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For the past couple of weeks, on Saturday I use the website random.country to choose a cuisine to try. This week I got Morocco. I made seven vegetable couscous and khobz. The vegetables are onion, garlic, cauliflower, turnip, carrot, cabbage and tomato (a fruit but I am counting it to get to seven). The dish also has chickpeas, golden raisins and cilantro.

Cheese souffle and a vegetable toast recipe that came with this week's CSA delivery. It's lightly pickled watermelon radishes, apples, onions, turnips and carrots on toast spread with a pea shoot aioli. We all liked it.

Tonkatsu seems to be a popular choice recently! I made mine with chicken

Angel hair with tomato-basil sauce

Miso salmon and udon noodles stir fried with carrots, daikon radish, and pea shoots

Coconut curry monkfish

Friday was pizza night. Margharita Mushroom Pepperoni Carbonara Yesterday I baked some pita and made chicken shawarma. There was also a large salad not pictured

Cashew-cauliflower curry, paneer butter masala, rice and naan

1 cup flour 1 cup cornstarch 1.5 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking powder 12 ounces beer Let rest in fridge for 20 minutes before using it. Last night, chicken parmesean. My nephew is heading back to campus on Monday after doing last semester remote, so this week I am making all of his favorite dishes.

I never see it in the markets here either (not that I have been inside a market since March). It's always a treat when it comes in the fish share. Last night, miso glazed salmon over udon noodles with pea shoots

Fish and chips. The fish was cusk from my fish share.

Linguini with crushed olives

Chicken roti. I made a mango salsa to go with it because the curry was quite spicy and I wanted to be sure that my niece would eat it.

They are bouncy and light. I really like them. Last night, my sister and I made vegetable fried rice, garlicky broccoli, sesame chicken wings, and crabless rangoons.

Yes. It is Andrea Nguyen's recipe from her Banh Mi Handbook. I looked for the recipe online but could only find an incomplete version on google books. Basically you blend an onion, some sugar, cornstarch, egg white, and fish sauce in a food processor and then add the salmon. The salmon gets blended in briefly and then rested five minutes, after which it gets processed for a full minute. At the end you stir in the herbs of your choice (I use cilantro and sometimes add hot chiles), then you shape it into cakes and sauté until browned on both sides. Then you slice it on an angle to make it easy to eat in a sandwich. It's one of my go-to meals when my fish share gives me thin tail pieces of salmon (which they have been doing a lot lately, sigh).

Tuesday night I made banh mis. Salmon for everyone but my nephew I made his with pork leftover from the New Year's roast Last night we had chicken tortellini soup

Avocado toast with poached egg and Aleppo pepper

Hake baked in white wine and lemon with panko, roasted potatoes, green beans, and roasted romanesco

Chicken tacos

I made two proteins on New Year's Day since not everyone in my house eats pork. Roasted pork loin, which was roasted to 140 and served with a green peppercorn sauce And a maple-bourbon glazed chicken. Sides were creamed spinach and smashed sweet potatoes with carmelized apples.

I had a bizarre Instacart experience today. I am making pizza for dinner tonight, and realized yesterday that I did not have any mozzarella cheese. So, I placed an order for mozzarella, pecorino, risotto, and tomato passata. The order was dropped off, and had nothing in it but the tomato sauce, though the receipt said the cheeses had been shopped and charged. So, I called Instacart, they reached out to the driver and she came back with my cheese. The odd thing was that there was a jar of duck sauce and a bag of chow mien noodles in the bag that I did not order.

I did not like the two items together. They were fine alone, but together tasted odd to me. Last night, I made pecorino-mixed herbs breadsticks, and bucatini with clam sauce

Berry jam fried chicken on a cornmeal-scallion waffle with hot honey. We all liked the chicken, the waffle not so much, and thought the combination of the two was kind of odd. I would make the chicken again though. The picture makes it look darker than it was. Here is a link to that recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021444-berry-jam-fried-chicken?action=click&module=Local Search Recipe Card&pgType=search&rank=1

Paneer butter masala, chicken curry, maharajah rice and naan. I made the paneer from scratch as I have a glut of whole milk in my freezer thanks to an Instacart mixup. It was so much better than store bought paneer. I don't think there is any way to go back to store bought. All recipes are from Meera Sodha.

Dinner turned in to a bit of a chore yesterday. The original plan was for squash soup, but it turned out that I did not have all of the ingredients I needed. So, I pivoted to an eggplant stir fry, but the eggplant was rotten. So, we ended up with a chicken-bell pepper-shiitake mushroom-basil stir fry. It was fine but not really what I was in the mood for.