Biftekia
This recipe. I substituted grated leek for the small onion, added 1 tsp ground cumin, and omitted the dried mint.
Cheddar potato pierogies from a small shop called Wow Pierogies in London, ON
Asparagus and leek soup: asparagus, leek, 2 cups of asparagus broth/cooking liquid, butter, flour, marjoram, pepper, sour cream and lemon.
My monochromatic dinner included fried cabbage and noodles with some waxed beans that I found in the fridge.
Those burgers look really good. Iâll bet theyâd taste good with ground lamb.
Today and tomorrow weâre having our front windows and door replaced â so far, so good! The house is upside-down, however, and dinner was extra-simple tonight.
Grilled cheese on homemade onion bread. Tomato-basil soup made from veg and herbs I put up last summer (including a little serrano chili sauce for kick).
Ages ago I had friends who bought a house and moved while she was heavily pregnant. They paid for movers, but were faces with all the unpacking.
Our supper club descended on the new house after the truck left ans we unpacked everything and put it all away, then made dinner for everyone.
She said it was almost a year until they felt they had figured out where everything had been putâŠbut that she was quite confident she could visit any of our homes and raid cupboards because she now knew where we all kept all our stuffâŠ
I got my covid shot today and feel like hot garbage, so dinner was my go-to sick food from childhood: Herb-Ox chicken bouillon broth with bay leaf and ditalini (Mom used elbow macaroni). I poached an egg in the broth for protein.
Abondigas stuffed poblano pepper, sharp cheddar, taco sauce, cilantro. Corn, tomatoes, green onion, avocado, cilantro salad with oo & sherry vinegar dressing.
I love fried cabbage and noodles.
Good for you for getting the shot. I got mine last month. I prepared sick food in advance, too. I keep a tub of Minorâs Chicken Base for all my illness-related broth needs. I can add something, or nothing. Plus I always have a big olâ container of powdered Gatorade on hand.
And cats for snoozing, of course.
The chicken queen strikes again! bok bok bok 
Theyâre often made with both beef and lamb.
The first warm, sunny day in forevah had us hop on my Vespa and bop around town â picked up the last batch of tights for my gal pals & found out that the store will be closing at the end of this year. Noooooooooooooooo!!! 
Then we swung by the biggest thrift shop (5 stories!) in town where I found nada,
and since we were practically halfway to the Italian market in our old hood, we scooted up there & grabbed a slab of Raschera and some fennel salami,
pappardelle, pistachio crema, grilled zuke & eggplant,
and a pistachio panna cotta bc duh.
Met up with my oldest Berlin pal at the beer garden near us to hear about his 10-day Vipassana retreat. You couldnât pay me to do anything like that â let alone spend money on it, but he seems pretty lost these days & desperate forâŠ. well, anything. The things you do after a bad breakup! 
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Once the sun went down, we made our way to the döner kebab place & shared a döner teller (Donatella?) with fries. I thought the fries were superfluous, but the dudes were happy.
My PIC and I shared the pistachio panna cotta when we got home, which was rich and delicious. No pic, but might be a repeat purchase 
We here got ours last month, too. I get sickâŠevery single vaxâŠ
The later ones havenât hit me like the second of the original series (thought I was going to die right on the bathroom floor) but I just thought of another thing I keep for malady meals - those little minute rice cups of already cooked rice. Iâve never tried shelf-stable pudding. Best Iâve managed is kozy shack
Which brings me to last nightâs dinner. Cheese ravioli with a cacio e pepe-like sauce of butter( and pasta water) and parm. Not much to look at, but tasty. Iâve had better refrigerator-case ravioli, however. This was Buitoni.
I got my last booster back in late Sept 2024. Guess I should get an updated one, huh? (And yes, they often wipe me out for the day after.)
Ours was in combination with the flu shot, I think. I must have the constitution of a bear, since none of them have affected me, including the dreaded shingles shots.
For last night, I made a ricotta polpette recipe suggested by @Saregama (NYTFood, paywalled or open and almost identical at F&W).
With the F&W instruction to let the formed polpette balls sit in the fridge for an hour, there were no worries about them breaking down in the sauce. The photo is an afterthought as I was putting up leftovers (so the sauce presents here as a lot thicker than when eaten), but I served them with some pan seared sweet Italian sausage and a side salad.
I also used onions in the sauce, which wasnât in the all-ricotta polpette dishes but was in all the half-ricotta, half-meat dish recipes I read. But I used about half the onion I normally would have.
Iâm not sure what I was expecting, but the polpette themselves (like if you took a bite with little sauce included) were very mild in flavor. Given the recipe, Iâm sure theyâre supposed to be, but I might try more garlic and salt in the polpette next time.
I also used the double-cream style ricotta, almost 18% fat vs whole milk is more like 11%, and that much fat may have muted or overwhelmed the flavors some. The other double-cream tub Iâm going to reserve for another custard (I mentioned that I bought too much ricotta in a different discussion).
Monday night was mish-mash leftovers night (just me & son home from college; wife & 2 daughters are in Guatemala building houses).
I had made arroz con pollo Thursday night before the ladies left, seared lamb blade chops Friday, and shakshuka Saturday. So this is the last of the leftover chicken-rice, with the last of the shakshuka sauce dumped in (made the rice a lot better because, per original OCP recipe, it was very mild (itâs not supposed to be spicy but the sumac/harissa etc. in the shakshuka sauce really jazzed it up)), and cut up bits of the lamb.
Sunday night was lamb neckbone stew, which will be tonightâs leftovers. For once, my son isnât even grumping about so many leftovers. Maybe heâs finally growing up. If I remember to do it, Iâll grab a photo of it tonight because I forgot on Sunday.
Ooh. Forgot about those. Nasty! But beats the alternative.
It does, especially when the shots donât affect you one bit 
My PIC had a much different reaction to them, the second one in particular.
