Arugula and basil salad with prosciutto, parmesan, and salted olive oil. Squash soup. Pasta with smoked mackerel and capers.

We're YOLOing. Kittens apparently = REFURNISH ENTIRE LIVING ROOM NO SERIOUSLY EVERYTHING FUCK PARTICLE BOARD. No recipes because we haven't finished cooking.

Last night we had a braised lamb and baked rice dish, which also became today's lunch. It's quite tasty, although braising the lamb takes more like 4 hours than the minimum 2 hours mentioned in the recipe I used: http://poposriver.blogspot.com/2000/01/ … -with.html

Every bite that includes a raisin is extra-heavenly! That surprise of sweet with the mild flavor of the rice and lamb is so yummy. I wish I hadn't halved the recipe this time, because I'd really like more leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Last night we had a smoked salmon and asparagus omelet.

No, I'm not kidding.

It is actually quite tasty. The first time I did it I did it as a frittata and I think that didn't work quite as well as this, which was a traditional French omelet with the asparagus and salmon folded in.

I'm about to prepare tilapia with lemon zest, asparagus, and wild rice.  I have been on a seafood kick.

I prepared lemony potatoes and will be making chickpea cutlets. I am going vegan for now.

Tonight it's salmon pasta salad. I love it cold.

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Hotpot with chunks of salted pork sausage, tender beef strips, broccoli, and tomatoes cooked fast in a boiling mix of tomato chili sauce, nutmeg, ginger, salt pepper, and (natch) water.

I made a Mexican mole style sauce with ground up chilis, cocoa powder, tomato paste, broth, star anise, cinnamon, and nutmeg. I put it in green lentils, black urad beans, and paneer. So..Mexican-Indian fusion?

*drools over DD's dinner*

We're also making an effort to lower our carb consumption, so tonight's dinner is a steak salad. I started buying 10 oz ribeyes and splitting them between us, so they also help us control our portions a bit better.

Last night tho, we had company so cheating was the order of the day. Gorgonzola burgers with carmalized onions and mushrooms, and local cured bacon and many...many bottles of cider, cyser, wine, and the most bastardized attempt at a bellini I have ever made (was drinkable tho). I may have been extra cheat-y and used Trader Joe's french fries instead of making them, but they're pretty tasty -close to the fries you get at a Nordstrom's bistro, which are my personal benchmark of french fry fabulosity.

I'm stoked, I just saw corn for sale. I love corn. There's a particular kind, taber corn, that's big here, but winter has lingered so long I dunno what kind of crop we're going to get this year.

I always want to get so ambitious with corn, but nine times out of ten, I end up with corn on the cob, or corn soup of some kind. Hah. I used to boil the corn to eat it on the cob, but man the oven is way better.

(What is this cyser? A kind of mead what what?)