I cooked Turkish food for my sweetheart and I Sunday night. Freekeh pilaf with chicken, cauliflower with carrots and chickpeas (adapted from a neighborhood restaurant I discovered when I was in Istanbul years ago) and a salad of green pepper, cucumber, tomato and herbs that was supposed to have purslane but my neighborhood market was out.

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Had to drive south today to pick up a load of palms. Before getting back on I-95 I hit the Race Trac and after filling up the truck went inside to grab something to eat. Ended up with a pig in the blanket thingy and the dog had Jalapenas in it - holy cow was that good!

I'll be on the lookout for these when I pick up provisions this week......

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Atlantic Salmon pan fried with rice pilaf and baby spinach. Wife loves it.
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:p

Eggplant bake.
A couple Italian sausages with fennel umami etc, spinach, red pepper, sitake dried mushrooms, three cheeses of Asiago(yum) sharp chedder hard parmasian, a half can or more marinara sauce on top for the final bake. There were two layers. There was either too much cheese or not enough, I can't decide.
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Lightly salt poke w/fork and press eggplant a couple hours to squeeze out juices.
Bake 20 min, then egg wash and panko, then bake again another 20-30 min.
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The unripe eggplant did not want to cook through and needed covering and baking for a bit longer.
This took many hours but was pretty good.
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Lunch actually.
Salmon done in the cast iron fry pan on the bbq, Clinton's Slaw and diced tomatoes.

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Not exactly dinner but mozzarella and Parmesan stuffed rosemary soft pretzels.

Sanding window frames builds quite an appetite. Gochujang marinated grilled steak tips with chow mein noodles, toasted sesame seeds and a raw egg yolk, a little sriracha.

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I had a steak dinner at Pete Loogers tonight.

Seared some spring onions yanked out of the ground a few hours ago and sautéed chard.

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Home made cannelloni

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Yum!

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Chinese food. Chili oil is very common. It’s on the table at dim sum houses.


Here is a less common oil. Ginger and green onion oil. It’s delicious. I served it with grill salmon collars last night. It’s great on lots of things.

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Piece of chicken fried slow in peanut oil and chopped, black bean chili oil, dried mushrooms, garlic, celery stalk, dried black fungus, bamboo, add spouts and a dab of sweet oyster sauce at the end. Stir fry in that order.
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Basic Italian sausage ragu.

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Yesterday was the chorizo and egg dish (yes I know it’s usually a brunch dish) and today the chicken broccoli plait.

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Tomorrow will probably be stirfry.

I know I just ate pasta, but this was food experiments. I should have made a pot of rice. Char Sui. It worked. I need to pencil down the recipe..

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