For me it would be wonderful, but the reality is that at some point they will feel comfortable getting back to their pre-COVID lives and we will be back to Friday night at Mom's house and Sunday night restaurant.

One of them sent me a photo of his first pie crust and then of his finished zucchini and goat cheese tart. He reports it was very bland but his crust was flaky. Once life is back to normal I can't imagine he will be willing to spend the time playing in the kitchen.

A zucchini and goat cheese tart is one of your son's first recipes? That's impressive!



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Competition make us do odd things. The folks from his office are all working remotely and are cooking for bragging rights, posting photos of their creations. He borrowed my mandolin and glove the other day and evidently it was to make his tart but while he was getting zucchini he saw some eggplant that looked pretty too. He got the goat cheese the recipe called for and the other things but forgot to buy a pie crust. So he looked up on the internet for a recipe and instructions--rolled it out with a coffee mug as he had no rolling pin and didn't think to use a wine bottle. He wasn't too sure what 'blind bake' meant so cooked it empty for the number of minutes suggested but still got a soggy bottom. He had no shortening or lard so it was an all butter crust. But it worked, and where it was not soggy it was nicely flaky.

Trying to figure out what to do with the eggplant, he sliced long strips with the mandolin and rolled them around a dollop of ricotta and a strip of ham, layering the rolls into a pan with tomato sauce and baked. Gorgeous dish, reasonable flavors but the eggplant did not cook enough to soften.

So dinner tonight was leftovers of those two dishes and then a chicken with sweet potato and asparagus skillet entrée. It was fun sitting on a stool at the kitchen counter showing him shortcuts for dicing raw sweet potatoes and mincing garlic. He never paid attention to that stuff before now. I had him tell me what he thought the dish would taste like based on the recipe and then had him taste his raw veggies. He expected the sweet potatoes to actually make the dish sweet and the sweet potatoes were not sweet, so we snuck in some carrot to add to the sweetness. I had him taste as the dish was finishing up and it still was not as sweet as he expected to contrast with the chicken and asparagus, so I had him add a drizzle of honey. It needed a bit of a sauce but there was nothing open and handy. He did recognize that it needed a bit more salt. What ended up on the table was attractive for his photo as well as tasty.

Tonight is planned overs from yesterday's taco noodle skillet. Tomorrow, a beef stew will go in the red crock pot.

Tonight was spaghetti with the extra sauce after making the lasagna for Wednesday.

Salad!

A few years back, this lady blogged about cooking her family dinner daily in a crock pot. She posted her recipes. I signed up for her daily emails. Later this week, I'm going to make her Honey Lentils.

Ribs on the grill, potato skins, squash casserole.

Crock pot beef stew

After I extract the meat from the braised lamb shanks, I will use it for several different recipes over the next couple of weeks. Today will be lamb, yellow rice, chopped broccoli with feta and olives. I will freeze the rest of the meat in small portions for future use.

I hope I can finally find some couscous, but will try an orzo-lamb stew later if not.



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wales, you can get couscous at the grocery store. The brand is Near East and it's in the rice section. I get whole wheat cous cous from the farmers' market.

I made a chicken skillet that I found on the Hidden Valley Ranch recipe website. It was originally supposed to be for lunch this week. It will be dinner for the next few days.

Had the kids over for a pot roast. it was spectacular.

Daughter and son came over. We decided on takeout from one of our favorite Mexican restaurants. Family style, Carne Asada, Arrroz con Pollo, and Camarones al Ajillo, all with fixins. The only thing I made was spicy watermelon margaritas. It was a good day and there were leftovers for all.

Honny,
My Giant Foods was totally out of couscous. But, Aldi had some; same brand.

A nice cold supper for a very warm day: cold deli roast beef, redskin potato salad, cole slaw.

Seared salmon filet, mac and cheese, fresh spinach sauteed with lots of garlic.

BBQ pulled pork without the bread, baked zucchini rounds with parmesan, salad.

The ciabatta rolls are doing their last rise before heading to the oven to be the foundation for burgers tonight. Will be starting red skin potato salad once the rolls go in the oven to bake.

Tonight is junk food.

Dinner tonight was prosciutto, gouda, spinach and tomatoes on a whole wheat sandwich thin.

Tonight was take out grinders and pizza from a favorite local joint because we were painting the interior of my son's garage with perfectly good paint left by the previous owners of the house that was not his preference for inside spaces (which have already been repainted). On our way to pick up the take-out we stopped for a sheet of pegboard, wood strips and screws to mount it and pegboard hooks. We will spend a couple hours this weekend finishing up the paint, painting the pegboards and getting them mounted. Then it will be time for him to finish emptying the boxes and bins from his move a year ago and getting stuff where he can find it.

The food was yummy and the company fun.

Leftover cold salmon, cheesy mashed potato, garlic spinach.

Pan fried pork chops (no breading), zucchini, mac n cheese, salad.

Pork roast with fresh asparagus and either fried apples or applesauce

Quinoa casserole and lemon garlic chicken

lamb, yellow rice, topped with broccoli, feta and chopped olives, with a side of hummus.

Girl scout cookies.

What.

Chicken with Bar B Q sauce along with sweet potatoes and zucchini slices all grilled outside on this warm day.

Baked Ham and Pea Salad.