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Pizza night. Margharita And roasted shiitake and carmelized onion with pesto ricotta for the sauce

That used to be the case but is no longer true. They have an entirely new airport, opened December 2020. It is a lot bigger and modern, and from what I was told, has much more stuff to do. Not that I have experienced it yet, obviously, thanks to covid....

So, who wants to read about more Cape Cod seafood? My husband and I were supposed to fly to Bermuda on Thursday. Unfortunately they are in the middle of the worst covid outbreak they've had since this whole mess started. The hospital is full, ferries and busses are cancelled, and most shops and restaurants are closed. The tourism board is saying it is just fine to come anyway, but the locals are asking tourists to please stay home, so we pushed (again) to next year. The owner of our rental accommodation was very gracious about it, considering this is the second time we have rescheduled (we were supposed to be there this time last year too). So, we are heading back to Wellfleet instead. We reached out to the owner of one of our favorite houses in town, and will soon be looking out on this view and dining (outside) on the delicious local fish. No swimming like we would have enjoyed in Bermuda, and no whale watch due to crowds, but everything else about it should be really nice. Fried clams here I come.

Pecan crusted chicken salad with frisee and butter lettuces, carmelized pears, Great Hill blue cheese, bacon, dried cranberries, brioche croutons and a shallot vinaigrette.

Tacos filled with sautéed corn, tomatoes, poblanos, summer squash, cilantro, and monterey jack cheese melted with more chiles and cilantro. It was tasty but I should have made some beans to go with it. We were all still a little hungry after dinner. 😃

Stir fry with chicken, ginger, garlic, bok choy, carrots, cauliflower, broccolini, summer squash, scallions and cilantro. Basically a dinner to use up some of the bibs and bobs in the fridge before the next CSA box comes tomorrow.

Grilled blackened swordfish sandwich on homemade brioche bun, oven fries

Roasted haddock, cherry tomatoes, kalamata olives and shallots on fregola that I mixed with kale sautéed with garlic. Basil and scallions to garnish.

Saturday we went to my parents for dinner. My Mom called and asked me to bring a loaf of bread or some kind of roll, so I baked a pan of the garlic butter dinner rolls from the most recent issue of Cook's Country magazine. My Mom and Dad both really liked them, so I will count it as a hit. Yesterday we had grilled ginger marinated grilled chicken thighs and peaches on yogurt with basil and scallions and an ear of corn on the cob. I only got four ears of corn in my CSA box this week. I guess the summer bounty is coming to an end. 😐

I am just seeing this now. How very sad! He was always so nice to everyone here. RIP David.

Rustic tomato galette. It was was served with a salad of mixed soft lettuces in vinaigrette.

Chicken francese on a corn, cherry tomato, shallot and green bean salad, with crispy smashed potatoes

Udon noodles with king oyster mushrooms, baby bok choy, sweet peppers, spicy peppers, scallions, cilantro, and miso glazed salmon.

Coconut fish curry with some of the huge supply of green beans I got in this week's CSA box. I still have enough green beans for another meal or two.

And to go almost completely off topic they just filmed one of these in the town next to mine, right in front of where my sister works. She reported that it is going to be Christmas themed and they covered the entire street with fake snow (in July no less) and there was a horse driven sleigh involved. The street runs in front of a recently restored vintage theater, so maybe they filmed inside there too and some finger footsie with overfilled popcorn bins will be involved 😆

Roasted golden zucchini "noodles" topped with cherry tomatoes and broccolini roasted with garlic, olive oil and red pepper flakes. Basil and parmesean cheese also.

That sounds about right. I worked in a movie theater all through high school and on my college breaks. When I was feeling antisocial and not wanting to work behind the concession stand (you made more money back there because we got commission on upsells), I would work in the popcorn room. Waiting for the giant block of coconut oil to melt was the most time consuming thing. It never tasted the same (or as good) after we switched to canola oil. The flavacol we used was dyed a brilliant yellow to give the popcorn its signature color. The secret to the salt level was to pop a batch with almost double flavacol for every four batches of regular, and then mix the five batches together in a massive bin before bagging it up for the concession stands downstairs. I ate waaaay too much movie theater popcorn back then, and now I can't stomach the stuff, so I use a whirly pop at home. Just a smidge of oil in the popper (sometimes canola, sometimes coconut), and lots of freshly melted butter and salt. Occasionally if I am feeling fancy I will add some freshly grated parmesan or cheddar powder, but I usually make it with just butter and salt.

Pizza (yay) and football (sigh). White pizza with prosciutto, arugula, and parmesean Margharita And one with a really tiny but fat eggplant from my CSA box and some roasted mushrooms

Rigatoni with roasted mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, and arugula

Quick sautéed golden zucchini squash zoodles topped with chicken sautéed in garam masala, ginger and garlic, topped with a mango-cilantro chutney and a yogurt sauce with mint, cilantro, and garlic.

Blackened swordfish and warm lobster sliders. With some tater tots because we are out of oven fries right now.

Pesto spaghetti with lobster And with shrimp for me since I do not like lobster.

I am certainly no expert on congee, but this reminded me of the kind I make at home. It was very simple and comforting. If I had to guess, it was just rice cooked for a long time in lightly salted water, with freshly blanched and pureed peas and whole peas stirred in at the end. That's just my guess though. The menu listing was not descriptive.

Last installment for this visit. Here is the house we rent in Provincetown. It's really nice and completely by itself. You can walk to Herring Cove from it, though there are no ocean views from the house itself. Instead, there are views of the locally famous quaking bog. Luckily, a lot of people went home yesterday morning, so when we went to Race Point for a long walk, the beach was not crowded. The ranger was not even at their booth collecting fees for the day. I did not take any pictures of the beach, just one of this buoy that I found. I usually bring the buoys I find home with me (I have a display of them all under my deck), but this one was covered in seaweed and I did not have a knife to cut it all off, so it was too heavy to drag back to the car. On the way back from the beach, the restaurant that we had reservations at called to say that they no longer had an outdoor table for us, but they could seat us inside. I said no thanks and cancelled. Irritating but whatever. We ended up going back to the old mainstay Mac's. Jalepeno yellowtail Spicy tuna mango martini Drinks. My sister and I both got the salmon yakisoba bowl. The salmon was perfectly cooked medium rare all the way through. I wish I could make it like that at home. I always overcook the thin part a bit. My husband got the seared halibut with lobster mashed potatoes And husband's brother got the broiled blackened swordfish with jasmine rice and roasted vegetables Another tasty meal. After dinner we ventured in to town. It was pretty dead, so we parked and got some ice cream to close out the trip. This was from the Nut House. Salty caramel, espresso, mint chip, and black raspberry. (sorry for the feet in the photo 😆) We went to Herring Cove for the final sunset of this visit. It was a good one. See you on the dinner thread.

Nooooooo. It is JAMMED everywhere. We drove by Herring Cove and the parking lot was full and there were over 500 bikes lined up along the road. I think it is more crowded now than it has been when we have been here in peak summers pre-Covid. We parked up by the school to go to dinner last night and got one of the last spots in the furthest auxiliary lot. My picture does not capture how many people are here right now. It is definitely not what I was expecting. If I had known we would have stayed in Wellfleet. In any event we are going home tomorrow and we are not going all the way in to town for dinner tonight anyway. At least last night there were a decent number of people wearing masks in town. We went to Pepe's Wharf for dinner. We had a table on the lower outside deck off in a corner away from other tables, which was nice. Here's the view. It never really cleared up yesterday. Drinks with a side order of my sister's hand haha Oysters Clam flatbread. More garlic would have been nice Mushroom flatbread Lobster ravioli Cod provencal. I thought this looked overcooked but husband's brother said it was fine. Linguini with asparagus pesto and shrimp Colossal shrimp with arugula salad