Cod and sugar snap peas in mole amarillo (freezer find on the sauce. I think it was a Rick Bayless recipe.), accompanied with farro.
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Embarrassing impulse buy. Frozen crab Rangoon. Note to self again not to browse the frozen food aisle when I’m hungry. Meh. The instructions said 3-4 minutes deep frying.@350. What you see is 2 1/2 minutes. Shrimp scampi with linguine. Garlic bread.
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More from the lovely Pasta Grannies: stuffed Sicilian focaccia. This is nothing like the focaccia most of us are familiar with. It’s an unleavened dough made with semolina flour, water and olive oil. They bake up crisp and delicious. The fillings were tomato, wild chard (I used spinach) and ricotta. All three are excellent and if you’d like to try something deliciously different, give this recipe a go.
There are, however a few things to be aware of if you decide to try this:
In the written recipe, the dough calls for 125 ml oil. If you watch the video, there is only 50 ml used. Also, there is no salt in the video, but there is in the written recipe. I used 50 ml oil and no salt. The dough was perfect.
One of the ingredients called for is capuliato. I need to go to this site for the instructions to make it. Highly recommended condiment. It tastes fantastic.
The tomato filling does not list onions in the written recipe, but half of the sauteed onions in the video are used.
The scacce and the buccatedda (spinach/chard filled half moon shaped) took 20 minutes in a fan assisted oven. If you don’t have convection, they will take longer.
If you watch the video in full, you’ll be fine.
I’ll be making these regularly.
Edit to add link to video:
Second edit: the spinach haters in the household can’t stop eating the spinach filled buccatedda. It’s almost gone. I am shocked.
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Our go-to pepperoni pan pizza with fresh basil, black olives, and whole-milk mozz. Served with garden greens in vinaigrette.
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Comfort food. Chicken thigh, pounded, breaded and fried, chicken gravy, parsley. Pureed cauliflower, sour cream, green onion, butter pool. Salad was spinach, leftover esquites, tomato, red onion, ranch and crispy fried onions.
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Is it like Scacciata ? (normally Sicilian focaccia is especially fluffy and airy)
There is no yeast or other leavening agent used in the dough, so it rolls out like a pasta sheet. The scacce are rolled especially thin; I could see the wooden countertop through the dough. So, very similar to a scacciata in texture but I think even more crisp.
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We enjoyed another sensational dinner at That Supper Club pop up dinner, including melt in your mouth 40 day dry aged filet mignon with an excellent black garlic emulsion; funky 200 day dry aged sirloin; lobster cappellacci in a brilliant sweet corn hollandaise sauce; panko crusted eggplant parmigiana; buttery scallop crudo; tempura squash blossoms stuffed with nduja and shrimp with a jalapeño salsa verde; yakitori grilled mahi with an avocado aioli; crispy sourdough bread with an outstanding garlic scape kimchi butter; 36 month prosciutto di parma wrapped around Sicilian cantelope; little gem salad; excellent warm peach cobbler for dessert. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets. The menu is attached at the end with further details.
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Sous-vided and seared bavette steak, brown rice and fresh peas, with the season’s first morels. Romano beans.
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Mortadella or maybe prosciutto sounds good!
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To keep it food/cooking related…I can comfortably and happily work in the kitchen for hours wearing Hokas (Clifton 9s) with Abeo orthotics! That combo makes such a difference for me - no turning back! Abeo slippers with sheepskin covered orthotics are also pretty great. They’re pricey, but have sales fairly regularly….
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That’s some char on those pepperoni.
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Wow! That entire meal sounds incredible! The tempura blossoms especially!
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And burrata. And pistachio pesto.
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I’m sorry to about your foot troubles. I had a similar situation and my doctor ordered custom orthotics. I would suggest going to a high end running store - many of them offer gait analysis to determine the best sneaker. I ended up with Asics Kayanos and Brooks Adrenaline. - each brand has so many different lines and they are not the same so it may take some trying on.
Are you familiar with The Barn Shoes in Newtonville? They have a HUGE selection of shoe brands primarily “comfort” brands. I like it because it is self-servce and you can try on as many pairs as you want with bothering anyone.
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Two more added to my list of possibilities, thanks!
I wasn’t, but I am now! Thanks! Still waiting to hear from the doctor’s office for an appt. But everyone’s been so helpful with shoe suggestions (if I have to go that way). I very much appreciate it!
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Loved Ortigia
I liked Palermo more — not as small & touristy, but Ortigia certainly has its charms 
Everything was outstanding! The tempura blossoms were excellent. They had a very light batter. Usually, they are stuffed with goat cheese. This is the first time I have had one generously stuffed with shrimp and nduja. The accompanying avocado salsa dip went perfectly with it.
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I still feel like gahbidge, so we had to cancel our rez at a very promising new restaurant we’ve been wanting to check out all summer. No fancy nightcap either at the speakeasy nearby @medgirl had alerted me to.
A work buddy of my dude’s was visiting from Bremen & had looked forward to a fun evening with us — but at least the guys had ample time to talk shop at the beer garden near us, then hit up a bao place in our hood where they had… chicken nuggets?
Now they’re having drinks down the road. At least someone’s having fun on a Friday eve 
I’m home bored shitless, and my exciting dinner consisted of half a roll with teawurst & cukes, and toast with the last of the trout roe. Cheap, tho. Woohoo.
Hoping to feel more like myself again tomorrow to enjoy the fête de la musique.
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