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  1. I had made some spicy baked sweet potato wedges for one of the meals I don't seem to have written about. We had them leftover last night, along with rotisserie chicken and smoked salmon dill crostini. The base of each crostini was a thin layer of whipped cream cheese. There was a sauce for the potatoes, a crema with lime juice, and I drizzled a little of that on top of each crostini before serving. We also had some marinated gigande beans alongside the crostini. This was a simple, mostly no-cook meal.
  2. I originally had different plans for the ground turkey I had in the refrigerator, but I mixed up its use by date with the sausage (ugh, but that pasta with sausage was good!). I discovered* this mid-day yesterday and decided it must be cooked immediately. Didn't even wait until dinner time. Once it was browned and broken into small bits, I added a can of tomato sauce, about another can of water, some minced dehydrated onion, chopped celery, and Cajun seasoning (some Penzey's, which was old, and some other, newer from WF). Carrots didn't occur to me or I could have had the trinity. I also added a can of Ro-Tel and a can of drained, rinsed small red beans. At some point I added some torn fresh basil as well. I simmered this for a while and then put it in the fridge until dinner time. It made a nice stewy soup (I guess Rachael Ray calls that a stoup.) We had this with a NY style thin crust pizza from della barba. They've been running $2 off specials on Tuesdays. I've been ordering the plain cheese and then adding toppings at home before putting it in a warm oven to be ready for dinner. Usually I do just pepperoni, but yesterday I sauteed the last of the enoki mushrooms I had and topped the pizza with them, some pre-shredded mozzarella, and whole fresh basil leaves. (I can't recall what recipe I bought the mozzarella for, but I only needed 3/4 of the bag, and one of the problems with pre-shredded cheese is it goes bad fairly quickly. The last 1/4 of that bag seems to be lasting forever.) Anyway, the turkey was salvaged and dinner saved. *I try to keep a current list of fresh provisions I have on hand, so things don't go bad before I remember them. When I was putting something else into the meat drawer, I looked at the turkey date and went, "Huh? The 10th?" Then I checked my list and, indeed, had transposed the dates for the hot Italian sausage and the ground turkey in my mind. I need to remember to look at the list more frequently😞.
  3. Last night was an omelette filled with the last of the creamed spinach and mushrooms, baked potato, and toast. Tonight is bucatini with hot Italian sausage, mushrooms, and Rao's caramelized onion marinara. We're also having a big salad and a baguette.
  4. Pre-prepping the main part of dinner worked out well, time-wise. We had cinnamon rosemary pork chops, along with asparagus with lemon butter, leftover roasted potatoes, and sourdough bread. That pork chop recipe is excellent. I've found, after making it a bunch of times, that plain whole milk yogurt works better in the marinade than Greek. It needs that little bit of extra liquid.
  5. I picked up a smallish piece of brisket (just under 2 lbs.) at Safeway recently and decided to cook it in the InstantPot, using this recipe from The Kitchn*. I roasted some multicolored fingerling potatoes to go with it and reheated the leftover creamed spinach, mushrooms, etc., I'd made the other night for some vegetables. Really good meal, but even with the IP, we ate later than I wanted. I prepped tonight's dinner before starting the brisket and that was a planning error 😑. *On a complete side note, I really do not like the current buzzfeed-y kind of website they have. I feel like the site is less useful than it used to be, but I can still occasionally find something there. It's probably all SEO driven and I'm the wrong market. Maybe it's just me?
  6. I cut the remainder of the striata baguette into 4 slabs and made Italian bread pizza. I drizzled the slabs with some oil and lightly toasted them in the oven as it was heating to 400, while I blanched baby spinach and sauteed enoki and sliced King Trumpet mushrooms with some garlic. Two of the slabs were topped with the last of the shredded rotisserie chicken breast, the greens, most of the mushrooms, and some of the garlic. Crumbled queso fresco, a couple spoonfuls of whole milk ricotta, and grated Parmesan went on top, along with a chiffonade of basil. The other two got coated with a bit of TJ's jarred pizza sauce, then sliced pepperoni and the remainder of the mushrooms and garlic. I drizzled a little more sauce over that. They were topped with shredded mozzarella and grated Parmesan, plus basil. I managed to get a nice variety of ingredients on these without overloading the pizzas. Toasting the bread a little in advance helped prevent sogginess too. We had this with an iceberg salad with cucumber, tomatoes, olives, carrots, and cornichons.
  7. I had taken some D'Artagnan Green Circle chicken leg quarters out to thaw a few days ago and then realized I had to use them . So I made them in the air fryer last night, seasoned with some salt and pepper and dredged in a light coating of flour; 35 minutes at 380 and they were just right. I served them with pan vegetables. This started with a mirepoix, and once those (that?) had sauteed, I added chopped garlic and diced jalapeno to the pan. Mushrooms went in next: soaked dried button mushrooms and some fresh Enoki, King Oyster, and Maitake. (The fresh ones were from a Costco gourmet pack. I have plenty left to use--soon, now that the package is open.) Last vegetable in was chopped frozen spinach. I boiled it for a couple minutes and squeezed out excess liquid so I didn't add too much extra water. Once that shrank down in the pan, I splashed in some white wine to cook off. Near the end of the cooking time, I stirred some heavy cream into the mixture and adjusted the seasoning, which was basically salt and pepper. I made a big salad, enough to last for a few days: iceberg and frisee, cucumber, carrots, celery, red onion, olives, cornichons, and queso fresco. We also had cups of soup. My husband had NE clam chowder from WF prepared foods and I had the remnants of our old cod and lentil meals turned into a little fish soup. There was bread and butter as well (striata baguette from Radici).
  8. I hardly ever watch Food Network anymore, but I still occasionally look through the recipes on the site. I made this Chicken Parmesan Casserole from there last night. It was quite successful. I used WF rotisserie chicken, though it would be cheaper to use a Costco one. It used to be I'd make recipes like this all the time, but it seems like I don't make anywhere near as many casseroles as I used to. We had this with salad and sourdough bread.
  9. Air fryers are great for chicken. Congratulations on your acquisition🙂 We've been having leftovers interspersed with new meals. A few days ago I made a teriyaki pork tenderloin and served it over a prepared miso mushroom noodle bowl from Foxtrot (without their dressing), along with broccoli and pineapple chunks. Fairly quick meal (due to the, uh, "semi-homemade" part and advance marinating of the pork) and really delicious. I took a few photos but they don't really look as good as this was. Last night I cooked up some sausages I'd bought at Stachowski's in Georgetown earlier in the week. They were Thai chicken, with green chilies, mint, and basil. They had started to thaw a little bit by the time I got them home and, since I was planning on making them soon, I put them in the meat drawer of the fridge instead of the freezer. Took them out yesterday only to notice "Keep frozen" on the package. Oops. Since they're uncooked (but vacuum-sealed), they were basically a slab of sausage instead of separate links. So I cooked them like loose sausage in a scorching cast iron pan while cooking up some white rice and roasting poblanos. I stuffed the peppers along with a mixture of the rice and sausage and topped each with a piece of sharp cheddar. Then I put them back in the oven until the cheese melted. Very good. We had them with a side salad.
  10. I baked cod last night (lemon, s + p, smoked paprika) and served it over leftover lentil salad and coconut rice, with broccoli on the side. Salad and sourdough bread.
  11. Last night we had hamburgers on whole wheat buns and Latin American green lentil salad, a recipe from Michael Natkin's Herbivoracious. Tonight is leftover bbq chicken thighs, coconut rice, and boiled broccoli with nutritional yeast.
  12. Friend is looking for recs for friends visiting. Preferably in DC proper.
  13. Last night was hamburgers plus a big salad and leftover coconut rice with peas and carrots.
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