What was the last meal you cooked?

Sweet potato and cauliflower curry with rice and garlic naan

Spaghetti with shrimp, EVOO, small piece of red pepper, black pepper, garlic, veg broth crystals, and white wine.

My dinner last night was so delicious and easy. Califlower with Shrimp casserol. Very very low cabs.
1/2 head of califlower chopped, place in a baking dish
4 celery stalks, chopped, add to the baking dish.
Place 12 ounces of peeled shrimp on top of the califlower and celery.
In a sauce pan, melt two TBS of butter.
Add 1 cup of heavy cream
add one 1/2 a boursine herb cheese and 3 ounces of sharp cheddar cheese.
add about 1 tsp of curry powder if you like the taste and salt and pepper

bring to a light boil and melt the cheeses.
Pour over the califlower mixture.
Chop about 1/4 cup of nuts (almonds or pecans) and top the baking dish
sprinkle with parmesan cheese
Bake for 35 minutes at 350.

This is yummy!!

chicken and gnocchi soup with garlic bread

Sea bass in "acqua pazza" (crazy water). Take a large skillet, add EVOO and fry a garlic clove, add chopped tomatos, olives, about half a tumbler of water (liquid level should not go beyond half of the fish) salt and pepper. Simmer 10 min. Add cleaned fish and a little white wine, cover and cook 15-20 min turning once. My fish weren't very big--3 of them, if you've got bigger fish you'll need to cook them longer.
I also made spinach in a non-stick frying pan with butter and a little salt.

Porkchops pan fried in olive oil, green beans, crock pot Mac and cheese

Asparagus cream soup last night. Sauteed with onion and garlic, cooked in chicken stock and pureed. Dollop of sour cream and it was delish!

Now that I'm nearly 100% again in terms of not being ill, I am doing that whole cooking thing.



Wednesday: a really oddly written laffa recipe that, while unfortunately written resulted in really poofy bread. Also not really braised cabbage in a tasty tomato sauce from Bon Appetit. Can take a lot of salt, more than I gave it. Really I think it's a "salt at the table" sort of dish.

Today: another brassica recipe from Bon Appetit, this time in the form of broccoli. I would have prefered that it not be roasted in the (very large) pan, but rather on a baking sheet. It would have done less steaming that way and been more crispy. It also would have resulted in cleaning more than one dish which I would have been ok with.

I have baked apples baking in the oven at the moment.

Baccalà in Guazetto Alla Romana on the menu.

(Salted Cod with a tomato sauce, some awesome aromatic 🌿 herbs, onions, raisins, pine nuts...) 😋

Wish I had some Valpolicella to go with right now. 🤔