Seared chicken, sunburst tomatoes, crumbled jowl bacon, arugula and garlic scape chevre over gem lettuce.

So this started by thinking about what to do with some early popping sunburst tomatoes, then I had some leftover cooked jowl bacon from the breakfast earlier that day. This really turned out really good. A nice combination of flavors, textures and smells. and everything but the chicken was local and from a small scale producer.

Chorizo, radish and cilantro tacos.

A good combination of flavors and tastes. Fresh ingredients, local chorizo. Good stuffs.

Smashed Pork Burgers

Due to the fact that my carbohydrate intake has been ratcheted down, I find it difficult to buy a pack of (cheap) buns, where I will end up not eating the other ones (not worth the carbs in them). So while I know my wife prefers appropriate bread, I made an executive decision to just use some sourdough bread. I was able to make these quickly before my class (was late leaving work too), Turned out well.

Green Curry & Coconut Pork Sausage with Broccoli over rice

Shannon did not like these sausages. I didn't feel like cooking much, so we just had sausages and a salad. These were not...what I was expecting. I didn't dislike them, but they weren't up to the same practiced flavor profile that I expect from Story City Locker / Lucky George. I did end up splitting what Shannon didn't eat and having them on a sandwich later, which was a bit better (bread, mustard, pickled goathorn peppers).

Sesame Beef and Snap Peas

Again, the desire to cook was low, so we had steak sandwiches. turned out well.