I got a little aggressive rolling it around to soften it.
Beer batter fried Sitka Ling cod, salad and green beans from the garden, fresh corn from Safeway.
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Chickpea and Chicken Stew with Cauliflower Rice - chickpeas, diced chicken breast, diced sweet potatoes, onions and garlic are cooked in coconut milk. Finished with baby spinach and lime juice. Served with cauliflower rice mixed with toasted almonds, cilantro and lime zest
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Around here, skate is considered a garbage fish by the folks Mr Bean fishes with. Heâll sometimes ask that they keep the ones they âaccidentlyâ catch as I like it.
Yours looks lovely!
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Thank you! Itâs not exactly a garbage fish where I am, but it is one of the cheaper options from the Greenmarket vendors.
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Fresh corn already? Jealous!!! Where do you live?
Early evening ladies night yesterday at our favorite watering hole for a belated birthday celebration, while my PIC went to the beer garden with another peen to take advantage of the nice weather. They showed up a bit later with the birthday girlâs hubster in tow to grab a bite.
Our entire table of lovelies ordered the âchopped steak burgerâ that had been calling our names & came with either fries or salad. It was perfectly cooked to MR, but on top of being hella salty mine had a few gristly bits I literally had to pull out of the patty. Meh. Salad was heavy on the vinegar. Not their best production, TBH.
I recommended my PIC get something else, i.e. the chorizo, potato & pepper hash with a fried eggâŚ.. which was also SAWLTY AF! Yikes.
I stuck to cider instead of my beloved martinis bc itâs cheaper, as we found out yesterday that our carâs transmission is shot. The good news just keep coming 
The dealer estimated $8,200 for the new transmission, and it will take a month to get here. Uh, no. Weâll be shopping around town to see if we can get a cheaper part, bc thatâs an investment we neither can nor want to make on a 9 yr old car with 100+k miles on it.
It was really nice to hang with the gals after a couple of weeks break, and I was especially happy that our widowed friend came out. Sheâs been having a terrible time of it lately â her 93 yr. old mom likely wonât make it to the end of the year, her sis has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and she has to put her 13 yr old doggo down next week. A shit storm we were glad to distract her from (if just for a few hours), and I really hope she took our advice to find a therapist to deal with all this sadness bc friends can only do so much.
Our peen friend drove us home & stayed for one of my PICâs martinis and a Samâs Club pepperoni pizza that didnât suck after several drinks 
A good Tuesday evening, all things considered.
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Hawaii. We can get fresh corn year round, and we garden year round.
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This group of fisherpeople are somewhat snobby about they fish for - Fluke, Striped Bass and Sea Bass - are the regulars. They try to do a couple of tuna trips each season but that doesnât always happen. Itâs taken a while but they will now hold on to bluefish for me if they catch any.
I like skate and will order it at a restaurant.
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A local homeless shelter contacted me today to see if my band could play their annual benefit again early August. Turns out my keyboarder will be out of town that weekend, so unfortunately, I had to decline 
It was a very successful event last year with lots of donations, so I hope we can do it again in 2027 
As for WFD: our retired buddy and his boo left for yet another trip â to HK and Japan this time, and she was nice enough to leave a bunch of Chinese eggplant & scallions at our door so they wouldnât go to waste.
Inspired by @BierMonkâs suggestion in this thread, I turned them into fish-fragrant Sichuan eggplant from WoL. I scooted to the Giant for the ground pork & an Asian market downtown for the doubanjiang before a massive storm hit mid-afternoon (hail and all!) 
I made the eggplant in the AF bc I didnât want to stink up the house & added a couple of chopped hallapeenos that were getting wrinkly to the sauce for heat â authenticity be damned. Once again, the hallapeenos were devoid of any heat, so I added my beloved HK chile oil. Did the trick. My boo provided rice.
Delicious, and perfect for a rainy & chilly night.
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Wasnât overly hungry, so I took out a Yankee Trader crab cake from the freezer and tucked it into the confection oven. It seemed a bit darker than it should have been before it went in the oven, and got a bit darker during cooking.
It went on leftover Basmati rice with a quick remoulade on top. Could have used some minced parsley for color, but I couldnât be arsed.
A small tomato, cuke, and radish salad with a creamy herb vinaigrette.
And since I picked the next two days to take PTO and have a long weekend (thinking Iâd be going to the Brimfield Antique Show tomorrow with my sister before it decided to be rainy all day into Friday) I had a very small glass of wine with dinner.
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Leftover pan pizza from the freezer. Leafy garden greens in vinaigrette with Canadian cukes and Mexican scallions.
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Annieâs?
Codfish trim was on sale, so I made a chowder. The base was a potato leek soup, the leeks sweated in bacon fat. Partially immersion blended to leave some potato chunks. Simmered the cod gently with spinach and mushrooms and a can of clams. Topped with bacon bits prepared earlier.
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