This is another dinner I could serve to company. John cooked the salmon at 400F for fourteen minutes and I made the rest. The asparagus were especially good and I got them on sale for $1.98/lb!
We really enjoy the mustard sauce, especially with salmon.
We had fennel left over from last week’s Kenwood shrimp so Sarah decided to find a recipe that she would like to use for her contribution this week. When she told me she was making fennel with pasta I was skeptical. Oddly when it was done cooking the licorice flavor of the fennel was gone. The anchovies that she put in were also not apparent. It was more like pasta with lemon and some sort of stringy vegetable. It was tasty enough but we all agreed that she probably should not make it again. The pasta shape which was Barilla’s heart shaped pieces pretty much just folded into pasta squares so that did not help either.
Here’s a link to the recipe from Epicurious where it got 4.8 stars somehow.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ba-syn-melted-fennel-pasta
This was supposed to be our Valentine’s Day dinner but I made a lot of guacamole that we had with tortilla chips as a treat before dinner and then we were too full to eat dinner. Agghiotta is a Sicilian preparation for serving with swordfish. You can find the recipe here: https://www.seriouseats.com/agghiotta-di-pesce-spada-sicilian-braised-swordfish-with-tomatoes-and-olives-5212333
Rather than braise the fish John cooks it separately in a pan and I make the tomatoes and olives and then we combine them when we plate up. Also I used slivered almonds rather than pine nuts. Almonds are much less expensive and go well in the dish.
This would have been a great Valentines Day dinner but it was just as good on the 15th!
At least the salad and the sauerkraut are healthy! 😁
We usually make this dinner for a holiday, birthday, or special occasions. It was great to have it just to treat ourselves!
I bought a bag of four good-sized peppers and stuffed them with a cooked mixture of onions, ground beef, rice, spices, and tomato sauce. They were good on Tuesday but even better as a leftovers on Thursday.
Always a crowd pleaser!
🇲🇽😃 yum!
🥳 I love this delicious pasta!
Ingredients for two servings – 6 to 8 oz. whole grain penne, 1/2 onion, chopped, 3 garlic cloves, minced, 4 oz. spicy pork sausage removed from casing.
Steps – heat boiling salted water and cook penne according to box directions. While water is heating and penne is cooking sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. When onion is translucent add the pork sausage. Break sausage apart while cooking. Cook until the sausage is no longer pink.
Reserve a cup of pasta water and then strain the pasta with a colander. Add a couple of handfuls of chopped kale to the sausage mixture and also a half cup of the reserved pasta water. Put the penne into the sausage mixture and stir it around. Add the rest of the reserved water if it looks dry.
Garnish with olive oil and Parmesan.
I seem to be running behind so here is another “two fer,”
Delicious shrimp tacos with avocado, salsa, mango, and spicy beans. 2/4/26
Chicken dinner. 2/5/26
Our classic chicken dinner is always a family favorite.
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