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Lots of great recipes over the past month but hadn't the opportunity to post on them.
Potato au gratin (off the web, but I can't remember where) used dutch gouda, aged asiago, cheddar and gruyere cheese with just a bit of liquid. I thought it would be dry but it turned out great.
Halibut with coocnut red curry sauce (from Cooking Light 3/09). This is the best fish dish I've made. It is so flavorful and intense. Major flavors are the coconut and curry paste.
Creamy Caramel Pudding, Food and Wine 3/09
This is fast and good and almost healthy. Make sure to cook the caramel to an almost dark brown color to get a good color for the pudding.
Best ever nut brittle (food and wine on the web). This is very good and not difficult but it didn't have as much flavor as I would have liked. I sprinkled it on the caramel pudding.
Radish, cucumber salad with tarragon pesto (from bonappetiti 4/09). This was really tasty and a good use of CSA veggies.  It calls for grilled chicken but we used it as a side instead.
Waldorf Salad, Cook's Country, 4/09
I love apple salad and this one is tasty, crunchy and flavorful.
goat cheese and roasted corn quesadillas (cooking light 3/09) These aren't particularly flavorful. I wouldn't make it again.
Cucumber, buffalo mozzarella and farro salad (gourmet 4/09) This salad is wonderful, light, lemony and flavorul.  The fresh mozzarella is great.
Chocolate pistachio biscotti (everyday cooking, 4/09, p. 139) Not very chocolatey. I'm wondering if I need a better brand of cocoa.
scrambled eggs with sausage, mushrooms and fresh herbs (bon appetit, 2/03). Very good, sweet and flavorful
Pear clafouti, bon appetit 2/03, very good, I also used apples
Pan roasted new potatoes with rosemary (bon appetit, 2/03) just like the mission!  Great with both red skinned, idaho russet and yukon gold (which melt in your mouth). I've also added sweet potato
black bean burgers (gourmet 2/09). Kesh loved these and asked for them again. Simple recipe.
Brunch panini (rachelray 4/09) not as good as my other breakfast sandwich (see below) but pretty good. Includes raspberry jam and prosciutto.
Cucumber and radish salad (internet off Martha Stewart) another CSA recipe that was excellent and simple
Gnocchi nicoise (food network magazine 2/09) Kids loved this and the sauce of tomato, bacon, carrots, beef is very tasty.
Chilled cream of corn soup with white truffle oil (bon appetit--really old I don't know the year) This soup is almost other worldy. Very simple flavors that accentuates the corn and truffle. Really good.
Baked potato soup (cooking light, 10/02).  I made this for a party and people didn't want to eat it because of "all the cream". When I told them there wasn't any cream just blended potato and milk with some sour cream, they loved it.
Corn chowder with green chiles (vegetarian times, 11/02) Good but not very flavorful
Kale and white bean soup (gourmet 2/02) We really liked this soup even days later (especially days later). It is very tasty and the texture is smooth and silky. YOu can add Kielbasa for more flavor.
Southwestern style mashed potato cakes (cooking light 12/08)
Okay
Rigatoni with salami, oven roasted tomato and olives and capers (Food and wine) Very flavorful and very easy.  Can be served hot or cold.

We had an unusual combo tonight. I made spicy chocolate thighs (the recipe called for wings but we like thighs better) from RAchel Ray mag (Feb 09, I believe). These were really good if you like mole. Lots of chocolate flavor. I would have liked a bit more spice next time around. Then I also made a green curry soup that we poured on udon noodles (and when the noodles ran out, ate on rice). The sauce was excellent. I invented it (probably not even remotely authentic).

Green Curry Sauce a la Vasudeva
Mix 1/2 t turmeric, 1 T chopped garlic and 1/2t salt in a mortar and pestle until paste. Add 1 T green curry paste and 1/2 T red chile paste (if you have it).  Mush it up.
Heat 1 T canola oil in a large skillet and add the mush. Fry for about 1 minute.  Add one can coconut milk and 1/2 can water and 2t sugar.  Stir until the sauce thickens somewhat (about 5 minutes). Add 1 T fish sauce and 1/2 squeezed lime. Taste for salt. If  too salty, add more sugar until the tastes are balanced. Put your noodles or rice in a bowl (probably could do some quickly steamed veggies as well or tofu) and ladle the sauce over. 
I'm just finished up a turtle ice cream pie so I haven't tried it yet. It's from bon appetit march 09 and features a graham cracker toasted pecan crust with ice cream and home made caramel topped with chocolate ganache (which is what I'm working on right now).  The caramel is made of brown sugar which I'm not sure I favor when making caramel. But we'll see.