cook one new dish every week

• Aussie burger with corn on the cob
• Green bean and mushroom Indian curry
• Sweet potato/eggplant/chicken Khmer curry [sorta new]

Husband was out of town, so I picked all the dishes myself this week, and then a friend came over to help with some of the cooking. When the boy’s not around, I tend to cook vegetarian(ish), because I don’t really enjoy meat enough to put up with all the food handling issues.

Here’s what we/I made. Everything this week was new!

• Gazpacho
• Stir-fried yellow chives
• Bucatini with anchovy breadcrumbs (ok, tinned anchovies aren’t vegetarian, but they’re also not raw)
• Broccoli slaw with miso
• Chickpea salad with lemon and feta

Everything turned out pretty delicious!

• Capellini alla norma + bruschetta with peaches and ricotta [both new]
• Fried rice with leftover meat from Friday night’s dinner

The pic’s not mine, but it’s pretty close to our pasta dish. No blobs of ricotta though – we saved those for the bruschetta.

• Eggplant pizza
• Singapore noodles (new!)
• Cashew chicken with eggplants and gai lan

We have a ton of gai lan and two eggplants left over. If I have any time this week, I’ll do something with those.

This week was crazy!

• Pork chop and peaches in agrodolce sauce and fried squash blossoms stuffed with goat cheese (new!)
• Kashmiri collard greens (new!) and stuffed eggplant (old dish, new recipe)
• Spaghetti with chopped capers, pine nuts, olives, parsley

• Roast chicken with bread salad
• Coriander chicken curry (elachi murghi) – new!
• Spicy shrimp stir-fry with Korean chili sauce and tons of vegetables (bokum)

The picture is of a squid version of the 3rd dish. So good.

• Dan dan mian (pictured)
• Bistec encebollado
• Guacamole
• Kidney beans in mole coloradito (new!)

• Cambodian pork and herb salad (new!)
• Butternut squash pizza
• Coriander-crusted steak with red miso butter, Japanese sweet potato with miso butter, carrots with fried sage

• Portuguese chicken (new!)
• Tuna and salmon poke (new!) with Japanese sweet potato and miso butter (again)
• Gai lan with oyster sauce to accompany some Chinese leftovers

The pic is Portuguese chicken.

• Duck breast with cherry port sauce [NEW!], wild rice pilaf (out of a box), and roasted brussels sprouts
• Kung Pao chicken with gai lan
• Stir-fried dry Thai curry with ground pork

• Mixed greens enchiladas
• Paneer with peas, mint, and cilantro [NEW!]

This week, my husband got sick just as we started cooking, so we had to scale back our plans a little bit. But we still made 3 new things!

• Cauliflower and potato curry with a sour and coconutty flavor
• Banana raita
• Sausage, roasted bell pepper, and olive pizza with mozzarella, tomato, and basil

As usual, the picture’s not mine, but it looks a lot like what we made.