It’s finally noodle soup season! I know you can’t see the noodles, but the somen are down there, trust. And this is pre-broth pour, 'cause the poor sorrel looks pretty tragic post-broth pour.
With two kinds of marinated squash (cuke and avocado).
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Tapas night at Chez @BeefeaterRocks. My contribution was the tortilla Espanola. Sister made gambas al ajillo, pan con tomate, and green salad with mixed greens, red onion, gold nugget cherry tomatoes, paquillo peppers, manchego cheese with a sherry vinegar vinaigrette. Chimichurri rojo was slathered liberally on the tortilla. Music by Carlos Santana matched the vibe. Olé
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Thank you, yes it was. Fixed.
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An afternoon at our local independent movie theater, where we thoroughly enjoyed Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest: One Battle After Another. Good stuff. A late WFD was leftover pork-and-potato taco fixings - also good stuff. 
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I had been saving these meatballs for this occasion. Today, Neighbor #2 is well enough to start cooking for herself, again. I didn’t mind including her in our dinners, but extremely happy she has recovered and has her independence back. One of her favorite meals (that I prepared) was Homemade Spinach Pasta. I added some milk to a jar of Ragu to make it more of a “cream based” tomato sauce and topped it with some shredded Parmesan cheese.
I did batch cook 2 dozen “hot pocket” sandwiches and delivered those (frozen) so she has a backup. (Thanks @CCE for the suggestion). Neighbor #2 knows I’m just a phone call away, if she needs anything.
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Roasted Butternut Squash Filled with Caramelized Puy Lentils and Feta from “Full of Flavor” by Maria Elia - butternut squash halfs get roasted in the oven with just some olive oil and scooped out. The squash flesh is cooked with caramelized onions, garlic, cooked puy lentils, feta, mint, parsley, pine nuts, cumin seeds & powder, paprika, sirarakhong chili powder and lemon juice, filled back into the butternut squash halves and baked in the oven. Normally you sprinkle pomegranate seeds before serving but they turned out to be bad
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Is this one of the new Ikea plates/blates/bowls ?
Yes it is a VINTERFINT plate from IKEA
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Great idea. I never think to make something like this with our winter stock of butternut squash. Now I will. Flavors and ingredients are right in my wheelhouse.
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Thanks for the suggestion - found the recipe online, will be dinner tonight!
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That’s the recipe - only our butternut squashs needed about 50-55 minutes in the initial step in the oven to really become tender
Got a recipe you like?
Errands after Gilda got her new inspection sticker.
Roasted broccoli, sautéed sweet Italian sausage, and caramelized onions on a half-ball of store-bought pizza dough with homemade sauce from a batch of Roma tomatoes given to me by a coworker (her 3 tomato plants groweth over!). Some grated Parm-Reg and mozzarella on top, cooked for 12 minutes in a 450° oven on parchment paper on a preheated pizza stone.
There was wine.
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Was leaning toward going out, but didn’t want to hemorrhage cash. Landed instead on frozen meatballs, doctored jarred sauce, whole wheat spaghetti, and broccoli with lemon olive oil.
Vino - Nero d’Avola
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No real recipe. About equal parts cod filets and white potatoes. Poach filets to 145 F, then remove from water and flake into a bowl. Boil potatoes until soft, then rice onto fish. Add a couple of tbsp butter and a pinch of salt. Grate a good handful or more of cheddar into the bowl and mix. Add more cheese/butter/salt until it tastes good. Form into patties (I use a 1/4c scoop). Dredge in flour, then dip in egg, then bread with panko. Fry for a few minutes on each side until desired brownness (remember, everything inside the fishcake is already cooked). I usually fry in olive oil with a pat of butter. That’s about it. I’ll often make a parsley sauce, but with the various likes/dislikes here, sometimes it’s just lemon on them or malt vinegar, ketchup or hot sauce. Pretty basic stuff, but it tastes good.
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Thank you!
Tonight I made Stir-Fried Chicken with Bok Choy from Katie Chin’s Everyday Chinese. I basically followed the recipe, subbing Green Beans for the Snow Peas and omitting the sugar. It was a very good, basic chicken stir-fry. I will use this recipe as a template in the future.
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Real nice . Pizza Saturday. Yes
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We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at Cafe Panache, in Ramsey, NJ, including homemade cavatelli with rabbit ragu; fantastic duck and foie gras agnolotti; lobster crab cake; corn ravioli; panko crusted halibut with forbidden rice, bok choy in a wasabi sake sauce.It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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