What is that picture of?

It's going to be a green dinner tonight-

Steamed artichokes with a lemony-garlic aoli and also making some asparagus ravioli. Love spring.

Need to make up some tamales to freeze for quick weeknight dinners and maybe that coconut cake that was featured earlier this week....looked so good!

Is the pic of Snickerdoodles?

Black beans in the slow cooker with a smoked turkey leg, those delicious raspberry tartletts shown earlier in the week and some sort of seafood, its Halibut and crab season again here in the NW.

Roasting a chicken for dinner tonight, making stock from the bones tomorrow. No-knead bread tomorrow and maybe some chocolate chip cookies, haven't decided yet. Still figuring out what to do for dinners tomorrow and Sunday. Maybe sesame noodles with the leftover chicken from tonight? It's up in the air.

An apple crisp for breakfast tomorrow, and dinner for a vegetarian friend will be cheesy spinach and artichoke pasta.

Breakfast on Sunday is looking to be pigs in a blanket and dinner will probably by tortellini and Italian sausage -- Jewel had a great sale and I got all produce on sale and the pasta, rolls, sausages were all buy one get one free.

Tonight is grilled salmon w/ dill, bruschetta, and spicy pasta! Don't know about the rest of the weekend, or dessert yet..

Arugula, Potato and Fontina Pizza from the Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook

Sunday will be Swiss Chard & Sweet Pea Manicotti using chard growing in my balcony garden (Giada's Kitchen Cookbook)

Sat night is Dinner Club! We're cooking from Cradle of Flavor (Malaysian, Indonesian & Singaporean)- I am making Penang Roast Chicken, Eggplant Curry, Javanese Sambal & Carrot & Cuke Pickles. I'm making plenty to leave some of the leftovers at home before going to Dinner Club. After spending the day in the kitchen, I'll want Sunday to relax & play.

My daughter is having her first communion on Sunday and I've been planning the menu for the reception afterwards for WEEKS. I can't wait to make the lemon cream cheese rolls recipe from here as well as the crustless quiche. I'm baking a ham and cutting it up for sandwiches. Throw in some fresh fruit, veggie & yogurt dip platter, a cold pasta salad and BBQ'd salmon and we have ourselves a brunch!

I am on a marathon here - today a triple batch of biscotti, then some guacamole, apple spice cake, possibly ice cream, and salmon and potato cake with sauteed beet greens sunday night. whew.

Made chile colorado sauce today to make vegetarian enchiladas tomorrow. Also want to try rhubarb white chocolate souffles.

Attending a pot-luck pool party Saturday night. I'll be making my famous coconut macaroons. Also, trying to clear out the pantry and use up food as we make our annual migration north to Maine for the next six months.

http://letthegoodin.com/post/559405382/simple-sweet-recipe-chocolate-chip-cookies

I made chocolate gelato and it is delicious!

No knead bread for sure, and avocado pizzas made with flour from Napoli! (makes a huge difference in the flavor and thinness of the crust!)

making mulberry tarts from the berries that I just picked this week. will bring to the herb festival tomorrow to barter with another herbalist for a Hibiscus Sabfrd plant.
aroma in here is heavenly, the air is full of sugary clouds, lol.
god i love fridays!
will wrap them up in blue napkins and tie the basket with a pretty blue ribbon.

Baking a moist, buttery pound cake and drizzling warm, rum raisin sauce over it.

This weekend is the last one before finals, so it's all about study snacks! Gonna make a big batch of popcorn sprinkled with smoked paprika and nutritional yeast.

We've got a really busy month ahead of us, so this weekend I'll be mostly cooking for the freezer. I brought home 10 pounds of chicken leg quarters for $3 yesterday and made stock. Hamburger, shredded chicken breasts, citrusy black beans, and spaghetti noodles are on deck for today.

Tomorrow will be homemade whole wheat bread. No chance that will make it to the freezer.

Madelaines and homemade strawberry ice cream.

It's a weekend full of work and errands, but I plan to cook a lot, too.
I'm part of an online group that bakes for soldiers, so, I'm making triple chocolate chunk cookies and oatmeal raisin crisps to ship out.

I'm making beef and black bean burritos for the freezer as well as pasta with snap peas in a lemon cream sauce (from the Hay Day Country Market cookbook).

I'm also going to make a cheese ball for snacking (cream cheese with dried beef, worcestershire sauce, green onions-rolled in pecans, chilled, then spread on crackers).

Have a happy weekend!

Oh, I almost forgot, I'm also making Dorie Greenspan's burnt sugar ice cream.

You're all making me feel hungry again, and I just had lunch!

Made granola for the first time this morning, smells great. Squash, spinach and mushroom lasagne this afternoon to freeze. Hamburgers on the barbecue this evening.

It's far too hot to turn the oven on, so tonight a big antipasti and slow cooker barbecue pulled chicken for tomorrow.

I am making something simple which is also a family tradition: a hamburger steak. Take 1/3 lb. or slightly more good hamburger (I am using beefalo), mix with granulated garlic, finely diced onions, green peppers (tonight El Paso hot green chilies), salt, pepper. Assemble into a 7-8" diameter burger and grill, turning when the juices rise. Yes, it is 1960s; but it is a family legacy, grilled then on a cast-iron Hibachi grill. This is 2010; I use the Weber.

Dinner tonight was a chicken chili, courtesy of Ina Garten; lunch was pasta with a tomato sauce and meatballs; and now my beloved is baking brownies.

I made a pavlova with roast figs, minced candied Meyer lemon, and shredded mint for a party last night - it was very well received - and tomorrow it's chocolate hazelnut gelato or a Meyer lemon buttermilk ice cream.

I finally bought a bag of mussels and made a Thai coconut curry sauce to cook them in. It was ok, sort of. Half the ones in the bag were already opened so I threw them out.
Need more experience with mussels, if I get brave enough to try again.

I made quinoa croquettes with cilantro yogurt sauce on friday, mango and shrimp kebabs last night and tonight I am making a spring mushroom and asparagus risotto. Fun weekend of cooking.

We enjoyed baked falafels with an adaptation of the tzatziki-esque cucumber salad from a recent Sunset magazine-- delicious and easy!
http://theweekendgourmande.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/kitchen-firsts-baked-falafel-with-cucumber-salad/

I've discovered that it's possible to make one-serving cupcakes or muffins in the microwave, and it comes out with the taste and texture of actual food! Starting with a recipe for chocolate cupcake, I went through with my earlier threats to do something with cornmeal, lemon, and blueberries.
http://emuisemo.com/?p=81