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Grilled chicken caesar salad with tomatoes

Penzey's fajita seasoning. I had a gallon sized bag of beets that I needed to use up before they went bad, so I made beet gnocchi with beet sauce and broccolini. My sister, husband and I all enjoyed it, but my nephew was absolutely horrified. He thinks beets are the worst vegetable in existence, so he got spaghetti and meatballs instead.

chicken tacos

Rigatoni with Roman broccoli sauce

Boursin stuffed chicken on creamy radish and carrot puree with roasted broccolini.

Some quick dinners. Sunday we had rigatoni with turkey meatballs Monday we had a runny brie with salad and baguette And last night I made a vegan version of kimchi fried rice

Crab cake with horseradish remoulade with a fennel, apple, and arugula salad. All recipes from The Row 34 Cookbook: Stories and Recipes from a Neighborhood Oyster Bar

Thanks for sharing your trip. It was nice to spend part of a Saturday morning looking at your delicious food and lovely scenery. As another owner of the Zuni Cafe Cookbook, I can report that the Zuni Cafe chicken is indeed very tasty, and it's not at all hard to make. You just need to be able to find the right size chicken. It used to be on regular rotation here, but I have not made it in a few years for whatever reason. I need to pull that book out for a re-read.

I have done that before but pickled won't solve the quantity problem I am dealing with right now. Luckily they last a very long time, so I am sure I will come up with something eventually. Ricotta gnocchi with burst cherry tomato and spinach sauce

Continuing my quest to use up the long storage CSA vegetables that have been languishing in my fridge for lack of ideas, last night's dinner was a soup that was 50% potato and 50% small white and green daikon radishes. When treated like a potato, the radishes blended nicely into the soup. I prepared it like a mashed potato soup with cheddar, bacon and chives to make sure my nephew would not notice the radishes and complain. Everyone really enjoyed it. I made a loaf of crusty bread to have with it. My next long storage vegetable to try and use up are watermelon radishes. I have a gallon sized ziplock bag full of them, and more are coming in today's box. There's only so many radishes on salads that one can eat!

Lo mein with a 50-50 blend of ground chicken and mushrooms, various peppers that needed to be used, and an entire head of cabbage. Only four more cabbages in the crisper to conquer (until the next one comes from my CSA).

Nephew had yesterday off from work so he offered to cook dinner using recipes from a YouTube cooking channel he likes to watch. He made chicken tikka masala, garlic naan, and a curried rice with fruit and nuts. I contributed the saag paneer because I have a lot of spinach to use up, and helped with kitchen clean up.

My husband's Easter plate: roasted rack of lamb with asparagus risotto and roasted broccolini. Nephew skipped the risotto in favor of mac and cheese with his, and my sister and I skipped the lamb in favor of extra broccolini.

Sicilian style swordfish stew

Tuesday we had a simple Macomber turnip soup. Last night was chicken, broccolini, and pepper stir fry

Sandwich night: Flour Bakery's recipe for souffled egg with bacon, red onion, greens and tomato jam. Some oven fries on the side. Here's the egg recipe: Joanne Chang's souffled egg sandwich

@Shelby I am so sorry for your dental woes. That sounds so frustrating. I hope the next round of treatments is successful. Miso salmon ramen soup with oyster mushrooms and spinach

My CSA has started offering an add on box of products from a Turkish bakery/cafe run by the wife of the farmer. She also has a high end restaurant but the products in the box are ones you can get at the cafe. We decided to give it a try every other week for a while and had some of the contents with dinner last night. From the box, there is a bulgur and broccoli salad with a spiced tomato sauce, fava hummus, and beet labne on the front of the plate. I made the farro salad in the back and the flatbread (this is my plate so I had to take the first aka worst flatbread. The others had nicer char). We really liked all the dishes we got. There were some sweet items included as well: chocolate baharat shortbreads, Turkish ravani cake, and a bottle of pomegranate rose sharbat meant to be diluted with water.

Mutter paneer, Meera Sodha's chicken curry, Maharajah rice, and naan

Braised short ribs with parsnips and carrots over potato and Macomber turnip puree with roasted broccolini for my husband, niece and nephew And the vegetarian version with braised oyster mushrooms and spinach for my sister and me

Fish and chips

Chicken fajitas

Chicken katzu with cabbage, smashed cucumbers, and rice

You are right! It is a papaya tree. Thank you for clarifying. They are in most of the places we have rented houses from, but we have never been able to get a ripe one. The fruit rats always get to them first (fun fact: fruit rats also love to eat shampoo and soap in the outdoor showers that people think are such glamorous additions to the villas). Here are a few photos from underwater. I hope it's ok to share. Grunts Octopus swimming Octopus clinging to rocks Hiding in their den Yellow trumpetfish Coral garden Blue tang Reef squid I'll update this thread again when we return in May.

Yesterday after breakfast (yesterday’s frittata was feta, mushroom, spinach and roasted pepper, and that’s avocado toast in the back) we had a pretty chill day just hanging out on the deck of our tent (that’s a mango tree next to our tent) enjoying the view We went back down to the beach for snorkeling and sea glass hunting (success on both fronts). Once again we had the beach to ourselves. I guess everyone else was on the other side of the island at the pool. We had not planned to go back to St. John, but decided on a whim to head over for dinner. (The resort provides shuttle service as part of your stay). The concierge got us a reservation at one of our favorites, La Tapa. But first, we stopped in at Drink for, well, a drink. View Husband’s margarita and my very exciting Diet Coke 😂 La Tapa setting Menu Drinks. Husband had a martini and I had sparkling water we shared a scallop seveche special appetizer. Then I had the tuna And he chose the mahi. We skipped dessert. Afterglow from La Tapa Back to Lovango We are flying home today, but will be back on St. John in May. We are hoping for smaller crowds and warmer water. We also made a pledge that we would only try new places to eat in May. Will we succeed? Only time will tell. Thanks for following along, and see you on the dinner! thread starting tomorrow!