Chicken and apple sausage with Dijon-Braised Brussels Sprouts and cranberry-walnut bread.

Tonight I learned a valuable lesson: just because it’s called “sausage,” doesn’t mean it’s good. The chicken sausage wasn’t inedible by any stretch of the imagination but it just — it wasn’t sausage. It was also a little on the salty side.

I left the heavy cream out of the Brussels sprouts, as I didn’t have any on hand. I also added the sprouts to the pan I cooked the sausage in and deglazed the pan after I browned the cut sides.

Fresh-caught blue fish baked with red potatoes, eaten with spinach-walnut pesto. Sautéed kale.

My mother’s neighbor went fishing yesterday and, upon his return, gave her a giant fillet of striped bass, which we ate yesterday, and a rather large fillet of blue fish, which she gave me and I cooked tonight.

Lemon-thyme rubbed pork chop with spinach-walnut pesto. Very adjusted version of “Mustard-Roasted Potatoes” from Smitten Kitchen. Brussels sprouts with pancetta.