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Lettuce wraps

Soy braised pollock. You can't really see it, but there are udon noodles, snap peas, carrots, onions, mushrooms etc under the fish.

Friday night pre-dinner cocktail: watermelon-blueberry-lime rickey. Forgot to take a picture of dinner, which was just pasta with a raw tomato sauce. Excuse the massive amounts of pollen on my deck table, pollen has been crazy this year. Last night for the weekly three-generation family dinner, an antipasto platter. I also made an eggplant gratin and grilled bruschetta

poached eggs on a buttered english muffin

FauxPas, we had Greek salad last night too. I served mine with grilled chicken because I don't eat red meat. I bet my husband would have preferred your ribs though :-)

sole with lemon sauce, crispy potato cake and fava beans

It was a pretty basic crab cake recipe. Sometimes I make Rick Moonen's crab cake which is delicious, but no time for that on a work night. It just was crab, an egg yolk, some dijon, a little worcestershire, a dash of old bay, and a couple tablespoons of brioche crumbs, just enough to hold things together. I don't like crab cakes with lots of filler. I turned it into a burger because I really need to go food shopping and have almost no vegetables in the house right now. As you can tell from the picture I did not even have lettuce. Normally I like crab cakes with salad rather than as a sandwich.

crab burger. I had some crumbled proscuitto leftover from the prior evening's scallops so used it to coat one side of the burgers. It added a nice crunch

Anniversary dinner. There is something blah about an anniversary falling on a Monday evening, especially a rainy one like yesterday (and today). We were both too tired to go out. I made broiled clams with bacon jam and chives followed by seared scallops on asparagus risotto

I missed recording a couple of Wellfleet lunches because I forgot my camera when we came back out Wednesday night. Luckily my sister stopped by my house and brought it out with her on Friday evening. Yesterday we went back to Winslow's Tavern. Tabasco-lime broiled oysters Miso broiled oysters proscuitto sandwich pear salad burger kale caesar salad with shrimp sliced salad chocolate mousse salted caramel tart we are back out here in three weeks. My waistline says that it is time for home cooked lunches in the interim...

The other day we had lunch at what is probably Wellfleet's most famous restaurant, the Beachcomber. This is a converted Coast Guard shack on a dune that serves food during the day and can be a live music venue at night. It is only open seasonally as there is no insulation in the walls. WE always eat here on opening weekend (Memorial Day) and closing weekend (Labor Day). My brother in law's Goombay Smash (sadly, the rest of us had boring iced tea or lemonade as we were driving home to work for a couple of days before heading back here last night) curried scallop appetizer fried clams steamer clams scallop roll oyster po'boy fishwich grilled tuna sandwich not pictured, my nephew's boring cheeseburger :-)

I would happily trade a scallop roll for some of that produce from your garden that you have shown on the dinner thread, Shelby. It is still too cold here to put a garden in. I am hoping to get mine in the first week of June. Today's lunch adventure was at Mac's Shack. This is my group's favorite Wellfleet restaurant. Cocktails to start. Left to right a mescalito, a ginny and the peach, and a blueberry vodka lemonade. The adult guys split an order of clams casino The ladies shared a spicy tuna mango martini and some halibut turadito then got some sushi. There is a ganja mon roll and crunchy crab in the picture. The ganja mon roll was for my niece. I don't like rolls with cream cheese in them we also got a spicy tuna roll and my niece wanted quail eggs my husband and brother both got lobster rolls brother in law got a flounder BLT not pictured, my nephew's boring cheeseburger :-) the kids got key lime pie for dessert. And yes people have started asking when dinner is...

I am vacationing with family in one of our favorite spots, Wellfleet MA. It is funny, I have lived in MA for most of my life, but did not start coming to the Cape until about four years ago. We tend to visit on either end of season to avoid the mega-tourist periods. Yesterday some of us had lunch at Winslow's Tavern. Gin and tonic with cucumber and summer in a glass cocktails: Burratta crostini with bottarga and chile oil crab cake sandwich smoked mussel flatbread scallop roll

Blackened ocean perch with creamy squash, corn, and chiles Host's note: this delicious topic is continued in Dinner 2015 (Part 3).

seared scallops on crushed peas with crispy pancetta and gremolata.

Happy Birthday to me. I had my family over for my birthday. What do you make when you have nine people, one pescatarian, one who eats absolutely no vegetables, one allergic to crustaceans, and one aging Dad with health issues whose favorite food is pizza? Pizza. It was too warm to cook inside without turning on the AC (which I refuse to do in May, especially after our record breaking 100+ inches of snow this winter). So I grilled them. I got a new grill a couple of weeks ago, and am still getting used to it, but overall am pleased. Pepperoni (for the non-vegetable brother and my pepperoni loving nephew) Eggplant (for my Mom, sister, and me) Peppers and onions (for my husband) Margarita (for my niece) Dad was thrilled, which made me happy. Leftovers divided up among all for lunches during the week.

Crab cakes with mustard sauce and asparagus from the first farmers market of the season

I did not make the bread. I purchased it at a Lebanese market near my home. My bread making skills are pretty limited. I can do pizza dough, grilled pita and naan, and the recipes in the book Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. Everything else I have attempted has been hit or miss. Luckily, there are places near me that make bread I enjoy.

Sabih. I got the recipe from the Jerusalem cookbook.

monkfish tacos

Fridays are often pizza nights here. Here is last night's.

chicken and vegetable stir fry with rice

Haddock tempura

It was just a package of pre-sliced various mushrooms I picked up at a farm stand. I remember chanterelles, oyster mushrooms, cremini, and shiitake. The star was supposed to be the fresh morels I bought at the same stand, but when I went to clean them they were filled with worms. I know morels can be wormy sometimes, but this was around 75% worm, 25% mushroom! It was gross and after trying to clean them for a while I gave up and threw them out. Luckily I had only bought enough for two so I only lost $6 worth of morels. Next time I will only buy them if they are loose in the bin rather than under cling wrap, so I can look for worm-to-mushroom percentage. Here is another fish dish, roasted halibut nicoise. I know have been posting a lot of fish dishes, but fish is one of my favorite foods.

spaghetti with asparagus and wild mushrooms