30 min Pesto Pasta with chicken, zucchini, and mushrooms

and some of my favorite delicious bites from this last week

Some of my favorite bites from last week:

From left to right, top to bottom

• Oysters with kohlrabi kraut and sesame from State bird Provisions in SF - one of the restaurant’s classic “dim sum” dishes, and it’s the perfect bite. Highly recommend if you like oysters. Don’t be afraid of the large about of kohlrabi kraut - it’s not as sour as I expected and the sesame balances it out so well.

• Lamb tartare toast with golden raisin agrodolce & chermouli aioli - my first time trying lamb tartare. Some people are a bit freaked out about eating raw meat, but you need to know that *good* tartare is made with super fresh, high quality meat. This was my favorite bite of our dinner, and the sweetness from the golden raisin agrodolce was unexpected and really nice.

• Seared steelhead trout with shallot orzo - another new recipe coming your way later this week. This was so delicious and took less than 45 mins to make.

• Breakfast sandwich at backhaus in Burlingame. The bun, the sauce, the sausage … every component is SO good, and honestly it’s great value. $15.50 for a super high quality sandwich (everything is scratch made). I think I like it more than the plow breakfast sandwich, which is really great but hard to get considering their weekend line is usually >1.5 hours.

• Nuri tomato sardines (tin pictured on the left side of the photo). Paired with the backhaus everything epi pretzel baguette, this was such a delicious and simple lunch. Grabbed this at Church produce in SF (shoutout to my friend Olivia who raved about these to me). Highly recommend grabbing this combo for a picnic with friends or a date!

Pesto Pasta!

I loved this recipe so much. There’s something about a nice big bowl of pasta that also hits my ~protein, carb, veg~ balanced meal requirements. Don’t get me wrong - I love a cacio e pepe or a nice crab pasta, but something about a one pot(ish) meal on a weekday that hits my balanced weeknight dinner checklist is a winner in my dinner game.