Today I went with some of my friends to help clean up a local park. Tonight’s dinner is a little heavier than I usually prefer, but cabbage is a good reward for a good day’s work 🍽️🍜

My friend gave me some little spinach puff pastries she made, and so dinner was easy! After doing meal prep yesterday, it was nice to have something I didn’t cook 🍽️🍜

Today is big trash pickup and also happens to be a little stormy. All of the noise from the trucks, trailers, and thunder has my dog unsettled and barking. However, I’ve recently realized that he likes watching me in the kitchen, and so instead of having a relaxing morning with a book, I cooked 🍽️🍜

Another quick dinner, mostly from the pantry. This weekend, my friends and I are going on a big grocery run for my birthday, so I’m trying to make room in the pantry/freezer 🍽️🍜

Going through the freezer means finding a couple of field roasts stashed away. This roast is very definitely not ham, texture-wise, but there is something very almost-ham in the taste, and honestly, it was just a bit confusing 🍽️🍜

Quick weeknight dinner—TJ’s kebabs, curried okra, and rice and lentils. I don’t know why I don’t do okra like this more often, it’s a good, quick dinner 🍽️🍜

Sardine butter is a new concept to me. I think more herbs would make this bit lighter, but this is good to have on rotation while it’s still warm 🍽️🍜

Suffered from a big case of the I-don‘t-wannas this morning, but got on track eventually. I had half a bag of flageolet beans, and decided to try making something with leeks, which are hard to find where I’m at, but maybe I’ll make an effort to find them more often 🍽️🍜

Sometime, I forget how much I like red beans and rice. I’ve been eating off of this pot for a week and have been happy with every bowl 🍽️🍜

Had to fill in on a presentation today, but I feel like I did rather poorly. At least I had dinner to come home to. Corn soup that turned out amazingly well and bagged salad that was a bit less so 🍽️🍜

One of my friends has the cilantro-soap gene, so I rarely use it out of habit. When I do use it, though, I’m always pleasantly reminded of how bright and fresh it is! 🍽️🍜

Found a pound of mayocoba beans that needed to be used. Bean spread on crackers for the next few nights, then bean salad after. What I’m going to do with the last third, I have no idea. I’ll figure something out 🍽️🍜

Last night I read about lescó, and I thought about the peppers in the fridge getting a bit wrinkly. This isn’t that, not exactly. I ran with what I had, what I could remember from the recipes I looked at. I found some boudin in the freezer that’s been hanging out, and it all worked pretty okay 🍽️🍜

I can’t tell if my allergies are acting up with the cold front that moved in, or if I’ve stressed myself into a cold. Either way, some vegetables and a chicken carcass stashed in the freezer makes for an easy dinner 🍽️🍜

A few months ago, I bought attachments for my stand mixer to make pasta, and then promptly put them away and didn’t think about them. Until today, that is. Really, I’ll probably still used dried pasta for spaghetti, but I’m happy to have the roller for making crackers and ravioli 🍽️🍜

Found some Rancho Gordo beans on sale and discovered one of the bulk stores carries fresh herbs, so herb salad for dinner tonight. And some toasted baguette slices. Because really, that’s my favorite part 🍽️🍜

Another easy lunch from picnic leftovers. It’s still too hot, but hatch season is right around the corner, so I at least have that to look forward to 🍽️🍜

The lunch I made for my friend’s birthday was appreciated, and I have leftovers for a couple days! It’s always nice when dinner is just putting some rice in the cooker and frying an egg. I’m too tired after playing in the river for more than that! 🍽️🍜

A quick salad since I spent most of my cooking energy on making pesto and prepping a bag of sweet corn. Still got to portion out and bag the corn when it cools down a little more, but the hardest part is done 🍽️🍜

Tired, but trying to get some food prep done before a kinda busy weekend. I’ve had canned pigeon peas before, but I haven’t been able to get them dried until a month ago. Tomorrow, the goal is pesto… by hand. Because I love my friend and it’s her birthday 🍽️🍜

Costco had some fancy tuna for a good price, and I’ve been trying to experiment more with tinned fish. I wasn’t too impressed with the first few bites, but then I suddenly started tasting something much stronger and more well rounded than the usual cheap tuna, and I think I understand now 🍽️🍜

I can’t say that I was anticipating the pasta to start falling to bits while cooking, but it’s not like it’s inedible or anything, and I did get it on sale. Not sure I’ll get this sausage again, but not every meal has to be perfect. It’s filling, and sometimes that’s all I need 🍽️🍜

It’s been a minute since I made spring rolls, so the first couple I made are maybe less than perfect. But it doesn’t take too many to get back in the rhythm, and this is a good dinner on a hot evening 🍽️🍜

This kind of work lunch is nice because it’s easy to pack the night before. Still, this was almost too much! But what I couldn’t finish at lunch made for a good snack before finishing up for the day. 🍽️🍜

I may or may not have gorged on watermelon today, and suddenly just before bed, my tummy reminded me that watermelon alone can’t sustain me. It’s easy enough to fix with a baguette and some deli turkey. Still trying to form an opinion on these almond-stuffed olives 🍽️🍜

Summer is really kicking in, which means lots of fresh stuff at the farmer’s market, but also that I cannot bring myself to do a lot of cooking. This is really just me finding an excuse to try the pork and fig terrine I saw at the gourmet grocery store. Glad I tried it, but probably not a repeat 🍽️🍜

In between meals and didn’t want to make anything, so fridge charcuterie it is. The dog was very jealous, but he got his own servings of watermelon and pepper in his dinner, so I don’t think he has much to complain about 🍽️🍜

I ended up lucking out at an estate sale and got some flagstone and a perfect sized bird bath for cheap. Now I’m sore from hauling it all. Fortunately, some pantry/freezer bits came together nicely. Parmesan broccoli rotini with vegan nuggets for a very filling dinner 🍽️🍜

I have mushroom gravy leftover, so finding different ways to use it before I have to freeze it. Honestly, just eating a grilled cheese with mushrooms sounds really good on its own, but I was craving thin sliced lunch meat, and so here we are 🍜🍽️

Loco moco for dinner. It’s so good and filling, but it always makes me want to take a nap! 🍽️🍜

I made strawberry jam in the bread machine for the first time in a good while, and I forgot how good it can be. A quick and light dinner tonight, I didn’t feel like cooking much after running errands 🍽️🍜

Pantry pasta for dinner. I wasn’t impressed by the first couple bites, but it was edible. By the next few bites, though, suddenly it was amazing. Whether it was hunger or hitting the sun-dried tomatoes, I don’t know, but leftovers will make a good lunch for my in-office day tomorrow 🍽️🍜

Decided to use up the thing of spinach that was ready to start wilting at any second. It’s a bit overspiced—I followed the instructions for 500g of greens while forgetting that I had made a few salads from the bin. But I think it’ll be super tasty tomorrow if I fry an egg in it! 🍽️🍜

Trying to use up some odds and ends before they go bad. Cucumber salad is always tasty, and the jar of red cabbage I got at the store is actually pretty good. I’ll cut up the last of the bread and freeze it tomorrow, but for now, this is enough 🍽️🍜

More cold soup for me. It’s funny, sometimes, how distant we can be from the origins of some dishes. There are people who balk at the idea of using stale bread in gazpacho, as if it’s somehow ruined by the addition of carbs. I personally find it to be much more satisfying, but to each their own 🍽️🍜

It’s so hot and muggy out, it’s hard to want to do anything. There’s even more rain coming, so it’s just going to be gross for a while. This a good time to indulge in cold meals. 🍽️🍜

One of the things about making your own bread is that you have to slice the loaf. In theory, I could get a slicing guide, but usually I just accept uneven slices, or more often, just cut one thick slice and make it an open face sandwich. Either way, it gets eaten 🍜🍽️

Sometimes I make something so tasty that I have to get a second serving while trying to put the leftovers away. Tomatoes, corn, and okra simmered together and served with rice and lentils 🍽️🍜

I haven’t had peanut noodles in a minute, and it’s getting warm enough for them. I was impatient and didn’t wait for the noodles to completely drain, so the sauce isn’t as thick as I prefer, but still a good and quick dinner 🍽️🍜

Tried a new way of bulk cooking mushrooms, and I guess now I’m going to be adding mushrooms to everything now. I meant to make a darker gravy, but as it turned out, I don’t have beef stock or bouillon on hand. Dumped in the usual kitchen pepper, and it all turned out pretty good 🍽️🍜

It’s been so muggy recently that I haven’t wanted to do any kind of cooking, but PB&Js can only last for so long, and so I must! Cooked dinner while a storm rolled in, hoping the hail stays nickel and dime sized. Tomorrow I’m trying a new way of cooking mushrooms, so I’m a bit excited for that! 🍜🍽️

Had to go in to the office for a presentation, and a higher-up ended up joining us, which I was definitely not prepared for! I got praised afterward for my work afterward, but I was unexpectedly more tired than I anticipated after that. At least my odds and ends lunch was good! 🍽️🍜

Eggstravaganza Day 1: Pickled eggs, hatch bake, and spaetzle that I just couldn’t get right, but it’s perfectly edible beyond looking funny. All for the freezer for future dinners. Tomorrow, more bakes and beet pickled eggs! 🍽️🍜

Hey #cookingsky, what are you favorite egg dishes that can be frozen? I'm about to come into an extreme surplus of duck and chicken eggs, and while I'm going to dole a lot of them out to friends and family, there's still going to be plenty for me to cook and save for later! 🍽️

I set out to build a 10x10 flowerbed, but somehow over the last month and a half, the bed grew to over 400sqft. Oops. It’s (mostly) done now, and now I’m celebrating by trying to clear out some stuff hanging out in the fridge 🍽️🍜

1/14 Many years ago, when I was about two, my GP told my parents to take me to a cardiologist to get my heart murmur checked out. They took me to an adult cardiologist they knew, he looked at me and told my parents to take me to a pediatric specialist and to enjoy the upcoming holiday with me.

Wanted to use up the last of the butter in the bell, and I had a baguette in the freezer, so made a quick pepper salad. I tried to make a shirred egg with butter instead of cream since that’s all I have, but it didn’t really work out that well. Oh well, worth a shot to try. 🍽️🍜

I made chicken and dumplings on a very warm Thursday, knowing that I would be very happy to have it over the next few cold and rainy days. I tried the dumplings from Fatima Khawaja’s recipe on Serious Eats, which wasn’t bad, but maybe I’ll do something different next time 🍽️🍜

Last week, I did something I’ve been dreading. It wasn’t fun, but I feel relieved. Between this and that, new stuff at work, I haven’t had much energy for cooking. But today I felt lively enough after my commute to make a quick salad and fry some spam. 🍽️🍜

Brains are weird. Sometimes when I’m in the kitchen, if the task I’m doing scans to a song, that’s all I can hear. Unfortunately, the song is usually Making Christmas, and I don’t really like Nightmare Before Christmas, but still, all I can hear is 🎵Roasting garlic, roasting garlic, lalala 🎶🎶 🍽️🍜