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I continued the sheet-pan theme with this Sheet-Pan Baked Feta With Broccolini, Tomatoes and Lemon from NYT Cooking. I added chickpeas to the pan and served it over farro.

This is Ali Slagle's sheet-pan feta with chickpeas and tomatoes from NYT Cooking: If I’d been monitoring more closely, I might have pulled it out earlier and missed the bits of char on the chickpeas. Per the header notes, I added cauliflower and olives. Served on arugula, lightly dressed with salt, lemon juice and olive oil. Flatbread is my usual fluffy and crisp flatbread from Andy Baraghani's The Cook You Want To Be. I will make this again.

In the interest of research, this is not the same thing, but I quite liked David Leite's peri-peri shrimp. He has a recipe for peri-peri chicken in his book, The New Portuguese Table and both use the same sauce in the marinade. When I made it, I used a mix of fresh red chilies: Thai birds eye, arbol and Fresno (aka red jalapeño.) I liked the mix of heat from the birds eye and arbol plus the fruitiness from the Fresno. Something to consider if it suits you.

I’ve only made Smitten Kitchen’s version which does use a homemade marinade before grilling but perhaps didn’t appeal to you. I liked that she provides cooking instructions for both the traditional grill and an oven-roasted version (which I used) and I was happy with the results.

Round three (aka leftovers) of the slow-roasted tuna with harissa and olives from Melissa Clark's Dinner: Changing the Game. I added capers, preserved lemon and fresh lemon juice and stuffed that, along with a pile of arugula, into a flatbread - the fluffy and crisp flatbreads from Andy Baraghani’s book, The Cook You Want To Be.

I’m very impressed at the resurrection of the cheese and at all the little odds and ends you were able to put to good use in that panade! I need to check out that Zuni recipe!

Round two of the slow-roasted tuna with harissa and olives from Melissa Clark's Dinner: Changing the Game, this time as a pasta dish. I tossed some cauliflower with the oil used to cook the tuna and roasted it while the pasta cooked. I threw in a few handfuls of baby spinach and a sprinkle of toasted pine nuts. The small bits of tuna, cauliflower and olives made a nice chunky sauce for the pasta. Should have used less oil but it was still good.

Thanks for sharing that, @Smithy! Sounds like it would have been a sweet little road trip for a long weekend! Edited to add this link to another map that lists the restaurants and their Edna Lewis menu items.

I made this slow-roasted tuna with harissa and olives from Melissa Clark's Dinner: Changing the Game yesterday but wasn’t hungry so breakfast it is! She suggests serving it over baby spinach for a light meal or over farro to bulk it up. I went with both. The tuna is basically oil-poached in the oven and comes out pink and perfectly silky. I've got more of this which will show up later in either a pasta or sandwich.

A quick snacky lunch. The other day, I picked up a container of peach chipotle salsa and a bag of lime chips from Aldi. Both quite decent so I cubed up some raw ahi tuna and a ripe avocado, tossed that with the salsa and a good squeeze of lime juice

I got big eye tuna in my fish share this week and used some in this Tuna, egg and caper salad from Greekish: Everyday Recipes with Greek Roots by Georgina Hayden. Nice Niçoise salad variation. I liked that the onion was very lightly pickled by sitting in the vinegar as the potatoes and tuna were cooking and I was searching the fridge for the avocado.

Beans & greens topped with fried eggs and goat cheese. Warmed up some leftover borolotti lamon beans, stirred in baby spinach to wilt and topped them with these burnt butter eggs and goat cheese from Georgina Hayden's book Greekish. I unintentionally broke both yolks but still managed to have breakfast 🙃

So far, I’ve focused on fish recipes because it does such a nice job of keeping the fish moist and preventing it from drying without diluting the seasonings as can happen with steaming. I haven’t tried the same recipe in parchment vs a combi steam oven so that could be similar with both at 400°F + steam.

More black cod today. This recipe for Gochujang-Marinated Alaska Sablefish With Shiitakes is one I’ve made several times. It got me into trying more “en papillote” recipes. I thought they were all about the presentation but I quite like it for cooking fish, even just for me! Here, I used creminis instead of shiitakes and served with sticky rice and broccolini. Edited to add that the recipe amounts of 2 T gochujang and 1 T soy sauce/serving are a bit too salty for me. Easy to taste and adjust. YMMV

Sadly, I got rid of them when I realized all the recipes were online and were indexed on Eat Your Books so I was very disappointed when publication ceased and the website was taken down. Happily, there’s a Facebook group called Fine Cooking Community that have assembled PDF copies of all (or nearly all) the old issues on an Google drive and have created some search tools. I think they have all the regular issues and most of the special issues. The group members post their cooks and bakes from FC recipes and there's an issue chosen for a cooking “challenge” every 2 months. They encourage members to download the PDFs and store them locally. I haven’t done that but I should in case someone makes them take it down.

Crispy skinned black cod with a sea bean and daikon salad from Fine Cooking (Jun/Jul 2019) The fish was lovely. Not a fan of the salad. I think I’ll pickle the rest of the sea beans.

The last 2 days, I had this Cranberry Beans with Mussels and Chorizo from Ari Kolendar's book, “How to Cook the Finest Things in the Sea.” Kind of a bowl-o-brown but lots of flavor and texture. Creamy RG Borolotti Lamon beans, tender, savory tinned mussels en escabeche, crispy, chewy cubes of chorizo and sweet, tangy cherry tomatoes. I bought the book after listening to his author interview on Evan Kleiman's Good Food and I have a few more marked to try: Shrimp with Lentils, Two-Bean Salad with Squid and some version of fish en papillote will happen soon. Not so hungry today, I used 4 oz of halibut cheeks to make a small plate of the (not)Sand Dabs with Sea Beans, Shallots and Sherry Vinegar from the “Zuni Cafe Cookbook.” Edited to add that this was my first time cooking halibut cheeks. I wasn’t sure if I should treat them like scallops or what. This was a basic dredge in flour (I used Wondra) and sauté in butter. They were lovely. Any recommendations for halibut cheeks?

Another fruit & cheese fest: Trader Joe’s strawberry and jalapeño crisps, Silver Goat Chèvre, and Seascape strawberries from Harry’s Berries. Seascapes are my favorite variety. Not really big or showy but super tangy and flavorful. I put the cheese in the CSO for a few min on the plate warming setting to make it nice and spreadable.

I’ve used Al Arz and it was good but I have to admit my favorite thing was that the jar was oversized- packed only about 2/3 x3/4 full so there was ample room to stir without sloshing oil everywhere. Speaking of oil, my best tip for getting a good, toasty sesame flavor is to add a small amount of a good quality toasted sesame oil. I like the Kadoya brand from Japan. I add 1/4 tsp toasted sesame oil to the tahini cookies in Ottolenghi's book, ‘Jerusalem.’

I was in the mood for something fruity today so I made this Whole Grilled Halloumi with Apricots from Greekish by Georgina Hayden which is the cookbook of the month in the online cookbook group I participate in. This was one of those dishes that the more I ate, the more I wanted! My apricots were quite ripe so there was lots of juice to soak up with the bread. This would be a great addition to a charcuterie spread for wine o'clock.

Kimchi grilled cheese I had some extra kimchi/onion/Chinese sausage mixture from yesterday’s fried rice, so I used it up this way.

Kimchi fried rice with scallion salad from Julia Turshen’s Small Victories I made this with a mix of pineapple kimchi (which has cabbage in it) and radish kimchi plus a sliced Chinese sausage

I dunno about the provenance of that particular strand but I've spotted any number of cat hairs in my own photos and suspect I’ve eaten (and probably inhaled) quite a few!

Kimchi & avocado toast, topped with a fried egg and a drizzle of kimchi mayo: I need to get back to this topic but didn’t think of a photo til it was half gone!

$3.29 at my local Whole Foods