I made marinara sauce and we had that with Trader Joe’s turkey meatballs over Trader Joe’s cauliflower gnocchi. Sauteed zucchini and leftover baby bok choy as sides, along with a green salad with avocado.
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Sweet and spicy broiled chicken thighs. Cukes in an Asian-inspired vinaigrette. Jasmine rice.
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Seared and roasted pork tenderloin with fig chutney. Mushroom risotto from the freezer, asparagus Caesar sans nuts. Wine.
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A friend was in Turkey, and discovered karniyarik, eggplant stuffed with meat, and made it at home. So did I. Here it is out of the oven
and plated, over orzo
I mostly followed this version, but with a single larger eggplant and using lamb instead of beef. I think next time I’ll use the long skinny eggplants.
ETA: the recipe called for a light sauce of tomato paste and water. I subbed some briefly heated Cento petite diced tomatoes with a little salt, but I forgot to take a photo. The sauce added a nice zing.
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I utilized the “clearance” 1 pound roll of sausage mentioned in the “tracking household grocery expenses” thread and made a sausage meatloaf. Sunshine likes this dinner, as it yields cold meatloaf sandwiches (for her) for the next two days. A baked potato and peas rounded out the meal.
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A slightly oblong Neapolitan style pie (was a little too light with flour on the peel) with fresh mozzarella, salame Toscano, and basil.
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Collaborative dinner tonight with friends. Really fun night all round.
Apps:
Puff pastry spirals with curried ground turkey (me)
Homemade corned beef with mustard sauce (me)
Meal:
Big salad (them)
Esquites (me)
Beef stew, chili verde style (them)
Rice
Dessert:
Self-saucing chocolate cake (me) with vanilla ice cream
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Quick Brussels Sprouts Stew with Mashed Potatoes - Brussels sprouts were first blanched before cooked with ground beef, bacon, toasted walnuts in beef broth. Finished with parsley and served over regular mashed potatoes (milk, butter) with nutmeg
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That looks fantastic! I’ll be surrounded by Turkish food again in just a few weeks, and I honestly cannot waittttt 
Our HK buddy and his boo had hired a ‘mixologist’ for a cocktail party at their abode last night, and she’d made several cocktails to choose from: jalapeño margarita, Tom Collins, espresso “martini,” and a bourbon concoction I didn’t even bother checking out any further bc I don’t like bourbon.
I asked to try the jalapeño margarita, which I found too sweet. I asked for a Tom Collins, easy on the simple….which was when I realized both the marg and the Collins (also too sweet for me) were pre-mixed. Needless to say I moved on to a crisp rosé — that is until our host informed us that the bartender would of course also be able to make martinis. Like, actual martinis — none of that espresso nonsense, so I had two 
Peeps were in a festive mood, but most conversations seemed to touch on similar topics. Inescapable, I suppose.
Of course, one cannot live on booze alone, and our host provided a few delectable treats: roasted cauli,
a FAB chickpea dish (and you know what that means coming from me!!!),
a ground beef concoction that was def seasoned with a dash or two of Maggi,
a biryani I tried but didn’t care for (those damn raisins!),
and fried chicken with a sweet chili sauce.
We got home around 1am, split a Dubai truffle for dessert, then called it a night.
Not the worst way to celebrate my sweets’ birthday 
PS: NOT pictured is a pickled veg tray I started digging into early in the evening. I grabbed what I mistook for a pickled green bean and started chomping down on it. Unfortunately, it was a pickled chili pepper. I spat out whatever was left, but another friend made the exact same mistake and was guzzling water for a good while there 
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Inspired by the oden omakase I had on Friday, I decided to keep the Japanese thing going. I bought monkfish liver and clams at the Union Square Greenmarket, and a Japanese new-to-me green called komatsuna. The English term is “mustard spinach,” but it is not particularly mustard-y or spinach-y. It’s a lot like very long bok choy.
I steamed the clams and the komatsuna in dashi, torchon-ed the liver and served it with grated radish and ponzu.
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On-call at the hospital sad dinner of ‘poor man’s vegetable biryani’. I made this in a hurry last night. Brown rice with a plainish vegetable curry tossed through. Bit of ghee in the curry made it taste a bit luxurious.
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Scrouge tonight; I’m solo (parenting) the next three days and there are plenty of leftovers needing love. My resident leftover-eater is OOT. I had ww lavash and crudite with homemade hummus and baba ghanoush to start, then half a chicken meatloaf sandwich on homemade sprouted wheat bread. The at-first-reluctant kiddo said, “Mmm, this is really good” when he tasted his meatloaf sandwich. 
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Wurstsalat!
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Bestsalat!
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A proper Sunday dinner, in miniature.
A refrigerated air-dried Frankenchicken breast, brought to room temperature. A half Tbsp of butter was blended with an herb mixture I picked up at my local farmer’s market (dried parsley, basil, chives, garlic powder, onion flakes, black pepper). I added a pinch of salt and spread it under the skin, sprinkled a bit of the herb mixture on top, and roasted at 400° for about 45 minutes, basting twice to crisp up the skin.
Roasred yellow potatoes with olive oil and McCormick Garlic-Herb seasoning blend and steamed green beans with toasted almonds.
There was wine.
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Well that just SUCKS!!!
Your dinner sounds delicious though.
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We start a kitchen/pantry rehab tonight: cleaning, painting, organizing, decluttering. It’s amazing how much crap you can stash in 120 square feet of space. I did some batch cooking in advance, and we’ll be dining off heat-and-serve-and-leftovers for a couple of days.
Tonight’s version is dogs on pita wrap, mac and cheese, and the last of the spinach gratin.
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