Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Friday night is pizza night in the Horst household. I'm thinking about maybe making one of the pies Sicilian style just to change it up a bit. My younger son has been requesting a thin, cracker like crust with olive oil, garlic, onions, very little cheese and a generous sprinkling of coarse sea salt on the crust, older son is really into Frank's Red Hot for the sauce with extra cheese and pepperoni, and the husband is more traditional with tomato sauce and generally pepperoni, mushrooms and onions. I generally like just a good old margherita style pie, but lately I've been getting tired of pizza--OMG don't tell the family I said that, they'll string me up by my toes for that. I'm hoping that maybe a different style of crust will be enough to break me out of this pizza boredom rut.

It's a little early in the day to know for sure, but probably sole meuniere with a eggplant as a side - we got sole from our fish share and I'm really looking forward to making meuniere with it, as opposed to whiting which is what we got in last week's share. Fortunately, my husband liked the whiting meuniere so much (it was really excellent - delicate and flavorful), that he requested it again. Might as well perfect meuniere now and commit it to memory since we both loved it.

Interesting story about our fish share: When the fisherman went to fill our bag from the cooler of whiting, he held up not one, but two pairs of whiting, in which one was trying to swallow the other head first and they were stuck that way. He said, "Yeah, one thing about whiting is that they're cannibalistic." This caused quite a crowd at the market - everyone wanted to see. He said they're fine and to just pull them apart and clean as usual. I let hubs clean those guys. [cringe] There's no way one could actually eat the other, their little organ cavity is the size of a grape, not like a snake. But still. Yuck.

Oh I almost forgot - Have fun italiancupcake!

Tonight is my triumphant return to eating solid foods! Yes! I am sick of soup and pudding. (On a side note, I never knew that leeks were a diuretic until my recent foray into brewing vichyssoise led to a sleepless night of belly-achin'. Vegetables are powerful.)

Um, so tonight will be some kind of feast. I would really like to braise short ribs, but I'm not sure if there will be time. I suppose I could make some kind of appetizer/snack thing when I get home to tide us over while the meat's a-cookin. Then have late-night short ribs with squash and something green!

I'll try to finish-what happened?? I'll serve it with hunks of bread and asparagus/vinegrette. Last night I made a large salad/avocado. Avocados have been so nice lately.

Roasted zucchini, yellow squash, and mushrooms; grape tomatoes; pan fried chicken tenderloins that have been marinated in sriracha, shoyu, garlic, and ginger; brown rice. For dessert, peppermint ice cream.

I'm thinking chicken piccatta over penne...I'm craving that lemony, capery sourness.

I thought I was going to be eating frozen dinners tonight, but on the way home I impulsively stopped by Reading Terminal Market and picked up some things for the weekend. Now there's oxtail and vegetable stew simmering on the stove, and I'll be serving that on rice.

@italiancupcake -- have a great trip! :D

I had pasta dinner with my crew team tonight. We have a regatta this weekend, so we were partying beforehand. There was caesar salad, spaghetti, tomato sauce, and garlic bread. There was also crownies for dessert(cookie dough layered with brownie batter)! It was food made with little skill ( a few college guys made it) and with cheap ingredients, but the atmosphere of friends squeezed in a tiny apartment made the dinner one of the best I've had in a while.
I guess this isn't dinner, but I had a second dessert because it is crepe night at this nightlife place on my campus. I had a crepe with strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and chocolate sauce, topped with ice cream and whipped cream! Awesome day today!