I’m cooking dinner early so I can go out during the day. I’m making one of our favourites - Chicken with Preserved Lemons and Olives - it’s a version from BBC Goodfood via the Hairy Bikers. This version has cloves, cinnamon and ginger. The new preserved lemons are a bit salty so I’ve soaked some along with the too-salty olives. Managed to remember that I shouldn’t add any salt or prepared stock - just water. We may have rice (partner is on GF diet for a while) and definitely rapini. Does anyone else make this dish?
The photo shows it with the lemons (more will be added at the end or for serving) and the olives, which will go in for a few minutes when it’s ready to cool down and be stored in the fridge for later. Meanwhile, it’s on a nice simmer.
I was exhausted and also fed up of my own cooking, plus it was Sunday. So I ordered Tandoori chicken and Chicken biryani for sis and me. Went to pick up the food instead of having it delivered just for a change of scenery.
Mom doesn’t want to eat outside food at the moment, so she said she’d like the last of the Japchae for her dinner.
We all had homemade vegetable soup leftover from earlier in the week to start.
Dinner last night at sister’s. Her homemade pasta with a miso butter, maitake mushroom sauce, and chopped-up conservas of navajas (tinned razor clams) thrown in at the end. I’d looked a some FB video and then couldn’t find it again, so looked up a few recipes and kinda winged it. Super simple, incredibly good! We shoulda made more pasta.
I also made a really good salad in a Dijon/shallot vinaigrette that turned out way too salty. And $$$ fiddleheads that may have been past their prime. we looked up how to cook and many said to boil for 15 minutes and then saute them. Wàaay too long, they were almost mush, pretty flavorless except for the butter and garlic I sauteed them in. What a waste. But that pasta! Definitely something that will be on repeat.
I love deviled eggs (really, what kind of a freak doesn’t???) in most variations. I’m not too crazy about using beet to stain bc I find the flavor overpowering, but I’ve yet to ever see any leftover deviled eggs anywhere, ever.
Reminds me of this popular meme (although - perhaps not surprisingly - there are many):
Fed the (new!) freezer with foil-wrapped burgers, pork chops, and BISO chicken breasts.
Made meat sauce with the rest of the ground beef to feed the freezer and myself tonight. (The house smells so good!)
Added about a cup of leftover ricotta to some of the meat sauce and combined the sauce with penne and sauteed spinach with garlic and Aleppo for some bite. Shredded mozzarella on top.
ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
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My friend brought over lunch and left baked ziti with Italian sausage for dinner. It was really good! My DH made a green salad with hard boiled (Easter) egg, blue cheese, and avocado and CSA greens to go with.
Last night I put a partially thawed London broil hunk o meat in the slow cooker with chipotle peppers, water, spices, etc. This evening the sliced meat was sautéed with onions, some of the braising liquid, and more miscellaneous spices. Spanish rice, quickie refried beans from a can of Goya, tomatoes, and tomatillo salsa, corn tortillas, and voila……tacos.
TBH, I really did not feel like cooking but was committed on account of that braised beef. Packed up two lunch portions for grown kid to take home and some for my breakfast.
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