Lamb shanks dutch oven.

I need to bake some muffins to stash in my freezer for an easy breakfast. I'm also going to try my hand at making deep dish pizza crust for "pizza skins"...I love the ones you can get at Uno Chicago grill and want to try and make them at home. I'm planning on making oven barbecued ribs for Sunday night's supper.

Burgers for game time. While the grill is hot, will roast eggplant for baba gannosh (sic) and peppers for pepper/potato tacos. Sunday will be chicken tortilla soup, which I hope will bring cooler weather. Will also be making some of the 30 minute recipes from this site next week for the evening meal.

Pasta with homemade meat sauce tonight, home fries from smitten kitchen with over easy eggs and end of summer fruit all from the market, dinner out tomorrow night and then a large and delicious Jewish family dinner before fasting on Monday! Happy weekend to all!

Making a bday brunch for a few friends. Something simple...in fact must go grocery shopping ;)
Then making biscotti! And maybe tomorrow will make acorn squash soup.

Wk 2 of Saturday Dinner Disaster. (last week was a baked risotto disaster)
Finally bought this expensive roast pumpkin pasta I have been lusting after in a greengrocers. Made a gorgeous cheese sauce to accompany it but alas, the pasta smelt like hot dogs (not pleasant) and the filling tasted like sawdust. My cheese sauce was yummy but wasted on such a disgusting pasta. It made me want to go out and find a website where I could rant and rave about paying so much for disgusting food and tell others to avoid it at all costs.
I didn't end up having dinner- unless you count a slice of pavlova.

bkk- go to the grocers to complain about the pasta. and if you don't get a satisfactory outcome after your conversation, let us know. and post on chowhound.com.

I just started the scrap dough and poolish for baguettes, to go with French onion soup tomorrow night; I'm going to do up a big batch of vegetable stock in the crockpot as well.

I'm still thinking about dinner tonight, but butternut squash and sage pasta is sounding good, with a spinach salad on the side.

I'm also thinking muffins - I'm not sure what kind, but something loaded with dried fruit and whole grains that I can grab on my way to school sounds like a good plan.

And if I have some time left over and I pick up some pears, I might try this recipe for pear jam with honey and vanilla because it sounds like the most mind-blowingly wonderful thing I've ever heard of doing with pears.

Your lavendar eggplants in the colander look wonderful. I wish someone at our Farmer's Market would grow an assortment of eggplants instead of just the purple, bulb variety. The chinese, lavendar stripped ones are my favorite.

Last night was supposed to be steak night, with a nice bottle of wine to celebrate my boy's birthday. But then I got sick and didn't want to waste the fancy food on dulled tastebuds (and really didn't want to haul out to the store), so I made pantry miso soup. Which was yummy, but quite disappointingly not fancy steak night.

Tonight we're going to a 6 PM football game and tailgating beforehand, so we'll probably have a late lunch/early dinner and just a snack after the game.

2 pints of Preserved Meyer Lemons from Eugenia Bone's book Well-Preserved... a riff on Blackberries in Framboise from Ball's Complete Book of Home Preserving. Of course my local liquor store had no Framboise... so after some consultation with staff I left with a small bottle of Chambord which sent me back a mere $18. Whew! It better be good! My husband harvested a BUMPER crop of wild blackberries last year. I've used up most of them but I wanted to empty my freezer of them. I think the liqueur will brighten and revive the taste. I'll try them over vanilla ice cream in a few weeks.

We had friends over for the (painful to watch) PSU vs. Iowa game last night. We took advantage of some nice weather and grill chicken, zucchinis and peppers, and I made buffalo chicken dip.

While I mourn last night's loss, I'll either throw a roast in the crockpot today or make pumpkin pasta for dinner. I'm not sure yet. Hopefully the Raiders don't lose, or else both BF and I will be surly.

Very productive cooking today. Homemade Lara Bars (two different flavors), a parmesan cheese bread, and 'many bean and other various veggies' soup in the crockpot. The house smells delightful!

Camping this weekend--I made chicken and veggie kabobs on the grill at home and took them out to the (nearby) campground with us. Saturday we tried a variety of flavored brats from the meat market cooked on a stick on the campfire-the horseradish flavor was best! Also a pasta salad. Today for lunch I made homemade corn tortillas and Spanish rice and served it up with veggies, salsa, and cream cheese.

We ate lots of red grapes as they were perfect!