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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.

Crab burger

Baked up a loaf of cranberry walnut bread to eat toasted with butter for breakfast this morning

Last night's dinner is brought to you by the color brown. Rye bread Bratwurst, chicken apple sausage, applesauce, braised cabbage and potato pancake

We got another grocery delivery today, probably our last from the store for some time as now the delivery windows are crazy backed up and it sounds like Instacart workers are going to strike next week. They had chicken! I could not believe it. I also got all of the Kerrygold butter I asked for (we use a ton of butter). The regular kind is being rationed, but my husband only likes Kerrygold. Things I asked for that were out of stock today: flour (all kinds), yeast (but I got a pound delivered from amazon at scalper prices today so am all set there), garlic, ginger, red cabbage (???), thyme, rosemary, Corn Chex (sad nephew), Annie's mac and cheese (very sad nephew), apples. I did not even try for TP as we are well stocked, or cleaning products, which I am going to need eventually but are hard to come by around here.

It is cold and rainy here, so I decided to make soup for supper. Of course, my family being the way they are, I had to make three kinds of soup for five people 🙄 I made a batch of popovers, acceptable to all For my nephew, black bean soup For my niece, butternut squash-tortilla-chile soup For my husband, my sister, and myself, fish chowder

Chicken shawarma. I made a batch of flatbread to go with it but forgot to take a picture.

I placed an online order for delivery from a third local grocery, which was supposed to arrive on Wednesday. For whatever reason, they delivered it yesterday. Luckily it was primarily shelf stable staples so not a problem. Many, many substitutions. I ordered some DeCecco pasta for my nephew, and they delivered a brand I have never heard of instead. I hope it is good because now I have six pounds of it.

We had burgers last night. My husband and nephew each had a waygu burger and a hot dog from Heritage Foods. My sister, niece and I do not eat beef burgers so I made us a quinoa-cannelini bean-chipotle chile burger topped with carmelized onions. They were tasty. The burger buns were homemade. Waffle fries from a bag 🙂

My sister made a scramble for the adults with all of the little bits of vegetables she found in my crisper: broccoli, red onion, mushroom, tomato etc. Tasty and a way to use up some stuff at a time when we are trying not to waste anything.

i have successfully frozen clams. I steam them open, shuck, and cover them in the cooking liquid then freeze. They are goo for things like clam pizza, linguini and clams etc.

salmon tacos

I baked up a batch of English muffins that I started yesterday Egg bacon and cheese sandwich that I made for my husband. I ate breakfast when I woke up so am going to have one of the muffins for lunch

Steamed soy-ginger haddock with cilantro and hot peppers with a cabbage salad also dressed with soy and ginger and rice

I got a food order delivered to my house this morning. I received everything on my list with the exception of chicken, yeast, a type of cereal my nephew wanted, and flour. After trying for days, I was able to get a delivery order from Wegmans' set for Sunday evening. Trying again for chicken, but not optimistic. I finally bit the bullet and paid $20 for a pound of yeast on amazon. I also joined a local farm's vegetable share, which delivers to my house starting next Thursday. I can't imagine they have much yet other than greenhouse lettuces and maybe overwintered root vegetables, but it is better than nothing and supports a local farm. King Arthur Flour has their flour back in stock, FYI. Limit two per person.

Baked up some sandwich rolls Monster meatball sub for the bottomless pit nephew Scallop boats for the adults Not pictured, niece's egg sandwich

Elephant ear garlic naan Paneer butter masala, cauliflower coconut cashew curry, and Maharajah rice. All recipes from Meera Sodha

BLT

Rigatoni with turkey meatballs. Cheese added at the table.