Thai Penang curry with beef, eggplant, peppers, and garden snow peas over cauli-jasmine rice. Helped clear lingering veg from the crisper.
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Didn’t feel like cooking, so I went with a quick meal: grilled chicken sandwich seasoned with s/p and za’atar, with lettuce, tomato, and an apricot/whole grain Dijon mustard spread, with sweet potato fries alongside.
It did the trick of filling the belly.
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Saturday night dinner: taco soup w/fixings, TJ’s Chile Onion Crunch (1st time trying) 
, salad. Last night, leftovers for H; I was feeling off, so just snacked & hydrated. Good dinner planned for tonight, post tomorrow.
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Kind of felt like this today… the both of us
All the protein for a dinner was frozen solid. Decided shopping was a non-starter. So went with what was up front in the pantry & refrigerator. Hash & Eggs it was…
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Wait - no wine!!!
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They say if everyone in the world threw their problems into one great big pile, and you could see what everybody else’s looked like, you’d grab yours right back. 
Great song and not a bad looking dinner.
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Cochinita pibil. Pork shoulder chunks marinated all night in achiote paste (I couldn’t find my little pellets so I bought the paste), garlic, and lime/orange juice. Braised in banana leaves. Turned out great, EXCEPT… i oversalted. i accidentally had the salt canister turned to “pour” instead of “sprinkle.” GRRRRR. i scooped out as much as i could, rinsed some of the meat off. Wasn’t inedible, but I was so pissed! The fried plantains helped with their sweetness, as did the crema Mexicana, the rice, which I purposely did not season as much as I would normally - just a ton of garlic and cilantro, no bouillon. Slaw of cabbage & radish, and the pickled onions, helped with tartness too. All together it tasted great, but I need to try the dish again - still have banana leaves!
the other rookie move: not serving the meal on a beautifully green, shiny banana leaf!
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I LOVE cochinita pibil! I even love saying it! That looks like a masterpiece @mariacarmen.
Shrimp “my way” and enough Uncle Ben’s to stuff an elephant…or one serving, depending on where you’re from.
I had to wait until my daughter left to make shrimp.
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Made a quick pozole tonight. Mostly because there was a large can of hominy in the pantry and my WF deliver came with extra chicken breasts. Used Rick Bayless’s quick pozole recipe, subbed some New Mexico chili sauce I made with a little tomato paste.
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thank you! if only i hadn’t oversalted…
those shrimpies look delish! why do you have to wait until daughter leaves? She doesn’t like?
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Thank you.
She doesn’t like them, and legend has it I coerced her into trying one as a toddler and she threw up. “We” also told her a bee won`t bother you, if you don’t bother it…right before it stung her. That one was on dad.
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oops…
I made shami kababs yesterday and the day before - if you know what they are then you understand why it’s a multi-day process. If you don’t - it’s ground beef and dal cooked with spices, then cooled and ground into a very fine paste (sometimes multiple rounds of grinding to achieve the correct consistency), then formed into kababs and stuffed with finely minced onion, cilantro, and green chillies, and then carefully fried (no batter or egg in our version, which makes it harder) to make sure they cook but don’t fall apart. So yeah, of course it would be the family favorite - if anyone who doesn’t have to make them 
My mom and I are currently the only two gluttons for punishment in the family.
So. I had rolled and griddled all of them when they melted into a giant puddle on the pan 
- beef was too fatty, so the fine blend just melted. So I made a panicked call to my mom, yelled at her (of course, because that’s productive) while she tried to help me fix the problem, and then called her back to thank her for the fix after I had recovered from the disaster.
Anyway, so that was lunch today, over my immodestly excellent homemade bread 
- my grandmother and father’s favorite way to eat these kababs was/is squished into a very specific crusty roll (think baguette in a 5” roll format) - the bread reminded me of that.
Dinner was thai takeout - quite meh tonight, vs prior occasions when it’s been excellent.
Dessert was a self-made birthday cake - strawberry jam-filed Swiss roll: because I miss my mom and this is my favorite childhood cake made by her. Sibling gave high (indirect) praise by telling the kids to skip the fancy cupcakes in lieu of it (they chose to eat both ).
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I’m sure I didn’t coerce her, but that’s the way it feels.
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Happy birthday! I love everything about this.
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Monday. I try and stick with the weekend for that menu item. 
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Happy Birthday! 
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There must of been some sort of karmic energy yesterday. I was going through the freezer and found a chunk of pork - I’m not even sure what cut it was as meat cuts are not my strong suit. Then I as I was going through my pantry I came across a bag of dried hominy. Dinner was conceived. Pork and hominy stew with tomatillos. cilantro, garlic and jalapeños. I cooked the hominy first until it was a bit underdone and finished it off with the rest of the stew. Accompanied by additional cilantro, cabbage and lime.
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Happy birthday!
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