Dorie Greenspan's All-in-One Cake for a dominoes game--my turn to make dessert, I find Bundt cakes foolproof, and I'm hoping there will be leftovers, plus I have all the ingredients at home!

I made a winter slaw with tahini dressing today and some gingery veggie gyoza. For the Oscars on Sunday, I'm making a whole mess of finger food so we can nosh in sweat pants on the couch: tortilla española; crunchy roasted chickpeas; gougeres with bacon, pickled onions and arugula; olives; crudite with skinny french onion dip and red velvet brownies.

Stuffed peppers with rice, lentils and spicy tomato sauce. The sauce and peppers will do double duty for pasta for this week's lunches.

Right now enjoying a slice of my sister's homemade pizza: sauce and dough from scratch with onions, green olives, turkey pepperoni, fresh tomatoes, mozzarella and cheddar. Delish!

I've got the egg in avocado Pinterest thing going in my oven right now.

Eggs 50M different ways - thank heavens I have the book Eggs by Michel Roux on hand!

Ha, I totally repinned that egg in avocado thing. Haven't done it yet but it looks amazing.

This weekend I think there will be an egg and spinach dish in the making (creamed spinach baked with eggs on top? or a spinach and salmon quiche? depends whether the urge comes around brunch or dinner time), and probably some white pizza with artichoke hearts.

Tonight I made brown rice vegetarian "sushi" bowls (not quite - I thought I had nori, but apparently I was wrong). I am now forever converted to pressed tofu.

We've got friends coming over tomorrow, and we'll have a bit of a pizza making party: I provide pizza dough, sauce (in this case, homemade tomato sauce and basil pesto) and cheese, and they bring toppings. I'm probably also going to make a big green salad with shredded beets, slow-roasted cherry tomatoes, and maybe some blanched snow peas or sprouts. Lemon yoghurt cake with blueberries for dessert.

Sunday I'm going to make some maple-almond granola, and I'm planning on chicken and dumplings for supper.

Just got back from vacation and I am in stock up mode--the cupboard is bare. I'll be making a corn pone (casserole of beans on the bottom/corn bread on top), a spinach quiche to freeze for lunches, veggie fried rice with broiled tofu, pumpkin muffins, broccoli rabe with white beans and sage, and some kind of soup. Something with potatoes, I think.

Well we are headed on vacation on Sunday so we've been clearing out the fridge in anticipation of being gone for a week. Last night was venison sausage over polenta with roasted cauliflower on the side.Tonight will be shrimp and then a simple salad to use up our greens.

What I AM looking forward to cooking soon are the savory oatmeal cookies. Those are right up my alley.

Cake's in the oven. Smells great. I spilled a bottle of rum (don't worry, didn't lose much) which I was subbing for vanilla extract, which it turns out I need to make more of...and I got all flustered so I left out fresh ginger and the nuts! Duh. But it will still be good.

For lunch, I'm heating up the last of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Curried Butternut Squash & Lentils and putting an egg on top. Dinner is out tonight--maybe Venezuelan, maybe Turkish. I almost never eat out, so I can't wait!

I've had the week off and have been cooking like crazy, so I'm feeling out of inspiration today. Plus I'm so tired of winter veg--can't wait for asparagus! But the boyfriend decided he should make his version of Spaghetti Bolognese today, since the weather's way too nasty to go anywhere. So I'll chop veg and he can do the cooking.

Tomorrow, I think I'll make these, which I'm a bit obsessed with: http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/why-cats-are-not-doctors/

Cripes, wrong link. Should be http://chickensintheroad.com/cooking/pepperoni-sausage-ricotta-and-mozzarella-roll/

Well, carne asada, rice & beans (with guacamole & fresh salsa), butterscotch brownies, kitchen sink veggie soup (looks like broc soup but it has carrots, cabbage & just about every other veggie in the fridge cooked & blended). Tomorrow I['m not sure. Maybe leftovers & a good kitchen cleaning, lol!

In the last 2 years I have been buying an exotic meat cut and then figuring out how to prepare it. Today's part is oxtail,which is really cattle-tail. So I am making oxtail soup with root vegetables from Epicurous. Right now it is simmering; the main trick seems to be letting the fat separate from the broth for a couple hours; then the striped meat is added back after the veggies and aromatics have been cooked.

This weekend I've made meatball subs and greek salad for our saturday night treat; leftovers for lunch today in the form of meatball wraps with salad. Tonight is chickpeas with squash, kale and coconut milk from Healthy Green Kitchen and maybe a batch of banana breakfast muffins for breakfasts during the week. I've been craving coconut like mad lately so I'm looking forward to some serious coconutty dinner.

These are the voyages of a cook who needs to downsize: to explore strange new foods, to seek out new vegetables and tastes, to boldly go where no chef has gone before;

This week was Root Vegetable Mulligatawny from Martha, Honest Fare's White Winter Slaw, and Yisrael Aharoni's Thai style steamed eggplant.

My quest for zero-point recipes goes on....

Banana bread is the only sure thing today. I'll probably put some beans on to soak since I have some nice Mexican chorizo in the freezer. A pot of pintos with a link or two of chorizo - nice and soupy with maybe some rice tomorrow.

I made lemony linguine with chicken, artichoke hearts, spinach, and zucchini yesterday for dinner - we had a dinner guest. Also roasted pre-peeled garlic in tinfoil, although I let it go too long and some of the ends got caramelized/burnt. Still, I will definitely do it again.

I have a bajillion bosc pears that are less ripe than I thought they were. Any suggestions for what to do with them?

i whipped up a feast for my boyfriend and me; caesar salad, spaghetti and meatballs and dark chocolate brownies with silvered almonds and bits of strawberries. Nothing too fancy but it filled our bellies and made us happy

Friday night: (store-bought frozen) gyoza with sesame broccoli. Last night's last minute dinner turned out to be pretty amazing: squash ravioli with garlicky spinach and pan-roasted broccoli sauced with warmed goat cheese and lemon, a big wedge of fresh focaccia on the side. Today, I'm making almond-blueberry muffins. My solo dinner will probably be penne with spinach and olives, topped with the last of the goat cheese.

Homemade Pizza on Friday night (Black/Green Olives, Turkey Sausage, Mushrooms).

Saturday, Mac-N-Cheese (cooked the noodles in milk-amazing!), and parmesan air-popped popcorn for movie night. Taking some of those leftovers for lunch tomorrow!

For brunch this morning, Cinnamon & Brown Sugar French toast, Turkey Sausage and Fruit (Blueberries, Raspberries, Strawberries & Pineapple) with Vanilla Syrup.

For dinner tonight I'm making total midwest comfort food (Rhonda's Wonderful Rice-Long Grain Rice baked in French Onion and Beef Broth with mushrooms and topped with a stick of butter. So bad for you but DELICIOUS. Baked chicken breasts to go along with).

Will also be prepping Crockpot Chili for later this week and making green chile & cheddar cornbread for the chili.

I've got to come up for some ideas for single meals for the next two weeks as I'll be a college basketball sports widow. Thinking tuna melts one night.

It was a fully spur-of-the-moment thing to use up some left over green/yellow/red bell peppers, but I made chili.

2 lbs of ground beef, 2 lbs of ground pork, the peppers, a softball-sized red onion, a clove of elephant garlic, a can of crushed tomatoes, can of tomato sauce, and about a cup each of apple juice and water. Made 6 quarts.

Ended up a little watery, but my fiancee loved it! (As did I.)