This is my winter into spring soup. pumpkinseed arugula bisque It's warm and toasty and comforting, and it's spicy, so it clears your sinuses if you're feeling February-y. But it's also bright and green and it has arugula and zucchini in it, which are such hopeful flavors!! One of the best soups I've ever made, and I've made a lot of soups. The flavor of pumpkinseeds (pepita) is just remarkable and unforgettable - not because it's strange, but because it's oddly familiar and toasty. Maybe it's a childhood memory of carved pumpkins being toasted by their candles!

Tomorrow I'm making the One-Pot Pasta e Fagioli - Bean and Pasta Stew from this site! I've made it before, and it was heavenly, so I'm hoping it'll turn out well again.

I'm deep into tagines this weekend. A group of us is cooking our way through The Foods of Morocco (trying to win a cookbook). That, and I'm preparing some preserved lemons.
Here is my review of the tagine I prepared last night.

But I have to say that Claireooto's soup looks amazing.

Thank you, Lazy lurker! I'm fascinated by tagines as well! Do you have the pot?!?! Your tagine sounds wonderful. Morocco is such a nexus of intriguing cuisines... Really inspiring!

Wow, you all are pretty inspiring. I made the bread from the Kitchn's post today. It's not out yet but it looks LOVELY. I showed my husband how to make chili & for now I'm done. We'll see what else happens. I've gotten some inspiration from the Homies entries & my kitchen is well stocked. Maybe I'll throw something together...

So far today: whole wheat bread (from Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes) , orzo salad with peppers, tomatoes, olives feta and roasted garlic lemon vinaigrette. Finally, my take on this recipe:
http://www.thekitchn.com/basic-oven-omelet-cookbook-rec-137475

Used onion and kale instead of meat. And a mix of asiago, parmesan and cheddar cheese. Its in the oven now and smells so good!

I work every weekend so Fridays are a big cooking day for me!

I live in Wisconsin where we are getting a big snowstorm. Spring cooking is just a fantasy until say late April. We're doing chili, soup, bread, and focaccia this weekend, and for several to come!

Oh I can't wait for breakfast week! My favorite meal of the day, this is going to be great!

Woohoo, weekends! I'm making a simplified version of tom yum soup (recipe from Steamy Kitchen) and "sriracha" sauce. And eating leftover tofu stew. And trying to resist not eating the entire round of ashy goat cheese in the fridge, ergh!

Like, @Kariwk, I also live in Wisconsin (Milwaukee) where the snowstorm just hit. I managed to schlep my tiny car to the grocery store, so I'll be camped in tomorrow making matambre (Argentine thing... flank steak rolled up with goodies) and the corned beef-stuffed twice baked potatoes from Melissa Clark's book.

Hey Laurajane. I'm in Milwaukee as well (East Tosa). Settle in and snuggle up. It sounds like you have some greta food planned for a wet and messy weekend.!

A little extra energy tonight, so fried chicken & romaine w blue cheese dressing. Tomorrow, ordering a pizza!

I'll be teaching this gal I know how to cook something. Thing is, she's afraid to try anything new because she grew up eating stuff out of boxes. Noting that I witnessed her feeding her foetal units (generic) macaroni and cheese out of a box, with a side of frozen vegetable (microwaved, no butter, no salt) I was thinking of nudging her into a Spaghetti Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino, at least. Something good yet easy, which can be applied a bunch of other ways with other ingredients...

I think I'm going to make a big chicken pot pie tomorrow, probably with some roasted asparagus on the side. Sunday, I'm thinking about some curried chickpeas, brown rice, and a salad. Should have lots of healthy leftovers for lunches during the week.

Tonight, I'm baking off a pizza spaghetti casserole tonight that I prepped earlier in the week. Tomorrow, I'm going to make hard boiled eggs, as I do every Sunday, some bakery style blueberry muffins (both for breakfasts this week), a broccoli and sausage pasta dish from "How to Pick a Peach" (the hubby's lunch for this week), a crock pot stroganoff from "Make It Fast, Cook it Slow" (for supper and lunches), and quite possibly, those Homemade Snickers Bars that have been making their rounds on Pinterest and the blogosphere!

Oops! Didn't mean to say "tonight" twice!!!!

This fog demands French onion soup.

Well, I just tucked this red cabbage from BBC Good Food in the oven for its 1.5 hour simmer.

And before that I made the butternut squash in this link (which I made a couple of weeks ago) with the very last butternut squash of the season. This is really, reaaaaalllllly good. Lunch all week!:

Don't tell me English food is no good!

I spent yesterday baking 8 batches of brownies and 7 batches of carrot cake cupcakes to freeze for next weekend's 100th birthday party for my great-grandma-in-law. I think I'm kitchened out for a day or two.

Last night, I made pasta with browned butter, parmesan white and truffle oil (my husband is addicted to the stuff!), simple spinach salad with lemon vinaigrette and crostini di fagioli which were SO delicious! Toasted bread topped with a creamy white bean and roasted garlic spread, toasted again under the broiler and topped with balsamic glaze and shaved parmesan. YUM! YUM! Beans on toast. Can't go wrong.

The rest of the weekend will be lots of green smoothies, repurposing the leftover pasta for my husband and taking it easy...

Homemade pizza (mushroom and Greek olive) for dinner Friday night. Pita bread as soon as I get off my tuchus and make it. For dinner tonight, store-bought falafel, spinach, scallions, sesame dressing, thick yogurt sauce spiked with sriracha, all stuffed into fresh pita; sweet potato wedges and broccoli on the side. Tomorrow: almond & blueberry whole wheat muffins.

It's still feeling pretty wintery around here, so after a trip to the Winter Farmers Market, I'm planning on rice and greens tonight and a roasted cauliflower and potato soup tomorrow.

Spring break started today so I made hummus and tomorrow will make a meat lasagna

Finally making the amazing-looking (and now, I know, smelling) pork ragu w/ semolina gnocchi that was featured here a few months ago. It's in the fridge and I can't wait to finish it up for tomorrow's dinner.

Going to try and get in a batch of pizza dough and prep sourdough pancake batter for Monday morning. Need to figure out lunches for the week. Grain salad of sorts, I'm sure. Craving feta, maybe a Greek version.

Getting really antsy to finish up grad school (68 days!!) so I can spend a bit more time in the kitchen w/ out the accompanying guilt for slacking on homework and studying.

Cooked up a lasagne with a friend last night, I made the red sauce and she did the white, we had a lot of fun. :)

Tofu bahn mi for lunch today, got the vegetables pickled yesterday.....favorite sandwich, can't wait.

Lots of fried egg sandwiches, Heidi Swanson's cranberry, orange and oat whole wheat scones, and Nigel Slater's pasta with sausages and mustard. It's so cold and soggy here; sausages and buttery scones are needed!

I experimented with oysters today -- grilled, slathered in fennel butter, along with clams and jumbo shrimp. It worked out just OK. http://cookingwithcrouton.wordpress.com

It feels hot in San Francisco this weekend, especially if you're doing big work like clearing out a garage and digging up a tree, so no actual cooking it's mostly sandwich fixin's... Acme sourdough, fresh goat cheese, roasted red peppers, walnuts, freshly cracked black pepper. Another is a sandwich spread with heirloom arugula, fresh basil, garlic, goat cheese, and cream cheese (great swirled through hot pasta). I also came up with a couple great milkshakes but so far my favorite was Vietnamese cinnamon, apricot, and vanilla.

Still in a winter-into-warm-weather mood. I made a version of ratatouille that's more like a sofrito...the summery flavors distilled and intensified, because I had to use canned tomatoes instead of fresh from the garden, so I cooked them into almost a chutney. And instead of cooking the eggplant right in, I left it separate and egged/breaded/oven fried it into crispy little coins to serve alongside. With some good bread and a bit of cheese - nice meal!

My first official meal in my partially renovated kitchen happened today. I cooked Hot Browns from the official recipe from the Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY (check out the website). It was soooooo good.