Hope you feel better soon, and get take out!
Nothing I can see is budding here at our house two blocks from Boston, but as usual, son and I are getting intense pollen allergy symptoms at the very start of the season. We started Allegra a couple of days ago and it’s helping. When I get allergy symptoms, respiratory viruses flock to me in eager anticipation, so it’s a double whammy.
Yes, people who are sick need to warn us! Take care!
Tackily responding to my own post - that red lentil curry is fantastic.
Downtime here this morning was several hours. I managed to snag a study room at our town library, though, so free WiFi and a private room for the morning - better than the “open space” setup at my office, and I was home before lunch.
Reporting on a successful recipe is the opposite of tacky!!
I looked at it and it sounds like my mashup of two curry soups plus more veggies, delicious!
You’ve got me wondering if some of the ground beef I have to use up should become meatloaf 
Meatloaf is always good!
I never use parsley in it, but I am not a huge parsley fan.
Cooking for 3 in southwestern Ontario
Monday: take-out fried chicken and hot wings
Home-made coleslaw
Home-made mixed salad
Baked beans from a can
Home-made lemon oregano skinless chicken thighs for me
Purchased Portuguese custard tarts for the dining companions.
Tuesday:
Dutch Frikadeller from the freezer
Maybe Stamppot. Trying to use some russet potatoes up that have a texture my DC dislikes, so I figure mashing them is the way to go.
https://maastrichtmagazine.com/stamppot-is-a-traditional-dutch-dish/
Kind of a sabich platter, with eggplant, and eggs.
Wednesday:
Tuna cakes
Thursday:
Roast lamb
Friday:
Fish to be determined
I love your menu. I love more your planning it.
DH and I find the daily dinner ritual calming and something to look forward to, despite outside forces. Prep and cook something we like or are interested in - not necessarily expensive - sit down together in our home, bond, and enjoy. It’s our little moment, and a well received end to a busy (and sometimes confusing) day.
You are so kind, thank you. Truthfully, menu planning is a chore but I also enjoy it. Maybe even more than the cooking.
Greetings, People.
Another busy week laying in this year’s garden. Plus, have some people coming over today to measure windows for a replacement job, and next week, will be having the floors insulated. In two weeks we start a kitchen-refresh: cleaning and painting all the walls, shelves, cupboards and drawers in both our small kitchen and pantry . I’m planning on culling out and reorganizing my kitchen gear at the same time. I’m anticipating a big improvement when it’s all over.
So, snapping out of our winter snooze and moving forward for another year.
For the next few weeks, it will be quick-and-easy-cooking for two adults in the PNW.
FRI: Pork, cabbage, and noodle stir-fry.
SAT: Chicken soup.
SUN: Steak. Ina’s spinach gratin. Spuds of some variety.
MON: Halibut chowder. Focaccia.
TUE: Quiche with leftover spinach gratin. Green salad.
WED: Pan pizza. Salad greens.
THUR: Teriyaki chicken. Cucumber salad. Rice.
Getting our windows replaced was one of the easiest and best things we’ve done for/to our house. Hope you have a similarly good experience.
I am always jealous of all the halibut you have. It’s so expensive here, and one of the few white fish LLD likes.
Great to hear of your positive results with the windows. It was a big decision to make, but I’m (most of the time) feeling happy we pulled the trigger.
The hali is definitely a bonus. We keep fingers crossed that we bring some home from these trips (which primarily target salmon), as the price here in the stores is ridiculous, also. In either case it’s nice to be able to offset some of the vacation costs by filling our freezer with our favorite seafoods (I side with LLD on this one).
Especially if you happen to have an older house, modernizing the windows makes a huge difference.
Spinach gratin sounds very appealing. I also had one from Jacques pepin bookmarked during the gratin DOTQ, and a spinach soufflé from him or someone else. Have to buy spinach!
Happy Pi Day, everyone.
English Fish Pie, or maybe a Curried Fish Pie for supper tonight.
Cookbook of the month nominations are underway – join in and cook along together!
Hi, everyone. Cooking for three in the Boston burbs, where it appears that spring has sprung! The only snow in sight is in dirty piles in the corners of parking lots. I’ve been trying to spend time outside to get sunshine - lots of long walks lately.
DS had plans with friends this evening, so DH and I went out for dinner (breakfast, actually - I love breakfast for dinner) and then grocery shopping. The store has a very different vibe at 7pm Saturday than 11am Sunday.
Sun: beer-battered and fried fish (Serious Eats), air-fryer fries, salad
Mon: everyone is Irish on St Patrick’s Day! Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots. I remember doing it in the InstantPot last year but can’t remember where I found that recipe…
Tues: pasta, red sauce, meatballs, something vegetable
Weds: butter-basted chicken breasts (NYT), baked sweet potato wedges, something vegetable
Thurs: Greek meatballs - this but turkey instead of lamb. Flatbreads this, but unstuffed and green beans.
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.
