Nice score!

Yesterday I received a text telling me that dinner was at 5, be there or be square! So I went and it was fresh salmon steaks and sweet potato! It was very good, cooked in the air fryer/convection oven.*

Tonight, kabobs. My new air fryer has a rotisserie and a kabob rack, hold 8 skewers. I make four when it's just me. I like sweet peppers, onion, bratwurst cut into 1/4s and zucchini or summer squash. Baste it with a mixture of balsamic vinegar salad dressing, balsamic glaze and a dash of wine. Everything tastes so intensely wonderful that I am hooked on making kabobs of many types now. That's what I'll have with a piece of warm naan bread and some green tea.


*My friend and I bought identical air fryers at the same time. I figure out cool stuff to make and then I show him how to make it for himself when I go over there. I showed him salmon steaks a couple months ago, now he's got it down. When I cook for both of us, I do it in his larger kitchen.

Would you mind giving us the lowdown on what you bought?

Dinner tonight is Zuppa Toscana...a chowder made of spicy sausage, potatoes and kale. I made the chicken stock this past weekend. Mini grilled cheese sandwiches on sourdough for dipping.

That sounds great for this weather!

We got ours at Costco about six months ago. I never heard of the brand before but my sisters in SoCal tell me they have stores there. Sur le Table is the brand, but there were a number of options and prices, we went with just under a hundred bucks. But I wanted a bigger fryer than I had, a simple basket type that I inherited. I wanted the kind I saw in ads with the multiple trays! When I started looking at this model I liked it because it is 13qt, has a drip tray and two screened trays, a large basket, rotisserie w/3 attachments, easy to clean and the right price. Essentially it's a countertop convection oven set up to do numerous things. I use it a lot.

There were some others that were larger and I think one was the oven that cooks with light but I stopped looking when I got to the top of my budget on the shelf. So I got what I got and I have no regrets. Convection ovens are great, they save time, I've used them in restaurants, and everything tastes great. It's really hard to mess anything up other than poor timing and forgetting to baste some things. Even the charred parts of anything taste good.

So I recommend one that has more than one tray/position and a rotisserie, the drip tray for the bottom is essential. I'm sure there's more than one brand that have similar options and attachments. I found that those that are in the $99.00 and up range are the better investment.

and a buttered slice of homemade bread.

Orange 🍊 before bedtime.

homemade garlic bread, salad!

Ms K hasn't decided whether she wants the same or a standard corned beef dinner with boiled potatoes, onion, carrots, and cabbage instead. The meat is ready, with reserved brine, so it's not much trouble to cook her the veggies in the brine. I'm just not a big fan of boiled dinners.

Had some meat to use up. I won't have to cook anything else till Sunday. I made a meat loaf 2 days ago, so my fridge is a cafeteria feast

with the last of the chicken from Sunday, with guacamole on the side