This week, Husband is mostly out of town, so I was cooking just for myself. That gives me license to experiment more freely, since no one has to eat the results except me.

Here’s what I made:

- Gazpacho

- Shakshuka (new; pictured): the eggs didn’t really behave perfectly, but I think it will still taste fine

- Something that tried to be a soon tofu stew and failed utterly (new, and never to be repeated). However, a sufficient quantity of kimchi can rescue anything, including whatever that crap was. 1 day ago

• Cambodian stir-fried fish with herbs
• Orecchiette with nduja
• Korean stewed chicken 1 week ago

• Pizza with a little bit of nduja, which is a yummy spicy spreadable sausage [new]
• Chickpea and herb salad

We have a lot of leftovers from last week, and Husband has a bunch of business dinners coming up this week, so we didn’t exactly strain ourselves to cook up a storm today. 3 weeks ago

• A spring farrotto with fava beans and asparagus (new)
• Pork chop with cherry sauce and roasted sugar snap peas
• Thai cashew chicken stir-fry 1 month ago

Here’s what we made for the week:

• Oven-roasted flounder with bok choy and brown rice [new!]
• Oranges in balsamic-anise caramel sauce with Greek yogurt [new!]
• Black-eyed pea and kale stew [new, pictured]
• Thai stir-fry with chicken, squash, egg and a ridiculous amount of fish sauce 1 month ago

Almost everything we made this week was new!

• Flemish stew [new!] + braised carrots with thyme (we usually do this with sage instead)
• Kimchi and pork belly stir-fry [new!]
• Indian ground meat and peas—old standby dish, new recipe 1 month ago

• Aussie burger with corn on the cob
• Green bean and mushroom Indian curry
• Sweet potato/eggplant/chicken Khmer curry [sorta new] 21 months ago

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! 21 months ago

• 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. 21 months ago

• 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. 22 months ago

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 22 months ago

• 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. 23 months ago

• Dan dan mian (pictured)
• Bistec encebollado
• Guacamole
• Kidney beans in mole coloradito (new!) 23 months ago

• 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. 23 months ago

• 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!] 2 years ago