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Tuesday, fish curry Wednesday, the usual miso salmon ramen bowl

Hot honey and mustard chicken with sweet potato purée and roasted broccoli

Crab cake with caper aioli, an arugula fennel apple and pistachio salad, and roasted asparagus

Seared scallops on pistachio risotto with roasted shiitake mushrooms and spinach puree.

Haddock braised in spicy tomato sauce with olives, capers and spinach. I boiled some tiny potatoes alongside and tossed them in at the end, but we ended up thinking they were superfluous. I don’t think many of them got eaten. Pasta would have been a better choice, but we are overwhelmed with all kind of potatoes right now.

Some recent dinners. Penne with pesto and grape tomatoes Chicken tinga tacos Glazed salmon and roasted broccoli with rice

Yes, breadcrumbs on top. I used Jamie Oliver’s recipe from New York Times Cooking. I like it because the eggplant is baked plain rather than breaded and fried. You can taste the eggplant more that way.

Thanks for the report! So interesting to see that part of the world. I feel like we always go to the same places…

Eggplant Parmesean and arugula salad with toasted walnuts

Miso salmon, coconut brown rice with ginger, and spinach. My sister was chopping garnishes while I was cooking dinner, and we ended up with way too many (cashews, cilantro, peppers) so we ended up just strewing it all over our plates and calling this our “Love, Actually” decorated dinner, inspired by the scene where Rowan Atkinson’s shop clerk keeps adding more and more decorations to a gift wrapped piece of jewelry.

Thanks for sharing your trip! The reef looks very healthy. That is a serious current going on in a couple of the videos! I have to say that I am impressed that you can travel so far and then stay for what seems to be a relatively short trip. I don’t think I could do that.

Monday: roasted sweet potatoes, broccolini and delicata squash with miso ginger sauce and black sesame seeds We have started getting weekly delivery from our community fish share again because this year they gave up their requirement that you had to accept the “fish of the week” and are now offering a la carte from what’s available. This week we chose tuna and salmon. Last night we had the tuna seared with soy dipping sauce, rice and a cucumber-pepper salad.

Not food, but a couple of food adjacent gifts I got this year. I have a menu board in my kitchen. I used to put the week’s meal plan on there, but it led to many disagreements over what to actually have. So then I just started putting the day’s dinner on it. This still caused disagreements between various family members, so my nephew got me this cover for it for it for Christmas. It’s great. Now I only uncover the board and write what I am making if I am open to suggestions. Otherwise I leave this cover on and people just show up and eat what I decided to make. Nobody actually cares enough to go ahead and make themselves something different for dinner, they just like to complain 😂 And then my husband got me this cute little painting of an ice cream cone from a gallery in one of our vacation spots because I love ice cream.

Christmas dinner was risotto with roasted broccolini, wild mushrooms and slow roasted beef tenderloin The vegetarian version for my sister and me A simple chicken and bell pepper stir fry for the 26th And last night I didn’t feel like cooking much so just took the leftover Christmas risotto and reheated it with added peas, ground sautéed chicken sausage, and the leftover wild mushrooms, roasted until crispy

Roasted salmon with melting cherry tomato sauce over spinach