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Ground lamb, chorizo, and mushroom tacos. Blended sauce of toasted pasilla chiles, roasted garlic, honey, cumin, black pepper, and chicken stock. Topped with white onion, cilantro, and crumbled feta. Pasilla chiles make such a rich, flavorful sauce. Green bean and white onion salad with a dressing of olive oil, tomatillo salsa, lime juice, and cilantro.

Just returned from a 5-week road trip to Oregon, the Bay Area, Hawaii, and points between, so I'm not even going to try to catch up. Arrived home to an "empty" fridge but managed to scrape together a tasty green curry with shrimp, spinach, and peas, supplemented with garlic and ginger paste, lemongrass, tamarind, and dried Thai chiles. Lots of nondescript food on the trip - hotel oatmeal, fast food, etc. - but we ran across some good food trucks. The highlight was khao soi, which I have always fancied but never previously enjoyed: Food trucks we enjoyed along the way: And interesting Thai food on the beach in Hawaii:

Cooked dinner for friends at a campground: Thai steak salad, grilled zucchini, and grilled pineapple. No pictures, sadly. Ribeye and NY strip steaks were marinated in soy sauce, oyster sauce, black pepper, and olive oil, grilled, and then sliced. Salad was butter and red leaf lettuce, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, scallions, and cilantro. Improvised the dressing with lime juice, palm sugar, fish sauce, cilantro, scallions, and chile crisp. Zucchini was marinated with soy sauce, lime juice, palm sugar, and black pepper before grilling. Also had smoked fish from Madeline Island and delicious liver sausage made by a friend.

Clean out the fridge dinner: chorizo and cabbage in a chipotle, tomato, and cream sauce with white onion, garlic, turmeric, fennel seed, garam masala, and cilantro. Trying to make a meal from random ingredients is fun. Usually. 😉

More fridge-cleaning: crookneck squash simmered with coconut milk, crushed tomato, and a little brown sugar. Flavors included sauteed shallot, garlic, habanero chile, bay leaf, and bruised galangal.

Dry-fried mixed mushrooms with white onion, chipotle, garlic, cumin, white pepper, and cilantro Mrs. C said "Tastes great, looks like worms."

Yellow squash and corn with tomato, chipotle, shallot, garlic, and cilantro, finished with a little heavy cream. Pretty tasty for a mix of leftovers and must-use-ups in the fridge.

Pan-fried halibut with horseradish Sriracha mayo, courtesy of Mrs. C. Stir-fried red bell peppers and green beans with garlic and fermented black bean sauce.

Yes I liked that recipe. My notes say ~1.5 hours simmering for boneless lamb shanks

Hosted neighbors over for dinner. Pics are this morning's leftovers, so you will just have to take my word that everything looked better yesterday. 😉 Mrs. C made a delicious sockeye salmon with dill dressing. Seared scallops and dry-fried mushrooms with mashed sweet potato and a rosemary port-cream pan sauce. Mrs. C requested that we add this to our holiday meal. Beet salad (from neighbors) and a delicious salad of avocado, tomato, corn, shallots, etc. (from Mrs. C). When Russians offer anything with beets, I suggest saying “Yes, please.” Eggplant curry with coconut milk, tamarind, shallots, garlic, green bird chiles, turmeric, and a spice mix of coriander, cayenne, cumin, fennel, and cinnamon stick. I seem to be the only one who likes this, but I like it very much. Peach and mango crisp, also by Mrs. C. No added sugar, and the topping was particularly good.

Welcome to the forums! As mentioned above, my chocolate experience mostly involves unwrapping and eating but it sounds like you are well past that point. 🙂 Assuming you occasionally eat something other than chocolate, I am sure many of us would also be interested to hear about food in New Zealand.

Steamed shrimp with garlic, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, white pepper, and scallions Cream of chayote soup with coconut milk, chicken broth, and sauteed white onion, garlic, and jalapeno. Served with feta cheese and a dollop of crema Guatemalteca

One-pan meal: lamb keema with spinach and coconut milk. Flavors included onion, ginger, garlic, jalapeno, black cardamom, coriander, fenugreek, bay leaf (sub for curry leaf), Thai basil and Chinese chives (subs for cilantro), and garam masala.

Platanos . . . . . . with crema Guatemalteca

Guest's last night in Maryland so we had to go out for crabs. All you can eat medium to small, but full of sweet goodness. Yuengling, coleslaw and Maryland crab soup to go with.

Restraint is good, but not one of my virtues so I often pre-cook the innards (veggies, etc.) just before making the omelette.

Halibut with fermented black beans, garlic, and ginger. Cucumber salad. Yellow squash with onion, garlic, and tomato. Coconut rice.

Light summer dinner with bounty from a local orchard. Green and yellow beans with dry-fried shiitake mushrooms and grated Parmesan Crisp with red and black raspberries, blueberries, mango, and dried strawberries. This will not last long.

Welcome to eGullet @TX Salt Life! Good luck with Beryl, and I look forward to hearing about your growing, catching, cooking, preserving, and eating. But especially seafood. I love seafood. 😃

In my quest for good local chorizo I tried the butcher counter at one of the Latino markets. I tried to order four links, but due to miscommunication ended up with four pounds. 😆 I expect chorizo-centric meals for a while. Anyway, chorizo and mushroom tacos with white onion, garlic, tomato, habanero, and cumin, topped with diced white onion and cilantro.

Omelet with pesto and feta. About as simple as it gets.

Welcome! I look forward to learning more about your food interests.

Creamy scrambled eggs, green beans with oyster sauce, garlic, red serranos, feta, and scallions

Wok-seared shrimp with garlic and homegrown red jalapenos. Ginger-lime dipping sauce (with fish sauce and sugar). Green beans with olive oil and lemon juice. Microwave cilantro rice. Visiting SIL approved. 👍🏼

Coconut-galangal soup with shrimp and green beans, chicken stock, lime leaves, lemon zest (sub for lemongrass), fish sauce, sugar, roasted chile paste, lime juice, and cilantro. I added a crushed green bird chile in mine. Cucumber salad