Monday, 2/26/18

Dinner in Whately. Tacos, chips, queso and salad that were all too delicious, because I really overate. My mom re-created a dessert that we used to have when we lived in Texas, at a little taco chain: fried tortillas topped with cooked apples, a little cheddar cheese and red hot candies. Jason described it as like an openfaced apple pie from McDonald's and he isn't wrong. But I love McDonald's apple pies, so it is a good thing. I also made a cake and no one ate it.
Man, that queso was good.

Sunday, 2/25/18

Carter's request, spaghetti and meatballs. I made smallish meatballs and used the trick from "The Home Cook" of toasting the breadcrumbs first. Not sure if it was noticeable in the finished product. We also had some green beans sauteed with garlic and cherry tomatoes but they were certainly nothing special.

Saturday, 2/24/18

Dinner with Jennie and David....bread from Jason, tiramisu from me.  I made a giant batch of tiramisu earlier in the week, so big that it had to go in two containers. We brought the untouched portion, and fortunately, it was still pretty good all those days later. I don't know where I originally found the recipe, but it is in my email. I had to futz around with it a bit in order to use up all the mascarpone and lady fingers we had on hand.

Friday, 2/23/18

I decided at nearly the last minute to make chili for dinner, and was pleasantly surprised that it turned out really well. I wish I could say why, so I could do it again. Was it the tomato paste? Extra cumin? It only got to cook for about 3 hours. Anyway, that plus some leftover bread with a nice sharp cheddar made a good dinner.

Thursday, 2/22/18

Dinner at my mom's, hurray! So glad everyone was feeling better. Roast pork with gravy, rice, corn and green beans, plus bread from Jason. I made a bar cookie from The Perfect Cookie that was nothing groundbreaking, but tasty. Oat bottom, chocolate middle layer, crumb topping. A little overcooked but not bad. Certainly easy, which is the draw of bar cookies.

Wednesday, 2/21/18

I was going to make oriechette with bacon and cream from "The Home Cook" and I basically did, although instead of following the recipe I just used that idea as a jumping off point. There was oriechette, bacon and cream, plus I added spinach, cherry tomatoes, onions, corn and scallions. It was as good as you would expect bacon and cream to be. Plus no leftovers.

Tuesday, 2/20/18

A collaboration with Jason...he made pancakes, I made homefries, plus sausage (nobody really made the sausage). I don't know why those pancakes from a mix were so tasty, but they were. Maybe because Jason kindly banged on mine with a spatula after flipping it. I hate a fluffy pancake.