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Splatch-cocked chicken roasted over potatoes. I slipped some sage, rosemary, parsley and garlic butter under the skin on the breasts and legs. I also roasted a halved and seeded butternut squash on the same sheet pan but it came out of the oven earlier. I didn't get a plate photo but it was served with the squash, potatoes, green beans and a green salad.

Egg, potato, aged cheddar, habanero, green onion and Thai basil wrap with the first of this season's clementines (when they start showing in the 5 lb. cases).

Day 15 of waking up to a rainy day. Egg, mushroom, cheddar and herb with a squirt of sriracha on a WW English muffin with a cup of soup.

From the local mycological group's FB page.

I made up a small batch of shepherd's pie yesterday, split it into 3 portions, and had one for dinner. Ground lamb, mushrooms, onion, carrots, peas and herbs with just enough of a Habanero pepper to know it's there but not overpowering. Covered with colcannon instead of plain mashed potatoes.

I think that's a great way to remember him. I don't know whether you've gardened before but I think you'll enjoy all the aspects from planning to harvest.

Having a vegetable garden can be a very positive motivator. During gardening season I really like going out and picking some produce and making something. A good example would be picking the ingredients for a super fresh shakshuka first thing in the morning. You also have to find ways of not wasting what you've put effort and money into growing.

I believe I posted this under another topic. My strategy is I have a clipboard with the top page of 'to cook' ideas/projects and the second page a freezer inventory. Some ideas don't happen immediately but I won't forget about them and will eventually get to.

That is just so wrong on so many levels.

@Shelby My vote goes to the lamb dinner. Looks great.

Soft scrambled herbed eggs over gravlax and toasted WW English muffins. With tomatoes and a mix of last summer's blueberries and blackberries.

It has been raining every day this week and the forecast calls for another week of the same. So I made a chicken stock based soup and homemade pork wontons to have in different variations. Yesterday's was with some of the wontons, shrimp and bean thread noodles.

Or on someone's foot if it missed anything on the trip to the floor 😟

That's a fair point however how about suggestions on obvious omissions. Perhaps Beard? Nguyen? Thompson? Olney? .....

I've read 18 out of the list and just taking a quick look at my kitchen bookcase I still have 5 of those. I did once own 'The Moosewood Cookbook' and 'Diet for a Lost Planet' however I still have this title from my undergraduate days and still use it. Quick breads, muffins, pancakes......got me through my student years on a limited budget.

@chromedome And the answer is only if it's colcannon.

I brought in all of my remaining tomatoes a little over 2 weeks ago and have had them ripening. Not as good as right off the vine however I would like to give a solid thumbs up to the Black Cherry varietal which does have a taste and texture very close to right off the vine. I've always included this variety and will be putting more vines in next season. Indoor garden doing well.

Dinners over the last 4 or 5 days. Haddock with herbed butter over mushroom couscous and freezer gazpacho. Montreal smoked meat on toasted baguette with tomatoes, coleslaw, pickled radishes and fermented green tomatoes. Seared pepper tuna, which should have been plated better, with a tomato and avocado salad and Punjabi style samosas (green chutney on the side).

A few recent breakfasts. Eggs cooked over a mix of onion, mushrooms and hot and sweet peppers and finished with chives, cilantro and Thai basil with tomatoes and toasted baguette. Egg, chorizo, aged cheddar and herb sandwich with tomatoes (from a dwindling supply of slowly ripening tomatoes brought in at the end of the season) and mix of orange and apple.

I'd bet this didn't win as best new flavour of the year.

A few recent breakfasts. Breakfast wrap of egg, sauteed mushrooms, onion, a mix of Thai, shishito and habanero peppers, chard, aged cheddar and cilantro. Egg, sausage, mushroom, peppers, lettuce, pepper jack and chives on a WW bagel.

I wouldn't say no to that soup for breakfast. Especially on a snow clearing morning.

Steak frites with sauteed mushrooms, a quick mayo, hot sauce and herb dip for the frites and salad. Served with a Big Spruce Cereal Killer Oatmeal Stout. Quesadilla of chopped leftover steak and mushrooms, chorizo, pepper jack and cilantro served with tomatoes, cucumber and pickled radish and red onion. Chunky guacamole on the side with an Annapolis Cider Co. dry cider.

Fish cakes made with cooked haddock and shrimp, chopped potato, onion, red Thai and shishito peppers, cilantro and dill, enough mayo to loosely bind, coated with panko and browned and warmed through. Yesterday with beans and a soft scrambled egg. Today with soft scrambled eggs and a toasted WW bagel with crabapple habanero jelly.

That is so groan worthy it's good. The Knack or Weird Al.