Longish day that involved running a few errands back home, then hitting the road with a detour for a pain management appointment in Hershey. Here’s hoping the next suggested treatment (in December ) will finally do the trick
Came home to a deliriously happy cat, did some laundry, unpacked. Didn’t have the energy to cook, so we finally tried the Peruvian chicken place for delivery. Got a whole chicken with their “hot” red sauce, the ‘medium’ green sauce that somehow packed more of a punch, and the chimi-mayo, which was rather uninteresting. Also my PIC’s aji verde would give this one a run for its… um… money. If sauces had cash.
I threw together baby red butter lettuce, a mater on its way out, and two floppy celery stalks, all tossed with the last of CK’s blue cheese dressing with a healthy squeeze o’lemon and grind o’black pepper. Positively stuffed now, and watching the ball game until I get bored with it
Quick-cured salmon, avocado, kimchi, and sushi rice that I crisped up in the oven to middling success (crunchy bits for sure, but not the pretty cake promised). Furikake.
Hit the spot. The quick-cured salmon was the successful lesson of the evening.
He grilled out some salmon, broccoli and a salad. I remembered some chicken/broccoli casserole in the freezer. A few buttered Ritz crackers on the side.
That was my dinner tonight.
Fettuccine with Romano Beans in Nduja-Tomato Sauce - Diced romano beans get precooked. Nduja and garlic sautéed until slightly crumbly. Quartered roma tomatoes are cooked down and mixed with the nduja mixture before adding fettuccine, romano beans, pasta water, basil, lemon juice and zest. Finished with some parmesan.
Chicken kebobs on the grill, veggie platter leftover from Saturday Cabaret augmented with homemade hummus, on-the-verge of stale french bread buttered, sprinkled with zaatar, and broiled briefly. No photo but quick and tasty.
Salt, sugar, alcohol optional, spices optional (not much is going to get picked up in 10-15 mins, but even in a 2-3 day cure I can’t taste most of what many recipes add, and I have a pretty sensitive palate).
For your hibiscus one I’d try the full cure. This was quick and easy for a weeknight dinner (I have the other piece of salmon curing the regular way).
Holy thunderstorm batman, it’s really coming down out there! Thankfully the storm started just after my salmon fillet finished in the oven. We are getting quite the light show out there and we normally don’t get thunderstorms this late in the year. (It’s been a slow week so humour me here ) So I am sitting in a seat near the window watching the thunderstorm and eating a salmon fillet and a kale salad.
Red chile beans and greens, a Rick Bayless recipe for Taco Tuesday. I used Swiss Chard for the greens and some pinto beans in place of the black beans he calls for. This will be a repeat at some point. We really liked this!
Chill day @casa lingua, with more unseasonal summery temps coaxing us out of the pad to insure there are cookies for my dude’s afternoon coffee, and cat grass for the Chonkster’s tummy. Not sure he deserves any after starting to howl at us around 6am with no apparent plans to stop, and for no damn good reason at all
With several packages of Lao sausages from the SEA market still in our freezer, a stir-fry seemed like a good meal for today. I blanched a buncha broc, 3 of the lemongrass snossidgis were crisped up in the air-fryer, and we ordered veg fried rice from a place in Chinatown with good credentials, although their specialty is Peking Duck.
Well, fried rice clearly isn’t (we could’ve made similar ‘quality’ fried rice ourselves), but it was tasty nonetheless…. I’d doctored it up with 3 “spicy” peppers that weren’t hotter than a bell pepper.
) will finally do the trick 
) So I am sitting in a seat near the window watching the thunderstorm and eating a salmon fillet and a kale salad.
