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Broccoli and anchovy sauce over linguine. Garlic, black pepper, olive oil, butter, and grated Parmesan rounded things out. Mrs. C crisped up freezer meatballs if anyone wanted something meaty. Another "lets make a meal with what we have" dinner. 🙄

Roasted peppers with black beans looks very similar to a Fuchsia Dunlop recipe that we make frequently. She calls it "dou chi shao la jiao".

Kind of a shrimp saag? Spinach, cilantro, chicken stock, and sauteed onion, ginger, garlic, and jalapeno in the blender. Add coconut milk, season with nutmeg, cumin, cloves, black pepper, and lemon juice. Shrimp were tossed with cayenne, black pepper, and turmeric, seared quickly, and then poached in the soup (lots of shrimp hiding in the soup). Optional feta cheese sprinkle. Mrs. C added pistachios to hers. Ghee rice with cumin, cloves, black cardamom, and a cinnamon stick.

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Stir-fried Savoy cabbage with fennel seeds. Cumin and sesame seeds, sliced onion, jalapeno, bird chilies, cayenne, lemon juice, chives, and garam masala. Finished with leftover steak from yesterday, sliced and warmed with the cabbage. The only reason I had lemon was because younger son went to a restaurant last night and brought home a couple of lemon wedges with his leftovers. 🙂

Porterhouse steaks, marinated with black pepper and soy sauce and then charcoal-grilled until “still mooing”. Sliced the steak and finished in a hot dressing of chicken stock, onion, bird chilies, lime juice, fish sauce, sugar, and anything green and herby in the fridge (basil, chives, and Chinese chives). Served over bagged chopped salad. Jasmine rice with coconut milk, chicken stock, and a little sugar and salt.

Thanks! Store-bought tortillas. I have made masa harina tortillas a few times but without access to fresh masa I'm happy to be lazy. 🙂

Spinach, chroizo, and egg breakfast tacos with onion, feta, cumin, Mexican oregano, and three kinds of chilies (habanero, jalapeno, and cayenne).

Improvised red curry with green beans and shrimp. Lots of strong flavors that balanced out very nicely. Sear green beans and shrimp separately and then set aside. Blend onion with ginger, garlic, and green and red chilies. Cook down and then add Panang curry paste, lime zest, cayenne, and curry powder that friends brought back from India. Stir in coconut milk and chicken stock, adjust seasonings with fish sauce, brown sugar, and lime juice, and then finish with Thai basil, cilantro, and Chinese chives. Jasmine rice and eternal cucumbers to go with.

Kimchi and potato salad - quite satisfying!

Leftovers: pulled pork sandwich with homemade BBQ sauce and tangy coleslaw. Jazzed-up potato salad. Somehow a huge bowl of coleslaw disappeared so I mixed up a quick batch with leftover cabbage, shallot, Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar, sugar, S&P, and just enough mayo to mellow it out a bit. Some folks expected standard creamy coleslaw but I prefer tangy with BBQ pork.

Pork butt rubbed and ready for the smoker. Younger (adult) son requested for his birthday. Chicken thighs rubbed, smoked, and ready to be finished in the oven. Two guests were Muslim so we needed an alternative to pork. Front row L to R: Homemade coleslaw, pulled pork with sauce, BBQ sauce, pulled pork without sauce. canned beans (with pork), smoked and roasted chicken, cucumber salad. Back row: Chips, potato salad, potato rolls, corn, baked beans (without pork). Store-bought cheesecake for dessert

Yes, the soupy shrimp turned out very nicely. Lots of flavor, not too spicy. Family approved. Yes, rice to mop up the liquid. Whoops, I forgot so thanks for the reminder. And yes, canned chipotle in adobo. I had an open can that needed using up. Congrats, you are three for three. 😃

Chipotle shrimp with tomatoes, chicken broth, garlic, black pepper, cinnamon, Mexican oregano, and cilantro. Chayote with white onion, chile Poblano rajas, jalapeno, and cilantro.

I remember her distinctive voice from early eGullet. RIP and best to the family.

Local market had decent looking paneer cheese so I made Saag paneer, a longtime favorite dish. Base of spinach, fenugreek, cilantro, and Chinese chives (basically anything green in the fridge), wilted with onion, garlic, ginger, and then pulsed in the blender. Cinnamon, cardamom, ginger matchsticks, coriander, garam masala, and fenugreek seeds fried in ghee. Stir in yogurt and simmer, then add paneer cheese and simmer. Finish with butter-fried dried red chilies and paprika. Dried chilies (no idea what kind) were from an elderly neighbor who died last year. Turmeric rice with cardamom, cloves, bay leaf, and cinnamon, topped with Chinese chives

Southern Thai curry with red snapper, coconut milk and cream, tamarind, Thai basil, and a curry paste of dried chilies, bird chilies, lemongrass, shallot, garlic, fresh turmeric, and shrimp paste. Jasmine rice to go with. Stir-fried mung bean sprouts with Chinese chives. Very high enjoyment to work ratio.

Thanks! Hmm. I think when I added "tandoori spice" (coriander, cumin, paprika, etc.) to the marinade it made sense to toss in some extra smoked paprika. Obviously, I am not (usually) a traditionalist. 🙄

Grilled chicken thighs, marinated with lime juice, fish sauce, black pepper, cayenne, and paprika Dipping sauce with lime and lemon juice, fish sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger, and sliced red chilies Mrs. C made a garbanzo bean salad with yogurt, mustard, celery, toasted almond slivers, parsley, dill, and probably some other things. Recipe describes it as potato salad-style garbanzo beans

Bricklayer's eggs, with modifications. Blender sauce of pasilla, guajillo, and chipotle chiles with roasted garlic. Fry onions, reduce the sauce, season with cumin and Mexican oregano, mix in the eggs, and top with feta cheese. One of my absolute favorite breakfasts (although would have been even better on tortillas).

Haha - not in our house. 😉 Cucumbers were one of the vegetables our boys would reliably eat when they were younger. My foodblog featured cucumbers so often that Priscilla dubbed them "eternal":

Oven-roasted chicken thighs marinated with soy sauce, garlic, cumin, paprika, chilie powder, oil, and salt. Eternal cucumber salad with lime, rice vinegar, fish sauce, thinly-sliced onion, red chilies, sugar, and salt. Mrs. C microwaved some cilantro-lime rice with hers.

One of our neighbors has a fig tree. It gets knocked back in hard winters, but currently is big and spreading and absolutely covered in developing fruits.

Scrambled eggs with chicken andouille sausage, chipotle, onion, garlic, lime, cilantro, feta, and leftover Poblano rajas

Tacos with three fillings: Shiitake mushrooms in a pasilla-ancho-chipotle sauce, seasoned with roasted garlic, Mexican oregano, cumin, black pepper, and cilantro. Beautiful inky-maroon color but sadly mostly hidden in this pic Roasted Poblano rajas with white onion, garlic, thyme, and Mexican oregano Lazy guacamole with lime and hot sauce Topped with diced white onion and feta cheese. I'm not sure that mixing everything together entirely made sense but it sure was fun.