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Tomato, bacon and egg on Dave's Killer Bread

Every week there has been a nonperishable item from a Massachusetts business. The curry powder was made in Cambridge. Other things I have gotten in this category are flour (Lynn), coffee (Sudbury), and sriracha (Sunderland). I read with envy and longing about those of you who are planning card parties, shopping in person, and planning group meals. We are still in the thick of it here. Of the testing done today, 28% tested positive, and our daily death toll was 205 as of 4:30 PM, bringing us to over 4,000. Face masks became mandatory as of this morning.

Banh mis on homemade bolillo rolls. Chicken katsu for the nephew Salmon for everyone else. Both recipes from Andrea Nyguen's Banh Mi Cookbook. The daikon radishes I got in my farm box were purple, hence the purple veg. Everyone liked, which is a rare occurrence. I am usually making multiple meals.

Here is this week's CSA box. Potatoes, apples, chives, Jerusalem artichokes, carrots, ramps, fiddleheads, onions, carrots, arugula, curry powder and bread. The herbs in the back are not from the CSA.

Tacos and rice and beans. Margaritas not pictured.

Haddock steamed with garlic and ginger, rice, and a stir fry of sugar snap peas, fiddleheads, and fava bean shoots

Andrea Gail is not fiction. It is a true, and sad, story. That storm was a whopper. Bananas! They have turned yellow now 🙂 I got the strangest substitution to date in my last grocery order. I asked for two packages of plain frozen udon noodles. Instead, I received two packages of Bertolli frozen prepared pasta dinners. One is chicken carbonara, and the other is shrimp scampi. I am sending them to my mother in law's house.

Belgian waffle made with sourdough discard, whipped cream and fruit. This was not my breakfast. I could not eat all that sugar in the morning. I made this for my niece. I had toast 🙂

Cook's Country spicy cheese bread Chicken Caesar salad

I only got photos of some of the sides yesterday. Roasted potatoes with mustard and rosemary Fried zucchini with pecorino and red pepper flakes Grilled bread with a green garlic-parmesan butter Not pictured: giant salad and grilled ribeyes.

The share is once a week, delivered on Thursdays. You have to opt in each week, so if you have too much food you can skip a week. This week's share was $74. The deli meat was turkey. We ate the haddock tonight. My 21 year old nephew is in quarantine with me and I made him cook dinner under my supervision. I assigned my niece and nephew cleaning chores when they moved in but he begged off cleaning due to asthma, so now he is my sous chef instead haha. He used the haddock to make moqueca, using a recipe I chose from Milk Street, the New Rules. It was delicious. Oh, he refused to eat it of course. He had burgers instead, which he also cooked.

I cooked them wrong--not long enough. They tasted delicious but we were both terribly ill later that evening. I am thinking of pickling them. Or I might make a recipe I found on Food 52 for a miso sesame fiddlehead. So, the food share arrived. It is a ton of food! I could not fit it all in one picture. I am using the haddock tonight to make moqueca. My nephew does not eat fish unless it is fried so he is having a couple of the burgers. All the other meats are in the freezer for later on. I gave my mother the cauliflower (because I already have one), the carrots (again, because I have lots already), the potatoes, half of the clementines, and the evil green bell pepper you see lurking in the back. None of us eat deli meat, but my brother in law does, so that's in the freezer to give him when I see him next.

Here is this week's CSA box (this is not the food share I referenced earlier, that comes tomorrow). 20 potatoes. 20!!! Good gravy. I already foisted 16 potatoes off on my parents and brother. I might have to start leaving mystery potato baskets on my neighbor's doorsteps 🙂 Bottom left to right: ramps (yay!), apples, Jerusalem artichokes (meh), potatoes, garlic greens, MORE potatoes, dried local cranberries, fiddleheads (I gave my husband and I food poisoning by cooking these wrong many years back so I rise to this challenge), locally made sriracha, fava bean shoots, Iggy bread. And in the middle, two big turnips and a heck of a lot more potatoes.

A local restaurant has started a food share for my town. They charge a $10 fee per week that they use to pay the staff that sorts and packs the shares. They are ordering from their supplier and charging participants the wholesale cost that they pay. Average cost per share is $70-80 a week, and they are delivering to homes. Since there is no obligation to sign on for more than one week at a time, I decided to try it out. My first share comes tomorrow. I'll post what I get here. I figure anything I don't want/cannot use can be given to my brother and parents.

They are strangely shaped oven fries. This kind: super crispy dipper fries Last night, miso coconut salmon curry with spinach and shiitake mushrooms

Fish sandwich.

The weather was lousy yesterday, so I made chicken noodle soup for dinner.

The chicken is on the left, the eggplant on the right. They are cooked in separate pans then combined on the plate. I cut the chicken breasts in half before breading to control the portion size.

Tomatoes, bacon and mayo on Dave's Killer Bread, good seed flavor

It is super simple. Just bread the eggplant and chicken in flour followed by beaten egg then seasoned breadcrumbs. Then slick olive oil on a baking sheet and bake the eggplant at 400 for 20 minutes a side. The chicken gets sauteed in olive oil until browned. Then a thin layer of marinara in two baking dishes, top with eggplant and chicken, put fresh mozzarella on top and bake until the cheese is melted. I don't put a lot of sauce on the chicken and eggplant so that it stays crispy. Most of the sauce goes on the pasta. Pizza Friday last night. Pepperoni Leftover eggplant parmesan pizza Carbonara

Wow that tart looks great. I have Plenty. I am going to look that recipe up. Last night, chicken and eggplant parmesean

Thanks for the information. I already traded them to my Mom for some other stuff, but I will keep in mind for future shipments. I am sorry for your losses. Here is this week's share. As you can see, I got TWO kinds of beans this week! They are black beans and bumblebee beans. I can work with those. This week's share contains the last of the overwintered carrots, plus many freshly dug parsnips. I see parsnip puree in my future. They also gave me 16 potatoes and another huge sweet potato! I still have eight potatoes and two sweet potatoes left from last week's box! Luckily, I texted my brother and he really wants the potatoes for his house with my parents. He is taking them all in exchange for, well, I am not sure what yet. He'll come up with something that I want. Other stuff included pea shoots, bread, strawberry jam, and jerusalem artichokes. My Whole Foods order got shopped a day early and arrived last night around 8PM. They made meat substitutions without checking with me, which was a little odd. Ground chicken breast was swapped in for ground dark turkey meat, and chicken tenders were swapped in for chicken breast. Oh well, they tried and I will use everything I am sure. No milk, toilet paper, paper towels, mozzarella cheese, or popcorn. I got everything else I asked for including eggs, bacon, corn tortillas, and a flank steak for tacos on Sunday. My Wegmans order is supposed to arrive today between 11-1, but I am guessing it will arrive much later than that. My Mom had an order that was supposed to come yesterday between 9-11AM, and it arrived at 5:30 PM.

Ham that I vacuum sealed after New Year's Day and stored in the standing freezer, mashed potatoes, cauliflower gratin, spinach, and the purple stuff in the back that looks like beets is actually a deep purple variety of carrot that I got in my delivery from a local farm stand. It took a lot of persuasion to get my nephew to eat them. My sister and I don't eat ham so we just ate the vegetables.

The stars aligned last night and I was able to get delivery slots for both Wegmans and Whole Foods for tomorrow. Whether I will actually get anything I put in my cart delivered is up for debate.

Salmon larb and mango rice