Meals
Stuffed shells and a big crunchy salad
Chicken and pepper stir fry with some bok choy that needed using up.
Rotini with sweet peppers, bitter greens, and crispy country ham
Goat cheese polenta, braised collard greens, charred yellow squash with Calabrian chili honey glaze, pickled shallots, and basil
Thai-style cabbage and green apple salad and coconut rice
Orecchiette with green bean, yellow tomato, and anchovy rag
Mexican
Soy curl fajitas! Pretty good! I'm still working on the seasoning, but tossing the rehydrated and drained curls with oil and cornstarch (plus ancho, cumin, etc) helped them brown.
Chickpeas and greens in a tangy coconut curry riffing on chana usal and some buttery tortillas because we didn't have chapati
It rained half an inch in ten minutes this evening. I made chili about it.
Pasta
Once every late summer, I pound pound pound pesto by hand. The texture from the mortar and pestle is much silkier than the fopro, but my God what a pain
French onion beans (Rancho Gordo Good Mother Stallard) with pickled pepper cheese toast
Vietnamese rice noodles with pork, nuoc cham, and all the crunchy vegetables and herbs
Butter-toasted naan with blue cheese, tomatoes and hot-smoked salmon topped with arugula, radishes, and pickled chilies
