What's cooking? More to the point, what are you planning on eating this weekend? We hope you're staying in for at least one meal. We currently have a butternut squash in the oven, and we're plotting towards pasta, basil, Parmesan, and a creamy squash sauce. We also really want to recreate the smoked tomato salad dressing we had at a restaurant last week.
Read on for a few more ideas (and recipes) for good things to cook this weekend.
Try these!
• Chickpea stew with vegetables and curry spices - made easily in the slow cooker.
• Sweet, scarlet syrup for your cocktails - made from pomegranates.
• Dark molasses and ginger cake - with chunks of ripe pear.
• Brisket, onions, lemon chicken, and apricot oatmeal - more ideas for your slow cooker.
• Chopped cabbage salad with handfuls of herbs - plus peanuts, tofu, and rice noodles.
• Wilted arugula with tomatoes and orzo - a quick dinner!
• Pears and blue cheese - now in dessert.
• Cheap good wine for your weekend meals.
• Have a little extra time? Cook ahead and freeze some of these easy meals.
• Prune plums and pastry - an open pie.
Have a good weekend - see you Monday!
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My electric stove died last night, so looks like no cooking over the weekend. No bread baking or canning, either. It's just awful.
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We'll be enjoying the last fresh veggies from our summer CSA, which ends next week: Brussels sprouts, kombucha and butternut squash, kohlrabi... I'll probably also make a pot roast and plum cake.
Last weekend I made macaroni with delicata squash, gruyere & emmenthaler cheese, and spinach and it was so delicious - I wonder what something similar would be like with the kombuchas.
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Tilapia with carrots and broccoli tonight. Tomorrow is special - our first homemade pizza on my new pizza stone! Can't wait!.
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I have a loaf of no-knead bread in the oven right now, and I'm contemplating starting another--seems like fresh bread is gobbled up within a few hours of coming out of the oven.
Pot roast sounds delicious for a cozy Saturday dinner.
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Well, Northern California is "enjoying" its last burst of warm weather so hubby, 8 mos old and I are heading up to Lake Tahoe to get a dose of fall and cooler temps. As such, it will be fondue and sparkling wine tomorrow night.
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Sourdough bread tomorrow; lamb and quince tagine for Sunday dinner.
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Gonna take a stab at pumpkin ravioli with sage butter sauce this weekend. The recipe I'm using will have me making my own pumpkin puree. But I've heard that most pumpkins sold this time of year are for carving, not eating. Yet, I somehow feel I'm be-cheapening the recipe by using canned. Any thoughts?
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already made pizza last night, does friday night count? and going to make some grit (or polenta) this morning for breakfast!
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Bx, just ask for a pie pumpkin, the little ones. They should be easy to find. I made my own puree a couple of weeks ago, and it is super, super easy - definitely worth it!
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bx...
don't get very small pumpkins, which are bitter. the good pie pumpkins are ~ 5 to 8" in diameter. and i second little_melly, very easy to puree and worth it.
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Butterbeans, green beans, okra, tomatoes, squash, peppers, potatoes, eggplant from the farmer's market. End of the growing season, get ready for frost dinner. Going to shake down my last pears and make that crostini for Sunday brunch.
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Thanks for the responses; I was really hoping to use real pumpkin but wasn't sure which to look for. Off to the patch - wish me luck!
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The boyfriend made an awesome flank steak with mustard and tomatoes last night to go along with some leftover lemon barley "risotto" and some carrots with butter and lots of black pepper. I'm going to try to make some gingerbread this afternoon and thinking about trying out that recipe I saw on here a while ago for shrimp with feta and tomatoes. But I'd have to get some feta to do that.
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Just made a New England fish chowder. Yummy!
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Talapia fillet and cilantro
yellow pepper and tofu soup
scallops wrapped in bacon
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I made Laurie Colwin's curried broccoli soup recipe with a few sweet potatoes left over from my CSA. The taste was delicious - the perfect hot soup for a chilly night - but the consistency was off. Too watery. I think I should've used more yogurt to make it thicker. But I will try this one again, especially with winter almost here.
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