Happy weekend, Kitchn friends! What's cooking in your kitchen this Valentine's weekend? Something delicious, we hope. (Something like the adorable egg-in-the-basket pictured above?) Take a look at a few sweet posts from the past week and tell us: What's cooking this weekend?
• Tips on caring for a wood dining room table. (Mayonnaise!)
• Parmesan soup stock is truly amazing stuff.
• Egg-in-avocado-basket — would you try this?
• 12 recipes everyone should know by heart.
• Pretty packaging for Valentine's treats.
• Would you ever organize your kitchen drawers diagonally?
• Two soups that kids (and grownups!) like a lot.
• A tiny yet soulful kitchen and a kitchen renovation with room for what's important: wine and books.
• Some thoughts on eating alone.
• Love wine and chocolate? How to put them together.
• Valentine cards for food-lovers.
Happy weekend, and happy cooking!
(Image: Carey of Petite Kitchenesse)
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In no particular order: lamb burgers with sweet potato fries, baked hot chocolate, oatmeal pancakes and something sweet and heart-shaped for my wee-one.
Well I work all weekend so only cooking I am doing is reheating leftovers. But today I made spelt olive bread and chicken tortilla soup. Soup is good and waiting for bread to cool down to eat!
Making carrot/ginger/miso soup because I'm craving that flavor and it's finally wintery outside. Hoping to bake bread and a new batch of granola. Lots of veggies that need to be roasted and I refuse to start next week without some sort of plan for lunches during the workday. This week was a disaster that involved more Subway sandwiches than I care to admit. Happy weekend!
WAY too many cookies, chips, and other treats around here lately, and we're both suffering from a bad case of February Fatness. Time to get back to the healthy--and delicious--eating. Tomorrow, I'm going to make some curried roasted cauliflower, chicken cooked with a Stonewall sauce, and brown rice. I think Sunday I'll make some Greek meatballs to have with pitas, tzatziki, and veg. Definitely going to try to get as much veg in as possible.
Rum raisin bread pudding just came out of the oven. Next time? Go easier on the rum. Lol. Butter rum caramel turned out amazing though.
Also on the docket: bread, rosehip almond pastries, coconut macaroons, and possibly a Breton buckwheat cake, if I get really ambitious. Or Russian buckwheat date bars, since I have the flour now.
Noticing a theme? Lol. No idea what to make for dinner, but desserts are definitely in the offing.
Last night I made broccoli rabe, mushroom, and chicken sausage gratin. I've been eating mostly root vegetables all winter and that bitter, bright taste of the broccoli rabe really was a treat (leftovers for lunch, yay!)
Today I'm making a soup from a clipping I've had for years--"Rutabaga and Cabbage Soup Heinemann". Never made it. Clipped it from Gourmet in the ? 1980s? Tried to find it in their website to see if I could get the context for such a recipe but didn't find it. Oh well, sounds good anyway and I have a lot of rutabagas! That is for the coming week's lunches at work.
I bought a lot of fish last night--a big piece of monkfish & some Maine shrimp. Gotta find something good to do with those.
Oxtail stew, chocolate chip cookies (done), chocolate/fudge sauce to make hot chocolate with (and drizzle on our Valentine's Day goodies), spinach casserole(done), broccoli cheese soup. I may through in some herbed bread, too. Seems like a good weekend for homemade bread. We got a few inches of snow last night so we are enjoying it this weekend!
Chocolate boxes for Valentine's Day...
Lime+macadamia nut heart-shaped waffles and portobello & shiitake mushroom 'bacon',
Meyer lemon poundcake.
Saturday for V-Day Dinner with friends; Smitten Kitchen's Buttermilk Roasted Chicken, roasted root veggies and a huge green salad with homemade strawberry vinaigrette. And then Deb's Chocolate Souffle Cupcakes with Mint Cream. Obviously, I was drooling through the SK archive's this week.
http://smittenkitchen.com/2012/01/buttermilk-roast-chicken/
http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/02/chocolate-souffle-cupcakes-with-mint-cream/
Having accomplished my Broken Heart Shorthread for Valentine's Day (lemon dipped in dark chocolate and chili dipped in white chocolate), I'm determined to make headway on my project on cooking one dish from each of the 50 U.S. states. Idaho is au gratin potatoes, and I think Illinois is going to be Chicken Vesuvius.
I also recklessly promised to try a friend's wheat bread recipe to see if it could overcome my bread-rising curse (Hawaiian bread did, but that's not exactly an all-purpose flavor).
Having been asked to bring desert, but being on a lo-fat / lo-carb quest was tough. I compromised.
I took the date bars David Leibowitz did a while ago, and down sized a little; half the sugar, date spread instead of chopped dates, to make up for the sugar, whole wheat flour, less nuts, apple sauce instead of butter. And I hate rum, so I used cinnamon and nutmeg.
What I got were date bars that tasted like honey cake. They were finished at the table.
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2011/12/date-bars-recipe/