What are You Cooking the Week of August 3, 2025?

[Mike Nolan]

I made some pickled daikon and carrot tonight, since I couldn't find any in the Vietnamese grocery stores. (Odd, because every Bahn Mi shop in town uses it, and we must have a dozen of them.)

I'm probably going to pickle some leeks this weekend.

We both had sandwiches on the Banh Mi bread tonight. Good bread! I think I'll try baking a batch with a little rye flour in it next.

[BakerAunt]

Today, Thursday, is our 15th wedding anniversary. For dinner, I made the Green Bean, Cherry Tomato, and Feta Salad, using our green beans and a few of our cherry tomatoes joining the basket I bought at last week's farmers market. For the entrée, I made salmon with a maple, Dijon mustard, and pecan meal coating. For dessert, we had the last of the Bittersweet Blackberry Brownies.

[Joan Simpson]

Happy Anniversary to ya'll BakerAunt, wishing you many more!

[cwcdesign]

Happy Anniversary BakerAunt and Scott! I remember when you were making your wedding cake😊

Tonight I had more tabbouleh with some avocado and a piece of blackened salmon I brought home from work.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight I cooked me a steak in the air fryer.

[BakerAunt]

Thank you for the kind wishes, Joan and CWCdesign!

I de-seeded the rest of the blackberries today. I made a batch of four half-pint jars of jam. I also froze two containers of 12 oz. of puree to use in future brownies. I had a cup of puree left. I froze it for now and will figure out how to use it later. We had a good berry season.

For dinner on Friday, I made a farro stir-fry with ground turkey, zucchini, red bell pepper, some celery, green onion, some yellow bell pepper, and mushrooms. I cooked the farro in some turkey broth from the freezer before combining it with the browned meat and the sauteed vegetables.

[RiversideLen]

Congrats on your wedding anniversary, BA!

I've been thinking about lasagna but didn't want to make a large batch so I started thinking about what kind of pans I have. Finally decided on a 3x5 loaf pan. I went on youtube and saw all kinds of videos for using a loaf pan; I really just wanted to get some idea on how long it needs to bake.

So yesterday I made it. I started by making a sauce from some Roma's and cherry tomatoes. I used the no bake lasagna noodles, Ricotta cheese and parm, topped with mozzarella. I made it with 5 layers of noodles with a minimal amount of filling between each layer. Covered it with foil and baked it in the toaster oven. It's a simple lasagna but it came out good.

The youtube videos led to believe it would need about 30 minutes in the oven covered and then about 15 minutes uncovered. Mine took about 20 minutes longer than that. Since I was using no boil noodles, I made sure to use plenty of sauce and it's a good thing I did since most of it got absorbed.

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[Mike Nolan]

I've made lasagna using both types of dry noodles as well as fresh ones, which I usually parboil because they're easier to handle that way.

Maybe I just make LARGE batches of lasagna, but they all seem to take longer in the oven than what recipes say is needed.

[Mike Nolan]

We had sandwiches on the Banh Mi rolls I baked today. I had some of the pickled daikon and carrots on mine, definitely changes the flavor profile. Diane had peanut butter and margarine on hers.

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