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Grilled beef salad – Strip steaks grilled over charcoal, sliced, and tossed with cucumbers, tomatoes, shallots, red and green chiles, and a sauce of lime juice, fish sauce, garlic, cilantro, scallions, and a little sugar. Stir-fried squash – Kabochka squash, sliced pork, garlic, sugar, fish sauce, and eggs. Jasmine rice

Can you share your recipe for the pescado al mojo de ajo? It looks terrific. Thanks! Recipe is from Aida Gabilondo's Mexican Family Cooking, an old paperback cookbook that I got years ago for the flan especial recipe. Recipe link below, swapping butter for margarine. I suggest using just enough butter to fry the garlic. http://www.gretchencooks.com/recipes/155_Filetes_de_Pescado_al_Mojo_de_Ajo_Fish_fillets_in_Garlic_Sauce

Ann_T – That bread! I hope you liked the bean sprout pork Prawn – Can’t decide between the lobster curry or prawn curry. Both, maybe? Robirdstx – I could eat quite happily at your house Kim – (belated) thanks for the kind words. Your baked beans (couple of pages back) look fantastic, and I am intrigued by fried pickles Hearts of palm soup (crema de palmitos) with lots of scallions, garlic, and chicken stock simmered with white onion, garlic, bay leaves, and peppercorns. Pescado al mojo de ajo, made with halibut, lemon juice, and thinly sliced garlic slowly browned in butter. I was hoping for leftovers, but boys polished everything off. Mrs. C made salad

Now I have a hankering for lobster curry, maybe followed by some crepes and a bacon and tomato sandwich. Breakfasts this weekend. Eggs, spinach, and chiles Shrimp, garlic, smoked paprika, and pasta

Thanks very much, routs! Any excuse to enjoy ribs is a good one. See below for recipe links. Dry-fried chicken is from Fuchsia Dunlop's excellent Land of Plenty. The recipe has escaped to the wild in various places, including here: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/01/dry-fried-chicken-recipe.html Caramelized minced pork is from Andrea Nguyen's wonderful Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. eGullet excerpt (including caramel sauce recipe): http://forums.egullet.org/topic/94805-into-the-vietnamese-kitchen/ The caramelized minced pork recipe has also escaped: http://heatergirlie.blogspot.com/2008/06/pig-pork-pig.html BTW, your pizzas look gorgeous, and "I delivered" made me Younger son and Mrs. C made bacon, feta, lettuce, and freshly-picked blueberry salad tonight. No pictures, unfortunately. Blueberries were from the back yard.

Rotus and Basquecook – thank you both very much. Pig for 75 sounds like quite a project! Dry-fried chicken, dry-fried yard-long beans, steamed eggplant with chile oil, and jasmine rice.

Patrick, Scubadoo, Kim – thank you for the kind words. Ann_T – I am honored! Truly. I’m still stuck on the perfectly battered and fried fish and chips you posted a few pages ago. Jvalentino – sounds like we used pretty similar recipes for ribs Peter Green – Long time no see! Father’s Day dinner: Smoked ribs, mac and cheese, collard greens Tonight: Caramel pork, bean sprout pork, jasmine rice

Scubadoo – Your grilled meat and Brussels sprouts look fantastic Ann_T – I love lettuce cups. Is that larb in yours? Still trying to master the Big Green Egg – mostly just trying to get the darn thing lit in a reasonable period of time. No complaints once it gets going, though. Baby back ribs – Rubbed with paprika, black pepper, dry mustard, brown sugar, salt, garlic powder, and celery seed. Mopped with apple cider, bourbon, soy sauce, and butter. Sauced with lemon brown sugar barbecue sauce. Mustardy potato salad – Dijon and grainy mustard, olive oil, sherry vinegar, black pepper, and fresh basil. Slow-cooked green beans – with onion, tomato, olive oil, black pepper, and lemon juice.

I am enjoying all of the fantastic meals as usual. Keith – Um, nice buns Dejah – I can almost taste the cumin beef dcarch – Beautiful color on your Cornish hen Kim – Nice clean-out-the-fridge meal. I need to try Brunswick stew. pastameshugana – Thanks! Pork fried rice: Center-cut pork chops marinated with soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and rice wine, stir-fried to sear and removed. Basmati rice stir-fried with spinach, basil, green beans, garlic, ginger, scallions, roasted chile jam, fish sauce, and two eggs, with the pork added back towards the end. Served with lime, cucumber, and tomato.

Ann_T and Franci – gorgeous meals! Marinated two thick ribeyes with garlic, black pepper, soy sauce, and fish sauce while heating up the charcoal grill. Grilled one ribeye to medium for the boys to split. Grilled the other rare, sliced thinly, briefly simmered the slices with chicken stock, fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, and roasted rice powder, and then tossed with bird chiles, shallots, scallions, Thai basil, and mint. Served over salad with coconut rice. Mrs. C grilled pineapple slices with brown sugar and ginger. Great accompaniment to the salad, and also served as dessert! I could eat grilled meat salads and grilled fruit all summer. Enjoyed a lime-heavy margarita while tending the fire.

Wow, I’m digging all of the gorgeous seafood! Kim – thank you, I will let Mrs. C know you liked her salad. The dressing was olive oil, lime juice, Dijon mustard, mashed garlic, and salt. By the way, your steak looks delish - what did you use to season it? Grilled chicken: Marinated with fish sauce, lime juice, black pepper, and oil, and then grilled on the egg. Sweet chile sauce to go with, and store-bought baguette to mop up the juices. Grilled corn with scallion oil: Parboiled, grilled, brushed with scallion oil, and then grilled some more. Yard-long beans stir-fried with fermented black beans, garlic, rice vinegar, and sesame oil.

Soba - always a joy to see what you cook, and to hear why you cook it. Food is good: thoughtful food even better. Carry on!

Slathered pork spare ribs with a paste of habanero chile, scallions, ginger, garlic, cilantro, thyme, brown sugar, allspice, cinnamon, black pepper, soy sauce, oil, and dark rum. Smoked the ribs over cherry wood on the Big Green Egg. Mrs. C prepped a delicious black bean, corn, and tomato salad with feta cheese. The finished meal, accompanied by pigeon peas and rice (onion, garlic, thyme, parsley, habanero chile, and green and red bell peppers)

Nice variety of breakfasts, PercyN Quick breakfast for me – eggs over easy, hard salami, toasted everything bagel

Thanks, Ann. I would gladly trade leftover curry for Moe's breakfast.

Reprised last night’s lemongrass chicken and potato curry (mostly potato at this point). I took a picture mostly to test out a different lighting set-up.

Dejah, glad you are feeling better, and I’m enjoying all of your meals (and the HCR discussion). Dcarch – beautiful as always, I love the bok choy forest. Ann_T – Mmmmm, chile verde pork chops Chicken, lemongrass, and potato curry from Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. Fried paste of lemongrass, ginger, onion, black pepper, red chile flakes, and curry powder, simmered with chicken, potatoes, and coconut milk. Jasmine rice and salad.

My guessing success rate is about zero, but I am undeterred. Despite the lack of a tagine - patrickamory?

Veracruz-style fish fillets – Fried white onion, garlic, parsley, and roasted red pepper strips, simmered with tomatoes, chopped olives, pickled jalapenos, jalapeno vinegar, and a little ground black pepper, ancho, and chipotle for kick. The fillets were poached in the sauce, and then topped with capers. Family approved. Green rice – Jasmine rice, fried until nutty, steamed with a puree of roasted Poblano chiles, white onion, garlic, parsley, cilantro, spinach, and chicken stock, and then sprinkled with feta cheese. Perfect stealth vegetable. Edit: fixed html tags

Ann, that’s gorgeous! Concoction of leftovers and near-compost: fried plantains, baby potatoes, and walleye with ancho chile, Tapatio salsa, tomato paste, and feta cheese. Flavorful!

Keith – Thanks! Your John Dory and duck look like wonderful meals. Soba – Thanks for the pointer on the spring vegetable soup. Garlic chicken – Baked with S&P, and then baked some more with a head of garlic pureed with olive oil and lime juice. Mexican red rice – with white onion, roasted Poblano chiles, garlic, pureed tomato, chicken stock, and parsley. Unpictured green salad.

RRO – I love complicated salads, and your lamb chops look/sound terrific. dcarch – Thanks! The fish looks fantastic (in both senses of the word). Franci – Lovely to see you posting! I expect Marilyn Tausend’s Cocina de la Familia to get a workout this week. Green chile with pork and potatoes (Chile verde con puerco y papas) – Pork shoulder and new potatoes simmered with a puree of tomatillos, Serrano chiles, and garlic, finished with cilantro. Green salad not pictured. Seasoned white rice (arroz blanco) – Jasmine rice, fried with white onion, garlic, and Poblano chile strips, and then cooked with chicken stock, fresh corn, bay leaf, and whole Serrano chiles, and then tossed with feta cheese.

Thanks, Ann! Gosh those waffles look fantastic.

This was originally planned for a week ago, so I’m glad to see so many lovely meals (especially all of the gorgeous seafood). Chuu chii shrimp – Red curry paste, sliced and pulverized chiles, fish sauce, brown sugar, Thai basil, peas, and slivered lime leaves in cracked coconut milk. Quoth younger son: “The sauce covered up the shrimp flavor” (in his book, that’s a good thing).

Keith – Purty fish! I have never tried barramundi. Plantes – You should go mad with the camera more often huiray – I do enjoy Nyonya cooking. Mexican tonight: Pescado al mojo de ajo: Mahi mahi marinated with lime and pulverized garlic, dredged in flour (cayenne, pepper, salt), pan-fried, and then topped with a sauce of butter-fried garlic, parsley, and lime juice. Younger son made a fish taco with his. Chayote al vapor: Chayote, minced chiles, salt, and cilantro, topped with feta cheese. One of my long-time favorites. Platanos fritos: Still working through a Costco-sized box of plantains.