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Monday evening's dinner for company. Roasted chicken thighs and sausages over mushroom and pepper couscous served with a salad.

The day after Superbowl breakfast: chili, quesadillas, salad with a strange tasting iced tea. It's been a busy week so my only thought out meals were breakfasts. It's snowing again so a good day to make soup and make a batch of meals for next week (between snow clearing sessions). Eggs over potato, mushroom, peppers and tomato hash and some fruit. Egg, mushrooms, blood sausage, peppers, pepper jack and greens on a WW PC Thin bun. Orange, grapefruit and blackberries.

While running some errands this morning I dropped into local Dollarama and and they had one copy @ $4 so I have another cookbook. Thanks for the heads up.

Last week I was happy to find Longanisa in one of our local small grocers. Had a few with an egg, blood sausage, roasted tomato and toasted naan breakfast. There's nothing like good Longanisa unfortunately this was nothing like good Longanisa. They tasted like overly sweet ham. Repurposed in a western sandwich (with a few chopped Thai chilis, peppers and green onion in the eggs). Worked well.

Leftover won ton filling (on purpose) patties, soft scrambled eggs, tomato and greens on toasted naan. Blackberry, navel and blood orange medley on the side.

Spicy Tom Yum (-ish) soup with home made wontons, shrimp balls, shrimp roe noodles and vegetables with a local cider.

Thanks. Not an area I'm familiar with. I'm much more familiar with central and northern Ontario.

That's a nice fish. More so if taken from a cottage country lake. Any chance you remember which lake it was?

Two last breakfasts. Mushroom, spinach and aged cheddar omelet (could of been a little less sloppy). Egg, smoked salmon, tomato, greens with grainy mustard on a WW bagel.

Eggs with blistered tomatoes, hummus and marble rye.

Made these on Friday (in case we lost power on Saturday and needed something easy): Ju Bao from Andrea Nguyen's 'Asian Dumplings' with pork, cabbage, mushroom, assorted freezer greens .... We didn't lose power however these were tasty.

Breakfast this morning after a nasty weather day yesterday. Soft scrambled eggs, sausage, leftover mushroom pilaf and mixed berries.

I've been on the hunt for this cookbook for over twenty years after first reading 'Kitchen Confidential'. Originally published in 1975 and reprinted in 2018 (as I recently discovered). It's a good read as well as a good cookbook written by someone who loves seafood. Lots of local history and descriptions of a place that has changed a lot in some forty odd years.

Another early dinner after a snowshoeing hike. I'm glad I got out early because I had below -10 C and clear blue skies. Styrofoam snow and an absolute need for good sunglasses. It's clouded up since. Chile and black bean shrimp, old school Chinese Canadian eggrolls and a tomato, cucumber and green salad. With a NS Keith's IPA. Made a shrimp broth since my freezer bag was too full to add more.

-15 C. this morning so a larger than normal breakfast. I want to get out again today and enjoy the snow while it lasts. Mushroom, ham, shishitos, eggs, greens and monterey jack on ciabatta.

Early dinner yesterday after a few hours snowshoeing. Spicy udon, vegetable and chicken soup.

Thanks for posting the menus (and I'm glad I'm fluent in French).

For bell peppers strips are the way to go. They're the largest size I'll use and can be easily cut into smaller pieces. Agreed. Small hot peppers can be frozen that way as I generally use a whole pepper or more for whatever I'm doing. @blue_dolphin The chilis will keep in the freezer. I have in previous years, and hope to grow next summer, sufficient bonnets, serranos and thais to last over the winter.

Another option for a glut of peppers is to freeze them if they are going to be cooked and the texture doesn't matter. Top and split down the middle, deseed, freeze on a sheet then store in a ziplock. I've done this with bell peppers as well as thai, jalapeno and scotch bonnets (although I freeze the thai and bonnets whole).

Breakfast wraps with egg, chile, chorizo, Monterey Jack, tomato and greens. Still needed a dash of hot sauce.

@Smithy I had very clear skies for three evenings and had very good western views (not much light pollution here). Quick question. Do you use any sky mapping software? I've been using Stellarium on my laptop and been quite happy with it

Yes indeed. And the oysters.......

@weinoo Another post that really needs an envy emoticon.

Now that's a winter dish. Did you use shoulder or another cut?

@Smithy These are dried shrimp roe noodles. One of my favorites.