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October 8, 2016

A croissant from PB Boulangerie in Wellfleet stuffed with scrambled eggs, mushrooms, and cheese

October 8, 2016

21 hours ago, kayb said:

The other dinner was pasta Bolognese at an Italian restaurant in the North End. Very, very good. No pictures.

@kayb, where did you dine? Boston is my hometown.

Dinner Thursday night: stir fried chicken and peppers with Thai flavors and ginger rice

October 5, 2016

Chicken tonkatsu. Between this and last night's fish fry I think I need to make a big salad for dinner tomorrow night.

October 4, 2016

fried cod, baked rosemary oven fries, onion rings, and slaw

October 1, 2016

barely seared toro on udon noodle stir fry

September 30, 2016

linguini with mixed olives and sun dried tomatoes

September 28, 2016

@Norm Matthews I think I made the same NYTimes chicken recipe as you the other night: the chicken provencal that is really popular right now? I liked it.

Last night I made tortilla soup and quesadillas

September 26, 2016

Big salad

September 26, 2016

I made the Bisteca California with pepperonata and baked ricotta from Sunday Suppers at Lucques yesterday. The beef:

And with chicken for the non red meat eater (me, haha)

No photo of the baked ricotta but it was delicious. We ate it on crusty bread.

September 25, 2016

Soft boiled egg and toast soldiers. The soldiers were the last thing to cook in my Breville Smart Oven before it died. Unplugging it revealed a very corroded plug with slightly melted plastic on the plug end. I am not sure if the issue originated with the oven or with the outlet, but needless to say the electrician will be paying a visit tomorrow.

September 23, 2016

22 hours ago, liuzhou said:

That does look wonderful. Is that a slick of yoghurt, I spot?

Definitely, one to bookmark. To my surprise, I can even get sumac on line here in China. A bit pricey, but hey it's only money!

Yes, it is yogurt mixed with lemon zest, garlic and a little salt.

It is interesting to see how differently things are priced in different parts of the world. I bought my sumac (enough to fill a quart size jar) for $3 at a middle eastern grocery in town.

September 22, 2016

last night I grilled up a chicken recipe that is currently very popular on NY Times Cooking. This one:

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018244-middle-eastern-herb-and-garlic-chicken

The chicken

Plated with salad

Very tasty and easy. I'm adding it to the keeper file.

September 21, 2016

Last night's dinner was sandwich night. Option one was a riff on a grouper "reuben" I have on vacation sometimes, but of course I can't get grouper here. This was made with leftover haddock from the prior evening's fish tacos. It bears no resemblance to a real reuben, but it's tasty.

And option two was a seared salmon on ciabatta with avocado mashed with onions and a few other things and topped with bacon. I saw this idea in one of Ina Garten's cookbooks. All the components were good individually but for me personally they did not really go together in the sandwich.

Now I get to grill tonight's dinner in the pitch black. Summer is truly over.

September 21, 2016

23 hours ago, ElsieD said:

That looks delicious. What's in the topping?

The salsa is mango, onion, kumato tomatoes, cilantro, jalapeño, and lime juice. There is also a lime flavored crema drizzled on top.

September 20, 2016

fish tacos

September 19, 2016

Tomato, rice and spinach soup

September 17, 2016

Meera Sodha's Mum's chicken curry from the cookbook Made in India

September 15, 2016

On September 14, 2016 at 1:11 PM, huiray said:

Soup & Salad.

Tomato soup.

EV olive oil, chopped-up onion, chopped-up celery, tomato flesh w/ juices, sea salt, water, fresh basil, simmer, break up w/ a stick blender, simmer.

Served w/ a generous dollop of basil pesto & basil sprigs.

That soup looks really delicious. I love tomato soup.

Last night was clean out the fridge sandwich night. For my husband, the leftover steak from Saturday with baby spinach, parmesan cheese, and truffle butter

For me, the Thai-flavored omelet banh mi sandwich from Andrea Ngyuen's book

September 13, 2016

Last night's dinner: gai lan with oyster sauce

wok seared hake (fish share of the week)

fried rice

September 12, 2016

I hosted my niece's 15th birthday celebration this afternoon. I was not able to get pictures of everything but we had an Italian-esque spread. Antipasto of meats, cheeses, and two types of frittata. One is peppers and basil. the other is made out of the leftover sausage-spinach stew from the other day. All meats, olives, and cheeses and are from Salumeria Italiana in Boston's North End.

A caprese salad

I also made bruschetta, meatballs, and there was a big platter of burrata with good olive oil and maldon salt since my niece loves that.

A very non-Italian, non-cake birthday dessert, chosen by my niece, blueberry pie. My sister baked this, as my pie crust is abominably bad.

September 11, 2016

A stew of chicken sausage, summer squash, tomatoes, and spinach, with garlic and tomato rubbed bread

Yesterday my niece tried her hand at making sushi. It came out a little messy but not too bad for a first attempt

The carnivores dined on grilled Pat LaFrieda ribeyes, cooked to a perfect medium rare

September 9, 2016

Moroccan style chickpea tangine with cilantro and harissa, with couscous. Shown neatly packed at home. By the time I walked it into work it was a jumbled together mess, but still tasted good.

September 6, 2016

The last breakfast. We went back to the Fairway. My nephew's pancakes

My California benedict (with tomato and avocado)

My husband's Nanny's benedict (over potato pancakes)

And now it's off to the food store to get ready for some home cooking. See you on the Dinner! thread.

September 5, 2016

@Smithy, Beachcomber is a classic restaurant for me. I have probably been there 40 times! I will confess that I prefer Winslow's. :-)

We tried again for Beachcomber today, but Hermine is now here on the Outer Cape, and the wind and waves were ferocious. I have no photos of the ocean because there was so much sand violently blowing around and I was concerned that my lens would be damaged if I tried for a photo. The waves were HUGE. We ended up having to leave because my niece was convinced the restaurant was going over the dune. She was so scared she started to cry, so that was that. We ended up back at Mac's Shack.

Big kahuna roll

Littlenecks

Steamers

Tuna tartare

Lobster roll

Burger no fries for my nephew with the crustacean allergy

Fried oysters

Fried clams

Fish and chips

Lobster tostadas

Everyone has returned to the real world other than myself, my husband, and my nephew. One more breakfast and then this food adventure is over until next month, when we are back for Columbus Day weekend and then the locally famous Wellfleet Oysterfest the following weekend.

September 5, 2016

@Thanks for the Crepes thanks for the nice compliments on my photos! I do enjoy taking pictures.

@Okanagancook yes, the whales were very close to the boat. I also had a good position because we were the second group in line to board the boat, so that helped a lot.

Yesterday we tried to revisit the Beachcomber, but no luck. Their parking lot was full, as was the auxiliary lot that they shuttle people over from. So, instead it was back to Winslow's Tavern. We had some new items, but also some repeats.

It was breezy, so some clam chowder was in order. This one had grilled corn in it, which I enjoyed.