super yummy! One day I’d love to try making risotto :-)

It's simple to make risotto.

Last nights dinner was baked center cut pork chops, brushed with bbq sauce as they baked. And roasted radishes, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts with Cavenders seasoning.

Sure, but not to make it well. That takes practice, I haven't been able to replicate what I can get at a restaurant that knows how to do it right. It's very possible I don't have the patience for it.

That looks delicious!
Perhaps you lack patience for it.

Thanks. It was tender and moist. Unlike my housemate's that I had to stick in a skillet on high for 10 extra minutes and burn for him.

Such a waste of good food to burn it.

Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday farmer's market? I used to live near the downtown farmer's market but loved biking to the Sunday market. And loved the meals I'd cook those days! Yours looked fantastic.

Tonight Mr CE made NYT's roast tomato and white bean stew. It was featured in one of the recent What To Cook This Week/Weekend columns as a dish that had 4000+ 5-star ratings. My husband likes his animal-based proteins, so I half-heartedly suggested it but didn't push it...and last night when we were menu planning for the week, he said he wanted to make it. Amazing! I told him the only thing he should do differently next time is make a double batch. We had it with the Cook's Illustrated's almost no-knead bread, which I made for Thanksgiving, and it was delicious. (Also fantastic -- despite the fact it's Dec. 1 and we've had below-freezing temps, I was able to cut fresh parsley and thyme from the garden as he was prepping it. Oregano, marjoram, mint and scallions are also still going strong. Maybe rosemary, too, though I didn't look closely.)

We shopped the day before Thanksgiving at the Wednesday Farmers Market at Arizona and Second. My daughter lives in Chicago. She regularly shops at the Green City Market in Lincoln Park on Saturdays.

GCM is great, but doesn't hold a candle up the Santa Monica Farmers Markets! I used to live at Sixth & Broadway, so was a couple blocks from corky 's (and my) fav Bay Cities and not far from the farmers markets. I miss it, particularly this time of year!

Grilled boneless sirloin steak
baked potatoes
baked sweet potato
mixed salad (green red orange)
sauteed onions
sauteed mushrooms

We always go to the Wednesday SM Farmers Market when she's in town; we got there at 7:00 am for their 7:30 am opening and were in the third group to be let in once they opened (it's capacity controlled due to the pandemic). When I visit her in Chicago, I go with her to the Lincoln Park Saturday farmers market. When she attended medical school in Cleveland, I went with her to the Shaker Square Market - she had a fabulous wild mushrooms forager there - and when she college in St. Louis it was Soulard Farmers Market. The Santa Monica market is in a class by itself, though; before COVID devastated the restaurant business, I used to enjoy running into some of the top chefs in town while shopping there.

Sounds great. I love beans, but my partner will not come near beans of any kind so I don't get an opportunity very often, unless I'm out or willing to eat them all myself. The only chili he'll eat is Cincinnati (gag). And, wouldn't you know, my favorite soup is Navy bean? And, I come from a family in which baked beans are a holiday (any holiday) tradition. The best thing at Thanksgiving this year was green bean casserole.

From what it seemed, the dish came together very quickly. Maybe something to make for your lunches? I am not typically a baked bean person, but there is a very soft spot in my heart for SugarFire barbecue in St Louis and their baked beans, which are excellent! The last time I got them, we got back to my brother's house only just discover they had an accidentally omitted the beans Too far away to drive back and get replacements.

I'm a big fan of NYT recipes, so i probably will make them at some point. I have a cousin who will eat anything so if and would come for lunch. And, if there is too much, she's always happy to take home leftovers.