Pot Roast! My apartment smells AMAZING right now :) Paired off with a simple green salad and homemade salad dressing and a warmed loaf of a baguette I think it's going to make the perfect Friday night meal! To top it all off there are two pieces left of my cherry pie that I made with frozen sour cherries from the farmers market. Yum!

Tomorrow will be leftover day to polish off all the goodies from this week!

peanut butter cookies w/ hershey's chocolate kisses on top and a very tart lemon tart! i'm in charge of dessert tomorrow night.

TAmom--

Have you tried the mini-Reeses peanut butter cups on top??? :)

Or peanut butter spread between two Ritz crackers, then dip the whole thing in chocolate? I have a kid making those right now.

Chicken and noodles delivered by a friend tonight and I'm feeling like making a big pot of chili tomorrow.

Just a batch of pineapple muffins out of oven because I had a can of diced pineapple hanging out in my cupboard for the last few months waiting to be used.

And thinking about making the simple tomato sauce mentioned a million places that is just tomatoes, onion & butter. We'll see. The water is off in our building currently due to a pipe being damaged so no more cooking until the water is back on.

Tonight my crazy friend Olaf is coming over and bringing a wackload of Moose meat - 5 or 6 of us will have a little cooking party and make Moose tartar and a couple of other things. Should be interesting!

Tomorrow night I am hosting a potluck, so lots of cooking this weekend. The kale salad is a great idea, especially since our garden is still full of the gorgeous curly stuff.

And maybe some chicken stock on Sunday? I am fresh out and need it in the freezer. I have been eating a lot lighter lately and am not cooking with so much booze, butter and bacon. So, stock will be lovely to deepen the flavour of my usual dishes:)

Tomorrow is cook-for-the-week day.
1. Some kind of potato gratin, probably with turnip in it.
2. a recipe for chicken cooked with cranberries which I'll probably try out in my crockpot. It will either be excellent or very weird.
3. Broccoli salad
4. I'm feeling some gingerbread coming on.

I made a corn/sausage/potato chowder tonight, we also had salad and rolls warmed in the oven.

We have plenty of chowder leftovers to last us through the weekend.

I'm planning on making lemon dijon wings and 5 layer taco dip for noshing while watching the LAST of the NFL playoffs.

This evening after work I bought a pasta drying rack - I am going to make pasta this weekend. I'll start with a rolling pin, see how it works, and if I like it, I may invest in pasta dough machine.

Tonight making the roasted cabbage with bacon. Been thinking about it all day. . .

Just got a copy of The Italian Slow Cooker" and I'm making pork braised in milk, in the crockpot. We're looking forward to it.

Oh - and I have a Tarte Tatin cooling for dessert... ;-)

I'm just awful at baking, but I'm trying really hard to make chocolate chip cookies. Arg!

Gáhkko- a traditional Sami bread. Also spiced pumpkin soup- nothing like hot bread and soup to warm one up while it's cold and snowy outside!

For something akin to a snack, I cooked a bag of fresh cranberries, cooked them with a little water, stirred in a bit of sugar, and then served with Greek yogurt. It's delicious, time for more!

Yesterday I made granola, for the first time! My experience is here: http://moorethanfine.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-isnt-food-blog.html

Tonight I made something vaguely resembling pad thai. And last night we had an amazing potato-parsnip sausage soup. I rarely use meat in my cooking, but...wow. This was amazing. :)

last night - slow roasted tomatoes

today - gazpacho and lemon leek fritatta

tomorrow - roasted sunchokes and broiled walnut oil grapes for dessert

Last night: buttermilk *fried* (i.e. baked) chicken drumstricks with coleslaw and mashed potatoes with pumpkin ginger cupcakes for desert

Tonight: baked pasta with butternut squash puree

Tomorrow: the poster above inspired me to make a pot roast so that will be tomorrow's dish

I'm making creamed tuna on toast in memory of my grandma, who passed away this week. She always made it for me when I would sleep over at her house, and I haven't had it since.

I'm working all weekend so thank you for all posting vicarious cooking experiences!

Working today so...take out. Tomorrow...pissaladiere, coq au vin and arugula salad.

made DH a large breakfast this morning of bacon, homefries, eggs and toast... I experimented and made a hash for myself out of shredded zucchini, leftover steamed cabbage and some potatoes. Served it to myself with an egg cooked over easy on top. it was pretty good.

heading to a friends house tonight for some fried fish they caught yesterday. I'm debating on what to bring... might make some brownies or a pineapple upside down cake....???

tomorrow I'll probably cook some traditional Italian food for DH... tomato sauce, meatballs or spethini (baked breaded beef cutlet rolls stuffed with salami, cheese, and oniony tomato sauce).

Vietnamese Bun, maybe some florentine cookies....most looking forward to going out for ethiopian food tonight!

Lentil Soup and Lambburgers! I make a bunch of soup at once in the pressure cooker, and stash some in the fridge to last thru the week.

I decided on braised short ribs and mashed parsnips for my potluck contribution and can't wait to dig in:)

last night it was butternut squash with sage & gnocchi--the production of which i had absolutely NOTHING to do with; yay for a partner who cooks--tonight probably homemade pizza. we're currently in a corporate apartment and reading everyone else's plans makes me even MORE anxious to get back to my beloved kitchen...

Yesterday I made brownies. Today I used up the bunch of blackening bananas to make banana nut muffins. They just came out of the oven and smell wonderful.

I was hoping to make graham crackers version 2.0, but no time. Maybe next weekend...

butternut squash lasagna, salad with winter greens roasted beets and goat cheese, crusty sourdough, pear crumble with vanilla brown butter and lots of WINE!!
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I have a pork shoulder small but enough for a meal or maybe two. I concocted a spice rub or paprika, chili powder, coriander, rosemary ginger spice mix, garlic, pepper, seasoned salt, and sugar. I rubbed the pork on both sides with the rub and its dry marinating in the fridge. I plan to stick it in the slow cooker in the morning with some garlic and onions and some broth. I plan to let it simmer all day till tender then shred and eat in some good rolls as a sandwich. Should I add the broth right away or brown the meat a bit first and should I add any at all? How much? I also plan to make a spice cake with just some frozen peaches that I froze over the summer with a simple syrup so they will not need any added sugar. The cake mix absorbs the peaches juice and its very good.

Cooked up a storm yesterday: apple pie, pork fried rice, filling for pasties, vegetable stock, roasted garlic/garlic oil. Today I'm making Medfuni, a Middle-Eastern casserole of rice, ground beef, and garbanzos that you eat with plain yogurt on top. And I'll make a big breakfast for us if my lazy honey ever wakes up!

Trying to take care of things that may have been lingering in the kitchen a bit too long. To that end, I am trying a gnocchi made with half red bliss potatoes and half sweet potatoes. I am combining experimentation and cleaning. I love Sunday afternoons.

Tonight's Dinner: Warm Brie with Orange Fig preserves, Olives marinated with Rosemary and Lemon, Roasted Squash Ravioli with Sage and Parmesan, Fresh Green Salad with Beets, Tomatoes, and Goat Cheese with a Citrus/Ginger Dressing, Roasted Cabbage and for dessert a Blood Orange Sorbet topped with Toasted Almonds.

I moved in November and am having a fabulous time cooking again (after a one year hiatus due to staging, renovations, and moving) in my new kitchen. Truly fabulous.

Stuffed cabbage -- http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/stuffed-savoy-cabbage-with-beef-pork-and-rice-in-a-spicy-tomato-sauce

In the oven...

Fancy Saturday breakfast: heuvos rancheros
Then I managed the best batch of granola I have made yet (woohoo!). Dinner last night was the broccoli and feta pasta recipe from this site last year.

Today was soaking and cooking a big batch of black beans, then a fennel and blood orange salad for dinner. Lots of dishes were washed, too.

I live alone so when I cook I have to do the dishes too. Some weekends, I just can't deal with that. This was one of those weekends...

But I still made a nice, simple Sunday lunch: pan fried pork chop, potato & turnip mashed with sour cream and broccoli rabe steamed with garlic. Tangerine with fruit & nut chocolate for dessert.