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Noodles with broccoli and shiitake mushrooms in a spicy soy broth with some peanuts for crunch and chili crunch for extra spice. Lots of chives on top too because my CSA has been giving me a huge bunch of chives every week (and I have a large amount growing in my vegetable garden as well)

Dinner salad with spicy roasted cauliflower and chickpeas, arugula, tomatoes, cucumbers, fried feta, and an avocado-yogurt dressing. Some flatbread I dug out of the freezer on the side.

Yelowtail flounder rolled up around an herb paste of cilantro, ginger, lemongrass and chiles in a coconut, lemongrass, lime and ginger broth with carrots, onions, cilantro and chiles, plus some chopped peanuts for crunch. Cilantro lime rice

Brown butter scallops with burst cherry tomatoes and chives over linguini

I riffed on an idea in the new Half Baked Harvest Cookbook. Half Baked Harvest Every Day She calls for 6 tbsp melted butter, 3 tbsp. white miso, and 1.5 cups warm water whisked together, poured over 6 peeled and halved shallots, baked at 500 for 25 minutes covered, then uncovered for 20 minutes longer. I did similar but used slightly less butter, more thyme, and baked for double the time at 450, then pureed everything together to make a smooth jammy topping. It was very nice with the mushrooms. Last night, I cooked my husband a half rack of lamb with a potato and macomber turnip puree and a green bean-asparagus saute My sister and I do not like lamb, so I made us a sort of chicken piccata with the same sides

Pizza topped with miso shallot butter jam, roasted king oyster mushrooms, fontina and parmesan cheeses and basil

Ravioli with a sauce made from kale tops and overwintered spinach from my CSA, cherry tomatoes, garlic and basil.

Miso salmon with shiitake mushrooms, bok choy, and noodles

When I went out on my front steps today to grab my CSA delivery, I found that they had left me this huge box of mushrooms too! This is a separate share that is an extra cost on top of the regular veggie box. We have ordered it before, but not this week. I'm not sure if it was a mistake or maybe a thank you (I send them my photos of food I make with their CSA ingredients and they use them in their email newsletters and I think on instagram...I have not logged in to instagram in at least five years but they asked me for permission to use them there) Earlier today there was a wine storage box on the front steps that I had not ordered too!! The outside box was very badly damaged, but the contents were fine. I had actually ordered a bunch of them a few weeks ago because I am building my husband a garage band wine storage room in an unfinished room in our basement. I think maybe the box had been marked as damaged by the shipper and replaced in the original shipment, but found its way to my house eventually anyway. I'll take it!

I made one with roasted chicken breast once. It was good, though very rich. I liked it a lot better than the mint juleps I made one year! Nobody could drink those haha. I just found out that one of the horses running this year is named after what is probably my favorite restaurant. I don't even know what the horse's odds are, but I am going to slug anybody in my Derby pool that tries to pick that horse over me! 🤣

Curry nut mahi mahi with pineapple lime cilantro rice and roasted broccolini

This was one of those dinners that did not look like much but tasted really good. Hake in a pistachio-panko crust with lemon, garlic, and dill, plus some creamy mashed potatoes and spinach. My husband said it looked like Shake n Bake haha. I probably should have added some parsley to the coating, but I've been running around like crazy getting my house ready for a triple bathroom renovation that starts Monday, and frankly did not think of until we were sitting down to dinner.

Yesterday is normally our fish share delivery day, but we got an email in the morning saying that the boats did not go out and they'd be delivering today instead, so I had to come up with something else. I had a bag of romaine lettuce that I wanted to use, so chicken caesar salad it was.

Spaghetti with crab, peas, basil, and lemon

Seared tuna over sweet potato puree (we have so many right now!) with red and green coconut curry sauces and a pear salsa with cilantro and lime.

Roasted cauliflower shawarma with spicy tahini sauce. I got the recipe in an email from NY Times cooking. It was actually quite good. I was not wearing my reading glasses when I started the recipe, so only used one tbsp. oil instead of the called for 5 tbsp., but it still was not at all dry. I also swapped cilantro for parsley, and made naan to go with it because I did not have time to make my pita recipe. Here's the recipe. It is probably behind a paywall if you do not subscribe to NY Times, sorry about that. Cauliflower shawarma

Flounder with a spinach and tomato cream sauce and orzo.

Crab cakes with horseradish aioli and a fennel apple salad, plus smashed potatoes. The crab cakes, sauce and salad recipes are from the Row 34 cookbook.

Salad with spiced chicken, avocado, peaches, boursin cheese and tomato with a bacon shallot vinaigrette.

Roasted mushroom flatbread

Orecchiette with broccoli and bacon cream sauce

I have palm sugar but used brown because the palm sugar I have is in big disc like lumps that work out to about 1/4 cup sugar each. I usually only use them if I need 2 tbsp or more because then I can just hack off a piece and melt it into the sauce. I've tried grinding them up in my spice grinder without much success. I suppose I should buy a different kind of palm sugar, but I want to use this stuff up first. Quick dinner last night, turkey tacos.

I did not really cook it, but I did warm it up. I did not measure anything, just dumped stuff in the blender until it tasted good. I used mango chunks, coconut milk, garlic, fish sauce, cilantro, chiles, lemongrass, and a little brown sugar.

Nut and seed crusted tuna with a mango sauce, coconut brown rice and spinach

Spaghetti puttanesca with monkfish added