liamsaunt

This week's fish share was much more appreciated than last week's pollock. Haddock, cooked on a bed of dijon mustard, white wine, and leeks. Crispy lemon garlic parsley crumbs on top. Sides were leftovers from weekend family meals: sweet potato puree and cauliflower gratin.

This week's batch of soup is eggplant parmesan soup. Roasted eggplant is cooked with celery, onions, garlic, tomatoes, white wine, oregano, and stock, then garlicky breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese is added along with a tbsp. of balsamic vinegar and a handful of basil, and then the whole thing is pureed.

Fish chowder made with pollock. I have a weekly fish share, and usually love whatever they give us. That said pollock is the one fish I really don't like, and since it is such a common fish we are guaranteed to be given it at least once in every eight-week cycle. There is something about its texture that I find off-putting. It is OK in chowder though.

Egg, bacon, and cheese on Japanese milk toast

It is not runny but I would not describe it as thick either. I basically follow this recipe from Ina Garten http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chicken-stew-with-biscuits-recipe.html

yakisoba

I just made a huge pot of this 14 bean soup with kale for lunch this week. I'll give half to my sister. We make a pot of soup each weekend and then split it between us.

They are biscuits with parsley in them. The chicken was in the stew under the biscuits.

chicken stew

I made a butternut squash soup for dinner last night. It was not sweet at all. Adapted from the New England Soup Factory Cookbook: 2 onions, chopped 3 ribs celery chopped 5 carrots chopped 1 lb. butternut squash, chopped 4 cloves garlic, chopped 3 tbsp. butter 6 cups chicken stock 2 handfuls tortilla chips 1/2 cup cilantro 6 ounce montery jack cheese juice of one lime one bunch scallions, chopped one can minced green chiles Melt butter and saute all vegetables until soft. Add chicken stock and simmer until vegetables are tender (this took about 40 minutes). Remove from heat and add tortilla chips, let soften. Add cilantro and montery jack cheese. Stir to melt cheese. Blend with stick blender. Add juice of one lime, scallions, and minced green chiles. Season to taste. It basically tasted like a big bowl of melted nachos. My 14 year old niece LOVED this soup. She requested the leftovers for dinner tonight. The original recipe called for sherry but I did not have any. The adults added hot sauce at the table. Here is a picture (not great because my niece was standing over my shoulder saying FEED. ME. NOW!) I served it with a pan of cornbread, the East Coast Grill recipe (you can find it on the New York Times website)

Congee

Linguini with olives and roasted peppers.

sandwich made with leftover mushroom-provolone frittata and roasted peppers from Saturday's antipasto platter. There is some spinach and thinly sliced onion on there too.

Funny you noticed that. My Joy of Cooking was my bible when I first got married and wanted to learn how to cook things other than the five recipes I made over and over again in college. It got a lot of use, as you can see. I don't cook from it too often anymore, but I still make their cornbread. I will post pictures once the bookshelf project is done, but it might be a while! I have been moving very slowly on making this house my own and have a long way to go. There are actually a bunch of really good recipes in that book. The pan seared striped bass with garlic mustard sauce is delicious. I also like the chili scallops with greens, the blackened shrimp with red pepper coulis, and my husband likes the codfish with lobster sauce.

I can't remember if I replied to this thread years ago (I joined egullet back in 2003 but then left for many years, can't remember why now). At the moment I have about 400 cookbooks. Here they are: I moved to my current house almost two years ago, and at that time I probably purged about 300 others. I have a bad tendency to collect books of all types haha. My two most recent acquisitions could not be more different from each other: Nopi and The Vermont Country Store Cookbook. The bookcases in the picture are ones that my husband and I lugged home from an unfinished furniture store and painted ourselves right after getting married a very long time ago. The walls they are on go up another 10 feet and out about four feet. I am towards the end of a project to upgrade all the bookcases in my house, and am planning on having custom bookshelves made that go all the way up to the ceiling and to the edges of the walls, with library ladders. Room for lots more cookbooks :-)

spaghetti and meatballs

Shelby has Ronnie tried the rare tuna? My inlaws used to insist that they only liked tuna cooked all the way through until they finally tried it rare. Now they fight us for the rarest pieces (and we let them win out of respect for our elders haha). Tonight's dinner was fluke with crispy crumbs, glazed carrots, and cauliflower puree. This dinner screamed for something green, but the fridge is pretty bare after being on the Cape for so long. I brought the fluke home from the Cape and picked up some more local tuna for tomorrow too. I will have to go buy green things on my lunch break tomorrow.

tuna and udon noodles with bok choy

spaghetti with lobster and clams

eggs scrambled with spinach and mushrooms on a croissant

Pizza night. This one is my niece's favorite, bacon and egg pizza. A standard margarita pizza And because we are on Cape Cod right now, a lobster pizza I also made a white clam pizza and a pepperoni pizza, but no pictures of those.

This is my husband's favorite pasta. Eggplant that is peeled, salted, and then squeezed to get the liquid out, sautéed in olive oil until extremely tender and almost falling apart, and then cooked into tomatoes with garlic and basil. Ricotta salata added at the end.

halibut and littleneck clam stew

My family is out on Cape Cod again. Weather was lousy until today (of course the day we are leaving!). Friday I made spicy spaghetti with clams and lobster. No picture because it was too dark. Last night we got take out from Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar in Eastham. Pictured, a jumbo warm lobster roll with drawn butter. We also got clam chowder, lobster bisque, fried clams, stuffed clams, and fish and chips. All was consumed.

Tomato sandwich. Probably one of the last for the year