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Cheese pizza and pepper, onion and arugula pizza

A Waygu beef tenderloin roast for my husband, niece and nephew. I was going to make Ina Garten's basil-parmesan sauce to go with it, but I don't have enough basil so am thinking about her béarnaise instead. My sister and I are having a roasted chicken breast marinated in dijon mustard, rosemary, and balsamic. Sides are celery root-parsnip latkes, roasted broccoli, and some kind of potato in case the young adults don't like the latkes. Most people have expressed a preference for mashed, but I am not sure that I will have enough milk to do that.

I got two shipments yesterday. From D'Artagan, 12 poussins and four packages of chicken sausage. There was also supposed to be five packages of bacon, but they forgot to include it 🙁 I also got a big box from Eataly: pasta, canned tomatoes, tomato paste, pesto sauce, and a hunk of parmesean cheese. Maybe a few other things that I am forgetting as everything but the cheese is in quarantine at the moment. The cheese was shrink wrapped in plastic and worth using a Clorox wipe on.

It is very easy. Cook 1.5 cups rice with a cinnamon stick, 4 whole cloves, 10 black peppercorns and 1/2 tsp salt. Toast 1/2 cup chopped nuts in 2 tbsp. butter (I used pistachios). When the rice is cooked, stir in the toasted nuts and butter and 3/4 cup chopped dried fruit of your choice (I used apricots and dates). The original recipe also calls for soaking 20 strands of saffron in 2 tbsp. water and drizzling that over at the end, but my sister dislikes saffron so I left it out.

Tonight's dinner. Most of us had a coconut cauliflower curry with Indian flavored braised cabbage and maharajah rice, with flatbread My nephew won't eat any of that so I made him penne with a wild boar ragu using a package of D'Artagan wild boar sausage I found in the freezer. The sauce made enough for two meals for him. I've been cooking two, sometimes three, different meals for dinner every night because of allergies and food dislikes in my group quarantining together. It's not old yet but I can see it becoming so as this drags on. We've made it a month together without any food battles so that is good, and it is not like I have anything else to do other than pace around the house....

Jerusalem bagel unearthed from the freezer. Husband brought them home from the city on the last day he went in to the office before the work from home orders were given.

Salmon cake with amai sauce, salad and rice. The salmon recipe came from the Wagamama cookbook, and none of us loved it. The salmon is mixed with potatoes. I prefer my fish cakes with just fish and herbs I guess. Unfortunately the recipe made enough for two meals so I am going to have to come up with a way to jazz up the remaining six cakes. For now, they are in the freezer.

Here is my second week of vegetable share. A big bag of basil, three huge apples, a celery root, a big turnip. half head of cabbage, a huge sweet potato, more potatoes, shiitake mushrooms, a loaf of bread, and a bottle of maple syrup.

I was finally able to snag another Wegman's delivery slot for Sunday night. I thought the grocery would be closed on Sunday for Easter but I guess not.

Fish tacos

Thin spaghetti with scallops and burst grape tomatoes

Some small chickens from Heritage Foods. Leftovers will be made into soup later this week. Served with mashed potatoes, spinach, and homemade crescent rolls.

Baked a loaf of Italian bread Spaghetti and meatballs Salad too but no picture of that

Why not?

I have not been able to get an order to go through from Wegmans or Whole Foods for a couple of weeks. Luckily there is another grocery that I have been able to get deliveries from. I had one scheduled for next Tuesday, but it showed up yesterday! I got everything on my list except for white miso. The only problem with this store is that I do not like their meat or fish options. Their produce and dairy is OK though. Most of what I ordered is going to my parents' house. They have finally stopped shopping in the stores after weeks of nagging.

Friday night pizza night. Vegetarian since my sister and kids are quarantining with us and they observe Lent. Cheese Pepper, onion, and mushroom

Miso broiled salmon over udon noodles and summer squash zoodles with shiitake mushrooms

It was very easy! I just melted a few tablespoons of butter and browned it, then added two cups of orzo and stirred it around until it was toasted a bit. Then I added four cups of warm chicken stock, brought it to a boil, lowered the heat, covered, and simmered on low for about 12 minutes. Then I stirred in about 1/4 cup parmesan cheese and let it sit, covered, for five more minutes. Finally I stirred in minced parsley, salt and pepper. That's it. If it had just been my husband and I eating I would have done 3 1/3 cups stock and 2/3 cup white wine for the liquid, but my niece and nephew dislike the taste of wine in their food. This made enough for five servings plus a container of leftovers that I am giving my nephew with his chicken parmesean this evening. (The rest of us are having salmon, but he won't eat that).

Yes, it makes popcorn. You just stick it in a paper bag and cook it in the microwave for 2-3 minutes. You can do it stovetop too--coat it in a little oil and put it in a pan with a lid and shake it around until it pops.

The recipe is from the America's Test Kitchen cookbook Bread Illustrated. Unfortunately I cannot find the recipe online. ATK keeps their recipes behind a paywall and are pretty diligent about making bloggers take their recipes off their foodblogs. They want their $69.95 a year for online access! That said, if you like to bake, I highly recommend Bread Illustrated. I have made about 75% of the recipes in the book, and have only had one clunker (which was probably due to operator error). Here is a link to the book: Bread Illustrated: A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving Bakery-Quality Results At Home

Flounder milanese with brown butter orzo

Correct, unpeeled. No need to peel when they are going through the food mill. Plus, it makes the applesauce a pretty color.

Here is the delivery from my vegetable share. I don't know if everything shows up well. It's four apples, three parnsips, 10 potatoes, 3 ears of popping corn, half of a large cabbage, bag of micro greens, a bag of mesculin mix, shiitake mushrooms, a loaf of Iggy's Breads of the World francese bread, and all the way in the back, a bag of AP flour. I live in MA so local produce is pretty limited right now. I already have the mushrooms earmarked for salmon ramen tomorrow.

It is homemade. I quartered three pounds of Cortland apples (all I had in the house), and simmered them on low for an hour with 1/2 cup water. Then I ran them through my food mill, added about 1/4 cup sugar, and a tsp. of cinnamon. That is it! And it was very good indeed. I just wish I had more apples in the house for a larger batch.

The groceries around here are not accepting any returns at the moment. I wonder if she found herself stuck with everything. My coffee table is covered with them! But then again, it usually is 🙂 I got notification that our vegetable share is coming today instead of tomorrow. I guess so many new people signed up that they had to add extra delivery days. Fine with me. I'll post a picture of what I get after it arrives.