Squashes, squashes, everywhere!

With so many boxes of spaghetti squash in storage, I had to start eating them. After baking them, added green onion and a trader joe’s spicy red curry simmer sauce. The salad was a collection of greens again, including chickweed!

Food Wars: Episode IV – A New Quesadilla

The taste is strong in this one! I got turned onto quesadillas with massive amounts of greens. Pictured are baby bok choy, brocolletes, arugula, and kale. All sauteed with onion and garlic, then layered with cheese and kimchi of course, duh. After being closed up and grilled, the sith aint got nothing on this.

Peach, preacher!

Peach soda and peach scone.  Takes the sting out of having to study my life away.

The Supreme eggplant leader

The Eggplant parmesan commands your respect! Stand at attention!

Fry the eggplant:
Dip in the flour, then egg,  then back  in flour, throw into oil until browned.

The layers:
tomatoes sauce,  then
Layer of eggplant, then
Onions and garlic and pesto, then
Mozzarella and parmesan and parsley/daikon greens,  then
Layer of Eggplant, then
Tomato sauce and parmesan, then
sprinkle with Mozzarella

Crimson tide of Enchilada

Dinner hit hard last night with nuclear enchiladas and beans cooked with bunches of parsley. When globs of sour cream are plopped onto the deck of an enchilada, one does not hesitate.

Korean Inspiration

All the conversation about Korean food must have gotten Don fired up.

Couldn’t help but notice his amazing long fermented bread, which I ended up having the next night, with much butter.

Started the evening off easy with a home pita with either lamb, pepperoni, or olives and jalapeno

Dinner! Kimchi fried rice with grilled short ribs. The rice was so good, and he cooked it hot and fast, I thought it would burn but watched as he expertly moved it around the wok.

This was my plate. On top is the seaweed salad and some pickled apples and pears.

 

Puerto Rican food

The day I got out of the ER.

Rice, pigeon peas, cabbage salad, ñame escabeche, and “wham.”

Fast food

Are there somewhat healthier options when it comes to fast food? Maybe not “healthier” but “less unhealthy?”

The best I could do was this panda bowl.  Mixed veggies on the bottom, veggie chow mein (less calories than the fried rice), topped with 2 veggie spring rolls (they didn’t have eggplant tofu, which is what I usually get).

Eggs on baguette

3 eggs (1 yolk, 3 whites) scrambled with grape seed oil, garlic, salt, nutritional yeast then laid into a baguette.  Delicious. No condiments needed.

Grapefruit from the garden.

Columbia River springer salmon

The so called ‘springer’ salmon – very fatty salmon caught at the mouth of the Columbia River, heading upstream to their spawning grounds. My hosts baked it with nothing. No salt, no oil, no herbs, and it was quite delicious. Very light and succulent.

Served with sauteed greens, asparagus, and a savory corn bread of sorts.