What's for dinner?

I'm learning to make quick one-pot lunches in the instant pot.

Today I had spaghetti with lamb's quarters, pork scraps, creamy sauce and a bit of parmesan.

Chicken sandwiches from last night's lemon & onion baked, spatchcocked chicken. Wednesdays are busy, so an easy, fast, leftover-based supper is a bonus.

Getting home late to find nothing planned, so ....my first harvest from my new polytunnel! - salad greens topped up with small leaved lime leaves and sea cabbage flowers. Made a little potato salad, grated a carrot and dressed with (home made) apple cider vinegar and a little unrefined sugar, some colourful baby tomatoes (not mine, they're only just starting to flower!) and a tiny bit of cheese and home made rhubarb chutney. edit - I forgot a few walnuts on the side, and a sprinkle of raisins in with the carrot. A healthy meal on the table in about 15 minutes.

Eton mess for pudding!

Nice cauliflower at the veg store and freezing outside tonight, so i dug out some sausage from the freezer, fried it up with onions to make some gravy and made spatzle alongside the cauliflower and sausage.... Some nice carby goodness to keep warm!

Toasted chicken salad sandwiches - from the spatchcocked chicken, night before last. The carcass is in the slow cooker, with onion, celery, carrots, garlic, bay leaves, black pepper, and thyme, for the day - maybe the night, too.

there is a certain point in winter when I take more produce out of the garden than in the summer. We have just hit that sweet spot!!

Last night was the first dinner made from snow peas and cabbage from my garden.
(we are only two people right now but this dinner will be our lunch/dinner today and lunch again tomorrow, due to schedule silliness. Making a big meal with multiple dishes on Monday keeps things calm on Tuesday and Wednesday).

(snow peas with garlic and oyster sauce; miso hoikoro, a spicy chinese/japanese pork dish with garden cabbage, and korean braised potatoes and carrots. oh yes and a simple tomato/nori/scallion/sesame salad and jasmine rice [since we're out of normal short-grain]. What didn't come from the garden was a fridge clean-out campaign!)

Sunday night was all about the daikon radishes (also harvesting now): I made indian daikon-stuffed parathas. They were spectacular.

Japchae!

My Son showed up after work - can we have pasta salad for dinner? I got the pasta cooking while I cut his hair (yes - multitasking because the pasta pretty much cooks itself.)

I went and picked walking onion greens and parsley from the garden, but then had to go and deal with animals.

So my son did the chopping and building until he needed help finding a bigger bowl, then finished it off. Planned overs for the next two days.

Last night was Beet-Avocado tostadas from page 38 of the Vitamina T cookbook. (I didn't get the tostadas quite crispy enough and it significantly detracted, but all the goodies associated with the recipe were amazing!

We are in GreenLand! Not the North Atlantic, but the 'holy cow all the tatsoi, cabbage, daikon and napa are ready to pick right now' space.....

The other night we had sarson ka saag, pressure cooked greens cooked into a, uh, delicious sludge and served with corn flatbread that uses long kneading to make a delightfully creamy and corny bread with only plain old cornmeal. (no picture!!! LOL. My daughter's boyfriend was here for dinner and he wasn't the only one giving the sludge the side eye. Pressure-cooked blended greens aren't the most visually appealing, but man do they taste fine.)

We've had sooooo many stir fried greens, last night they were blanched and made into a Japanese goma-ae dish with ground sesame seeds and served alongside a Chinese chicken and snow peas (of which yesterday I picked 2 kg-- also having a great year).

Today the winter cold is back and we'll be having some soup and bread, watch this space!

Mushroom, onion, cheddar omelette.

Onions are tossed in toasted sesame oil and oven roasted. The “baby Bellas” were sliced and marinated in yuzu BBQ sauce and roasted. Then Cathy made the omelette in a special pan approved by Julia Child.

My mother-in-law brought me a block of Okinawan tofu (a rarity in these parts) and we're now pulling in at least a kilogram of snow peas per day, so I decided to make home style tofu.  It is probably the takeout dish I loved the most when I was young, didn't know how to cook and had access to takeout food (the lucky trifecta). Now where I live, this isn't a takeout option, so I make it myself. And it's really no big deal.
https://omnivorescookbook.com/home-style-tofu/
(extra bonus: the tofu is supposed to be deep fried. the air fryer does such a fine job that you really can't tell the difference. another win!)