The semester starts on Monday, and I am not ready. Once again, quick comfort food is the goal for the week.
For two adults in San Diego:
Breakfasts: TBD
S: takeout - pizza
Su: (tonight) We ended up not making carnitas last week, because my husband bought a roast chicken from the market. So, tonight’s dinner will be ramen with leftover chicken - soup
M: TJ’s lemon ravioli with (canned) crab, toasted bread crumbs, and garlicky spinach - seafood
T: TJ’s red pepper/tomato soup with croutons and cheese - vegetarian/soup
W: Chicken enchiladas (chicken, veggies, cheese) with guacamole and salad
R: Leftover enchiladas at my desk at work before an evening event.
Hope you have a fabulous time at the fair; weather forecast is warm and sunny. Will you be sharing food bites with friends so you can sample more? Hint - take your own folding umbrella for portable shade, when needed…
So, I don’t really have a recipe, but I’ll tell you my method. I make my usual mac and cheese base (butter, flour, milk, garlic) with whichever bits of cheese I need to use up (eyeballing all amounts). Once the cheese sauce is made, I add a four ounce can of diced green chiles. Toss with pasta (four ounces total for two people).
Many years ago, a cheesemonger at Whole Foods (back before they were bought by a huge corporation) told me that the important thing for mac and cheese is to make sure you have at least one good melting cheese. Then you can add whatever additional cheese you want. A little parm gives a nice bite, too.
We are fans of the cheese curds, corn on the cob, and the newest apple from the U of M in the agriculture building. The girls always need a pronto pup.
Cleaning out the fridge and planning to eat some favorites before I travel again for a few weeks.
— Arroz Verde again from COTM Pati Jinich, with either chicken or shrimp added for a 1-dish meal
— Kathi rolls with egg paratha (freezer) + shortcut chicken malai kabab (using TJs zhoug)
— Miso black cod (freezer) + rice + tbd veg
— Viet Roast Chicken Thighs (for cookbook of the month/quarter) + napa cabbage slaw + rice
— Kheema Shepherds Pie and / or Kheema Macaroni (using frozen sauteed ground turkey + Rao’s arrabiata + spices)
— Sushi bowl with homemade gravlax, avocado, and wasabi napa cabbage slaw
Going to bake something to take for the friends who are hosting me next week, trying to think what. Boozy cocoa brownies are top of list, plus maybe an orange olive oil cake which it’s been a while since I made. She’s a wonderful baker herself, so I have to pick something that is not one of her specialties .
Tomato and basil salad
Maybe a potato salad
Cannellini beans- haven’t figured out how yet, but they’re already soaked.
Corn on the cob
Peach bread pudding
My strategy - skip the Sweet Martha’s cookies to leave room for more than 1 flavor of ice cream. And if there’s a lefse vendor in the big commercial hall, bring home some to freeze / tide your friends over until November (when it’s readily available everywhere…)
Made again last night and posted photo plus dressing recipe on SOTD discussion. I mistakenly described the dressing in my WMP post - it’s actually a sherry vinegar / touch of honey dressing.
Back to our usual routine following houseguests and a bit of travel. Visitors and road trips are fun, but it’s also a relief when things get back to normal.
It was a short, short summer in our neck of the woods – it came late and left early – and fall is in the air. We hustled to enjoy what we could, but there were only a few days spent languishing on the patio under the sunbrella. Now, the air is notably crisper and the garden is on the wane.
Cooking for two adults in the PNW:
FRI: Inspired by @saregama, I’ll be trying my hand at gougères to accompany a steak and salad. This one will most likely also qualify for the “uncooked from cookbooks” thread.
SAT: Going to a reunion in the afternoon, and home right at dinner hour. I plan on making a quick Chinese omelet from stir-fry leftovers.
SUN: Cashew chicken and rice (to use up garden scallions).
It looks great and thanks @MunchkinRedux for posting it. I have been making a similar Ina Garten treatment for years and it too is great - instead of crème fraiche I use yogurt + mayo in 5:3 ratio since I have both at all times. But I will try the Recipetin Eats one next time.
After a week of cool dreary weather the sun is finally out and the temperature is finally where it should be around this time of year. It is now in the mid 20s Celsius which is in the mid 70s Farenheit so I went for a walk earlier and popped into an Italian restaurant in the neighbourhood to pick up lunch. They have an express counter open during weekday lunch hours and they always seem to be busy so I thought I’d give them a try. Onto my menus for this week:
Today: Take out from an Italian restaurant. Their lunch counter seems to do a brisk business and they had bang bang shrimp on the special menu today so I decided to give it a try. I could get either the sandwich or a combo which includes the sandwich, a small soup or salad and a beverage. I ordered the combo with the soup option since clam chowder was on the menu and I haven’t had a chowder in ages. The chowder was delicious but the bang bang sauce in the sandwich is a little too much on the sweet side for me. I was expecting more spice. The only disappointment was the drinks since their drinks fridge was almost entirely filled with soft drinks. The bottom shelf had some still water and some sparkling water as an alternative to the soft drinks so sparkling water it is. I wish some of these restos would offer juice for those of us that don’t like soft drinks… I will have a salad for dinner.
Saturday: Clean up duty from water seepage in my bedroom wall from earlier this week. The super came back yesterday morning to sand the bubbling paint and to prime it for painting but he won’t be able to actually paint until the wall has dried out, hopefully on Monday or Tuesday. So today I vacuum up all the chipped paint and dust from the sanding process. Leftover bbq’d pork from my last trip to Chinatown. It will be served with chow mein noodles. I will possibly have a dessert of hot chocolate and stroopwafels that I bought at the market last weekend.
Sunday: Leftover fish curry, rice on the side.
Monday: Kale salad.
Tuesday: Sirfried pork with five vegetables.
Wednesday: I will be going to see the movie “Sing Sing” with one of my meetup groups then dessert and coffee after so we can discuss the movie.
Thursday: Pasta of some kind.
Lunches this week will alternate between tuna boats and tabouli.
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