At the ripe age of 28- my boyfriend just had his wisdom teeth out, so we will be making a foray into all things mush. :)

Mango lassis, mashed potatoes and cauliflower, polenta, soup and pudding may all be on the menu this weekend.

Any suggestions of non-hospital-ish food would be greatly appreciated~

@lilbetty: I have no idea, as I have no recollection of even eating after my wisdom tooth removal. I just remember trying to eat some enchiladas a bit too soon, as I was sick and tired of all the cold-to-lukewarm food. For now, pudding, popsicles, ice cream and some advil (or such). And some frozen peas, to use as ice packs. :)

For me this weekend, I think it's gonna be that rhubarb upside down cake, some quince paste and cream cheese empanadas, and something with all these strawberries!

I'll be attempting pain a l'ancienne (which I probably just misspelled) this weekend. I should probably figure something out as food for the next week, too. Maybe a tagine.

@lilbetty - why not ice cream with rhubarb sauce, only you could make it a coulis by putting it through a food mill or mashing it through a fine strainer.

A cold soup like cucumber dill with sour cream or yoghurt and a few slices of raw onion spun through a blender could be nice, too, especially if it's hot where you are.

If you want something hot (as in not cold), you could try cream cheese and bean dip, minus the chips, too.

@ Tiamat_the_Red - You did spell pain a l'ancienne right! :)

I will be seeing a potential house (3 bedrooms! We're in a 1 bedroom apt. right now with an eensy kitchen) and then heading out of town for the weekend, so no cooking for me! :)

First camping trip of the year! Pancakes and sausage for breakfast, baked beans from scratch, hash, glazed apples, dinner rolls in the toaster oven, hot cocoa with tiny little marshmallows, and popcorn.

Brownies, caramel chocolate pecan ice cream, crostini with fresh mozzarella, chard from the garden, and caramelized onions.

I took the 8 great tips for grilling steak to heart last night, and made a ribeye with garlic-cilantro butter. Holy smokes. I will never grill steak another way, again.

I'm making spaghetti for dinner tonight-we're having snow peas with sesame oil&seeds for the veggie side.

Tomorrow, I'm making brisket and scalloped potatoes and roasted carrots-it's supposed to be kind of rainy and a bit chilly here tomorrow.

I might make a chocolate buttermilk sheet cake for dessert.

My maple syrup just came in from Christopher Kimball's farm in Vermont, so, we will most likely have waffles or pancakes and bacon tomorrow morning.

I found a recipe for ramp mini-muffins made with ramp pesto--so I'll be trying that. I think they would be great with soup or eggs. Or they'll be terrible. I'll know soon!

There were sugar snap peas at the market today. Yay! I love them in stir-fry, but with a kid in the house they're probably all going to get eaten raw as snacks.

We're making up some potato skins, at the request of my 7 yr. old. Also some homemade alfredo sauce, as we've got some heavy cream to use up, so why not? Yep, nice, fattening weekend over here. :) Luckily fresh, organic berries are just starting to pop up in our stores so we'll balance it out a bit with plenty of those.

Last night was homemade pizza - caramelized onions, garlic, goat cheese, arugula, and a drizzled balsamic reduction.

This morning my husband and I picked 9 pounds of organic strawberries, so I am baking a simple cake and plopping a small mountain of those berries (macerated in Grand Marnier) on top.

Made some bread, a pizza with my husband's homemade sauce, and he made two kinds of sausage! I have to mix up some pie dough for a party next weekend. I am going to try Rose Levy Beranbaum's cream cheese pie crust recipe for the first time.

We've just got one more week before our 3-week vacation in London and Provence (yay!!!), so I'm cleaning out the fridge. Yesterday, all the CSA veggies became roasted veg and sausage, green salad, and the components of vegetable lasagna; then I made shrimp sandwiches for dinner. We just had our usual Sunday bacon-and-egg fest for breakfast and we'll have the lasagna for dinner. Then no more cooking for the rest of the week. Though I may try the halfway cookies in there sometime. :)

We had our engagement party last night, and I made a bunch of appetizers. (I'm not entirely sure why I was responsible for the food at my own engagement party, but oh well...)

I made caprese skewers, stuffed mushrooms, a veggie platter, bacon-wrapped asparagus, crab dip and shrimp cocktail. It was all delish, and we have no leftovers.

Therefore, I have to cook tonight .... or order Chinese food. Hmm...what to do?

I'm trying this fondue recipe tonight for dinner and a movie http://gastrotravels.com/recipe-artisanal-cheese-fondue/ - haven't picked the movie yet though...

Making preserved lemons: 1 jar Eureka, 1 jar Meyer, and 1 jar Mediterranean sweet lemons. Curious to see if those bland Mediterraneans make a good preserved lemon.

Grilled salmon and chopped miso salad. Nigel Slater's toad-in-the-hole with wild mushroom gravy. Chocolate orange scones. Rhubarb compote. Chilaquiles tonight perhaps, we've got grilled chicken thighs left-over.

Just made my first ever roasted leg of lamb. So good and so easy! And now we will be having yummy kabobs all week.

Right now the hershy brownies are in the oven for a Sunday night movie goodness.

we made Sonoran enchiladas for the first time which was really fun! i don't know if other people have heard of them but we hadn't and were really pleasantly surprised by these little corn tortilla-cakes smothered in good stuff.
http://theweekendgourmande.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/kitchen-firsts-sonoran-enchiladas/

Last weekend I bought an absurd amount of spinach, so during the week we had spinach enchiladas, spinach tortellini, spinach salad... All so yummy! This past weekend strawberries made their first appearance. I ate about half of them right out of the carton as soon as I got home. ;-)