad the parents taught us how to appreciate them.
dinner Sat. night was out with my sister for my birfday. I’m planning to write it up in the SF/Bay Area section of HO. It was a wonderful meal, good cocktails and bubbles, sat outside in a lovely space, and afterwards i came home and had cocktails in AND out (it had been a year since we’d gone to a bar!) with the BF (but still outside). Picked up a late night snack - chorizo gordita from a street vendor. Had some more bubbly back at home - hey, it was my bday! Sun., he and i had our normal fries brunch but out this time (again, it had been a year!), and sat outside on a beautiful day, took a short walk, and then i napped until dinner time (i guess i was a little hung and aperol spritz and wine at brunch didn’t help like i thought it would 
. Dinner was the BF’s smashburgers and MOAR fries that i couldn’t even finish - i guess i do have a fries limit after all. smashburgers were inhaled, however. Crashed at 9:30.
more festivities to come for both of us (his birthday is coming up) - dinner out Thurs., then i’m away for the weekend with friends for our yearly Stinson Beach trip, then dinner out for both of us next week for his bday. i can feel the “yoga” pants getting tighter again…
tonight he lightened things up a bit with a fridge clean-out and a Mostly Meatless Monday - he’d made meatballs for some future dinners for himself when I’m out but shared one apiece for us tonight in BTB beef broth, with all the other veggies and toasted focaccia.
ETA: here’s the link to the review of the bday dinner out if anyone’s interested.
I am so glad your friend has many people around to support him through this difficult phase. Step 1 of four sounds grueling, but hope it all goes smoothly and successfully. My scalp crawled in sympathy especially at the thought of having to leave the hospital the day after brain surgery!
The food sounds emotionally and physically sustaining, for the patient and the support group. All the best to all concerned.
Happy belated birthday, live it up while you still can.
Happy happy!
