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I seared the fish over medium-high heat for about four minutes, then added it to the braised vegetables and cooked everything together over low heat for about 10 minutes or so? I was not really timing it. The original recipe called for searing the fish first and then setting it aside while the vegetables braised, I'm guessing to make it a one-pot dish. I didn't think that sounded like the greatest plan, so I braised the vegetables first, then cooked the fish at the end. It did mean I had a skillet and a pot to wash, but that's no big deal.

Cusk from my fish share, cooked pot roast style (a Mark Bittman recipe from the New York Times)

Unfortunately the recipe does not appear to be online any longer. The cookbook authors do have a cooking blog called the Inn at the Crossroads, but it looks like they took down the recipes that got published in the cookbook. It's basically a standard vanilla muffin recipe that has two peeled and diced apples added to the batter. The liquid used is sour cream. The topping is a streusel made from brown sugar, cinnamon, butter, and chopped walnuts. The recipe called for baking them in a jumbo muffin pan at 350 for 30 minutes. I don't have a jumbo muffin pan, so used my popover pans. I will warn you that my pans overflowed and I had to clean burned sugar off the floor of my oven. If you make them, put a baking sheet under your muffin pan!

Saturday was the first warm and sunny day in a long time, so I grilled a big platter of vegetables and served them with grilled bruschetta made from focaccia and topped with homemade ricotta Yesterday I went to my mother's for dinner, but had to get my Game of Thrones recipe of the week in before leaving: apple muffin/cakes. My niece took them all for her breakfasts this week.

chicken teriyaki, rice, and broccoli

Last night, two recipes from Andrea Nguyen's new cookbook, Vietnamese Food Any Day. Rice Noodle Salad Bowl and Crispy Lemongrass Salmon. The combination was really great. I ate the leftovers for lunch today and they were still delicious. I think this is going to be a frequent dinner once the weather warms up.

Last night, sautéed Acadian redfish, macomber turnip-potato puree, and the first of the local asparagus

The rolls are ciabatta rolls and I did dig out the insides. Otherwise I find the sandwich is too thick and hard to bite into. I cut the sausage in half for the same reason. Last night, thin spaghetti with seared scallops, burst tomatoes and herbs.

Friday I made a couple jars of giardiniera We had some of it last night on sausage sandwiches with peppers, onions, and mozzarella Saturday I made truffle pasta with a fresh truffle a friend of my husband's gave him. Some if it got chopped into the sauce and I tried shaving the rest.

Last night we had salmon larb and smacked cucumber salad with rice. My fish share usually gives me a nice thick piece of salmon but this week it was an oddly shaped thin piece so this seemed like a good way to use it Tonight, sole milanese to finish up this week's fish share. They gave me 12 (!) pieces of sole so it turned into a two night affair, even with sharing my fish share with my sister.

Monday night, turkey burgers. Not a huge fan of turkey burgers but I had some ground turkey to use up and was in a hurry. Last night, sole meunière, which was more to my liking

Keeping up the weekly Game of Thrones recipes from the cookbook A Feast of Ice and Fire...the crusty white bread of Winterfell. It was very crusty! The summer greens salad from King's Landing. Very tasty Main course for the beef eaters of filet mignon, green beans and baked mac and cheese

Some dinners from this past week. Salmon banh mi Blackened chicken caesar salad Mushroom, pepper, and arugula pizza

That is a beautiful, spacious kitchen! Lots of storage space too. Is the floor wood or tile? When I remodeled my kitchen I put in wood-look tile. It sort of looks like yours but mine is a blue-gray color. It reminds me of the deck of a ship.

Roasted chicken noodle soup from Andrea Nguyen's new cookbook Vietnamese Food Every Day. This made good use of the leftover chicken carcasses and odd bits of meat from Easter dinner. It had a nice comforting flavor. I think some lime juice and/or fish sauce would have made the flavor pop a bit more. I'm looking forward to cooking from this book.

I only got one picture from our Easter dinner, and it happened to be this week's Game of Thrones recipe. Honeyed Chicken of the North. It was tasty. The recipe suggested serving more of the sauce (apple cider vinegar and honey cooked down with dried fruit) as a gravy, but I did not do that, it would have been way too sweet. Leftovers are simmering away for tonight's soup supper.

It does. Go to your drop down menu under your username in the top right corner, select "ignored users" and you will be brought to a page where you can add the usernames of those whose posts you do not wish to see. Last night we had black bean and roasted poblano pepper enchiladas verde with yellow rice.

My brother dropped off a nine pound bone in leg of lamb that he got from Lobel's and asked me to make it on the grill. I have never grilled a leg of lamb before. I settled on this recipe: https://food52.com/recipes/3851-grilled-leg-of-lamb-with-dijon-mustard-rosemary-and-garlic Hopefully it will be good. I. along with three others who will be at the meal, do not eat lamb, so I am also doing roasted chicken with a honey glaze. Side dishes are all various family requests: duck fat roasted potatoes (father), asparagus (sister), whisky-glazed carrots (niece), and some sort of bread (nephew) and some sort of salad (mother) TBD this evening. My parents strongly dislike appetizers before dinner so I am not making any. No one in my family is a big fan of dessert either so I'm just going to put out a small plate of mini desserts that I already have made in the freezer just in case anyone (the teens haha) wants something. Husband is in charge of the wine selections. I know we'll start the gathering with a champagne toast to my parents, who are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary today.

Mini crispy salmon cakes in lettuce cups with nuoc cham and rice

We had Monday off for Patriot's Day and it was warm enough to grill, so I made grilled coconut-lime-lemongrass chicken with pineapple sambal and rice. The side dish was a Thai-inspired slaw recipe from a free issue of Milk Street magazine that I got in the mail. It was pretty tasty. Last night I made salmon banh mi

I made a Game of Thrones themed dinner last night in honor of the premiere of the final season. I don't watch much TV, but love Game of Thrones. All the recipes came from the companion cookbook to the series, A Feast of Ice and Fire. I was not able to take pictures of the entire meal because of all of the chaos and running around, but here are a few. Black bread (very tasty with a great crust) Sansa's Salad (baby spinach, candid walnuts, figs (which I subbed in for the called for prunes), edible flowers and raspberry vinaigrette) Sansa's Lemon Cakes, made by my teenaged niece

Spinach and ricotta stuffed ravioli with pesto and grape tomatoes

Miso-glazed salmon on miso ramen with bok choy and mushrooms

Cod baked with cherry tomatoes, garlic, kalamata olives, and artichoke hearts

scallop rolls again