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Crab cakes with horseradish aioli, asparagus, and macomber turnip puree

My fish share delivered pollock yesterday, which of course I have complained about here probably too many times before. Rather than making my usual Indian flavored fish curry, I decided to try making a Thai-style red curry instead. I am sure it's not even slightly authentic, but we all thought it was delicious. I added bell peppers and sugar snap peas for some vegetables since that's what I found in the crisper drawer.

Interesting, but that was not the issue. There was no rosemary in the soup itself, just tossed with the bacon after it was cooked and set aside for the garnish. I had not added that to the soup yet. No, just a standard Sam Adams Boston lager. I keep that in the house for cooking as it has a pretty neutral flavor. I cannot think of any recipe that I would use an IPA in! At least not the kind that are around in my house. Last night we had roasted chicken cooked with green garlic butter under the skin, parsnips and carrots that were roasted in the pan with the chicken, and some celeriac puree. My sister's chicken carving skills could use some work. Mine could too though 😀

Last night's original dinner turned into a disaster. I made a Half Baked Harvest recipe for cauliflower soup with pale ale, rosemary bacon, and cheddar cheese. It turned out incredibly bitter. It must have been the cauliflower. It looked fine. Oh well! We tried a couple of ideas to save it, but ultimately down the disposal it went. I cannot remember the last time I had to completely give up on something I made for dinner. I had already made popovers, and we all still wanted soup, so I pulled some homemade chicken stock, a bag of gnocchi, and a couple of parmesan rinds from the freezer, and my sister and I chopped up a bunch of vegetables. We ended up with spinach, carrot and gnocchi soup with parmesan. It was quite tasty. Too bad about the cauliflower though.

Cascatelli with asparagus and cream sauce. I seem to have gotten all the stems and no tips in my portion!

Spice rubbed chicken marinated (briefly) in pineapple and lime juice, then grilled and served with a cilantro lime coconut sauce over sweet potato puree. Plus a salad of baby mesclun (the first tender greenhouse greens of the year from my CSA) mixed with some of the last of the purple cabbage.

Mutter paneer, maharajah rice, naan

Seafood stew with monkfish and scallops over Israeli couscous

Angel hair pasta with what are probably the last local bay scallops of the season in a lemon garlic sauce with crunchy breadcrumbs

Spinach and mushroom lasagna and a garlic knot

My niece requested miso salmon bowls for dinner. This one had lots of spiralized carrots (a PITA even with the KitchenAid spiralizer attachment), roasted purple daikon radishes (they sunk to the bottom of the bowl), shiitake mushrooms, and pea shoots.

I love carrots! The only vegetable I don't like is kohlrabi. I'm also not a huge fan of swiss chard but I will eat it without complaining. Nobody in my house likes corned beef, so our St. Patrick's Day meal was fish and chips with homemade tartar sauce and cole slaw. The slaw has finally allowed me to declare victory over the cabbage glut we had in the house from my CSA. Over the past couple of weeks I've gotten the stash down from seven mixed red and green ones to one half of one small red cabbage. Now I have to start working on whittling down the three gallon sized ziplocks completely filled with carrots.

I baked two Ina Garten recipes for other people's breakfast yesterday. A loaf of soda bread that I made for my Dad (I left out the orange zest) Irish soda bread and a blueberry breakfast cake for my niece. blueberry ricotta breakfast cake I haven't tasted either but hopefully they are good.

My niece wanted steak last night so I made that for her and my husband, along with carrots, spinach, mashed potatoes and mushrooms cooked in green garlic butter that I found in my freezer. My sister and I split a chicken breast that I stuffed with a garlic and herb cheese. Neither my niece or husband volunteered their plates for a picture, so here's the chicken.

Bratwurst, potato pancakes, and a new recipe for braised red cabbage with juniper, caraway, apples, and apple cider that Christopher Kimball published in my local newspaper last week. We all really liked the cabbage, and it used up two small heads from my CSA box. I think I am down to only five heads of cabbage now 🤣