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Yum, I have not made fish chowder in a while. I am surprised you wanted chowder yesterday. It was so very hot! Sandwich night: tomato, fresh mozzarella, and pesto

My niece picked the dinner menu last night: macaroni and cheese gratins with a local strawberry and lettuces salad.

Miso salmon ramen bowl with baby bok choy, napa cabbage, garlic scapes, green garlic, harukei turnips, oyster mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms all from this week's CSA box. Plus red chiles and cilantro from the grocery store.

My sister went to the farmer's market on her lunch break and brought home some sole. Sole roll ups in coconut, lime, lemongrass and ginger broth with carrots and summer squash, chopped peanuts, cilantro and the last of the chive flowers from my CSA box.

Chicken tinga tacos

Creamy corn spaghetti

Yes, chicken I ground up in my food processor. Edward, if you find a bag of money.... gosh I love that movie. Chicken shawarma

Build your own lettuce wraps and cucumber salad

gnocchetti sardi with fennel, swiss chard, and bacon in a parmesan cream sauce

Where is everybody? 😀 Last night, pork stir fry for my niece and husband, and chicken stir fry for me and my sister. The check on my husband's plate is the stuff my sister snuck on there because she said i gave her too much chicken 😂

We had sandwiches last night too. Nobody could decide what they wanted, so I just made BLTs.

Pizza with tomato eggplant sauce And a carbonara one for my niece

Spicy cashew butter chicken and spinach with rice and naan. Not a very attractive curry, but we all thought it was delicious.

Rigatoni with summer squash and zucchini sauce

Use up the crisper drawer dinner salad before today's CSA box delivery. Chicken on top. I wanted to just do a spice rub on the chicken but niece wanted them breaded so that's what I did. The simple spice rub would have been better. I made a creamy avocado dressing, again to appeal to my niece's taste. She's not a huge fan of dinner salads but she ate this one. The bacon on it might have helped.

Yes indeed! We really like it. I made a large batch of the spicy tahini this time and stuck it in the fridge for future dinners. My husband did comment that he would especially like it if I would make chicken shawarma to go with it, so I might try that next time. Last night, miso salmon noodle bowl with bok choy, scallions, shiitake mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and chive flowers. All the veggies were from this week's CSA box.

I usually mix it up. I recently did three weeks of vacation with no cooking at home other than toast for breakfast, and by the end I was so sick of restaurant food. More typically, I do about half dinners out and half cooking at home. I have a small Wusthof travel knife kit that I bring with me since rental house knives are universally terrible. I sharpen them before I go and they get the job done. If I am going somewhere that we are driving, I also bring along a skillet for cooking eggs, plus reusable straws and cups/travel canteens and a pepper grinder. If we are flying and checking bags I still bring the knives and cups/straws.

Hahaha. Maybe I should have said cauliflower cooked with shawarma style spices. Anyway, it was tasty. Yesterday we got the dreaded Acadian redfish in the fish share delivery, so after cutting out all the bony parts and stripping off the skin, I ground up the rest and made miniature Thai flavored fish cakes that we ate in lettuce wraps. I also made rice and a smacked cucumber salad. I added some bell peppers to the salad because I only had one cucumber for four people.

Cauliflower shawarma. We decided at dinner that making both rice and flatbread was too much food. Based at what was left on everyone's plates, next time I will skip the rice.

Sometimes my farm share gives me giant bok choy. I separate the leaves from the stalks, chop both (after rinsing about 1000 times, that stuff is sandy!), then stir fry the stalks first and add the leaves towards the end. It gets tender while still remaining some crunch, and my family finds it very enjoyable. I do not own a CSO, so nope! Last night, lemon linguini over arugula with roasted broccolini, garlicky breadcrumbs, and a frico egg.

Thanks! I was on vacation. It turns out that three weeks of restaurant food is too much restaurant food for me. I am not complaining but I am glad to be home and eating my own food for a while. The salmon. It is from the Andrea Nguyen cookbook The Banh Mi Handbook. Here is a version from her website. The version in her book adds fish sauce, and suggests cilantro instead of dill. I also added lemongrass and some spicy chile. https://www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2007/08/salmon-cakes-wi.html Last night, Indian spiced squash zoodles and chicken with herbed yogurt, mango, and naan

If you enjoy coffee or tea, make sure you have the equipment and set aside the space for whatever you need to brew that. I had a very, very tiny kitchen once when I lived alone, and was generally cooking only for myself, and my now husband when he was able to visit for an occasional weekend. Other than my stove and a dorm sized (!!!) fridge, I owned a dish strainer, two good skillets, a larger pot and colander for making pasta, a teakettle, three good knives (chef, paring, and serrated), one thick baking sheet (I did not bake bread or cookies back then), a blender, and two cutting boards. I wished I had a food processor, but could not afford it at that time. Even now, living in a home with two full sized kitchens, I don't own a lot of the gadgets that many people have. (I do have a food processor though!)

Salmon banh mi

Soy ginger haddock with (not enough) box choy and rice.

Here is the JetBlue Mint menu for the return trip. Options: I don't know what the welcome snack was--we were not offered anything. Rose and sparkling water pours. Both were unlimited if you wanted. Lots of fish on the menu, as you can see. I always think fish is an odd choice for airplane meals, but there was no avoiding it. I went with the beet salad, the mahi caesar, and the Jamaican vegetable stew The stew was extremely sweet and unappealing. I did not eat the mahi on the caesar. The beet salad was pretty good. Husband got the snapper plus the mahi and the beet salad. He said the mahi on the salad was fine flavor wise but very overcooked. The snapper was "OK." The best thing was actually the dessert--carrot cake Side order of Vieques