Having friends over for dinner this weekend...I think I'm going to make a scallop and pancetta risotto!!!

I'm planning to make Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana - (Taste-Alike version.)
http://www.cookingatcafed.com/2010/02/taste-alike-olive-garden-zuppa-toscana.html

Love dunking bread in it!

My boyfriend is making me spanakopita for my birthday dinner tonight...and I am making a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting for my family's joint bday celebration tomorrow: my dad, my aunt and me.

As ever, I have to work all day on the weekend, so it will be leftovers. But I'm kind of excited about the combination of leftovers this week. I think they'll go well together!

We have chard, red quinoa, great nothern bean and sweet potato stew...
http://outoftheordinaryfood.com/2013/02/22/red-quinoa-with-chard-sweet-potatoes-and-white-beans/

With farro pilaf with pan fried butterbeans and tomatoes...
http://outoftheordinaryfood.com/2013/02/20/farro-pilaf-with-pan-fried-butterbeans/

With a vegetarian version of a Norwegian reindeer stew (Mine has roasted butternut squash and mushrooms with hendricks gin and brunost cheese, but I haven't written about it yet!)

Plus some other greens and beans, and some jerk patties I made tonight with grated roasted butternut squash, pigeon peas and kale.

Leftovers rule!

Tonight we'll have a winter favorite.....cauliflower goat cheese gratin. Turkey ham with a tangerine Dijon glaze and a mâché and beet salad to round it out.

Not much cooking this weekend. Maybe the banana bread I meant to make last weekend. I have steaks I need to cook, so maybe those for dinner tomorrow. We're going out of town next week so I'm trying to clean out the fridge.

I'm planning on tackling a few recipes that I've Pinned recently ... homemade almond butter and homemade almond milk both look super-tempting. Then again, so does a hearty bowl of minestrone or Italian wedding soup! TBD.

Made some yummy creole black beans this afternoon: http://foodforthoughtlinds.blogspot.ca/2010/04/creole-black-beans.html and plan to try these peanut butter cookies this weekend: http://www.texanerin.com/2012/04/grain-free-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip.html

I am spending the weekend trying to think up recipes so that I can gain some weight! I have been having brutal stomach problems for MONTHS. Come to find out I have a big old ulcer. In the process, I am down to 90 pounds, which is terrifying! So I have to think up foods I can eat that will simultaneously be easy on the ulcer while it heals (no acids, no dairy, no tomato, no peanut butter) and will help me pack on some pounds.

Planning a pot of Arugula Fennel Hazelnut soup (http://www.kaleeats.blogspot.ca/2013/02/arugula-fennel-hazelnut-soup.html). Also dreaming up a chocolate chili scone recipe. Gotta keep warm in this cold drizzle.

I made an old favourite for dinner tonight - encihladas with spinach, corn and roasted red peppers. Some good comfort food to lead into a weekend that will be heavy on work!

Tonight I made turkey (instead of pork)and spinach wontons soup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-9Gyh_Fph0

For the weekend :
Breakfast :No butter chocolate chip pancakes
Dinner: Indian chicken and potatoes curry stew with saffron plain basmati rice .

ox tails with mushrooms and Polenta

@ Amy
Sorry about your ulcer condition I hope you will get well soon .I'm trying to think of a high calorie recipe but every single one comes to my mind now either it has tomato ,dairy,or spices :( .Honey is good but I dont have a recipe ,I just add it to a piece of bread /toast

We're having a nice lunch at a local pub today so I think dinner will be bread, cheese, crackers and salad, with some of the fig jam I made yesterday. Tomorrow will probably be greek lamb burgers (River Coftage Every Day) and a dark chocolate chip banana bread.

The first dinner I'm cooking for my new roommate, a pasta of zucchini ribbons with some pan-fried salmon and cherry tomatoes in balsamic vinegar.
A lot riding on this - first impressions count!

Planning on a chicken root vegetable soup, inspired by a recent episode of New Scandinavian Cooking, a ton of hummus to use up the chickpeas I cooked earlier in the week (not sure if I'll go through and peel every one, but maybe I'll give that a go), pita chips, blueberry pancakes and/or a blueberry crumble of some sort, David Lebovitz's soft ginger cookies (they happen to be fat free, but the homemade candied ginger is what drew me in) and perhaps a butternut squash lasagna, inspired by one from our school cafeteria. It's a gray, chilly weekend here, and long kitchen projects sound perfect.

@Amy, I have an incredibly skinny boyfriend - so I understand where you're coming from -
think meat, like chicken thighs and beef - stews without tomato paste or wine, grilled/ broiled/ baked/ seared high caloric density.

Also, pastas with homemade pesto sans cheese

Good luck!

I'm trying to ward off the late February chill with these flavorful and warm winter root veg tacos! http://chocolateandchard.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/roasted-root-vegetable-tacos-with-sweet.html

Made risotto with shrimp and clams last night. Chewy brownies cooling now. Beef stir-fry tonight with bok choy. Dutch baby pancakes planned for tomorrow's breakfast and chicken tikka for dinner. It is a rainy weekend here, perfect for cooking.

I am making pot roast using the "individual pot roasts" recipe posted a while back. I just love that recipe (with real carrots!!) and find it the perfect meal for a cold winter night.

As a former Austinite now living in Seattle, I am making something I've been missing - breakfast tacos! Roasted poblano, guacamole and carrot escabeche with egg, to be exact. Also oven roasted potatoes to go with. Yum!

How do you cook your oxtails? I have a bunch in the freezer I need to use.... Thanks!

We're grilling a chicken, making homemade barbecue sauce, and Martha's mac and cheese. It's warm here this weekend so it will be nice to hang outside for a bit. There should be enough leftover for extra meals during the week!

I'm also going to try out this double chocolate loaf cake.
http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/double-chocolate-loaf-cake/

I wrote up the recipe for vegetarian reindeer stew, so I thought I'd share it. It was one of the stranger, tastier things I've ever made. It has a lovely, deep, roasty umami flavor, from roasted butternut and mushrooms and from caramelly gjetost cheese, and a bright kick from Hendrick's gin (cause I didn't have juniper berries!)
http://outoftheordinaryfood.com/2013/02/23/roasted-butternut-and-mushrooms-with-hendricks-herbs-and-gjetost-cheese-vegetarian-norwegian-reindeer-stew/

http://lifewithlampnsofa.com/2013/02/22/warm-apple-and-carrot-juice/

Some warm homemade juices from my juicer!

My husband and I teamed up to make biscuits and gravy one day (he made the biscuits, I do the gravy).

I also made pasta with brussels sprouts, bacon, and walnuts, which was delicious and perfect for a snowy night.

http://atexasbelle.blogspot.com/2013/02/brussels-sprouts-bacon-walnut-pasta.html

I boil them in a braiser until they get tender seasoned with salt pepper garlic onion etc. I then drain off the liquid and use a fat separator to get the fat out but it back in the pot with mushrooms and a can of golden mushroom soup return the meat and reduce it down

like a sauce or gravy really good on creamy polenta

they also make really good stew

they also make really good stew