messing around with dungeness crab, actually.

I'll be having crab too.

I'm also making some granola and Meyer lemon marmalade.

I'll be working on Saturday and Sunday again so I'm hoping to squeeze in making some mushroom soup, something with quinoa and maybe pan cooking some chicken thighs to encourage the possibility of packing lunches for the M-F more often.

Mostly, I'm just going to live vicariously through you guys. Dungeness crab and Meyer lemons, awesome!

Making some roasted cabbage tonight, and roasting a chicken tomorrow. Hopefully starting my cheese-making adventure tomorrow since my mozzarella kit from Ricki the Cheese Queen has arrived!

I have a beautiful homegrown Meyer lemon to contend with. I can't decide exactly how to use it, but I'm really beginning to think lemon cheesecake.

I have a pot of chili in the fridge and I'll probably make some beer bread to go with it when I get home.

I'm also cooking for a family dinner on Sunday. Here's the menu: spicy olive bruschetta, chicken liver mousse with port, lemon-herb roast chicken, stuffing, green beans with balsamic shallots, and tart cherry pie with vanilla ice cream.

Meatball subs with the leftover meatballs.
A new batch of granola and blueberry muffins.
Perhaps a yummy looking noodle dish out of the new Eating Well on Sunday.
Some guacamole and lots of football on TV.

Chicken tortilla soup for the cold wet evening. Since we both have colds, this will help us feel better.

Picked and juiced the citrus so I will be making some lemon bars and will be cruising various sites to see what I can do with the satsuma juice I've got.

Friday night pizza is in the oven now! With homemade fries, too. And we'll be eating the leftovers all weekend I'm sure! Yum :)

Duck Soup!

Hey! I'm also planning to make meatball subs with leftover meatballs! Good times. Also making a batch of mini coffee cakes to give to my co-workers as thank you gifts for their patience with recent work system outages...But better than what I'm cooking is where I'm eating out tonight: Some of the best Italian I've ever had at T. Maccarone's in Walla Walla.

Just made the roasted cabbage & bacon. Tossed with home made pasta- yum! My whole family ate it all up :)

On tap for the weekend- green chili to be made tomorrow for consumption Sunday (prob make tortillas, too). Certainly pancakes for Saturday morning.... and Saturday night maybe roasted veggies from the winter csa to go along with pan roasted chicken (thanks, sciencegeek!). Guess I will get some no knead bread started. That pairs nicely with chicken & veggies.

And at some point I will finish making the Christmas cookies. Except they will now just be cookies! Swedish ginger cookies taste delicious anytime of the year.

It's 10 degrees outside right now, and I have peppermint ice cream chilling in the fridge, pre-churn. Hey, gotta do something with the leftover mini candy canes right?

I have some leftover black bean soup in the fridge, and also some fresh pita bread and hummus. I'm probably going to make cabbage soup as well.

Chili.

I was really disapointed and threw out a failed soup I made earlier this week. It looked really bad. It tasted ok, not great but ok. But it looked aweful. Apparently in my world food that looks bad is offensive. :( So long soup. The next version of it I make will be better. I have several changes that should make it look more like what I'd like.

I make stuff and freeze it for later with a FoodSaver. Which is great until you look in the freezer and all there is a variation on "Any dish you'd want as long as it has a bean or lentil in it" Granted, I like beans and lentils but need to branch out and make something with other veggies in it...I have two leeks and two celery roots and two aging swiss chard...?

Baking Rainbow Blondies right now to ship out to a soldier stationed overseas tomorrow.

This weekend I plan to make Penne with Pancetta, White Beans & Arugula, some form of soup, and maybe a honey roasted chicken (from the new issue of Cook's Country Magazine) on Sunday.

Folks, Fresh Direct just delivered 4 of the biggest yams/sweet potatoes I have EVER seen. I didn't have any definite plans for them--thought it would be a nice nutritious veggie to have on hand for roasting or maybe make a hash w/black beans. Now, I really need ideas! If you have a favorite way to use up LOTS of yams, DO TELL! Thank you!

The local natural food store, New Season's, makes a wonderful sweetpotato slaw with shredded sweetpotatoes. Often they make a potato salad with sweetpotatoes. cmcinnyc, perhaps this will give you some ideas for your sweet potatoes. If you have the white flesh ones, make a big pot of smashed potatoes to warm up your tummy.

I picked up some prime beef stew meat at Corti Bros today so plan on making Beef Burgundy either tomorrow or Sunday. Tonight was pizza night and sugar cookies w/walnuts and raisins (thanks boo!), outside of those two, not sure what the weekend will bring.

Lentil Soup, no knead bread. Have a giant head of purple cabbage that I don't know what to do with...was thinking of some sort of pickle or sweet/sour braise but it seems like roasting is the thing to do!

I just made a batch of Lilly Pilly jam from the berries I picked while visiting relatives at the beach.

Up next will likely be mango chutney. The mango trees around here are literally dropping because they are covered in so much fruit and the ground is starting to get covered in rotting fruit. Hopefully I'll be able to find a tree over hanging the footpath or someone who won't mind me saving a few from the fruit bats.

We're having a dinner guest on Sunday, so I'm going to make my first foray into dealing with a whole chicken and attempt Chicken in Milk, despite my lack of a dutch oven (yay stockpots that are oven-proof! Thanks, IKEA!), probably with a side of green beans and dessert of either cranberry pomegranate or clementine clafoutis.

I also have a cabbage that needs using and so might try my hand at the roasted cabbage with bacon. Sounds delicious!

Buttermilk quick bread of one kind or another might also be on the agenda. I've got buttermilk that needs using.

It's always so fun to read everyone's comments on these. :)

Applesauce on the wood stove, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken stew (or so my husband says that's what he's going to make) red cabbage slaw, and some kind of cookies - but not quite sure yet. It's going to be freezing so it's the perfect weekend to stay in and cook.

I've got my first loaf of cinnamon raisin walnut bread proofing as we speak! I'm slowing getting a handle on the basics in Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes A Day.

I just tried out this recipe for almond-vanilla rice pudding, which is delicious, and I plan to make noodles with long beans in coconut curry broth tomorrow night.

Might do buttermilk-potato bread, too, because I've got some buttermilk that needs using. We'll have that with either lentil soup or this salad I got at Heathrow that I've been trying to recreate, made with roasted beets and squash, edamame, marinated green beans, and cashews. (I really can't believe how good it was.)

cinnamon-raisin no knead bread, spaghetti and meatballs, cherry crumb bars

steel cut oats, toasted in butter then boiling water, mix with brown sugar, baked sweet potato, and raisins. YUM!

made chicken soup with wild rice & lemon for family last night with a butter lettuce, orange, fennel & olive salad. Popovers & oatmeal for breakfast....cooking it now :)

Kelly in NYC: my friend makes a lovely braised cabbage with goat cheese. Similar recipe here http://recipes.suite101.com/article.cfm/braised_red_cabbage_with_goat_cheese

ciabatta bread--I'm on my second attempt because the first batch of dough just wasn't rising or doing anything (bad yeast, I think). Also, pizza dough and english muffins. I haven't made bread in a few weeks, so I'm catching up this weekend.

Making dairy-based dessert for a friend's St. Brigit's Day/Imbolc/Candelmas dinner tomorrow night. Are there any incredible refrigerator cheesecake recipes floating around out there? I have an unreliable oven...

Pound cakes that are now traveling with my son to his new dorm room.

Meyer lemons in my fridge! think I'll stop crying and go buy Cointreau to make a shaker of delicious Sidecars to celebrate when Spouse returns tonight.

Lentil soup, then tonight we made shrimp scampi. I also picked up Meyer lemons and blood oranges recently, so I might made some vinaigrettes and do some baking.

Tonight was our first try using our new pasta maker (Christmas gift) - lemon and ricotta tortellini fried in sage butter.

Tomorrow will hopefully bring breakfast burritos, and a slow-cook lamb curry.

I made chocolate chip cookies instead of exercising today. It's just too cold out.

I'm also roasting lots of winter green things in the oven with olive oil, sriracha, sea salt, and sesame seeds. Yummy.

Today: 100% whole wheat sandwich bread from Healthy Bread in 5. It stuck to the pan, but tastes delicious.

Last night: forget-we're-snowed-in-drink-margaritas night, we had carnitas, black beans, rice pilaf, salsa, best-ever margaritas, all from scratch. Got too drunk to go to work today....

Tomorrow: busting out the christmas presents: homemade pasta. Can't decide if I'll just make noodles or do a ravioli-type.

Today I made what ended up as a spicy vegetable stock. It it amazing. Not what I wanted when I started. But the one bitty habenero ended up being a huge fire for the whole pot. It is so good. Except now I need a new plan for what to do with it.

not cooking nything special, but i am going to the new Babycakes in LA for the 2nd time since they opened last week! Cookie sammich & healthy ho's -- here i come!

loudlyquiet - use it for stock when making rice, I bet it will be yummy.

Friends are coming over for lunch in a few minutes. I made a cranberry upside down cake (Alice Water's recipe), and my partner made a bacon-onion quiche (Mark Bittman's recipe). Time now to toss some greens...

Made what I thought was a large pot of chili yesterday. Thanks to two teenagers, there might be a little bit left for lunch tomorrow. Or maybe not.

Cranberry upside down cake sounds awesome.

Original gingerbread! Not the cookie kind. And something involving a steak... the weekend is not over yet!

Granola turned out delicious! Thought I would share the recipe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/dining/151arex.html?ref=dining

I used half the olive oil, 1/4 cup of honey instead of the maple syrup, and just 1 tbs. brown sugar. Some may like it sweeter, but I think it's just right.

Meatballs with tomato sauce for dinner tonight--first time making meatballs--hope they're tasty!

Cabbage going in to raost now! Yesterday was white cake with lemoncurd filling and Swiss buttercream icing.

I'm making good use of the crock pot I got for Christmas. I just finished a yummy batch of split pea soup for my lunches this week (I used smoked paprika instead of ham...it turned out great) and I'm about to start a batch of honey/soy sauce lentils. I think I may make a batch of corn bread muffins while it's cooking.

loudlyquiet - You can use it as a stock for beans or as a base for tortilla or vegetable soup.

kristenatcal - mmm...I love real gingerbread. I'm jealous. :)

I just finished a huge lasagna. I made the ricotta (first time,) the pasta, the tomato sauce and spinach mixture. Accompanied by a caesar salad with my uncle's recipe for dressing. The dishes are done and now I can make a classic "mix in the pan chocolate cake".
Tomorrow morning poached eggs on toast with tomato and cilantro, and lots of hot coffee.

Just made potstickers for the first time, from a recipe on thekitchn. They turned out great!

Any suggestions for what to make with 60 corn tortillas and a dozen flour ones? There are only two of us to eat it, so freezable is nice...

Flour tortilla = spread some margarine or butter, sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon. Then under the broil (you'll need to babysit it...wait until it crisps up). And you have yourself a nice easy snack or dessert :)

Temperatures over 40C (100F) so cooked nothing. Can't even remember if I ate last weekend.