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Another recipe from Milk Street Tuesday Nights: Hazelnut crusted chicken cutlets with an arugula, fennel and shallot salad. I added some shaved parmesan to the salad. Quick and tasty.

So, I cooked my Impossible Burger product tonight. I used a recipe from Milk Street Tuesday Nights for Vietnamese meatballs in lettuce wraps. The recipe was written for pork so I used the cooking guidelines on the Impossible site (425 for about 10 minutes) and the meatballs temped at 130 and were "bleeding." Obviously this is not the best method for tasting the product itself (the meatballs had cilantro, chiles, scallions, fish sauce etc). My husband and I both enjoyed it. I'm tentatively a fan, and can see us not buying ground turkey or chicken anymore.

The bottom might be burnt, but the top looks delicious! Last night, clean out the fridge BLT pasta

Hot mushrooms on toast is one of my favorite winter dinners. Yours looks delectable. Dinner number three from Vietnamese Any Day. Coconut kissed chicken and chiles, and smacked cucumber salad sans the optional shrimp the recipe calls for. Plus rice. The coconut flavor in the chicken comes from coconut oil and coconut water.

My husband has ordered from Heritage Foods a couple of times. About three years ago we did a two day Thanksgiving feast, with a regular bird one day and a bird from Heritage Foods another day. People had very strong opinions about which was better. We got their catalog recently but I don't think my husband kept it to browse through for whatever reason. Meal number two from Vietnamese Food Any Day: shrimp in coconut caramel sauce. I had a different dinner planned but got home later than expected and this was fast because I made the caramel sauce base over the weekend in anticipation of cooking from this book this week.

Sometimes I grab a cookbook off the shelf and make food from it all week. This week I picked Andrea Nguyen's Vietnamese Food Every Day. Tonight's dinner was ginger-garlic fish parcels. She suggests salmon or halibut, and I used salmon. The sauce is oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, pepper, garlic and ginger. The parchment parcels have a layer of baby bok choy tossed with sesame oil, scallions, and then fish topped with the sauce and scallion greens. I served with rice. Very nice dinner.

Today I found the Impossible product at my local Wegman’s. The cost was $8.99 for 12 ounces. I picked up a package but am not sure what I am going to do with it yet since I had already planned my menu for the week.

Shrimp and scallops fra diavolo

Last night, spicy turkey stir fry with crisp garlic and ginger from NY Times Cooking. Here is the link. I doubled the liquids and chiles https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020222-spicy-turkey-stir-fry-with-crisp-garlic-and-ginger?action=click&module=Local Search Recipe Card&pgType=search&rank=1 That's it for poultry for a few days. I stopped at Eataly on the way home tonight and picked up halibut, scallops, and black sea bass.

Sunday I made crispy fried chicken. Served with sliced tomatoes and sweet corn Tuesday I chopped up some of the leftover chicken and put it in a big salad Last night we had....a big salad with chicken. This time chicken coated in panko and everything bagel seasoning and served over greens with a honey vinaigrette. I saw the recipe in Eating Well magazine and it looked easy and tasty. Both were true

Sandwich Saturday. Niece asked for a prosciutto, fig jam and gruyere panino Lobster was $4.99/lb. (new shell) at Wegman's yesterday, so I bought a few and made my sister and my husband lobster rolls And I made a shrimp burger for myself

That was what the recipe was called, so that is what I wrote. It differed from my usual recipe-free pizza in that you cooked the dough on an oiled pan, which resulted in a thicker crust than I generally prefer. Plus, it is (sort of) square 🙂 Tonight, miso marinated black cod with rice and sesame spinach. I scraped the miso marinade off before searing the fish, but not well enough because a stupid piece of marinade hurled itself projectile like across the kitchen and adhered to my face just under my eye. Luckily I keep an aloe plant in the kitchen.

Last night, flatbread topped with sun dried tomatoes, artichokes, mozzarella, pesto, arugula and olives.

Garlicky shrimp spaghetti with cherry tomatoes

Sunday family linner serving plates. Chopped salad Chicken shawarma Jeweled rice with cauliflower grilled pita

Just by coincidence, my husband brought a bag of those burger buns and a slab of tuna home from the farmer's market last night and asked me to make a spicy tuna sandwich, with the tuna cooked really rare. So, here is rare tuna with Asian flavored slaw, avocado and spicy sriracha aioli on an Iggy's black pepper brioche bun. I sliced my tuna instead of eating it as a steak

Ah, no. My bread baking skills are amateur at best. Those are ciabatta rolls from a local baking outfit, Iggy's Breads of the World. They sell at local Whole Foods and farmer's markets. They also make a delicious cracked black pepper brioche burger bun that I use for salmon burgers in the winter. I always have some of their francese bread somewhere in the house too. Dinner tonight was a recipe for coconut crusted cauliflower tacos with mango-cabbage slaw. Do you know what is tasty? Tacos with something other than cauliflower in them. I like cauliflower a lot but using cauliflower in all dishes as a substitute for everything "bad" is getting old, at least for me....

I serve my corn that way too, and for the same reason as you (mom and grandma did it that way). It really does seem to keep it hot. I think that is a potholder 🙂 Got home later than planned so my original dinner plans went out the window. Sandwiches to the rescue. Leftover ribeye from Saturday, parmesan cheese, truffle butter and greens for husband Homemade turkey sausage (from the freezer), egg, tomatoes and greens for me. Half of each sandwich is wrapped in the fridge for a lunch later.

This was my niece's birthday weekend, so she was allowed to choose all of the dinners. Yesterday she asked for steak, mac and cheese, summer squash, and eggplant. I found some prime dry aged ribeyes and porterhouses at Wegman's. I also made a cauliflower gratin as my sister and I don't like mac and cheese and we both choose not to eat red meat. No photos as my parents were dining with us and they hate when I take food photos. Today my niece asked for homemade takeout style "Chinese" food. I made vegetable egg rolls and crab (less) rangoons (I've mentioned on here before that my nephew has an anaphylactic allergy to crustaceans, and so she won't eat crustaceans either out of solidarity, even when he is away at college), plus sticky wings and vegetable lo mein. wings Lo mein (served in Deruta style bowl haha)

Grilled cornish hen with mango salsa, heirloom tomato-mozzarella salad, and potato gallete (dug out from the freezer and reheated)

Tuesday, grilled scallops and zucchini with Smitten Kitchen's farro with tomatoes Last night, striped bass reubens

Last meal for the trip. There are thunderstorms in the area so we decided to stay close and go to Mac’s Shack. Blueberry lemonade cocktail. I normally dislike sweet drinks but this was ok. Halibut turadito tuna tostada seared halibut over over lobster mashed potatoes with lobster sauce grilled swordfish with roasted fingerlings, Swiss chard and tomatillo sauce And that is it for now. Tourist season is over. Friends of the owner came up on our beach boardwalk today looking for him to go with them to Reggae on the Bay and were disappointed to find out that the renters were firmly installed until tomorrow morning 🙂 But no worries, we will be back in this same house next month to attend Oysterfest and I will be sure to share photos here. Beach house rental last bit of sunset back to work Wednesday.

Yes, it is a red-tailed hawk. This type of hawk used to sit on the ledge of my office window to hunt rats and pigeons in the parking lot adjacent to my building. I have some cool pictures of them. Eventually a building was put in there and now they sit on that building instead. They also have a nest in the iconic CITGO sign that you can see from Fenway Park, so I still get to see them flying around as that is also part of my office window view. Yesterday my sister requested that we return to Winslow's Tavern. Drinks: summer in a glass, spicy G+T, and crush and blush Same roasted oysters as last time Tuna confit with saffron aioli Lobster sandwich Proscuitto sandwich Crab burger Cacio e pepe Triple chocolate mousse Sunset Crescent moon Today is our last day of the trip. We leave for home at 10AM tomorrow. My sister and niece have already left, and I think my brother and brother in law are leaving soon too (only my husband and I took tomorrow off from work). I'm not sure what we are doing for food yet. It is supposed to rain later, so we won't be venturing far.

Yesterday we had a terrific whale watch. We saw 15 humpback whales and two fin whales. Here are a couple of photos. The pier that the boats leave from looking back towards town Humpback doing a chin breach. This one actually did a full body breach but I was not fast enough with the camera. Mother whale with her calf Hello people Afterwards, per tradition, we had dinner at Mac's Fish House. Drinks Shrimp and grits Oysters (and it was happy hour so they were indeed $1 each!) Salmon hand roll Sushi (note the dreaded cream cheese again, yes this was my niece's plate) Roasted cod with a clams casino crust and crispy kale Broiled striped bass with mashed potatoes and vegetables Grilled striped bass with smoked mussels and mussel veloute Swordfish curry Niece had fried plantains with ice cream for dessert Back at the house we tried to go for a beach walk but were thwarted by the presence of this fellow on our deck. He's been hanging around here a lot and dive bombed my brother the other day so the nest must be close

Yesterday we were able to get parking at the Beachcomber. Fried clams Mozzarella sticks (for the niece) Steamers Caesar salad with shrimp Fish and chips Oyster po boy Heading out for a whale watch