Cooking for 3 in southwestern Ontario.
Sunday night was take-out fried chicken from Mary Brown’s, a fast food chain in Canada
I spent about 4 hours gardening today.
I’ll make Sicilian stuffed tomatoes tonight, with cheese and capers.
I’ll also roast some Italian sausage. Also some braised new potatoes from the garden. Roasted eggplant from the garden with olive oil and lemon.
I admit, I’ve had Sicily and Italy on my mind ever since @LulusMom1 started posting from Sicily. I will also see my Sicilian Canadian godmother, my godbrother and his wife on Friday, which also adds more Italo inspiration for me this week. This week is the peak of summer with Ferragosto on August 15th, as well as Panageia on August 15th, which is the name day for Mary and Peter in Greece. The beaches will be very busy in Greece and Italy this week, and a lot of people leave the cities to visit friends and family.
Tuesday
Scallop and Shrimp Paella
Maybe a grated carrot salad.
Wednesday
Ribeye
Hungarian cucumber salad from the Molly O’Neill NYC cookbook
Thursday
Roast chicken, probably . One of my DCs is avoiding salt in a major way, and that has meant way less experimentation with Thai and Vietnamese roast chicken preps, which call for soy sauce or fish sauce.
I haven’t been adding any salt or added sodium to keep the DC happy, and that means my roast chicken tends to be one of these 4 preps:
plain lemon and olive oil or butter,
lemon rosemary oregano and olive oil,
paprika thyme cumin lemon, and olive oil,
or herbes de Provence, lemon and olive oil. LOL
Friday will be fish. Probably Faroe Island salmon.
