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Roasted delicata squash risotto (2/3 pureed, 1/3 left in chunks) with sea scallops

Looking forward to following along again! I like Baron Caribbean banana ketchup. It is spicy, but not overly so, at least to my taste. All the sweetness comes from the banana. Some other brands have additional sugar.

Tuna bolognese

They are left on top. I fry them myself in a mix of oil and butter. I found this old photo of the dish on my laptop--apparently from Thanksgiving 2014. There won't be any pictures this year since dinner is not at my house and food photos make my Dad grumpy 😀

Pilau with roasted kale stirred in, topped with roasted delicata squash and some chicken sautéed with garam masala. A yogurt-cilantro-mint sauce on the side.

Thanksgiving used to be at my house, but now it is at my parents' due to my Dad's declining mobility. Last year we could not eat together because of covid concerns but this year we are all vaxxed/boosted. The family menu does not change much. We normally roast two turkeys, but are only doing one this year because of space limitations in my Mom's kitchen. My Mom ordered a smaller one from a local farm a couple of weeks ago. It will be enough. The rest of the menu is gravy, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, whipped Macomber turnips with crispy shallots, homemade chunky cranberry sauce, maple spiced butternut squash, and roasted broccolini. For some reason my brother always insists on those terrible brown and serve rolls from the grocery store. Nobody else eats rolls so we don't care. My Mom makes pumpkin cheesecake and apple pie for dessert. I'm bringing the turnips and butternut squash but my Mom wants to cook everything else. That's fine with me. All of the vegetables and the cranberries are coming from my CSA. They offer a "gobble box" each year at this time that contains all of the typical Thanksgiving vegetables in fairly large quantities. They store well, and I have the space to store them. I'll drop the potatoes and cranberries off to my Mom the day before Thanksgiving (we only live 10 minutes from each other).

Banh mi type sandwich with egg and black oyster mushroom filling

swordfish sautéed with peppers and onions over fregeola tossed with spinach, cherry tomatoes, and a little bit of this season's corn that I found in the freezer.

Fish tacos with pickled onions, mango and avocado salsa, and cilantro lime crema. Side of cilantro lime rice

Cavatappi with roasted delicata squash, red onion, and arugula

Paneer butter masala, maharajah rice and naan. All Meera Sodha recipes.

The usual Tuesday night miso salmon noodle bowl. Last night's had ruby spinach, shiitake and king oyster mushrooms, and summer squash, plus the usual garlic/ginger/onion/cilantro/chiles and yet more roasted radishes. I think I have gotten the radish fridge count under 50--until Friday of course, when I am sure we will get more!

Haddock baked with soy, ginger, garlic, onion and cilantro. Broccoli steamed with a splash of soy and some butter. Rice.

I make this often in the winter, and second lindag's recommendation. It is excellent (as are many of the other recipes in the cookbook it's from--Barefoot in Paris). We also did pizza and movie night. Mushroom, pepper, onion and basil White pizza with mixed mushrooms

Luckily I found a home for the kohlrabi. I was talking with my Mom on the phone yesterday, and she mentioned that one of her friends adores kohlrabi. So, since I am going to my parents' home for dinner today, I am bringing along the kohlrabi for her to give to her friend. I have thrown them out into the yard for the squirrels in the past, but am not feeling particularly charitable towards them right now (had to chase one out of my garage last week). Dinner last night was (store bought) gnocchi, kale and mixed mushrooms sheet roasted together and piled on a sauce I made from roasted honey nut squash and shallots, with some parmesan on top.

The ones I have been getting are kind of big, a mix of daikons and watermelon radishes. I am not sure if they would steam well because they are so big. Though I have so many that it could be worth a try haha! I am getting even more in the CSA delivery today (along with a dreaded kohlrabi, ugh). Sometimes I get those little white turnips in the CSA and I agree that they are delicious steamed. I like them tossed in miso butter. Last night, a clear out the crisper drawer Thai flavored vegetable curry. It had eggplant, green beans, summer squash, lots of Thai basil, and cashews for crunch, plus the usual garlic/ginger/cilantro/fish sauce/lime/chile flavorings. Rice on the side.

Zuni Cafe chicken, with roasted radishes added to the salad because I have about 100 radishes in the refrigerator from my CSA right now.

My fish share offered local tuna as a special this week so we got some. I marinated it briefly in yuzu and oyster sauce, coated it in Everything but the Bagel seasoning and then seared it. I served it over soba noodles and bok choy tossed in a dressing made from miso, rice wine vinegar, mirin, ginger, cilantro, garlic, chili garlic sauce, etc.

We also had monkfish last night. My fish share included instructions on how to take the membrane off in the email that announced what we were getting this week. They've never done that before so I wonder if some people didn't know you had to remove it and complained about the texture on prior deliveries. I find that if the monkfish is more than a day or so old, the membrane is a pain to remove, but the monkfish we get in the fish share is so fresh that it comes right off. I roasted it with some cherry tomatoes, garlic, shallots, and olives and served it over linguine with a piece of homemade focaccia toasted and rubbed with garlic.

Crab cake with mustard dill sauce, oven fries, and salad

Last night my niece came home from college for the weekend, so I made a dinner of some of her favorites to counteract all of the instant ramen she has been eating in her dorm room. Miso salmon on rice with roasted kale, delicata squash and radishes that were brushed with a little miso, maple syrup, and butter. She was happy.

Yesterday was pretty warm so we decided to grill some chicken and corn. Grilled chicken on street corn off the cob, and a salad with romaine, avocado, red onion, and some mint dressing from last week that I found in the back of the fridge.

Husband wanted a burger last night Sister and I opted for egg sandwiches on homemade focaccia

I have never had lingcod, but based on what I read about it online, it does sound similar. The closest local to me fish that I can compare it to is probably monkfish. It's white and mild in flavor, but firmer than haddock, or Atlantic cod. We do not get it very often in the fish share because it is not well known, but I am always really happy when we do. It makes great chowder in the winter. Last night was "clean out the produce drawers" spaghetti. It had a sauce made from the rest of the cherry tomatoes roasted with some shallots and garlic, mixed with some roasted spiralized summer squash, a box of baby bella mushrooms also tossed with garlic and roasted on a separate sheet pan, and the rest of a bunch of peppery arugula chopped up and added at the end. Olives would have been good too but I put those in the fish last night.

More for me, then! 😋 My grandfather was an immigrant from Germany, and I do not remember him ever eating pumpernickel. Or any other German food for that matter. My biggest food memory of him is that he absolutely refused to eat onions in any form, because according to him it was one of the only foods his family could get to eat when he still lived in Germany as a child post WW1. This is the recipe I used, with an overnight chill in the fridge added after shaping. Maybe it is different than the pumpernickel you have in Germany. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pumpernickel-bagels-recipe