Tonight’s dinner was fettucine all’arrabiata. No side salad tonight since I was too hangry. I made the sauce a couple of weeks ago and I wish I could remember what I did to make it at the right level. I used a small can of cherry tomatoes (enough for two servngs - this was the second) instead of passata and I think I used the chili flakes that I bought in Chinatown instead of the grocery store varietal. The chili flakes I buy in Chinatown are a little spicier 
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Whatchoo talking about? I clearly see radishes, jalapenos, onions, beans. Those are plants, right?
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s fish cakes in tomato sauce – I used halibut. Sorry, pics didn’t do it justice. Steamed rice.
Requires quite a bit of chopping/mincing, but worth it. I’ve made it wll over over a dozen times
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Well, I’m officially woozy on antibiotics for a sinus infection. The doctor laughed at me when I told him I was as vaxed and boosted as I could get and super annoyed about the weather swings taking me down! Sigh.
Eating from fridge stock, which I’m grateful for.
Sorta-Hainanese chicken and rice again with sautéed snow pea leaves (all leftovers).
Earlier (but not that much), butternut squash soup from roasted butternut squash I had saved for that purpose, and a leftover lahmacun from last week’s dinner at my neighborhood Turkish place.
Remembered I had started bread dough along with the pizza dough, so I baked it off in a square pullman tin just for a change. Maybe there’s a sandwich in store for me tomorrow with the rest of the soup.
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Hope you feel better soon.
Both the sinus infection and the antibiotics can mess with your appetite, your sense of smell/taste, and digestion, so hope everything settles down quickly.
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So sad to read that things went south after your heart procedure… Hoping you are well on the way to a full recovery!
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Stir-Fried Sesame Chicken with Green Beans and Shiitake - sauce was a mix of chicken broth, Shaoxing wine, sriracha, soy sauce, toasted sesame seeds, toasted sesame oil, garlic and cornstarch
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Get better soon!
BF is out with work buddies “networking” (aka drinking). I wasn’t feeling the energy to cook for one, but also wanted to avoid spending $ on delivery. So, I made a cheese and relish plate for one - crackers, Cabot sharp cheddar, almonds, tomatoes, Castelvetrano olives, hot lime pickle (v. good with cheddar!), and hot pickled cherry peppers. Wine from a box.
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Meera Sodha’s junjaro (kidney beans curry), yogurt, naan, chaat masala slaw. We weren’t wowed by the beans.
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I’m not a rajma (kidney bean) fan, but it’s such a staple in north India that there are a lot of good recipes out there.
(My sil makes it in the IP with pureed-together ginger, garlic, onion, and tomatoes plus basic powdered spices - turmeric, chilli powder, cumin, coriander, and whole spices bloomed in oil at the outset - indian bay leaf, few cardamom pods, small piece of cinnamon, a clove or two, some whole cumin - or skip the whole spices and add powdered garam masala at the end. Cook till everything melds, finish with some cilantro, eat with rice.)
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So excited that I finally made beef chow fun at home!
Used a few recipes for reference to figure out the profile of the nyc-style version that I love.
The noodles were the hardest part, as expected - I found a packaged “fresh” version in Chinatown (because the real fresh noodle vendor is always closed by the time I get down there for dinner), followed instructions to loosen them up by blanching, and tip from a different recipe to cook them separately with the sauce to get some char on.
I have to say, this was really good. Can’t wait to tweak a few things (forgot onion, didn’t have bean sprouts) and try again with the real fresh noodles.
Sautéed yu choy on the side for veg, but it struck me that I was also one step away from pad see ew, which is exciting!
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Just cleaned out and scrubbed mine after 2.5 years away. I had already removed the fresh food but it was still … whoa.
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Leftover lamb shanks in braising sauce. I used to make a lot of roast leg of lamb but I never loved the reheated leftover meat; something about the flavor of leftover lamb fat turned me off. Which is weird because I love fat 
Anyway, no such problem with reheard shank.
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I like that!
Your dinner looks the perfect compliment to wine in a box. Salty! I do like the lime pickle also.
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Totally out of my comfort zone today, with some Indian dishes. Saag tofu (not paneer eaters) by Aarti Sequera and sweet&sour okra by Madhur Jaffrey. After yesterday’s Thai dinner, I’m sure my kid just wants some spaghetti and meatballs. I’m stretching his edges, as they say.
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Last night I made a spicy pork and rice noodle bowl. It was delicious however next time I would make a couple of modifications. Only one mistake but I am to blame - I haven’t cooked with ground pork in awhile and I have forgotten how lean it is so browning it in a non stick skillet with no oil rendered it a little on the dry side. Next time I will brown it in a little oil as the recipe suggests. The sauce for the rice noodles was fine but could have used more umami so next time I will add a little sesame oil, ginger, and garlic.
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