I think most Americans would think of dried split peas for soup. Takes a few hours... Never heard of fresh/frozen pea soup.

If it was pea and ham soup then I'd go with split peas, but for freshness you really can't beat just using fresh vegetables. I saw Gordon Ramsay once make a broccoli soup that was nothing more than broccoli boiled in a bit of water then blended with a bit of oil and salt. Give it a crack, there's about $5 worth of ingredients in my soup so if you don't like it it's not an expensive mistake.

Grilling supper in nice air - it’s been weeks!

grilled turkey burger with sharp cheddar
leftover roasted beets
mediterranean spicy sauce
grilled chicken apple sausage with sauces
israeli pickles & olives
warm pita with Israeli hummus

Charcuterie with a few glasses of Rosso di Montalcino.

I make soups like that all the time....boil some broccoli or cauliflower or asparagus in chicken broth and turn it into a creamy veggie soup with the immersion blender. Then I can add cheese or drizzle olive oil or sprinkle with croutons.
I think that pea soup would be good with a little mint.
I guess the Brussels sprouts were just a fluke .

Yes, vegetable puree soups are great! Using fresh/frozen peas is also not as heavy as using split peas. Plus you can serve these type of soups cold in the summer.

Forgot desserts!

haagen Dasz chocolate ice cream
waffle cone with Robbins peanut butter & chocolate and Trader Joe’s chocolate chip
waffle cone with Jaimito, Trader Joe’s chocolate chip, and Robbins mint chocolate chip

Threw together an ad hoc beef stroganoff using lean organic ground beef, double the amount of mushrooms to use up the last of a package, and subbed in bow tie pasta because no egg noodles on hand. Enough left over for a few lunches and tastes much better than the first time I "made" stroganoff using Hamburger Helper.

Bonus dessert - two chocolate-covered almonds. Now I think they’re 6.5mg each.

When I was a child, my mother used to make a version of beef stroganoff that wasn't Hamburger Helper, and it wasn't bad.

Pea soup vs. split pea soup - definitely two different things, both are good.

Sometimes for lunch, I'll make a can of Progresso split pea soup, and I'll add frozen peas and crushed red pepper to it. So, a third entrant, split pea soup with fresh peas :). It's actually very good. I love homemade split pea soup, and usually use smoked ham hocks. But my wife isn't fond of ham, so I don't make it often.

But down to business - last night was Mediterranean takeout for the Pita Inn (shwarma, pita, hummus, tabouleh, and more I can't spell without looking it up). Tonight, it's going to be buffalo chicken wraps. We have company for the weekend, beginning tomorrow. Homemade pizzas on the grill tomorrow night, we'll make several different types.

Dinner tonight:

Grilled shawarma style chicken thighs
Rice
Garden (literally) salad: red and green lettuce, basil, parley, mint, chives and scallions from the garden supplemented with some watercress and fennel, goat cheese and poppy seed dressing

Green salad
Bucatini with olive oil, chopped basil, sundried tomatoes, kalamata olives, garlic and topped with grated pecorino romano and toasted bread crumbs.

Sandwiches
cakes
whole milk on ice
ice water


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Fennel is incredibly underused IMO. Nice to see it pop up in a salad here!

I agree. Salad sounds wonderful. Did you just shave raw fennel, CE?

I did! We had a leftover ahead of fennel so it was nice to throw it in.

It's heartier than a veggie salad, but I found a Lidia Bastianich recipe for a fennel salad once. IIRC, it was mostly thin sliced fennel, celery, maybe red onion, along with some matchsticked cheese and salami. I believe it has a lemon vinaigrette dressing. Maybe it's a faded memory, but I remember thinking it was delicious. I haven't made it since, but made need to Google it soon.

Sounds like it could be tasty!

I did roast pork last night with crackling. That bit in the middle didn't get as crunchy as I wanted, I think I may have cut through to the meat when I was scoring it and a bit of juice got onto the crackling while it cooked. Served it with some greens and roast vegetables which sat under the pork and got all the juice.

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Boar's Head Kielbasa on a bed of sauerkraut and a dab of stone ground mustard.

Cheeseburger with fries
onion rings with side of bbq sauce
cheese fries
coleslaw
chicken pot pie (buy & reheat)
chocolate milkshake
chocolate cake
carrot cake
fairlight 2% milk over ice
Organic whole milk over ice
iced waters (arrowhead still & Perrier glass bottle sparkling)
(ice from a 20-lb party ice bag)

Breakfast again for dinner:

Homemade biscuits
Sausage
Bacon
Fruit
Hashbrowns

with coffee??

A couple of fried eggs on top of that please!

How are your biscuits? I'm, at best, the novice-est of novice bakers, and have tried making them twice during the lockdown. Both times flatter and denser than they should be. I think I may be over-working the dough.

My spouse makes the biscuits, and she has a recipe that is much simpler than most in part because it uses oil instead of shortening/butter. In any event, they are delicious :)

Since a long bout of heavy-duty antibiotics earlier this summer, coffee just doesn't taste right/good anymore :( And neither does milk :( (These are known side-effects of antibiotics longer term)

as long as you can taste the biscuits, that’s all that matters!!
health is wealth

and are you still drinking coffee for the caffeine or have you switched away from coffee?

Carryout Cheeseburger & chocolate milkshake

Carryout pizza with artichoke & spinach
carryout pepperoni pizza
”taco salad” with chipotle Crema / lime jalapeño dressings
first carryout pizza & salad since March or February 2020!
Note / secret - I actually think my panic pizza is extremely better because it’s hot. I’ll try the artichoke / spinach toppings in the future. I’m still not going to bring pepperoni into my house.

soon to be cake desserts

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That looks like pepperoni to me.

green salad
par baked crunchy baguette with OO & balsamic to dip in
a huge bowl of lobster claws heated on the grill with garlic butter
beer

I mentioned that I had carryout pepperoni pizza and that I’m not bringing pepperoni into my house.

Big yay for lobster

which beer???
I’m excited for when you add cigarettes to the mix.


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carryout to me says picking up food and bringing it home . Did you eat it in your car or something ?
1 Peroni and 1 Blue Moon
why would you want me to start smoking??

lol I’m just a degen and I love all horrific health habits.
The beers sound lovely!

i’m away from home - this is my first pepperoni in 6 plus months. Worth the wait!

my utopia. It’s bad enough that we didn’t consume any legal drinks or food together amongst the salad with lobster and omelets.

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huh? Where did you eat the pizza? Are you on vacation somewhere ?

We did matzo ball soup last night in honor of Rosh Hashanah. Tonight we're doing a brisket (NYTs recipe with plums, port and caramelized onions) and smashed potatoes. Plus we've been drinking beer in the backyard for the last 5 hours ago I guess the potatoes aren't the only thing that's smashed...

That does look like a good recipe.

We had matzo ball soup, Michael Solomonov's mother's brisket, a recipe that calls for ground coffee in the rub and brewed coffee in the braising liquid, and potato kugel Friday night for Erev Rosh Hashanah. Leftovers tonight.

Grilled strip steaks with sauteed spinach, chard, and kale on the side. Some sort of no sugar choco peanut butter bar for dessert

Pastrami pizza mmmmmm
champagne
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Driving supper for the return home

foghorn leghorn (chicken breast) sandwich
cheeseburgers
Dairy Queen blizzards

it is very difficult to eat a DQ blizzard while driving on a winding highway - I ordered the special milkshake but they were out! The pumpkin cookie butter milkshake must be super popular!


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I must have this. Either I will talk a local pizza place into doing it, or we will make it at home.

Here are the ingredients although I thought it had swiss cheese. It sounds so weird and is so good. The pastrami gets little crisp edges like bacon and the pickles are so nice and briny with it.
Let us know how yours turns out!
Mustard, a Touch of Mayonnaise, Mozzarella Cheese, Pastrami, Pickles
from:
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