Key lime pie? I am scared of meringues so if I can get my confidence up, that's what I'll be doing. :)

Somehow this weekend I'm mostly off of the hook for cooking, though I'll be contributing veggie and cheese roll ups for a picnic on Sunday. If I do need to make dinner though, I have a Turkish cheese pasta recipe I'm dying to try.

i think i'm gonna make some chicken soup from scratch. maybe also a thai green curry if i have time to ingredient-hunt.

Tonight: grilled salmon on the Foreman, roasted asparagus and cauliflower, and rice pilaf. Delicious!

Made a complicated but seriously delicious curry with tofu and vegetable tonight, with lemongrass-braised long beans and rice, and I'm making marmalade crumble bars for dessert. I'm on my own for the rest of the weekend, though, so I might just eat leftovers for the next few days!

Strawberry-pistachio Pavlova and a strawberry-raspberry sorbet, for a party.

Homemade goat cheese and freshly baked bread, for home.

Once again I work on the weekend, so we'll probably have leftovers. But we've had some good meals lately, so I don't mind!

A big beautiful salad with black beluga lentils, black forbidden rice, roasted golden beets and castelvetrano olives was the highlight. colorful and flavorful! One of the best things I've made in a while, and not difficult at all!

Lots of rice and lentils left over, which we've already used in dumplings, which we tried steaming and baking.

Maybe we'll make croquettes with the rest tomorrow?

I'm cooking a whole series of recipes from Claudia Roden's Comple Jewish Cookery for some friends coming over tomorrow night, inc carrot salad, baked aubergines, corgette gratin and meatballs followed by a desert made either with cherries or apricots depending on what i can source later. I'm in a cooking rut its a good thing to be trying new recipies.

I haven't really planned anything, since we were supposed to be out of town this weekend (too snowy on the pass to get to Seattle, though, so we're staying home). Plenty in the freezer and pantry, though, so I think I'll try my hand at chicken bacon ranch pizza, cole slaw, and roasted asparagus. Then I'll probably make some curried roasted cauliflower and brown rice to have for lunches during the week.

I just tried the chawanmushi/steamed eggs which I think were from lunch week. A mixed reaction from the family. I have higher hopes for the reception of the pumpkin-nutella snack cake. It's gray and dreary, so dinner will be polenta with garlicky greens. I'm trying to clear out the pantry a bit (hence the pumpkin dessert) and cook up some things will enjoy as the weather goes cold again. Tomato sauce, quinoa cakes, sweet potatoes with carmelized onions (these are awesome topped with black beans or scrambled eggs). Stuff to pack for lunch, essentially.

We bought a dozen old-school homestyle doughnuts yesterday, so all my other food-related thoughts have been pushed to the margins while I fell into a doughnut dream. Yesterday, I had doughnuts for breakfast and lunch, and only a fear of scurvy drove me to make broccoli in orange sauce for dinner instead of having another doughnut.

For today: Pumpkin streusel muffins (as a thank-you for a friend). Focaccia. Kale & mushroom frittata for dinner, or maybe some simple pasta dish with broccoli. Or maybe a frittata with a side of broccoli pasta, yeah, that sounds like just the ticket.

Well, that was a helpful chance to ruminate!

Made huevos rancheros for brunch this morning. Tonight, trying chipotle shrimp and goat cheese grits with a batch of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies to share with friends.

Just finished up a delicious frittata for Saturday brunch with asparagus, caramelized onions and brie - will deffinetely be recreating that one. Cruising the kitchn for dinner ideas now, thinking something with shrimp, maybe scampi or shrimp and grits. I have 2 big bunches of kale to use up so I'll have to incorporate that as well. Planning to try a recipe for sweet potato and date muffins tomorrow.

Made a version of aveglemono soup. Almost too lemony and not thickening enough. Next time I'll do it with a hand mixer instead of a whisk and my muscles and use less lemon.

Other things on the docket? Slow-cooked french onion beef for sandwiches, bosc pears baked with soaked dried cherries, and maybe roasting some chicken. Oh! And making a plethora of salads - napa cabbage asian slaw, sugar snap peas with maple soy sauce dressing, and celery and anchovy salad. Although if this deliciously cold weather keeps up (yay!), some more soups might be in the offing.

I am making a valiant attempt to make croissants. I've never tried the buttery-layer-pastry thing, but I have high hopes.

A friend gave me some home cured tasso ham so I am making a gumbo for dinner tonight. My plan for tomorrow is to make a lot of healthy salads (quinoa/blackbean/avocado/tomato and carrot/harissa/feta/mint) for lunches next week.

Fisherman's stew last night (hesitate to call it Cioppino as it didn't have Dungeness crab) along with some crusty bread. Halibut cheeks and asparagus tonight.

Not much cooking this weekend. Grilled halloumi and quinoa on Friday night and turkey chilli tonight with rice and cheese.

I made fish tacos this weekend and ate leftover key lime pie, which was delicious! I think tonight it will be some healthy salads and salmon though, because I'm feeling a cold coming on....

My fiancee made the most fantastic salmon burgers on Saturday night. They didn't need any sort of sauce or topping.

They did however go great with fresh tomatoes and the side of bruschetta on toast that we had :)

Today I'm in the midst of making pork and lamb stuffed peppers, and clear mushroom soup (I'm lactose intolerant). The whole house smells great; it's torture to not be able to taste or snitch!