What's cookin', good lookin'? Part II

Today's lunch is a sandwich of leftover tri tip steak on a garlic toasted brioche roll.
 

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I made a lamb and potato stew the other night that turned out good enough to try again (and again). Walmart was selling 2 packs of rosemary-garlic lamb shanks, so I kind of winged it. The lamb went in a Dutch oven at 375F for about an hour, half covered with beef stock and Guinness - then two huge heads of garlic, paper and all for another hour. Smashed the roasted garlic, tore out the meat and thew it back in with a sliced yellow onion, a bag of mixed color baby potatoes, smoked sea salt and pepper, cooked it down and thickened with 2 tbs of cornstarch towards the end. "Tavern-ish"
 
Youngest Miss Althea made dinner for me today and had picked flowers. Best part of a long day that I did get through without headbutting anyone or analysing their personality and (in)competence in enough detail to get sent to HR.IMG_1882.jpeg
 
Brunch is currently a fried egg sandwich on sourdough with black garlic cream cheese, zhug, fried onions and cilantro from the AeroGarden with a cup of weak pour over coffee. I'm almost ready. Almost.

I have a dilemma though. Can you help? The other day, I received two gift cards in the mail. Both were for the same amount, for the same place. One is surely a redundant copy of the other; I called to confirm with the person who sent it and only one was paid for. So now, do I spend both like I don't know about it, or do I throw one away since I know it's a mistake?

- confused, in a bowl in Nebraksa
 
There was no way I was going to not try a recipe for tuna and creme cheese mousse.
It was great and there is enough for several lunches!
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I also made a brunch and a german crustless cheese cake and for dinner Parmesanencrusted chicken with lemon garlic butter sauce, rice and salad with ranch dressing.
A full day!
 
I made Caribbean jerk chicken strips (just from a bottled marinade), rice, green beans, boiled yellow squash, and candied sweet potatoes, along with the last couple of slices of tomato I had left.

It was amazing, and I'm stuffed. No clue how I'm going to work this full, lol.
 
Hey everyone, I need some ideas.

I am having oral surgery in two weeks and will be on a liquid/soft foods diet for three weeks post-op. I'm looking for ideas of different things to make so it doesn't get too boring. I won't be able to eat anything with seeds in it.

I love smoothies, soups, and sweet potatoes. Does anyone have a favorite bisque? Smoothie? Something different?
 
I have made oxtail soup, mulligatawny soup, different kinds of veggie soup, shrimp soup, fish soup when cooking for someone with those restrictions.
Almost any soup thrown in the blender works really well and making ahead and freezing in portions works makes life easier.

The smoothie tip from Goldy is a good one and you can use coconut milk and or cream in smoothies too.
Beets are great in smoothies too and you can add carrots and spinach to fruit smoothies without changeing the taste too much.
 
Yummy dinner, both yesterday and today!

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Pork tenderloin filet dressed with garlic, onion, black pepper, lemon and sage with tzatziki, carrot yoghurt with lemon and curcumin and black bean yoghurt with cumin and coriandre.
Stole some fries too… Falls in the ”My wife’s not really hungry”- cathegory, I guess?
 
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The whey from making tzatziki yesterday turned into scones for breakfast and afternoon snack today.
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For dinner I finally got to do Sicilian lamb ragu with pasta and pecorino.
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Celebrating Last of April.
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A scampi bowl with steamed broccoli, sweet corn, spring onion, baby bell peppers and baby plum tomatos. Dressing made with greek yoghurt, lime chipotle mayo, sriracha and sweet soy.

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And a croissant with homemade nutella and a coffee liqueur glaze, because the puff pastry was about to expire.
 
Lovely weather in England today after a dreadful spring. Obviously a barbecue beckons. Homemade burgers and chicken satay skewers. Pasta salad, green salad, potato salad (with Jersey Royal) potatoes.
 
Teenagers were coming to our house to watch Eurovision Song Contest and youngest Miss Althea was going to make tacos and feed them all.

We decided to elope as I’m allergic to ESC.

Made a yummy lunch gym and sauna, so we could take a longish roadtrip to a favourite burger joint.
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To make sure no teenager would starve I made them a cake and they actually saved us a slice each for when we got home:
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