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last meal for the nephew before his return to college: fish and chips

Udon noodle bowl

Caesar salad with chicken

Poblano pepper stuffed with brown rice, chiles tomatoes and cheese. Slaw made from jicama, carrots, bell peppers and cilantro

I needed a cabbage to make slaw for a fish sandwich the other night, and the only cabbage in the grocery was a monster, weighing in at 7.5 lbs. I might end up making all of the cabbage recipes in the book to use it up! I started by making a pot of comforting cabbage, onion, and farro soup (page 337). That took care of one pound of the cabbage anyway. It does not look like much but the flavor is very appealing--sweet cabbage, nutty farro, and robust chicken stock. Should make for a couple of tasty desk lunches this week.

Corn, tomatoes, and clams on grilled bread, fork and knife style, p. 230 The corn was from my freezer, but still sweet. I added lots of chili flakes (he says to taste), and put the bread on the side rather than under the clams and broth, because I like some crispiness. Everyone loved this fast and easy dinner.

Sandwiches again last night. Everyone was too hyped up for the football game to have a nice sit down dinner, so I made grouper reubens. Very tasty and the outcome of the game was quite satisfactory.

Not really. I just mixed up some dijon mustard with cayenne, salt and pepper and dredged the chicken in it, then into some homemade shake and bake style crumbs that were in my freezer and sautéed it. The sauce is just dijon and grainy mustards mixed with some mayonnaise and a little honey and cayenne pepper. The leftover mustard chicken went into a very large sandwich that my husband and I split. Mustard chicken, bacon, spicy slaw and colby jack cheese on a crusty roll

Last night, miso-marinated salmon sandwiches with kimchii, from the Asian American cookbook Tonight, mustard chicken, baked mac and cheese and broccoli

Today’s desk lunch: Arugula salad with quinoa, black beans, avocado, bell pepper, tomato, red onion, corn and cilantro in a chili lime vinaigrette.

Penne and turkey meatballs

One skillet polenta, sausage and peppers from the current issue of Cook's Country magazine. Pretty satisfying on a cold evening.

tuna, rice, gai lan and dumplings

The biscuits are cheaters--the Red Lobster cheddar bay box mix! The stew is an Ina Garten recipe. I added corn to bulk it out because I was feeding a crowd. Here's the recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chicken-stew-with-biscuits-recipe-1941446 Last night, short ribs, mashed potatoes, carrots, and mushroom wellington

chicken stew and biscuits And for my niece who has a cold and wanted soup, butternut squash soup

I'm serving red wine braised short ribs (made them yesterday, they just need to be reheated) with mashed potatoes and roasted carrots. Since I don't eat red meat I am also making a mushroom wellington. It's supposed to -8 here by the evening so we are all looking forward to a hot and comforting meal.

Looks like lots of us have been in the mood for pasta lately! Last night I made spaghetti with Nantucket Bay scallops

Zuni Cafe chicken

This year I received a set of whisks, kitchen shears, a thermoworks time stack, and a deep fat fryer from my brother. We always exchange food-related gifts. My sister gave me a bottle of Verve Cliquot Rose champagne. My parents gave me an assortment of cheeses from a local cheese shop and a $200 gift card to Eataly, my niece and nephew each baked me cookies, and my brother in law gave me a bottle of rose that he knows I like. Surprisingly, my husband did not buy me anything food/kitchen related this year though he did pick out some very nice gifts.

@mm84321 absolutely stunning. I would have loved to have been a guest at your table, We used up bits of things in the fridge to have a sandwich night. Leftover Christmas roast with parmesan, arugula, and truffle butter for my husband Cheddar, bacon, arugula and carmelized onion-apple compote for my sister and me Apple, gouda, bacon, arugula and fig jam for my niece and nephew

spaghetti with clam sauce

Agnolotti with roasted chanterelles and a white truffle that I picked up at Eataly's truffle day on Friday--they were $5/gram cheaper then usual.

I’m one of the only people in the office today so treated myself to one of my favorite breakfasts.

After reading everyone talking about these biscuits, I ordered some on amazon. They were only available in a package of 10 boxes, so I was very hopeful we would like them. Well, everyone was right, they are tasty! I am very happy that I read about this mix because my regular biscuits are dreadful: dense and flat as a pancake. I baked up a box last night and we enjoyed a couple with what started out in my mind as shrimp and grits but morphed into shrimp over creamy polenta.

This is apparently the week of fish sandwiches at my house. Tonight I made a knife and fork scallop sandwich with U10 scallops from Eataly. 3 of them filled the entire (full-sized) roll!