Thursday, 2/27/20

I guess I have a vendetta against Smitten Kitchen this week? I made her mini meatloaves, failed to read the second page, and left out milk, eggs and parsley. Oops. Luckily this did not really affect the outcome (although it is irritating that I had actually purchased parsley partly for meatloaf). I used mostly ground pork instead of all beef; that probably covers a lot of sins. Jason made mashed potatoes (fine), and I also made green beans with butter and almonds (that I re-purposed the next day into pasta with leftover egg noodles, chicken stock, soy sauce and spicy chili flake which was so tasty and I will probably never be able to reproduce). So now Jason has had the meatloaf he has been asking for.

Wednesday, 2/26/20

Dinner in Whately: Corrina had a Blue Apron with gnocchi and meat sauce (delicious) and we brought a bread and some brownies. The brownies ("My Favorite Brownies", from Smitten Kitchen) would have been better had I not failed to read the recipe well and used dark chocolate instead of the called-for unsweetened. They were actually fine, just very sweet and fudgy. I wonder if I have accidentally done that before? It wouldn't surprise me.

Tuesday, 2/25/20

Jason served us french fries and chicken nuggets. At least I insisted on some leftover broccoli to go with it.

Monday, 10/24/20

Got off work a little early, and it is a good thing, as tonight's dinner took longer than anticipated. I made baked chickpeas with pita chips (from SK) in order to use up some leftover pita Jason made. Well, then I ended up having to buy chick peas, parsley, cucumber and tomatoes to make the dish, so it was a bit of the tail wagging the dog. When I started cooking, I quickly realized that there were THREE sub-recipes. None of them took that long, but it adds up! A little tomato-cucumber salad (I added feta), yogurt with tahini and lemon, plus the pita chips. Other than that, this was really good! The chips get a little chewy/crunchy with the chick peas on top, and the salad  added a nice bright crunch. I sprinkled the pita with za'taar before baking, but I am not sure if you could tell, what with all the other flavors. Jason and I really loved this; Carter was only meh.

Sunday, 10/23/20

Egg noodles with chicken, broccoli and spinach, with a marsala sauce. I had been planning to make regular old chicken marsala, but this just seemed easier. This was...fine. Nothing special.

Saturday, 10/22/20

Dinner at Jennie and David's: Jason's bread was great, but my coconut cream puie gave me a little trouble. I am liking pate sucree for a crust, but the blind baking is spotty. The dough slides and slumps if you don't use weights, but then when when I did, the dough stuck to the tin foil and the results were not pretty. At least you couldn't tell once the filling was in there, and I do appreciate the crunchiness. For some reason, even though I have made this recipe before (from Classic American Desserts) I found the filling not quite sweet enough. No complaints, though.

Friday, 2/21/21

Jason made us a nice loaf of rye, so we had grilled cheese and tomato soup (no real recipe: I threw ginger, garlic, cilantro stems, coriander and canned whole tomatoes in the IP, and then blended the hell out of it). Classic combo.