We are going back to simplicity after the heady days the last couple of weeks. Tonight will be homemade thin crust pizza and tomorrow night's dinner will be zuni-style roasted chicken with sweet potatoes. I'm picking up an ahi-steak from the fish monger at the farmers market on Sunday so that will be that night's dinner. In between the formal meals, I plan to make preserved lemons and a lentil and mushroom soup for the following week's lunch. Looking forward to a weekend of laying low-both socially and in terms of eating.

I've got a tub of sourdough starter fermenting, and Sunday morning's the day it's going to find it's way into my dutch oven to become a crackly loaf -- can't wait to try it out!

That looks excellent! All of us over at Sambazon are probably going to do something similar...but maybe add a few SUPERfoods to up the game. Imagine some golden berries in that mix!

Chunks of chicken in TJ's Thai green curry simmer sauce, garlicky couscous, peas with onion in a bit o' butter, homemade chili con carne with cubed chuck roast, stuffed red bell peppers with a quinoa and plenty of other numminess... Sourdough sounds SO good too; we're eating 'better' this week (not as processed like whoa!) after heavy eats over the holidays...

I'm doing major house and garden stuff this weekend so need a well-stocked fridge ready with grab-n-go foods. I've already made a pot of minestrone with a hunk of parmigiano-reggiano rind in it; pasta and vegetables with a thai cashew sauce (just sub the cashews & cashew butter for the peanut usually called for); last thing to make will be a huge bowl of egg salad - before eating I take out a portion and stir in a spice or sauce to flavor it differently - favorites are curry powder, mustard and fresh dill, sambal or chipotle salsa, etc.

I was just thinking of making beans and greens for next week! I made a baked ziti (a Jennifer Hudson/Weight Watchers recipe - very good), will roast a chicken on Sunday and have beans and greens later in the week.

Spiced persimmon muffins and chocolate-cherry biscotti!

I'm looking for a hearty soup or stew to put in the slow cooker. Last week, we had a great beef barley mushroom soup. Now, I am ready for something else in the rotation. Any thoughts?

Maiden voyage of my brand-new dutch oven! Sedano e riso. That will be fun. And I'm going to try that broccoli-cauliflower gratin (but with cheddar, because that's what I've got) and use it to top baked potatoes for lunches next week. A brunch frittata (goat cheese & roasted peppers), a batch of tomato sauce and a batch of hermit cookies to round it out. Nice, simple, home food.

I collected SO many recipes for goodies and cakes during the holidays. I do not need to be eating that stuff, and it's time to back away from the spending as well...this weekend--instead, I'll make some cabbage with apples, onions, sour cream & pork meatballs. My brother made something similar for a dinner over the holidays (no meatballs but I have some to use up).

Cooking as little as possible this weekend - it's a boiling hot summer in Cape Town. We're down to cold pasta salads, ice-cream and as many other cool things as we can lay our hands on. As much as I'd like to bake and cook and go crazy - just no :-)

Not really a resolution, just a know-that-I-need-to-do-this, I have to cook at home more. Since starting a new job just before the new year last year, I've been horrible about take out in the last year. So, this weekend, I will do the same as I did last weekend to get prepared for the week ahead. I always boil a pot of eggs for snacks during the week, I'm going to make the pumpkin cinnamon chip granola bars from Brown Eyed Baker and some maple nut muffins from my new "Dishing Up Vermont" cookbook that my hubby gave me for Christmas. I also plan to make some tortillas from the Homesick Texan.

This weekend, I'm testing some recipes for a new job cooking in a friend's cafe. So, two kinds of mac and cheese and maybe a couple of kinds of cookies. I'm also really wanting to try the Cassoulet-Style Sausage 'n' Beans from Serious Eats. I need to work some more veg in there somewhere, though; we're both feeling the fatness after the holidays!

I'm in the midst of whipping up some raspberry truffle brownies, a quinoa salad, cream of vegetable soup and some homemade granola bars. All this with a 20 month old and a 2 month old underfoot! It'll probably take me all weekend!
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Today, I'm taking it easy. I shopped and cleaned the kitchen. Tomorrow I'm :
* Roasting meat, beets, sweet potatoes and pumpkin. Leftovers make great lunches.
* Making crock-pot turkey soup. Mostly to serve later this week when guests come calling.
* Cooking Chicken Vesuvio in the hot oven. Its hard to make this on a weeknight; but tastes great reheated.
* Making a big pot of brown rice (lunches, dinners) and a big pot of oatmeal (breakfasts).
With that my fridge will be full, and dinners should be easier. Whew. Now I feel tired. ;)

I have some duck confit I need to use so I am making a cassoulet for dinner tonight. Probably do pizza tomorrow since I have sourdough fermenting in the fridge.

Making chicken stock with the leftover frozen chicken carcasses from a holiday party. Pre-roasting carrots for the busy week ahead. Chicken yakisoba for dinner tonight, and maybe I'll knock out a batch of banana muffins with the blackening bananas on the counter. Tomorrow, roasting a chicken for burritos and such, and maybe some chicken noodle soup with the stock from today...

Banana bread, cornbread, and meatloaf with spicy italian sausage. I'm going eat good this week, I've had way too much take out lately.

A big batch of squash and pine nut risotto for dinners, and cheese sandwiches and flapjacks to be eaten outside in the middle of a day-long ride around the queen's backyard ;)

Must roast some chickens so I can use my new giant 12 qt stock pot, I cannot wait! Or maybe stock the freezer with some mega batches of something or other!

i made some pea hummus this weekend:

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