Nice save on that salmon!
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It’s good, just not to be eaten in a solid chunk. I can imagine making a cream cheese shmear with it, chowder, I’ll get creative. The fish was $38 at Costco nearly 3 lbs. If I’d bought it already smoked at the store I would have been out prob $75. It’s $30/lb and I’m subtracting some water weight from the fresh.
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If I recall correctly, I’ve only done wine. Yours sound fun.
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Kwinter’s dog, pan fried in a bit of bacon grease on a custom fitted Italian roll(didn’t feel like buying 8 buns for a couple of hot dogs), tomato/pickle/onion/ pickled jalapeno/yellow mustard/catsup with a side of spicy dill pickle chips. My sister gave me the hot dogs, and rolls, cause she didn’t care for them(too meaty). I thought they were pretty good, but I wouldn’t pay $8 for 4 of them.
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Not Niçoise Salad. Total fail. Green beans went bad somewhere and I didn’t realize. Cauliflower soggy. Not enough dressing or seasoning on everything else. Ate the egg and tuna to get my protein. Oh well, live and learn.
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Rib-eye tenderloin with a grilled, red-pepper chimichurri (thanks to @MariaCarmen for the inspo). Roasted spuds and green beans from the garden.
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Spicy King oyster & green bean stir fry. I added garlic and shrimp. WofL smashed cucumber salad. Very good. Dessert was a wow! Sliced a peach and sauteed in butter, added brown sugar and a splash of rum, served with a quenelle-ish of yogurt and pistachios.
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Vegetarian rice-stuffed peppers with pine nuts, dried apricots,.saffron, dill, allspice, cinnamon, coriander and cumin
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We enjoyed another exceptional dinner at That Supper Club pop up restaurant, in Park Ridge, NJ, including an awesome tomato watermelon salad; hamachi crudo; radiatori con zucchini pasta; lobster tortelloni; 40 day dry aged filet mignon; crabcake; shrimp toast; oysters; grilled tsukune; chocolate cake for dessert. It all went great with an excellent cabernet and Priorat. The menu at the end gives more details.
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I hate it when that happens 
Tomorrow is another day/dinner.
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Cod with Miso-Butter and Vegetables - for the vegetables you sauté king oyster mushrooms and zucchinis and finish it by briefly cooking it with some vegetable broth, soy sauce and corn starch. The cod is just briefly seared and then basted with white miso butter. The fish and vegetables are served over rice
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Broiled Miso salmon, rice, eggplant and sliced fresh cokes, tomato from the garden.
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Lovely dinner at our friend’s house last night.
We started with chilled Bordeaux in her backyard with two cheeses and crackers I didn’t partake in. She needed a little help searing the scallops, and I suggested we toss them in a bit of seasoned cornstarch (basically just salt). They turned out perfectly, and I was so relieved I didn’t add too much salt given my proclivities 
She’d made a wonderful green goddess-like sauce with hatch chiles to serve them on. It was a fab combo.
A Georgian salad with walnuts, lots of fresh herbs (parsley, basil, mint, dill) and an ube vinegar dressing was delicious and refreshing, not to mention beautifully plated. The pic doesn’t do it justice & we have that photo shrinkage issue again 
The main was piccata meatballs (pork/beef) with almonds. Unusual and very good.
The side, green beans almondine, were quite possibly the most tender & flavorful green beans I’ve had in a long time. I’ll have to get to the farm stand where she purchased them next week and get myself a bunch 
Finally, dessert was nectarine crème brûlée. Absolutely delicious.
Gorgeous glassware, too.
I also got some kitty love from her furry posse while there. Bittersweet.
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Those piccata meatballs sounds VERY good, but your entire meals looks wonderful!
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Can you share the recipe?
Those beansssssss. And the scallops! I love it when other people cook for me for a change — especially when they are as good a cook as our friend 
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I’m wondering if it is just a very good year around here for green beans for some reason. I have gotten them the last two weeks from the farmers’ market, and they have been exceptional.
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