What's for Dinner #68 - the Spring has Sprung Edition - April 2021

There’s one 1.5 miles from my house, but I don’t think they’ve opened yet. Once they do, I’ll keep an eye out for the Fat Moon Farm 'shrooms! Thanks for the heads up!

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Garlicky clam spaghetti cooked in the IP - makes for very flavorful, toothsome, starchy pasta cooked in broth and clam juice. Topped with Pecorino - @Barca, avert your eyes. Buttered peas and carrots on the side. I officially need to go shopping.

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Quick dinner: garganelli pasta with sauteed pancetta and asparagus in a sauce of white wine, lemon, heavy cream and Parm-Reg (with a bit of pasta water added), green onions and parsley. Not too shabby.

Based on the two posts before mine, it looks like it’s Pasta Tuesday.:wink:

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Curry laksa with shrimp, tofu, mushroom, asparagus & cabbage.

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Mozzarella, tomato, avocado, hyper-local basil, lemon & basil-infused olive oil.

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Carnitas mulita with bell pepper and guacamole

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Growing in your window?

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I was happy with breakfast for dinner.

Funny story: my BF did the fried eggs. When plating, his two yolks burst so he gave me the other two for photography purposes. As he was placing them on the waffle (homemade-- chocolate chip), they flapped over on each other. Feeling the shot would be ruined, I roughly adjusted them with a fork and they plopped just like that. Had to go for the smile.

Make no mistake, a moment later this was loaded with butter, syrup, and Canadian bacon.

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Funny!

Oh my lord you’re my hero!

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At sister’s tonight, more Costco Dungeness crab clusters, with steamed asparagus. TPSTOB on all. We’re making the most of the season this year.

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Yep. I’ll start hardening off in a few days, and then it’ll be out on the balcony, so about 15 feet less local.

Apparently I hopped aboard the Tuesday night pasta train! We had a beautiful bunch of kale raab, which I wanted to cook at its peak because we’d never had this before.

Fresh rigatoni was in the fridge so that’s the pasta I used. The kale raab was delicious sautéed briefly in olive oil with cherry tomatoes, a blob of tomato paste, a minced garlic clove, plus a touch of Aleppo pepper (heat) and sumac (lemony).

Chopped Marcona almonds on top for crunch and protein.

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Yum! That all looks good.

Thanks! Prior to making that batch of laksa, I had never bought a can of coconut milk in my life (and I’m no spring chicken - not even a summer chicken). But now I want to cook with it all the time, which is probably not the best idea.

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Thanks. I made more spring rolls last night. The cabbage leaves were smaller as they were closer to the core. I used 2 - 3 leaves in each roll, with 3 (half) prawns than 2 last time, and more vegetables, it was quite difficult to roll.

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Got these big beauties at the Farmers Market & a ginormous amount of Safflower Oil to try Spaghetti alla Nerano, inspired by the Amalfi Coast episode of Stanley Tucci’s CNN show.

Wish me luck…

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Good Luck!

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I made what was billed as Mexican chicken and rice soup from my healthy eating Instant Pot cookbook. It was very good with a few tweaks.


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