Time to nominate for the coming quarter!
A GREAT CARROT SALAD — What Goes With What
Thinly slice (or coarsely shred) carrots; mine were more medium than large, and the 6 I had equaled the lower end of her weight range, 3/4 pound. As for the rest, I used the chopped toasted almonds and parsley called for and then made some subs based on what I had on hand: chopped dried cranberries instead of golden raisins, capers instead of green olives, and lemon olive oil and citrus Champagne vinegar instead of plain olive oil and lemon juice (also less of both than called for because I needed less to adequately dress it). I added some feta to make it serve as lunch rather than a side, which it will do for two meals. Pace Turshen, I’d call it a good carrot salad rather than a great one, but it’ll keep well and made for a good lunch. If I hadn’t had the punch of the feta, I’d say the stronger taste of the olives would be a better addition than the capers I subbed, though.
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Made the Apple and Toasted Oat Muffins from Small Victories this morning since I had everything on hand already. Simple and easy to do. Batter was thick and I got 9 muffins rather than 12. Very tasty and I will definitely be making them again. Breakfast for the work week is done!
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Thanks for the report. I just looked at the recipe, and know I’ll probably make them at some point.
I missed this when you posted it, but color me intrigued – I can’t figure out if I would love or hate chocolate plus coconut in a cake, but I do occasionally enjoy Bounty and Mounds, so maybe this needs to be made in the interest of research 
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I’m wondering how this would fare baked like a kuku, or made as a giant pancake (like people sometimes do with latkes, or like Korean jeon).
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JULIA’s CAESAR – SMALL VICTORIES & WHAT GOES WITH WHAT
I’ve been playing with Caesar salad variations as I work my way through a bag of romaine hearts, and the one from Small Victories is a very good one. She starts with mayo.
Turshen updated the recipe in What Goes With What to increase the anchovies.
I uses anchovy paste instead of anchovies, because I usually make just one or two portions of dressing.
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CAESAR SPAGHETTI – WHAT GOES WITH WHAT
While on the subject of Caesar salad .
This is pasta dressed with almost-Caesar salad dressing, with a fried egg on top if you like that.
Very similar to a pasta dish from prior Nigella COTM Cook, Eat, Repeat – except in this, nothing is sauteed – the raw sauce is poured over hot pasta and heated gently to take off the edge at the end.
It benefits from a bit of acid to finish, and toasted breadcrumbs for texture. A bit of heat from red chilli flakes is also nice, though not strictly necessary.
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See: Texas Sheet Cake, aka German Chocolate sheet cake Fudgy sheet cake with a rich-as-Rockefeller coconut frosting.
Oh my goodness, I love chocolate and coconut together.
Yes, many examples of chocolate in combination with coconut, but I think it’s more the use of coconut milk in the cake recipe here that I was curious about.
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I was thinking about Bounty and Mounds and how the reformulation can longer be called chocolate 
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Ive had a chocolate tres leches with coconut milk that was divine.
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TWICE BAKED CACIO E PEPE POTATOES from What Goes with What
I borrowed the cookbook from the library when it first came out, and it didn’t really click for me, but we LOVE these potatoes. I actually use the full amounts of butter, sour cream, and cheese for three potatoes (we are a family of three) and cut off the top quarter or so, then overstuff them rather than doing halves.
Recipe is at the bottom of the CNN story.
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I almost made those yesterday – thanks for the review!
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