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Your chicken in a pot w/ milk recipe got me interested, so i read through the comments and then decided to try the zuni style first. At the farmers market last night i bought Maurice, a chicken who i was assured lived a good life. I prepped the chiken following the AP post, so I hope it turns out good!
I'm also planning on making choco chip cookies this weekend, but i want to make my own choco chips out of Mexican chocolate -- so i hope that works out.

On the menu for this weekend:

1. Molly Wizenberg's sweet potato biscuits w/ham and mustard

2. Chicken Piccata from Barefoot Contessa At Home

3. A buttermilk cheese from your feature earlier in the week. Might add lemon rind, thyme and black pepper.

Chicken in Milk, roast potatoes (British Style) and sauteed kale tonight. Nieman Marcus white bean/chicken chili with leftover chicken. Going to make some superbowl classics such as 7 layer dip and wings on Sunday. Also have lots of beans so maybe some black beans in my slow cooker with a ham hock.

Pizza. Delivered.

We're snowed in this weekend, so I'll be making a big pot of roasted red pepper soup to be served along side a no-knead bread loaf (I've joined the dark side - I just love the bread it produces). I've also got tons of taters so we might just have rosemary taters with our eggs in the morning. Not sure what else. I might bake up some cookies or a cake.

Yes! I went out and stocked up for all my Valentine baking projects in preparation for the impending snurricane. I figure I may as well get something done while I sip my hot chocolate on a stick (that is, after I make those first!).

Hmm. Not sure this weekend. I kind of want to cook boeuf bourguignon again but I have 2 papers to write and that takes up a lot of time. I made croissants and pain au chocolate last night for the first time ever (and they turned out AMAZING if I do say so myself lol). Maybe just a chicken stirfry or Tikka Masala on Thai or Basmati rice?

@SydneyBristow, you'll love the Zuni Chicken! Best chicken ever, completely worth the mess it makes in the oven. :-)

Having my partner's bday party catered tomorrow night; I just don't have the time/space to put together a huge dinner. Sunday I'm making chili and cornbread, though I doubt we'll watch the Superbowl!

Probably these cilantro succotash quesadillas for Superbowl not-watching. And maybe I'll give deviled eggs another shot, now that I know I don't have to wage a war to peel each one.

Making heart shaped lemon cookies for my daughter's Valentines Day party at her day care next week.

- roasted red pepper & white bean dip and homemade crackers, for my partner to take to his dad's for Superbowl Sunday.
- buttery tomato sauce with white wine, some to eat and some to freeze.
- roasted broccoli, to serve over polenta with the tomato sauce.
- glazed almonds with smoked paprika, to keep on hand in the pantry. Some friends dropped by this evening, and I was startled to find I had nothing to serve them with an impromptu glass of wine. A dish of nuts would have been perfect.
- pizza dough, to restock the freezer. Our traditional Valentine's dinner is homemade pizza; making the dough now means less work (and more smooching) next weekend.
- fudge, to stash away in a tin for Valentine's Day.

I've been craving muffins all week so I plan to make a batch of Stonyfield's strawberry muffin recipe and freeze half of them.
http://www.stonyfield.com/recipes/showRecipe?id=126

I also want to try making my own jalapeno & cheddar turkey sliders with home made slider buns. I figured I could just take a hamburger bun recipe and make them smaller. We'll see how it works out in the end. I plan on using King Aruthur Flour's cheeseburger bun recipe to make the buns.
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/cheese-burger-buns-recipe

While not in the path of a giant snowstorm, I decided this morning that I want to make bread tomorrow morning, too! I haven't indulged in this treat for some time. Looking forward to it and will check out the peasant bread recipe.

Mmm... Just pulled two loaves of bread out of the oven. Makes the pelting snow outside seem less fierce. Next up is Chicken Curry for dinner and tomorrow is Avoca's Pepperpot Stew. Lots of warm, hearty things to get us through the snowpocolypse.

I am defrosting items previously made: chili, white bean soup, prob some pizza dough. That will help with 2 problems- freeing up some freezer space (yea!) and most importantly, allow me time on the couch since I have a bad cold & don't feel like cooking. Though I did make chicken stock tonight & will also make pancakes tomorrow morning.

i'm not doing much cooking this weekend...we had to put our 14 year old dog down today so me nor my husband aren't in the mood for much.

But we are still planning to go to a friend's house on sunday for the big game and i'm debating on what to make. I've seen a large number of blog posts about wings and i'm kind of craving them now.

also, i'll probably make some kind of veggie dip (hummus or white bean ) to munch on with veggies so I don't feel so guilty eating all the other fatty superbowl treats.

i've seen a few blogs about bread baking it's peaked my interest...i might give that a try soon.

Baked up a big batch of Oatmeal Scotchies—my favorite cookies!— for a dinner party in honor of a friend (also his favorite!) who's being deployed to Afghanistan next week.

Just made some ginger spice cookies, and will be making several homemade pizzas for the weekend. A few extravagant breakfasts (big cheese/veggie omelets and some potato/veggie hash) will probably happen as well.

Candied bacon is my reward for shoveling every two hours or so. Tomorrow it's going to be potato & ham soup and breadsticks from scratch. Oh, and then more shoveling.

Since it will be snowing where I am, Icelandic spice cake, mushroom soup, vegan pumpkin muffins.. all warm things!

Making an israeli couscous salad with toasted almonds and mint for a dinner party tomorrow night. For Sunday, it's going to by my maiden voyage with beouf bourguinon...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2DC1638F935A1575BC0A96F9C8B63&scp=2&sq=beouf%20bourguignon&st=cse

Planning to make pizza with dough I previously made and froze. Toppings will be spinach and mozzarella. Yum!

Also thinking about making the batter for corn fritters for a deep fried food themed super bowl party. Not sure about it yet though.

Tonight: roasted chicken with broccoli (lots of lemon to brighten it), and my boyfriend's brownies are due from the oven any moment now. Tomorrow: beef stroganoff for my parents. Sunday: lasagna. We leave on Wednesday for Venice and Slovenia.

Baguettes. Peanut butter and jelly muffins for my daughter. A strata to use up stale bread. Something with my many meyer lemons. Maybe a lemon curd tart.
Wishing I was in the snowy weather though so I could be inside all day to cook!

I'll be baking bread since the bakery was all out.

I'm testing recipes for my menu project (pastry school). I have to create a dessert menu. My concept/theme is comfort/fun/childhood faves-with-a twist.....any ideas? it doesn't have to be a childhood sweet favorite either-i want to know what is an absolute taste memory trip for people, even if it's savory. What sounds like the most comforting thing in the world, especially with a winter storm brewing? What would you give in to, no matter your current food-related beliefs?

I kicked the weekend off with oatmeal pancakes and an apple crisp this morning, then kale chips for a snack, and I have sourdough bread in the oven right now.

Tomorrow I might try making my own corn tortillas for fish tacos (we have an abundance of cabbage). And maybe a cake since my new baking book arrived!

For Sunday, I am taking coleslaw and a lemon tart to a Superbowl party.

Beef and black bean chimichangs, some kind of cookies and definitely jambalaya in honor of the New Orleans Saints.

SmittenKitchen Ginger Fried Rice with an egg on top

veganyumyum Wasabi Avocado Salad

some sort of grilled salmon

101CookBooks Red Pesto Ravioli

and PB&Js and apples for a hiking extravaganza :)

Roasted Salmon on top of Lentils (Everyday Food)
Braised Red Cabbage and Apple (Everyday Food)

And then going down to Red Hook for some Baked brownies and Defonte's heroes. And some Sixpoint beer. :)

I made red velvet whoopie pies last night to send out to friends and family for V-day. Today I'm making chocolate chip cookie dough truffles (also to send, hopefully), classic chocolate chip cookies, and the brie-style mac'n'cheese from earlier this week (last week?). Tomorrow is a classic: meatloaf, potatoes, and spinach salad.

Maybe we'll be dug out by Monday? But it's pretty much snowpocolypse here this weekend!

Keeping it simple this weekend as I'll be doing a lot of cooking with my 4-year-old as it's too nasty to play outside. A pot of her favorite red-lentil soup, a loaf of her favorite strawberry bread (she has rebelled against seasonality and pointed out that we can jolly well use frozen strawberries because right now "everything is frozen"), and a big batch of her favorite fried rice are all on the agenda.

I never did get around to carmelizing onions last weekend. Maybe tomorrow, if I wake up early and prepared to face all that slicing (and the complaining from husband and child of onion fumes).

cmcinnyc-the "everything is frozen" comment is hilarious.

I'm planning to make smoked mozzarella lasagna from Epicurious, Morning Glory Muffins from Roost, Yummy Bars, which come from my Mom's recipe file, and Ina Garten's creamed spinach.

I did my Super Bowl cooking (two chili's) last weekend, but after reading the posts now I want to make something for me to enjoy. Good luck with the snow.

Oatmeal raisin muffins with toasted pecans from: http://www.crumblycookie.net/2010/01/31/oatmeal-raisin-muffins/ Just out of the oven, and very tasty!

Tomato Feta Strata - inspired by the photo of it I saw on the cast iron pan discussion this week!

Smothered broccoli from How to Eat Supper

Pork stew with potatoes, carrots and apples
Adapted from "Country Pork Stew" on epicurious. This called for chicken broth, so I emptied my freezer stock bag into a pot and made that first.

The S'Mores cupcake post this week reminded me to make these Chocolate Graham Cracker Cupcakes.

Also chicken braised with chestnuts and some HK classics, roast pork buns, curry beef buns, and I'm very excited to try making pineapple buns. I love the crunchy topping, it's my favorite.

And chili, of course.

I am in the big storm, and this has been a no-knead, breadbaking weekend. I bought the Healthy Breads for Five Minutes a Day book and made the Banana Bread dough last night (dispatching a week's worth of bananas not eaten). I baked half this morning, and still have dough in the fridge for another loaf Thursday or Friday.

Right now I have no-knead multi-grain peasant bread rising (recipe from The Kitchn). Since that takes eight hours, I will bake a loaf in the morning. I had planned to make a big pot of Portuguese Kale soup, but banana bread and salad is the menu du jour. I will make the soup tomorrow when the sun is back out, and the multi-grain bread is baked.

@Rosebud... did I read it correctly? Your daughter is having a Valentine's party. At daycare??? How old is she?

I'm digesting raclette. And researching recipes for Millionaire's shortbread to be worked on tomorrow morning :)

Last night I finally used my mandoline to make a sort of scalloped potatoes with cilantro and bacon.

Not sure when to make tonight. Tempted to make chili but my mom is visiting next weekend and promised me some she had made and frozen. Since my plan was to use that recipe, it seems silly to not just wait until next weekend. So may use that ground beef to make bolognese.

My plan had also been to make pizza from scratch but the snow storm took over my grocery store and I couldn't get anyone to help me find the yeast. So have focaccia pizza to make.

I have schoolwork that I should be doing. Of course, instead, I baked an apple tart with candied ginger, and I'm making a variety of mezze for dinner tonight, including carrot and beet salad, (baked) felafel, baba ganouj, pickled turnip, spiced olives, and grilled halloumi cheese.

I am *so* looking forward to eating it, too.

Today I made one white boule, three loaves of baguette, and two pizzas (one with red sauce and cheddar cheese, and one with just pesto - that was more of a flatbread since it didn't have cheese).

Tomorrow I might make a banana bread (I have some brown bananas to use), a fruit smoothie, and some cookies. I probably don't NEED to make the cookies, but there's something about being snowed in that says cookies to me. We have 2 feet on the ground!

@aperocot -- mmmm, millionaire's shortbread!

I've made a few versions, always delicious no matter what, but mine never seem to hold together. Perhaps you'll have better luck on that end.

It's a snow storm in the Philadelphia area so I created a quick chili Friday night to warm us through the weekend; not to mention working on a chicken stock using Cornish Game Hen -- soup is definitely on, especially in the winter! Will be posting these recipes to my blog soon...

we had a quick and low-maintenance saturday dinner of pasta with broccolini and hot italian sausage, and are planning on some classy super bowl snacks for tomorrow! both are here:
http://theweekendgourmande.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/

lemon leek frittata
baba ghanoush
ina garten's panko salmon
kale chips
duck confit, caramelized onion and sage pizza

and today, the always classy taco dip :)

- pot roast
- tamales with leftover pot roast
- ina garten's lemon cake or blueberry crumb cake - hey wait - maybe a lemon blueberry crumb cake?

Finally a weekend with less time spent at work. A friend is visiting and we're making braised lamb with leeks and port, some roasted veggies, and we're talking about pie right now. I think there will be some sort of salad with mustard shallot vinaigrette.

But first, we're going to go to Flushing for lunch at Spicy & Tasty.

@ sciencegeek, glad you finally get to spend a weekend cooking instead of working!

I made a big batch of tortilla soup Friday night which was the perfect match for the ultimate lazy Saturday! Today I am going to test out the tomato sauce with onion and butter from @smitten kitchen and whip up some brownies as well. Way too much school work to enjoy any sort of superbowl party/treats unfortunately!

Amazingly with the foot of snow in less than 24 hours that we got, our rural area did not lose electric power! So I made two loaves of Italian bread and baked a two-layer cake that I will frost and decorate today. We watched a BBC series while eating warm and gooey peanut-butter popcorn.

BrooklyBaker: In answer to your question about comforting childhood foods: tops of the list is macaroni and cheese. Can't give in to it anymore, though, unless made with soy cheese and milk. Oh, to have the gastronomical constitution of childhood once again!

We had no power all day yesterday, so cooking plans were destroyed.

Today, I just put an apple cake in the oven and I'm planning to make enchiladas (using the Pioneer woman's recipe) for dinner.

braised lamb shanks- thanks for the recipe!

I was a cookin' fool today -

2 apple pies
lentil soup
brownies
chili (special adapted recipe with beer, coffee, & cocoa - amazing!)
cornbread
pico & guacamole (from Pioneer Woman's website) to have during Puppybowl

thank you sjbreeze, it is my first time off in almost a month. extremely exciting.

The lamb is braising, sweet potatoes are roasting, and I'm thinking about starting to get the apples peeled and chopped for pie.

I made spelt pancakes that we promptly froze in order to toast later... which works great! I also made hummus for the Superbowl party, and it's almost gone already.

Here's the recipe for the pancakes I made...they turned out SO well!
http://berlinnaturalbakery.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/13/delicious-spelt-pancake-recip/

It's been a busy weekend, so I haven't cooked a thing so far. I'm about to start a soup to take for lunch during the coming week. It features turnip greens, smoked turkey sausage and black eyed peas. I've been looking forward to it for days, so we'll see if I can refrain from having a small bowl of it before bedtime.

lasiciliana: I'm really sorry for your loss.