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Getting a head start on a roast chicken dinner. Just made the dressing. Needs to be spooned into a casserole dish and Moe will put it in the CSO before I get home from work. Presalted a 4lb chicken yesterday and it is now air drying in the fridge. I've asked Moe or Matt to take it out of the fridge around 4:00 and have the oven preheated to 500°F before I get home from work. Chicken will take about 45 to 50 minutes and will rest while the sides cook and the gravy simmers.

That looks so tasty @liuzhou Actually I think it looks like pretty. I bet that would also be good in a lettuce cup. Makes my mouth water. @Margaret Pilgrim, nice combination. I promised to make Moe curry again so started both a chicken curry and Aloo Gobi before leaving for work on Thursday. Just had to reheat and cook the rice and make the chapti. Thursday morning I order more halibut from Walcan Seafood, along with Petrale Sole. It was delivered to the door before 8:00 AM Friday. Moe requested fish and chips again so that is what we had last night.

Pulled Halibut out of the freezer before leaving for work. Offered Moe some options and he requested Parmesan crusted halibut.

Made a batch of my favourite Pork, Garlic and Basil meatballs yesterday. Froze some and kept a few out and made Moe a meatball sandwich for breakfast this morning. On a homemade bun, with fried onions and peppers , topped with mozzarella and parmesan.

I started a batch of my favourite meatballs yesterday morning. After smelling them simmering in the sauce all morning, Moe decided that we should have dinner for lunch. Spaghetti and Meatballs. Pork, Garlic and Basil Meatballs

We had a late lunch yesterday so dinner was dessert. I had three store bought croissants that I cut up and made Bread and Butter pudding. Served with a white caramel sauce. And I confess I had the same thing for breakfast.

I would be happy with both @Duvel's and @liamsaunt's pizzas. Halibut Mediterranean Style Saturday night. and for last night's dinner grilled a 2/12" NY Strip steak on a cast iron grill pan and finished in a 500°F oven. Two slices, Served with roasted potatoes, steamed cauliflower and a wine gravy.

Couldn't decide what I wanted to do with boneless chicken breasts. So I decided to make buttermilk fried chicken with cream gravy. Unfortunately I didn't have buttermilk but I had heavy cream and a lemon so I pounded out the chicken and soaked it for 20 minutes in the cream with fresh lemon juice. It soaked while the potatoes were cooking. Dipped in season flour (salt, pepper, rubbed sage, paprika, cayenne, garlic powder and onion powder) and fried. Once the chicken was golden brown, it went into a low oven to keep warm while I made the gravy. Poured off the fat but kept some of the brown bits. Added butter and made a roux with the seasoned flour. Added chicken broth, and heavy cream and I still had 1/2 cup of pork gravy from the other night so added that as well. An hour after I got home from work we were eating.

@heidih, After more than 10 years we finally had to stop making our boards. I recently put together an album of many of the boards we made and sold. Including knife racks and wall hangers. If you want, you can take a look here.

@Shelby thank you. It is so nice to see our boards being used. Especially since we had to stop making them after Moe's second surgery. And we just found out two days ago that he needs another. I was expecting a 2 or 3 month wait, but received notice today that it is scheduled for November 10th. First let me say, that this does taste better than it looks. I had a craving for chicken livers. Hadn't cooked them in a while. Fried with onions, green peppers, mushrooms and garlic and seasoned with salt, pepper and sage. A little chicken broth and a little cognac and served over rice.

I steam radishes. They remind me of the little white turnips when steamed and buttered.

WOW!!! love your crust.

I started dinner before leaving for work this morning. Indian Chicken curry. Another one of Moe's favourites and one I haven't made in a while. When I got home from work, I put a pot of water to to boil for the basmati rice and put the curry back on the stove , cut up a couple of russet potatoes and added to the curry. And while the potatoes and rice were cooking, made the dough for the Chapati and let it rest. I love chapati with homemade curry. And they are so easy to make. They bake in just a minute or two.

@Katie Meadow, as @Margaret Pilgrim said, gravy is so easy to make. Nothing better than mashed potatoes and gravy. Moe and I both love gravy/sauces. Can't imagine only having gravy once a year. Oh and just for the record, I don't get up early in order to cook.🙂 I just happen to be an early riser and unfortunately that means being wide awake usually between 3 and 4. I don't have to be at work until 10:00 so I might as well cook. So nice to have a variety of fish in the freezer from Walcan Seafood. Pulled a couple of halibut filets out for dinner and made fish and chips. Tempura style beer batter. Homemade tartar sauce on the side.

@heidih, I just watched a video on Julia's stuffed veal breast and unlike that recipe, there is no skill involved in making the stuffed ribs. And not time consuming either. Just a matter of sandwiching the dressing between two racks of ribs.

Breakfast. This is my favourite Cornbread recipe for muffins. Although I have also baked it in a cake pan and a loaf pan in the past. A very tender cornbread.

@rotuts, yes, but in this case since it was just for the two of us, I just used one rack, cut in half.

Hadn't made stuffed baby back ribs in awhile. So that is what we had for dinner last night. Traditional bread stuffing, served with mashed potatoes, gravy, squash and steamed green beans.

Baked Sticky Toffee Puddings thinking they would be for dessert tonight. But Moe decided to have one as his lunch. Served with extra toffee sauce.

Enough dough from the second batch to bake two pizzas last night and two baguettes. Sliced this morning for breakfast.

Pizza tonight. Dough was made Thursday night and left in the fridge until this afternoon. Matt took it out around 2:30 so it would be ready to use when I got home from work. It always needs about three hours to warm up and finish rising. I need a new grill and I really don't care much for the Ooni so this pizza was baked in the oven using the Forkish method combination of 550°F oven and finished under the broiler. Moe and I shared an Italian sausage and mushroom pizza.

Congratulations. Lovely dinner and I love your dishes.

Made Moe blueberry pancakes this morning.

Inspired by @liamsaunt and @Margaret Pilgrim, I pulled Spot Prawns out of the freezer this morning before leaving for work. Made Pappardelle with a simple tomato garlic basil sauce and grilled the prawns. (cast iron grill pan). I wasn't really in the mood for prawns so I just had pasta.

@ElsieD, I'm not a raisin fan, in fact, I really, really don't like them. BUT Moe does. I really should make one for him. And your loaf really looks amazing. Makes me wish I did like raisins. Started two bigas (2 gs yeast) yesterday morning before leaving for work. Last night made two batches of dough. One with the addition of 2 grams of yeast and one without additional yeast. The one with the yeast went immediately into the fridge after the last stretch and fold and the one without additional yeast was left out overnight and baked this morning. Eight baguettes out of the oven by 7:15 AM The one in the fridge is destined for pizza on Saturday night.