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Chicken Caesar salad with bruschetta topped with a garlic chive butter

Last night was sandwich night. My nephew asked for black bean burgers with bacon and cheese on them. He got the last two homemade burger buns. I will have to bake another batch. My sister and I had bacon, avocado, lettuce and tomato sandwiches with chipotle aioli. I should have only made one sandwich for us to share because we could both only eat half. My husband and niece had steak sandwiches made with the leftover ribeye from the other day, with parmesan cheese, truffle butter and arugula.

These are the three I have. I bought them all from the bargain table at the bookstore I worked at during college breaks back in the early 90s. I was a vegetarian then and used them all often. I don't cook out of them anymore, but keep them for sentimental reasons.

Salmon cake with Thai style dipping sauce, smashed cucumber salad and rice

Here's mine. I'd say it is somewhat organized, but could use some work. This is my main storage cabinet. Top shelf is less used and/or overflow items because I cannot reach that shelf. The next shelf holds bread crumbs and various teas. Below that, there are oils and vinegars. The next shelf is condiments, jarred and pickled things, and dried and canned beans. Then a shelf of Mexican ingredients. The next shelf is Asian ingredients, and the final shelf is pasta (the mac and cheese is my nephew's). This is the snack cabinet. Normally this would only have pretzels, nuts, and tortilla chips, but with my niece and nephew living here, there is more junk food than usual. Spice cabinet. Overflow is in the top cabinet, and then everything below is arranged alphabetically with labels on the jar tops. The shelves pull out for browsing. This is an unused hall cabinet that I converted to pantry space. The left side (not pictured) holds less used cooking equipment like cake pans and my vacuum sealer. The right has the food, mostly flours, sugars, various kinds of rice, cereals, and tomato products The top of this pantry has additional grains, flours, sugars etc. And of course you can see my random reusable jar collection. Overflow pantry cabinet. This is mostly flour and cereals (my niece and nephew eat a lot of cereal and Ritz crackers.) The bottom shelf has the spices I take with me when traveling.

I can get this brand at my local MA supermarket (if I ever get back there to shop in person, sigh). They are sold frozen. I buy the ones without the seasoning pack. Down to my last two packages... Last night, turmeric fish, seared dill and green onion noodle bowls from Andrea Nguyen's Vietnamese Food Any Day

Last night my sister and I made Americanized Chinese food as a treat for my nephew. He cannot eat at Chinese restaurants because of his allergy, but he loves that kind of food. Crabless crab rangoons, chicken fingers, and vegetable fried rice. We will have to have a big salad with dinner tonight to atone for all the fried food!

Grilled cowboy ribeyes. The steaks are from RR Ranch, retrieved from the deep freezer. I marinated them in Mario Batali's Babbo recipe for big ribeyes. My sister grilled them while I did the other dishes. Sliced to share between my husband, niece and nephew (with some leftovers). Truffled mashed potatoes and roasted green beans My sister and I do not eat red meat. We had roasted chicken sausages with roasted grapes and the same sides. Time for another movie. Some things about quarantine are not so bad. We have watched a movie every night this week and it is a luxury to us (we usually do not watch TV at all, and movies once a week at most)

Spicy salmon sandwich

My CSA transitioned from “pantry share” to “summer share” this week. Here is this week’s box: curly kale, strawberries, baby bok choy, sweet potatoes, garlic chives, radishes, Napa cabbage, meculin mix, chicory, and scallions

Glengarry Glen Ross 🙂 Kofta with tzatziki sauce, hummus from Jerusalem, pita and salad

It's movie night at my house (my pick, we draw names from a jar to keep things fair), so we ate early. Crispy chicken marinated in sour cream and chives, then coated in panko and shallow fried. Roasted radishes and asparagus in brown butter. Not pictured: Caesar salad

Based on your post, I went ahead and made this sandwich for breakfast today. You are right, the eggs are very rich! The sandwich was not too messy, I think the cheese helped bind the eggs in place. Only two pieces fell out of the sandwich. I could only eat half though, because the eggs were so rich. Maybe too much milk for the amount of bread in the casserole? 2 slices of bread to two cups of milk seems like a lot to me. But, you said you have made it successfully before, so I am not sure.

Grilled salmon salad with chiles, herbs, and lime. The recipe is from Melisa Clark at the New York Times. We all really enjoyed this. Well, not my nephew. He grilled himself a sausage, pepper and onion sub 🙃

Not homemade. I was at a vacation house with..ahem..rudimentary cooking facilities. Just your standard New England style hot dog buns, griddled in butter. We came back to our house today for a couple of weeks before heading back to the Cape. Too much takeout food is bothering my stomach, and we are watching the covid numbers for a possible uptick as my state opened back up today in a limited capacity. We have been hammered pretty hard so are very wary about getting back out in the general public. My husband's office has already announced they are not allowing workers in the office until next year (everyone has the capability to work remote) We canceled all of our flight based vacations for 2020. Last night's takeout dinner. Oysters (we ordered two dozen) briny and delicious. Hot buttered lobster roll. Completely fell apart but husband reported that it tasted delicious Burrito (blah) Crab cake sandwich (also blah) Tuna steak sandwich (also...blah) And tonight's home cooked dinner: Acadian redfish in a soy ginger garlic sauce, with shiitake mushrooms, sautéed baby bok choy and choi sum. Rice. Everything but the rice from my fish share and CSA. Tasty!

I made scallop rolls and a salad last night

We tried a new to us pizza place last night. I liked this much more than the place we tried last Friday. The crust was nice and thin and charred in spots. Tasty. Plain cheese Margarita White pizza with wild mushrooms, peppers, and garlic Mushroom, pepper and onion

Takeout again last night. Pasta with tomato sauce for my nephew Clams with Chimay and leeks for my brother in law Husband and I had curried clams Niece had risotto but I have no picture. Assorted desserts

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Yesterday my nephew grilled burgers and hot dogs for himself, my husband and my husband's brother. He did a good job. I made pesto penne with asparagus for myself and my niece

Today was my wedding anniversary. Normally, my husband and I would be dining out, but of course given everything, it was contactless takeout. Wellfleet oysters, so briny and cold. We had two boxes of these and could have had more since we shared with my sister and my husband's brother. My husband's brother had a grilled swordfish sandwich Husband had grilled scallops I had grilled tuna Sister had coconut curry fish stew No pictures of the kid's food: niece had sushi that you have already seen and I made nephew a sausage and pepper sub. The plates we eat off at this house were all drawn by the house's family and friends to commemorate the 65th wedding anniversary of the (now late) owners. We are at 23 years. I can only hope for 65!

Littleneck clams that were harvested in front of the house (not by us, the harbor we are staying on is a commercial aquaculture site and taking any clams or oysters is prohibited). I steamed them open in clam broth and white wine, and sautéed a bunch of green garlic in butter separately. I added that to the broth after I strained it for sand. Delicious with crusty bread and a lovely arugula salad using arugula and mint dressing that I brought out from my CSA boxes at home.

Callaloo (or Kallaloo) is a green. When we go to St. John I buy it from an organic farmer there. I just cook it like spinach at the rental house. One of my favorite restaurants there makes it into a delicious soup with crabmeat. Last night I decided to make lobster rolls. I had the fish market down the street steam them for me, and then I cracked them outside while wearing gloves and brought the shells right to the outdoor trash because of my nephew's crustacean allergy. The fish market is doing contactless pickup, which is nice. Lobsters Unfortunately, the hot dog buns I had brought from home were moldy, and I was not going to go to the grocery to replace them. Luckily, I had done a contactless bakery run earlier in the day, and had purchased baguettes, so baguette sandwiches it was. First, we had margaritas on the deck Lobster boat I do not like lobster, so I had a scallop boat Nephew had leftover pizza. Desserts from the bakery And sunset

Takeout again last night. Niece and nephew asked for pizza. Pizza is hard to come by where we are right now, but we found a place that does New England style bar pizza with contactless pickup, so we ordered from there. Bar pizza is not my favorite--I prefer thin crust, but you have to compromise sometimes so... Thai peanut wings. There were also buffalo wings, but they never got eaten (in fridge for another time), so no pics of those Nephew wanted mac and cheese as well as pizza. Seems weird to me, but lots of things are weird these days. I tasted it and thought it was bland, but he ate the entire container. Veggie pizza Arugula pizza Three little pigs pizza (bacon, pork belly, ham) Mushroom and arugula pizza Bonus picture of our view

Thank you! No, the bread is from my CSA. Here is the recipe I used to make the green garlic bread: Green garlic toast Today, we decamped for a while. We had to sign a long lease to do it, but it is worth it, and we are still in isolation. Dinner via contactless takeout: