Tonight I made soy sauce braised chicken thighs, white rice, and steamed green beans and broccoli with butter, soy sauce, and black vinegar. The chicken was okay but I prefer Trini Chinese chicken if I’m going for those flavors; my DH liked it. I was lazy and steamed the veggies right over the rice.
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My mostest favorite kind of salad…
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You are not lazy…you are efficient.
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Fried rice using the leftover rice pilaf from last week, and Bibigo pork and veg dumplings/pot stickers (recommended by a coworker), with Melinda’s Thai Sweet Chili Sauce as a dipping sauce. Pretty good! Even if the pot stickers stuck to the skillet until I managed to loosen them. Guess they lived up up to their name, huh? 
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I was about to say the exact same thing but for some reason - for the first time ever - I waited to see if anyone else felt the same way. Great minds!
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Smoked salmon radiattore based on an Elle Republic creamy smoked salmon pasta with dill recipe.
Armenian lentils with apricots based on this recipe
ARMENIAN - Winter 2025 (Jan-Mar) Cuisine of the Quarter
@ernie_in_berkeley , the Armenians make a soup similar to chicken avgolemono soup and Yiouvarlakia, and their choreg is their version of tsoureki. Lots of dishes with similar etymological roots. Understandably, similar histories in some ways.
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I had some sweet potatoes that weren’t going to last much longer so turned them into a black bean sweet potato soup/stew/chili - depending upon how thick you like each one. Since I cooked the beans with guajillo chiles, garlic, cumin, bay and oregano I leaned into Mexican flavors. Served with a huitlacohe and roasted tomato pizza and a chorizo pizza to keep with the theme.
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My elderly neighbor had several appointments today, so I was pretty busy driving her around town for the most part. I brought along a sizable container of leftover Tuscan soup to our final trip (fingers crossed it’s not too salty or spicy for her, but she can always dilute it to her liking), as well as a slab of the coffee cake my PIC made.
Went to the Goodwill to replace the lid that broke yesterday, and grabbed not one, but TWO lids…. neither of which fit 
Might be time to splurge on a new pot
It was a little “toastier” today, but arctic temps will return starting tomorrow. To warm our weary, old bones I made a fiery Thai red curry with BTS (not the K-pop group, sillies — black tiger shrimp ), peas & yellow pepper. I added extra garlic, lemongrass, ginger & bird peppers (natch) to a can of maesri, which I don’t find particularly spicy, and used 1.5 cans of coconut milk to 1 can of fish stock. Lime leaves & a splash of lime juice & fish sauce to make it pop at the end, topped with cilantro & Thai basil over rice. Despite all the bells and whistles, we both thought it was lacking depth 
Some of the now super-harlicky smashed cukes as an app / side 
And this (or some of it) for dessert later 
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My new little Ziggy has exhibited a talent for Silent but Deadly. Both my older girl and her late brother are/were. …. Sneeze in your face? More like snot rockets. Countless trips to the vet have been to no avail. Very hard to scrub off lower kitchen cabinets. Will be laundering my comforter tomorrow. So I had tuna salad for dinner AND DIDN’T SHARE. 
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Roasted pork tenderloin, seasoned with pork rub, pan drippings. From the freezer I combined gourmet blend rice with carrots and leeks. Mixed greens, red onion, cucumber, radish, tomato salad, ranch. Imik
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Loosely following NYT’s recipe for parmesan-baked salmon Caesar. The fish filets are brushed with Caesar dressing – and topped with more parm – before baking/broiling.
In general, one of my favorite dishes and I thought it was pretty good. DH found the dressing on the fish rendered it a bit too salty.
In any case – all gone, no leftovers.
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Dinner last night at friends’. Sausages (tikka masala, white wine & pepper, pork dumpling, leek and something) - all very good & juicy, grilled by our host; crispy, garlicky potatoes; and my kale, lentil, and feta salad with a sherry vinegar vinaigrette and candied pistachios I made. Good wine, good company.
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and for tonight, yesterday I made kimchi jjigae with shredded chicken and my kimchi, and let it sit until tonight, and added tofu to simmer just while heating up. Homey and good on a chilly night.
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Tonight’s dinner was a throw-together meal. Mac & Cheese mixed with onion and Chorizo. Peas on the side as the vegetable.
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A couple of clean out the fridge nights for us. Last night that meant turning the leftover plain cooked penne into a super simple baked pasta dish with just some basic sauce that used up the rest of some tomato paste in the fridge and bits of onion that were languishing. Both ricotta and mozzarella were deeply on sale a couple of weeks ago and I loaded up. The rest of the family did not wait before digging in, so I just got a pic of my own portion (I also had lentil soup):
Then this morning I ducked into the french store to get dijon since it was next to the plumbing supply place I had to go to on an errand today, and they were selling potato soup and onion soup for over $9 a pint! Seeing that really made me want potato soup, so I made a simple soup with all of the potatoes I had leftover (tiny golds and a few medium russets), I added a lot of onion and used up the rest of some nice chiken/turkey stock I still had in the fridge from a few days ago when I tried to clean out the freezer and made use of my huge stock scraps bag. No cream or anything, just a little butter and olive oil for cooking the onions. It really really hit the spot, but was not photogenic! I estimate it cost under $3 for my entire pot.
I was super stressed with work when I took a break to cook, and the process of making the soup just completely calmed me down. So nothing fancy but a huge success!
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