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Shrimp scampi style on linguini and garlic knots. There was also a Caesar salad

It is a Thomas brand "sandwich size" English muffin.

Egg and bacon sandwich with carmelized onion-garlic jam

It snowed here last night so I made soup for supper. Two kinds, because of course no one can agree on what ingredients they like 🙄 Creamy chicken, mushroom, and mini gnocchi Pumpkin and apple with bacon-pumpkin seed granola Both recipes from the Half Baked Harvest cookbooks

I baked up some Cuban bread from the latest issue of Cook's Country magazine And used it to make swordfish banh mis

More recipes from Half Baked Harvest. Vegetable stuffed potstickers (I used cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, broccoli and carrots) with spicy sesame dipping sauce. My shaping skills could use some work. Garlic butter ramen with greens and egg. I doubled the greens because I had a bunch of collards in the fridge to use up

Poached egg with aleppo pepper on Dave's Killer Bread 28 grain thin sliced loaf and a glass of green vegetable juice I made in my Vitamix. It has spinach, carrot, cucumber, avocado, tomato, garlic, cayenne pepper and a blood orange. I liked it better today than yesterday. Yesterday the raw garlic was pretty harsh but it was nice and mellow today.

Shelby I am glad you are feeling better. I had the flu about 20 years ago and truly thought I was going to die. I am first in line for the flu shot every year now. Last night we had portobello mushroom, poblano pepper, bell pepper, onion and provolone "cheesesteaks"

Thai style vegetable curry with coconut milk and crispy chickpeas. Veggies were broccoli, peppers and carrots, plus a mango and pomegranate seed garnish. Quite nice and a decent level of heat. Recipe from the Half Baked Harvest cookbook. I guess Half Baked Harvest is a food blog. I have never read the blog, but I like the cookbook. Most of the things I am making this week are coming from it.

Pizza. I tried a new dough recipe which was not as cooperative as my usual, so ended up with some weird shapes. Butternut squash, apple butter, prosciutto, carmelized onions, sage, thyme and cheese standard margharita

My commercial freezer finally died. Well, not completely, it was at a perfect refrigerator temp, but that is of no use to me. The prior (And original) owners of my home installed the freezer in the basement before construction was finished, and it is too large to remove without cutting it in half. So now it sits in my boiler room with the door off (which is fine because we updated the heat system from a big honking scary boiler to a small high efficiency unit so thare’s a ton of space in there). Here are pictures of my new freezer’s contents: Not too bad. The top shelf is a vast quantity of soft pretzels that my husband ordered from a local bakery. I need to make more stock.

Broiled salmon with noodles and veggies in miso broth

Husband returned from London very late last night. I always send him photos of what I am cooking while he is traveling, and his first request was that he wanted breakfast tacos like I made for myself the other day. So, I did tacos again this morning, but with bacon added

medium boiled egg mashed with salt and red pepper flakes on a slice of toasted no knead bread with warm cherry tomatoes

My husband hates going to the grocery store for me also. He claims he cannot find anything on the list. He will happily accompany me if I ask him to, but then he wanders off and I have to go looking for him. He usually turns up in the cheese section or the wine section 🙂 It's OK, he does all of the laundry, which I hate to do, so the chore breakdown works out perfectly.

I have made Ina Garten's pan fried onion dip and it was very good. Here is a link: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/pan-fried-onion-dip-recipe-1940693 I baked a batch of pita bread this evening without knowing what I wanted to do with it. After some dithering around I made a chipotle-sun dried tomato tuna salad from the Half Baked Harvest cookbook, piled it on a pita with some avocado, arugula and red onion and a little sharp cheddar and stuck it under the broiler. The salad uses mashed avocado instead of mayonnaise to bind the oil packed tuna with the chipotles and sun dried tomatoes. I liked it, but it was a bit rich for what I was in the mood for, I probably should have skipped the cheese.

My brother gave me a Vitamix for Christmas so I used it yesterday to make a breakfast smoothie. 2 cups spinach, 1 cup green grapes, 1/2 cup pineapple, 1/2 banana, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup ice. Pretty tasty, but I am looking for other recipes that have more vegetables and less fruit (I don't have a sweet tooth). I found a spicy vegetable one with tomato, carrot and jalapeño that I am going to try next. This morning, breakfast taco made with one egg scrambled with leftover garlicky collard greens from last night's dinner, avocado, goat cheese, and leftover aji sauce (also made in the Vitamix)

I hope you have a successful surgery and a full and fast recovery! Dinner was another bowl meal. I'm trying to up my veggie intake to make up for a very indulgent rich food holiday period of eating. Between this for dinner and a smoothie with two cups of spinach in it for breakfast I did OK today. This bowl is brown rice, black beans, garlic sautéed collard greens, and smoked paprika roasted acorn squash with aji sauce and jalapeños.

roasted broccoli, brown rice and avocado bowl with shichimi togarashi, spicy chili crisp condiment and ponzu

My stomach is blown out from all of the rich holiday foods, and my husband had to fly a red eye to London tonight, so I went simple and vegetarian with soups. I made two kinds as different folks like different things. Both are from the cookbook Half Baked Harvest Super Simple. Butternut squash with pumpkin seeds and sage. I accidentally focused more on the bowl than the soup with my camera, I think because I have not used these bowls in a while and I like them. Roasted tomato with lemon-basil pesto Not shown because I forgot to take a picture, but I made popovers to go with the soups. There was also a salad.

fish and chips, onion rings, slaw and tartar sauce

Spinach lasagna. This one held together better than the sausage and mushroom one I made recently. The only problem with lasagna is that it makes enough to feed a small army. I think I have eight more servings in the freezer.

I am making homemade American-style Chinese food. My nephew loves this style of food but cannot usually have it since he has an anaphylactic allergy to crustaceans and the restaurants serving this style of food just cannot accommodate that. I let him pick the menu: sesame soy chicken wings, chicken and vegetable potstickers, crabless rangoons (the filling is just cream cheese, sriracha and scallions), General Tso's chicken, fried rice, scallion pancakes. He wanted egg rolls too but I could not find the right kind of wrappers. Champagne for the grownups is already chilling.

leftover roast beef sandwich with arugula parmesan and truffle butter, on homemade pane francese

I baked a loaf of oatmeal raisin bread to have toasted for breakfast this morning