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Escovitch Salmon with Quick-Pickled Vegetables and Carrot Purée by Kwame Onwuachi. Another dish I make often. I usually add a veggie side, but this time I just had it by itself. I use habanero instead of Scotch Bonnet chile, and omit the sugar (the carrots are plenty sweet). I ate all that scrumptious crunchy salmon skin off the fish before I plated it, lol

A really tasty lunch of use-it-ups! The salad is the end of a bag of coleslaw mix, the last of a cucumber, couple of elderly scallions, and the last leaves on a bunch of cilantro. Dressed with a mix of rice wine vinegar, fish sauce, and stevia brown sugar. Chicken is leftover "satay" and a tablespoon of PB2 peanut sauce. About 300 kcal & 30g protein, and a lot of fiber because I put about a third in a keto wrap.

Breakfast: turmeric ginger shot
Salmon, Cauli rice, avocado. (I stole my husbands snifter glasses lol)

Dinner- what’s left of our beautiful
Wild salmon. About to cook. 🧑‍🍳

Friday night the hubby likes to eat out as he thinks it makes the weekend feel longer. We went to a gimicky sushi monorail restaurant where the food was surprisingly good.

Short grain brown rice and lentils cooked in one pot and roasted Delicata.

I started the water with the rice and cooked it for about 20 minutes before adding the lentils. I used a little Better Than Bullion instead of just salt.

Meanwhile, I seeded a delicata squash from a friend's garden. I have two more left. I sliced it, tossed it with hazelnut oil, garlic powder, salt, Aleppo chile flakes, powdered ginger, turmeric, and cinnamon. Probably something else too, but... memory ya know.

Roasted at 425F convection for about 12 minutes, then turned each piece and roasted another 12. It wasn't quite done, oddly enough, so I turned one more time, put them back in, and turned the oven off. The baking stones kept it cooking for another five minutes. During the last minute of cooking, I plated the rice & lentils and then put the squash on to join it.

Now all that's left is an empty Fiesta Ware plate and a smile on my face.

Friday night was a self-care night for sure. A much-needed manicure and some Vietnamese takeaway. It was cold and rainy here and the pho was a perfect choice.