Lunch or dinner menus

January 2024 (Family dinner)

• Frittata with Onions and Broccoli
• Salad with Grapefruit and Avocado

January 2024 (Family dinner)

• Polenta with Mixed Vegetable Ragout (modified)
• Brussels Sprout Salad with Pomegranate and Almonds

January 2022 (Dinner with family; dinner with friends)

• Roast Pork with TexMex rub
• Chipotle Sweet Potatoes
• Braised Brussels Sprouts
• Cranberry Salsa
• Cranberry Upside Down Cake with whipped cream

December 2021 (Dinner w/ Steve and Laurie

• Chicken Noodle Soup
• Yeast Muffins with butter and honey
• Salad
• Cranberry Cake with whipped cream

December 2021, Dessert Party for neighbors in Ilwaco

• Lemon Tarte, from Cooks Illustrated
• Cranberry Cake with whipped cream
• Assorted nuts (Costco)
• Simple Sesames
• Noel Nut Balls
• Chocolate-Mint Macaroons

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

• Mock Caesar Salad with tuna, garbanzo beans, veggies
• Cornbread with butter and honey
• Strawberries from the garden

Friday, March 1, 2019

• Modified recipe of Bouillabaise. Added saffron, orange peel. Used 1.5 pounds shrimp; 1 pound bay scallops; 1.2 pounds cod
• Beet Salad (used roasted red beets and one large navel orange, with lacinato kale, modified dressing)
• Ken Forkish, Saturday Overnight Bread, served with butter (1/2 each salted and unsalted)
• Almond cake from Salt Fat Acid Heat with cardamom spiced whipped cream (try a different almond cake?)

Sunday, Nov 25, 2018

• Hotel Sorrento Tomato Soup, added pumpkin puree (1 cup per half recipe), it was delicious
• Beet Salad (used yellow beets, and kale and spinach for the greens)
• Spiral-cut ham, reheated at 275° for 10 minutes per pound
• Cornbread with butter and honey
• Ice cream (vanilla and peppermint), with a spiced plum sauce and also the Brownell Chocolate Sauce

May 2018

• African Sweet Potato Stew
• Hashed broccoli (chopped fairly small and sauteed in butter and oil)
• Naan
• Swedish Chocolate Cake

Saturday, March 3, 2018

• Martha’s Chili
• Chili toppings: grated cheese, sliced green onions, sliced black olives, shredded lettuce
• Quinoa
• Savory Corn Muffins, page 211 of The Best of America’s Test Kitchen, 2016. Use whole wheat pastry flour instead of all-purpose flour.
• Cranberry Upside Down Cake

Friday, March 2, 2018

• Hotel Sorrento Tomato Soup
• Salad with spinach, oranges, green onions, olive oil, malt vinegar, salt and sugar
• Grilled cheese sandwiches OR Home-made bread and sliced cheese
• Optional: Lemonies