Another simple dinner made in the oven - mix green lentils, celery, shallots, thyme with chicken broth, add some fresh sausages and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Finish with celery greens and a vinaigrette from shallots, olive oil, sherry vinegar and mustard.
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Your salmon looks amazing
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I was listening to Jose Andreas’ podcast the other day and he was praising fresh baby corn. I’ve never noticed it in stores before. How did you prepare?
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Hahaha
I enjoy all things related to kheema, as you have probably realized by now 
Re tourtiere, I love the gentle spicing in there, so I’d probably leave it alone (shocking) – probably because I have specific Montreal associations with the dish.
BUT, kheema in pastry could only be a good thing (it’s fabulous in shepherd’s pie)!
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Romaine salad w/ Rio Mare tuna in OO/anchovies/tomatoes/pickled vegetables and shaved Parmigiano Reggiano. Red wine Dijon dressing.
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Pasta was WFD dinner tonight.
I grossly underestimate exactly how much my mom and sis love stuffed pasta. Mom’s eyes lit up when I suggested cannelloni or stuffed shells, and apparently we ate up all the julmon shells on my last trip, so cannelloni it was.
Stuffing of homemade ricotta (from the freezer, I didn’t make it tonight) and spinach. Marcella-inspired tomato sauce.
The cannelloni were HUGE. I had a good laugh after asking how many everyone would eat — mom declared TWO! Hahaha. I served her one cut into four pieces, and she only ate the last fourth because she has been so deprived of the things she loves to eat for a month, poor thing.
I stuffed another batch and froze them without sauce, like the shells a while back. Easy to pull one out and sauce it for mom when we are eating something meaty.
Also used some other paneer that was on its last legs with the spinach stems to make a small dish of baked pasta / deconstructed lasagna. That’s what I ate, to save the cannelloni for those who love it much more than I do
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Yum! Canned tuna is one food my husband can’t muster enthusiasm for. Pity.
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Last night I made beef birria in the IP, served with homemade yellow rice made in my other IP 
. Leftover tomato braised green beans also made an appearance (not pictured).
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it comes fresh in a little package from TJs and the package just has you prepare it in the bag, in the microwave. BF had already done it when i got home. My sister says she does the same, then just tosses with butter and eats them. I just sprinkled some salt on them and ate them as a snack. It think it would be good in soups or cut up in salads.
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I like the Rio Mare and Callipo in olive oil and snap it up when it’s on sale. Really nice stuff but can be spendy
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I made a boxed stroganoff kit that I doctored with minced sauteed shallots, sliced mushrooms, and green peas. I used ground chicken breast dusted with Montreal steak seasoning instead of ground beef. Side of cucumber slices with Tajín.
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Have you tried different brands? They’re not all the same. Ortiz is quite good.
Voting threads for COTQ and DOTQ:
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Off today.
Appointments and errands.
Spent time at a rescue looking for Finny’s new brother.
Didn’t happen. 
Came home and got a call from a foster rescue where I had put in my application.
Hopefully going to see another cat tomorrow after stellar Cat Mom reviews from several friends and a coworker.
:::Fingers crossed:::
Tonight was standard Friday night fare: steak tips with Ballymaloe steak sauce, half a baked potato with TPSTOB with SC on the side, and a salad of my crazy growing buttercrunch lettuce, sliced radishes, sugar snap peas and shaved carrots with a lemon-honey-shallot vinaigrette.
Wine.
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Here’s hoping you find a new kitty companion soon 
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Freezer clean-out, the results of which were as good as (better than?) take-out.
Scallion pancake. Pot stickers. Roasted Asian-style chicken wings. Green beans. Rice.
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Best of luck with the kitty caper. I hope your current pet and the possible bowl buddy isn’t affected by firework sounds. We have to create a safe place every year for our old boy. Just one inch from tranquilizing him😨. The gunshots and big boomers start in the middle of June and continue well into mid-July. We live in the boonies and there are fire restrictions, but nobody follows the rules and enforcement is impossible.
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Yep, even some of the nicer oil-packed ones he has a hard time with. He didn’t grow up eating tuna salad or melts like I did.
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Did he suffer through canned tuna sandwiches in the lunchbox as a kid?
I know many who did and they’ll never touch any canned fish, ever!
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Mrs. P made steamed Dungeness crabs and figs stuffed with Humboldt fog cheese and toasted pine nuts and topped with a balsamic reduction. We also had TJ’s sweet potato fries and homemade guacamole (not pictured). It went great with an excellent Malbec. Adding a gratuitous picture of our Frenchie Matusse 
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