Hi everyone
It felt like a long week of being under the weather with many canceled plans, sadly. I turned the corner with much help from meds, herbs, and spices, but I’m not back to full strength, so taking it slowly.
I have a bunch of leftovers as my appetite was haywire, so I may freeze a few things including meatloaf, tourtiere, and coconut curry carrot-lentil soup (also perhaps the last bit of ground beef from the brick that kept going and going).
Ideas for the week, rolling forward a few things:
– Dad’s chicken soup with whole spices & vegetables
– Salmon with mashed potato+cauliflower crust
– Hainanese sous vide poached chicken breast (mainly for chicken salad with newly acquired Blue Plate mayo)
– Sous vide stewed chicken Chaozhou (Teochow) style – I’ve been wanting to try my hand at this (duck) dish I love in Chinatown and just discovered a recipe in an old cookbook.
– Roasted salmon or NYT Salmon Burgers + warm brown lentil salad (made already) + veg.
I have a couple of project-y things I have been craving, will see if I can break them up into a couple of days of effort, or just wait until I’m back to 100%.
– Biryani – could also make an easier pulao version.
– Rendang – I bought boneless lamb shoulder a while back which would be perfect for this and I have a spice paste packet to try out.
– Spinach souffle or maybe crespelle or lasagne roll-ups – basically spinach and white sauce and cheese in some form 
. But I am out of spinach at the moment, so maybe a different stuffing (cauliflower would work well).
Have a great week! Hope the weather is improving wherever you are and the extra hour of sunlight is doing some good.
