HungryChris

Poached duck egg, leftover corned beef, fresh salsa and toasted homemade Brothers Bread, recipe courtesy of Brother Rick Curry, The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking, HaperPerennial, 1995. I find when making this bread that I usually have good results if the mixer struggles a bit with the dough, at first. This time, however, while the bread turned out well, I suffered a bit of collateral damage. Oh, well, nothing Amazon Prime can't fix. HC

Cold pizza, marinated gigante beans from Whole Foods and pickled zucchini ribbons. HC

I have been watching for fiddleheads and finally saw some in Whole Foods in Glastonbury, CT yesterday, but at $14.99 a pound I knew they wouldn't taste good to me. HC

White bean hummus on toasted rye. HC

"Soupy" (soppressata) and pepper pizza. HC

Crispy fried soft shell crab, cold roasted asparagus and lemon, garlic aioli. HC

Last night was steamed snow crab night, and a good night it was. HC

Marble rye toast, white bean hummus, leftover roasted asparagus and fresh salsa. HC

Toasted pita chip with white bean hummus. HC

The weather has been cold and rainy for a week or more. Nothing is growing much, just waiting for warm, sunny days to arrive. The peas are up and waiting. The lettuce (on the left), radishes (in the middle) and the nonexistent beans in the trench on the right are all waiting. I have begun to come to the sad conclusion (it's been 2 weeks since they were planted), that the beans will need to be replanted for the third time. Oh, and the peonies are far from in bloom. HC

Broke out another corned beef from the freezer from the St Patty's day sale and had a corned beef dinner from the IP. I added the usual spice package included with the beef, along with a few bay leaves, mustard seeds and a quarter cup of Crystal hot sauce. This was a big one, so manual for 2 hours and quick released. Added the cabbage, carrots and potatoes for 10 minutes and quick released. This was a winner (even though I was a loser on my Kentucky Derby picks). The sandwiches with baby swiss on marble rye are on my radar! HC

Leftover steak with horseradish and mayo sandwich on thinly sliced marble rye. I have to examine the morning line and then we are off to pre-bet the Kentucky Derby. HC

Steak dinner tonight at the HC domicile. Deb like hers medium. I like mine rare. We both like our baked potatoes crispy. I have gotten pretty good at making it all happen, this time with roasted asparagus. HC

Warning Will Robinson. Kimchi level has fallen dangerously low! Time to stop being lost in space and find your way to Cranston, R.I. to replenish your supply! HC

"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a popular Christmas song written in 1963 by Edward Pola and George Wyle, but it has long been my suspicion that they were secretly thinking about soft shell crab season. BTW, I spotted and bought clamato juice recently and while this is a virgin Caesar, it did prove to me that the cocktail has merit and needs to be pursued. Thanks, Anna N! HC

Eggs over easy, reheated broccolini, Italian toast and fresh salsa (my feeble attempt to salvage some cinco de mayo cred, after jumping the gun by a day). HC

oops! Because of a typo in a grocery flyer, we celebrated cinco de mayo on cuatro de mayo, oh well. The tacos were good anyway. Deb does not like a lot of lettuce on her tacos, so shredded lettuce is an add on. That is just how we roll. HC

Because it's Cinco de Mayo and I do see quite a few Mexican rabbit dishes when I google, like braised rabbit with mushrooms, you might pick one of those. HC

The center core is also good sliced about 1/8 " thick and stir fried like a bamboo shoot or pickled for sandwiches or salads. HC

I recently shared a fried shrimp po boy (dressed, meaning w lettuce, tomato, pickle and spiced mayo) with Deb at Drago's in New Orleans. I liked it much more than I thought I would. Here is my first shot at it at home. HC

I know the feeling. Been there, done that. I thought I had a good relationship with them. They stayed on the lawn and out of my garden....until I saw this one guy take a sample bite out of a ripe tomato, then another, then another, trying to find one that was just right. That was air gun, last straw territory for me. HC

Interesting. I'll have to try that. HC

Duck egg, broccolini and cheese omelet with fresh salsa. HC

I make salsa on a regular basis and limes are a critical ingredient. I paid 50 cents each for moderate sized limes yesterday, up from 33 cents each a week earlier. HC

It was my intention to buy a steak (for Deb) and a few lamb chops (for me, as Deb does not like lamb), but instead I spotted this pork tenderloin on sale: I decided to do a pork tenderloin, Mojo, citrus garlic skewer with veggies on jasmine rice with TJ's red curry. Here are the skewers after being cut into large sea scallop sized pieces and marinated in mojo for 2 hours: I cooked the skewers on the grill while I cooked the peppers and onions in a wok and jasmine rice in the instant pot. When the rice and skewers were ready, the pork from the skewers were added to the veggies along with the red curry sauce in the wok, then served up. I would have liked a little more heat, but will tweak that next time. HC