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Bacon egg and cheese sandwich

As the weather starts to warm up, I am experimenting with pre-dinner cocktails on Saturdays. Yesterday I made blueberry margaritas. Overall tasty but ultimately too sweet for my liking. I only drank a quarter of mine before getting bored. Dinner was just burgers. I made beef for most people, but also made the Serious Eats black bean burger recipe: This recipe calls for roasting the beans before making the burgers. I really liked the resulting texture. Sometimes bean burgers are too mushy, but not this one.

More office toaster oven cooking: sweet potatoes, black beans, salsa verde, chicken, Monterey Jack cheese and scallions in a tortilla.

last night I made a Melissa Clark recipe from the New York Times for a ginger-garlic chicken with rice. I cooked the rice in the stock I poached the chicken in. We had some chilled gai lan with garlic with it.

Naan pizza made in my little office toaster oven

Last night's dinner: cedar plank grilled Faroe Island salmon, baked sweet potato, and braised green beans, summer squash and tomatoes.

@dcarch, at least the pot landed meat side up! Still salvageable in my book, though I am sure the loss of the liquid was sad. Yesterday's fish share was flounder and Faroe Island salmon. I made the flounder into fish tacos. I would have preferred corn tortillas but the store only had flour ones yesterday.

@huiray, thanks for the info on the blood clams. I am going out to Wellfleet in two weeks and will check to see if they have any for sale. They gave me a refund on a gift card, no questions asked. The rain let up enough that I was able to grill yesterday. I grilled some pita bread, and some chicken, and some steaks. I only got a picture of the steaks I also made a greek salad, and a quinoa salad with chickpeas and spinach

@huiray, I spend a good amount of time on Cape Cod, and those clams are sometimes available in the fish market I like out there. I also find lots of their shells on the beach. The fishmonger told me that most of them are exported to Asia, they are not really popular here because of their bloody appearance. I have not bought any yet because I always go to the market with my sister and she is squicked out by their appearance. How is their flavor as compared to, say, littlenecks? The other night I bought some crabmeat to try and replicate a crab linguini recipe I had at a restaurant. Supposedly it was fresh Maryland crabmeat. Supposedly. Yeah, no. This crabmeat was SO fishy! Totally inedible and ruined my dinner. I had to throw it out and make everyone omelets. I am going to the store where I bought it and asking for my money back this morning. The other food markets offer double your money back if you buy fish or meat that is off, so I will be interested to see how this market responds to my request (WEGMAN'S ). I don't want double my money back, but I spent $50 for this crappy crab, so I would at least like some recompense. Dinner was much better on Thursday. I made a Mexican chicken soup. Very tasty.

@mm84321 and @huiray, your morel dishes look so delicious. I love morels but they are hard to come by around here. I made a couple of thin crust pizzas last night. Plain old cheese-basil: and white clam

Red quinoa, tomato, black bean, roasted pepper and cilantro salad. I really need to haul a real plate in to work. I have bowls and silverware stored in my workspace but no plate.

Avocado toast

@blue_dolphin that looks so delicious! Peppery eggs for breakfast this morning

@liuzhou, hake is one of my favorite fish. I always get excited when it is in my fish share. @Anna N, mushrooms on toast is one of my favorite comfort foods. Yours looks so good. I eked out one more meal without going to the food store: yakisoba noodles with some chicken from the freezer, one slightly wilted bell pepper, a bunch of carrots, and chives from my garden. I now have nothing left in the crisper other than some lemons and a bag of cole slaw mix. I will have to break down and go to the store if we are going to have dinner this evening.

Bin ends fried rice: leftover rice, the end of a jar of kimchi, minced, the last bunch of (slightly wilted) scallions, a piece of chopped up leftover chicken, the last of the cilantro, and some beaten eggs. Topped with fried shallots from the Asian market. I really need to go grocery shopping.

Sear-roasted Faroe Island salmon (also from my fish share) with creamed spinach and a tomato risotto cake made from leftover risotto from Saturday. I did not like the risotto on Saturday in its original form and did not like the risotto cake either. The salmon and spinach were good though.

Saturday I made an antipasto platter and some tuna-white bean salad Last night: fish share was Acadian redfish. I made it teriyaki style with some rice and green beans and mushrooms cooked with sake and soy

I broke out the grill for the season the other day and made some grilled pizzas. Pepperoni You will notice that there is only half a pizza here. That is because the grill ate the other half as a ritual sacrifice. It is OK because my nephew is the only one who likes pepperoni, so there was still enough. I also made a plain and a mixed vegetable

First meal back from vacation and everyone was craving salad. Fruit salad for the kids Chicken caesar salad for the adults

This week's fish share was sand dabs. I did them in an egg batter and served them with yakisoba noodles and some of the last dregs of vegetables in the crisper drawer (I've been clearing out the fridge in advance of an upcoming vacation, so pickings are slim). We were also given some Faroe Island salmon which is going to be dinner this evening.

Last night I made chicken stew that I topped with deliberately overcooked puff pastry rounds. We broke up the pastry into the stew while eating for some crunch. I should have saved this meal idea for dinner tonight: it is pouring rain!

Acadian redfish/ocean perch with green olive risotto and lemon-dill butter. These fish filets are really small--maybe three ounces before cooking? This is my plate, I only had one filet, but my husband and brother in law ate three.

Ann_T that is gorgeous halibut! Sunday I made seafood far diavolo for my sister's birthday dinner And then last night I made Thai flavored tuna burgers with dipping sauce, rice and bok choy/snow peas. I was not expecting to get my usual fish share yesterday because of the bad weather, but the boats did go out, so we are having the share fish tonight. This week I got redfish/ocean perch.

Wednesday was sandwich night. I made one with the remaining braised lamb from Easter, with cartelized onions, muenster cheese and sautéed greens and for me, the same but with mushrooms instead of lamb and then Thursday I made lettuce cups

sear-roasted salmon with cherry tomato ragout and arugula on a crispy potato cake made with leftover potatoes from Easter