That chicken ragu with herbed ricotta sounds really good, but I can’t find the recipe on the NYT site. Any chance you could link?
In looking for it I came across a recipe for chicken with escargot butter, which also sounds really good to me. Maybe I need a snack.
Go get that snack! 
Thank you linguafood! I’m glued to the tennis. Next ad!
Thanks, @linguafood - that’s the recipe. @LulusMom1 I will report back as to whether this is a keeper or whether we took one for the team… it’s in the oven right now.
Three in a year is hard; three in a week, so hard! Thinking of you and sending golden light.
Looks interesting - looking forward to your report about it!
That is a lot of funerals 
I liked the chicken ragu, my family thought it was just okay. I wrote a more detailed review on the NYT thread, here.
cooking for 3 in southwestern Ontario
the garden is winding down. I’ll be picking what are probably my last 3 full-sized eggplants tomorrow.
Sunday :
leftover meatballs in tomato sauce
flat.green beans with olive oil, vinegar and dill
basil, dill, lettuce, tomato and cucumber salad
maple ginger baked beans
take-out pepperoni, Mushroom and Green Pepper pizza
take-out honey garlic drumsticks
Monday:
vegetarian moussaka
tuna cakes
Tuesday:
piccata chicken thighs
angel hair
Wednesday:
maybe lamb Korma
Have a good week, everyone
Hello friends another beautiful week has gone by. It’s hard to believe fall is just around the corner. The weather app on my phone says it’s 18 degrees celsius outside right now (65 Fahrenheit) but it feels much warmer than that. It’s been another quiet week so I am enjoying it while it lasts since my fall activities will be starting up soon. My film society screenings start next week then I have a watercolour class starting in October, a painting class in November and a craft class in November. I also have a sleep test on October 6th and I am already getting wound up 
I am being tested for sleep apnea but I’m worried about having so many electrodes taped to me I won’t be able to sleep. It won’t hurt and it’s only for one night so I’m sure I’ll be fine but I’m still worried none-the-less. I am off next week so I will line up lots of activities to distract myself. Onto my menus for this week:
Today: I bought a sandwich from the deli nearby. I had chicken pesto on a bun with lettuce, regular tomatoes, sundried tomatoes and black olives - delicious but HUGE. I had forgotten how big their sandwiches are so I only had half and wrapped up the other half to have tomorrow. I will have a panzanella for dinner.
Saturday: I will be sorting through spice jars today. As I have been finishing up spices I’ve been washing the jars and putting them aside then I go to the store and buy new spices and leave them in the little baggies they come in so I now have a very cluttered spice cupboard 
I have some jars that I repurposed for spices, some were purchased at the dollar store, some were gifted to me from
freecycle and they are all labelled already. I just need to see if I have enough for spice-cupboard-clean-out-day, if not I will have to acquire more. I will have the other half of yesterday’s sandwich for dinner and a beer. I found a new-to-me non alcoholic beer recently which I am enjoying so I’m really looking forward to having with dinner. It’s Athletic which is hugely popular - I don’t know what took me so long to find out about it…
Sunday: Off to the farmers market in the morning to pick up missing ingredients. My afternoon activity is still to be decided. I will have a salmon fillet and Greek salad for dinner.
Monday: Mall shopping. I will have lunch at the food court so I will have another salad for dinner, probably a panzanella again.
Tuesday: One of our churches has recitals at noon on Tuesdays and I was hoping to take one in today but I just discovered they are still on summer break. Oh well I’m sure I will find something else to do. I will have peanut soup for dinner.
Wednesday: Off to Chinatown this afternoon. I am going to stock up on soy sauce, chili oil, tea, etc. I will swing by the take out counter at the Chinese grocer what they have that I can take home for dinner. I’m jonesing for bbq’d ribs and if I succeed in getting some I will make chow mein to go with them.
Thursday: Nothing major planned for today since I will have to run down and pick up my CSA when the farm stand opens at 3:00 then I will dash off to my first screening with the Ottawa Film Society this season. I will have dinner on my way to the theatre.
Have a nice week everyone.
I meant to reply to the group not @Phoenikia. One of these days I’ll get used to the internet 
Hi, all! Cooking for 2 in sunny Chattanooga.
Breakfast: Maida Heatter Cuban banana bread
Saturday, September 13: Camping! I’ve sous-vided a pork chop to grill and will prep some white beans to go on the side. Peanut noodles for lunches and snacks. I need to get moving on all that!
Sunday: Back from camping. A “Waldorf-style” salad with grapes, apples, kale, and burrata from Family
Monday: Shrimp and grits; something green on the side
Tuesday: TBD
Wednesday: Galettes complètes (ham, cheese, egg) from ATK. The crêpes won’t be entirely authentic because there’s wheat flour in the recipe, but at least they’ll hold together
Thursday: TBD
Friday: Going to a happy hour to discuss the birth of a new book club. I’ll probably find enough snacks there to keep me going…
Have a great week! Happy cooking!
No worries, and what a wonderfully elaborate and detailed post about your upcoming plans! I love it when our members share a few glimpses into their lives — both here and in WFD. Makes ya almost feel like you ‘get to know’ someone, besides the usual food & drink reports 
And while we have a decent handful of Chinese restaurants and markets, I envy you for having a Chinatown to go to!
Thank you! I love reading others’ posts too and I feel like I’ve really gotten to know folks through their posts on HO. It puts a proverbial face to the name.
We have a small but mighty Chinatown in Ottawa and some of the grocery stores are opening chains in the suburbs too. Ottawa has some shortcomings foodiewise as far as I’m concerned but I have all my Asian needs covered. It’s about a 40 minute walk to Chinatown or a 10 minute bus ride so it’s easy to get to for those of us that live downtown but don’t drive. I’d love to make more Indian food but we don’t have any Indian grocers close by. We have a lovely Indian grocer in the west end but it’s a 45 to 60 minute bus ride there so I don’t go as often as I’d like. The street it’s on (Merivale for those who are familiar with Ottawa) has a shopping strip that starts at the mall where the Indian grocer is and ends at Costco so every couple of months I bus it there taking my knapsack and a bunch of reusable grocery bags and load up. I think I can order from them using a delivery service or Instacart but it’s not the same as going to the store to see what they have and talking to the friendly staff.
Last week’s dinner plans were moved around & changed ever so slightly.
While I picked up 2 pecks of green beans at the FM on Tuesday, I only got to the Sichuan dish last night. Kinda switched around my Tue & Wed plans as well, since I hosted a ladies night for my gals on Wednesday night…which also means that the stir-fry with the Lao sausages never happened. Life, man!
Anywhos, let’s get to the nitty-gritty: still cooking for two w̶i̶l̶d̶ ̶&̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶z̶y̶ mildly interesting middle-aged folks in Happy Valley. The weather has returned to summer, with sunny skies and balmy temps, so any braises or stews I had in the back of my mind will have to wait.
TONIGHT we’re having our good buddy (who also just had to put his cat down 
) over for dinner & a movie to get him out of his now empty house. I’m making mushroom pasta, specifically paccheri with chicken of the woods. I have never prepared these crazy, alien-looking shrooms,
but one of my gal pals & keen forager was nice enough to share some of her bounty. Fingers crossed it’s not a total disaster, otherwise we’ll have to order pizza 
TOMORROW a friend is hosting our weekly poker game, which was on hiatus the last two weekends. He’s getting sushi for the table. We can groove to that.
SUNDAY… well, you already know it’s going to be ssssspicy. Maybe that stir-fry with the Lao sausages that never got made this week.
MONDAY a singer-songwriter friend of mine has a performance I want to attend, so we’ll likely grab something on the fly downtown. A new Iraqi place opened today 
, and it’s near the venue. There’s also Korean fried chicken, cheesesteaks, Lebanese, or the halal cart…..
TUESDAY is market day again. I think this time Ima pick up an entire bushel of those beans to blanch and freeze — and possibly use some of them that night for fasolakia, if we decide on a Greek night. It’s been forever since I made pork souvlaki, and we always have gigantes and dolmades in the house 
WEDNESDAY may or may not be another ladies night, don’t think I’m gonna host again, tho. TBD
THURSDAY is too far off for me to plan. TBD
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Tentative plans for 2 adults in the Metro West Boston area. The small black cat will continue with his new canned rabbit food (decided he no longer likes the old one). I’m also prepping chicken breasts and tuna salad for some lunches. We’ll see if I actually get to all the proposed meals 
I love that Small Black Cat gets new food he likes better!
He’s extremely finicky and is not supposed to have chicken because of an allergy, so right now he’s willing to eat canned rabbit and canned duck from a particular brand. The vet gave us a hydrolized protein canned food that he absolutely refused (and lost a whole pound of weight one month stubbornly refusing it, which is a lot for a usually 8 lb little dude). So, we’re abiding by his likes and dislikes. On the upside, since he brings daily joy (and we don’t have to save for college for him) it is entirely doable!
I had a cat a few years ago that used to go through cycles when it came to wet food. He would eat one flavour exclusively for months on end so I would buy a case of it. He’d last three months eating that flavour exclusively then he’d decide he didn’t want it anymore. Then I would have to schlep back to the vet with part of a case of canned cat food because Your Highness wanted another flavour. The things we do for our fur babies…
Our late monkeyboy downright refused to eat anything but the same dry food every day. Until he had a tooth extraction & needed to be on wet food for a while. He was super-finicky about that, of course: couldn’t sit around too long, couldn’t be too cold from the fridge, couldn’t be sitting in his food bowl too long., etc. etc.
Then he would go back to long stretches of dry food only.
Cats. So finicky. So mysterious.
