I've been wanting to start a series of posts about what I cook during the week, since I am very inspired by recipes I find on the internet. And if I have nothing crafty to show you, you can always bet that I've cooked up something good :)
Of course, if I want these posts to continue, I should probably write down the recipes I use! I am drawing a blank about a couple days this week but I will do my best!
I hope to add pictures in future posts, but the camera has been missing (until this evening lol), so you'll just have to imagine.
Sunday
Peek-A-Boo Pizza using this pizza sauce. I made two different pizzas: pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms, onions and roasted red peppers, capers, kalamata olives, pepperoni. Both were so very good! I quadrupled the pizza sauce recipe so that we could make a few more later in the week.
Monday
I can't for the life of me remember what I cooked on Monday, but I know it involved a little bit of bacon. :)
Tuesday
Leftover Pizza; Arugula salad with lemon juice and olive oil on top. So simple, but soooo good!
Wednesday
Again, I cannot remember! But I know it was from scratch and it was good!
Thursday
(CrockPot day): Indian Butter Chicken from A Year of Slow Cooking. Love the blog, love the book! I add frozen peas about 30 min before the chicken is done for some vegetables.
Friday
Spicy Moroccan Stewed Fish with Couscous from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution *** via Goop
This was great and very quick. I used frozen cod and scallops and added spinach and peas. Very tasty and made my kitchen smell great. I used udon noodles instead of couscous, because I'm not the biggest couscous fan (would rather have quinoa or millet)--to me it smells like playdough!
Saturday
Peek-a-Boo pizza (again! see links above for recipes). This time I only made one pizza which was: pepperoni, green pepper, mushrooms, kalamata olives.
Easter Sunday
Lemon Chicken from Simply Recipes; A room temperature salad of orzo, red onion, garlic, spinach, kalamata olives and feta cheese; broiled asparagus.
Fabulous dinner! The chicken was so easy (marinate for a couple hours ahead of time) and so tasty; I love the orzo salad and it's so easy--and great to eat at room temperature; and asparagus always rocks.
For dessert I made Carrot Cupcakes from Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates
The cupcakes are so very good. A combination of carrot, pineapple, unsweetened coconut and grated fresh ginger. YUM! Not too sweet...which is why you add the cream cheese frosting. It's a great book and I plan to work out of it a lot more this year.
I am cooked out this evening and don't even want to think about the words "menu planning", but I know I will have to at some point so that we eat well this week.
Oh and Satya and I have been making bread from this book faithfully for the past few weeks. Love this bread but need a better container to hold my dough. Any suggestions?
***Okay so are you all watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution??? I love Jamie and we've used his recipes a lot. I watched the first two episodes last week on Hulu (what a great site and hardly any commercials!) and pretty much cried through both. He is so passionate about his cause and what better cause than our kids' eating habits?!? Incredible and so inspiring. I am hoping that Satya goes to bed early tonight so I can watch Episode 3. If you haven't signed his petition yet, please do and tell your friends to do the same.
