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Friday night we just had sandwiches. Niece and nephew had toasted gruyere, apple and bacon Sister and I had BLTs Husband had tallegio, bresaola, and arugula Last night we had pasta. Nephew had chicken parmesean Everyone else had eggplant

This week's CSA box. The growing season is officially over, so we are now into the "pantry" part of the share. That means basically greenhouse greens (that is spinach in the back) carrots, potatoes, onions, and winter squash for the foreseeable future. They did include a small bunch of kale as they are trying to keep it growing covered with cloth for as long as they can (it will probably die in tomorrow's snowstorm). I was happy to see that Iggy bread is going to be in the pantry share again this year, and we can always use honey. The thing I am most excited about, though, are the two whitish roots to the far right. Those are Macomber turnips, a variety that was originally grown only in Eastham on Cape Cod, and now are grown in a couple of other towns in MA. They have an incomparably sweet and mild flavor when compared to a standard turnip. I really love them and look forward to them every year.

I got a giant chocolate bar in the mail from Wegman's yesterday, as thanks for being one of their "top customers" (whatever that means). I don't like chocolate (so am planning on sticking it in my niece's Christmas stocking heh heh), but they also loaded a gift card and a bunch of digital coupons for various free food on to my Wegman's account that I can redeem via online shopping. That, I will use.

Baked eggs with baguette toasts and arugula salad

This year is definitely going to be different for us. Typically, my husband and I would go to my in laws for Christmas eve, and my parents and brother along with my sister and her kids would come to my house for Christmas day. Obviously none of that is happening this year thanks to Covid and people's stubborn refusal to adhere to health guidelines (MA had the highest positive daily case total since this crap started yesterday, at 4,965 new cases). My sister and her kids moved in with my husband and me permanently back in March, so there will be five of us. I have not even thought about a menu for Christmas eve yet. My husband bought a small beef tenderloin from Heritage Foods for Christmas day, but I need to think of a second entree since my sister and I don't eat red meat. It needs to go with a big red wine since my husband usually breaks out something really good on Christmas and I don't want to miss out 🙂 I will probably make twice baked potatoes for the starch, since that is a typical Christmas dish for us. I'll be watching this thread for ideas.

Two different Meera Sodha curries last night (because, of course, nobody could agree on just one 🙃) Paneer butter masala with carmelized red onion-tamarind rice Keralan vegetable istoo with plain rice. The recipe said you could put in any vegetables that you wanted, so I used carrots, spinach, and honey nut squash from my CSA box Both curries and the caramelized onion-tamarind rice are from her book Fresh India. I also made naan but forgot to take a picture of it.

Forbidden rice bowl with miso salmon, roasted radishes, cucumbers, cilantro, and ginger mirin dressing

You are right, it was not overcooked. I broiled it for four minutes. Last night, crispy fish sandwiches

Brown dinner. I baked a loaf of rye bread And served it with chicken apple sausages, pirogies stuffed with potatoes and cheese, sautéed cinnamon apples, mustard and sour cream

Pizza night. Pepperoni Carbonara Wild mushroom

The only thing I got a picture of was the turkey. We have an entire gallon ziplocks of leftover meat. I made stock from the carcass and got almost five quarts.

Miso salmon with udon noodles, onion, ginger, garlic, chile pepper, carrots, daikon, bok choy and cilantro in a miso broth. Good luck to all of tomorrow's turkey roasters (including me)!

Luckily, I am not out of real garlic. I was just getting low. I will try again next week. To me, it tastes too rich and cloying in cereal. I do use it in cooking though, so it will get eaten eventually.

I just received the worst Instacart delivery since this pandemic started. 2 gallons of organic whole milk swapped in for organic 2% (nobody drinks whole milk), Brigham's ice cream swapped in for Haagen Daz, Thomas' bagels swapped in for Dave's Killer Bread, and worst of all, I ordered fresh garlic and ginger, and they brought me the shelf stable jarred kind! The store was also out of cornmeal, buttermilk (not surprising, I think a lot of people are making Samin Nosrat's buttermilk brined turkey this year), pine nuts, english muffins, and crackers. None of which is the shopper's fault of course. Usually the shoppers text if they are going to make a substitution, but this one didn't for some reason. Oh well. I am sure the store was crazy and they did the best they could. I froze the whole milk to use in cooking, and the teens will likely eat the crummy bagels and ice cream. The only thing that I don't think will ever get used is the jarred garlic. I might try posting it on the buy nothing page for my town.

Sicilian swordfish stew

The gobble box came. I am sharing with my parents and my mother in law. We also ordered a pie from the farmer's wife, who has a bakery. This is pumpkin with sesame crunch. Of course my Mom phoned today to say that she is bringing me two pies tomorrow in exchange of her share of the gobble box! I am sure that my niece and nephew will eat all of each pie.

Thai fish curry

One egg omelet stuffed with bacon, tomato, and cheese. Possibly a bit overstuffed 😀

Fried chicken

Baked a pan of fluffy dinner rolls And served them with grilled steak with garlic scape butter that I dug out of the freezer (no beef for me or my sister), creamed spinach, roasted honey nut squash, and a potato galette. My niece was very happy to be home and have "real" food again. She told me that they serve the same thing for dinner every night at college: rice, overcooked unseasoned vegetables, and overcooked chicken or pork.

This week's CSA. Lots of kale! Luckily we all enjoy a kale caesar salad. The giant gobble box is coming Tuesday.

Why not? Meatballs vs. roast turkey are completely different flavors. Besides, I am all about the vegetables on Thanksgiving, and usually only have one bite of turkey 😀

Riagtoni with turkey meatballs

I talked to my Mom today about how this week's food bank went--this is the week they give out the turkeys. They were given 350 to distribute from the Greater Boston food bank allotment, and then a local businessman donated 1,000 more. She said that despite all of that, they still ran out with a line down the block. Luckily they were able to give out vouchers to the people still waiting. I am not sure where the extra turkeys are coming from--probably the businessman.

Salmon banh mi. I made Andrea Nguyen's green tomato pickle to use up the last of the unripe tomatoes from the garden.