Cocktail weenies in sauce, Swedish meatballs, potato skins, spinach balls, deviled eggs, and cupcakes! The bf is making biryani with raita. Yum!

Tonight I'm making chicken and leek pasties, with a big green salad, using leftover chicken from this Smitten Kitchen recipe. Tomorrow I think we're going out, but the plan for Sunday is braised spinach and chickpeas in coconut milk from this website. Biscotti and mochas are also in the plan.

I'm just taking it easy with some scones and fresh clementine curd!

-the Breakfast Bachelor

No idea about tonight as hubby and I are still getting our palates back to normal after getting over the flu but tomorrow I'd like to back some butternut squash "farrotto" (a farro risotta) from a Bittman Cooking Light recipe.

Outside of that, I have no other ambitions besides just getting my energy back.

We're spending the day at the park on Sunday to celebrate my birthday while the whole family and close friends. I live in South Florida so it's not uncommon for people to be grilling at the park year this time of the year. The menu is simple and light: grilled weiners on buns with toppings, grilled whole potatoes, grilled veggies and fruits with a balsamic glaze, Jamie Oliver's raw beet root and pear salad, fresh berries with condensed milk and nuts, tuna pie, chips and salsa and whatever else a few other people are bringing. As far as drinks go, we're sticking to water, beer, Sweet Tea and Italian sodas.

This weekend we will be skipping the Super Bowl and making pizza! I just got my copy of Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day that you all featured this week. We are excited! YUM!

Also, I'll be making fresh cashew milk for my morning smoothies.

I've also got some peppers that need pickling! Will probably go with a honey/sriracha pickling liquid. Yum! Yum!

The saturday night treat isn't decided but I'm thinking green curry or macaroni cheese with leeks and bacon. Today I'll be baking an apple, sultana and cider cake and tomorrow I'm making wholemeal pizzas with spinach, feta and baked eggs on.

Jerusalem artichoke soup. Something with rutabagas (any ideas? Prob. a gratin of some sort).

Chicken broth from a frozen carcass.

And I'm doing a late winter freezer inventory! Maybe...I'm feeling curiously idle this weekend.

Digsapony -Can I come over...?! *sweet silly smile* I'll be cooking up a batch of chicken alfredo tonight, made with Greek yogurt and chicken broth, instead of cream/butter -it's delicious and works well with whole grain pasta...we'll also have a proper breakfast tomorrow, eggs and thick slices of bacon, with toast to dip in our yolks.

I'm baffled. I'm started Week 2 of the Bon Appetit food lover's cleanse, but I'm a vegetarian so I'm not following their meal plan. So far it's been delicious and plenty but I'm not making my usual repetoire and I am discovering that I need to expand that repetoire STAT. I think I'll be cracking open Veganimicon for ideas. I know I'm making a Spanish tortilla for lunch with a salad of steamed veggies dressed in a mustard vinaigrette. And beyond that: stumped.

I think it would be easier to say, "what's not cooking" for me! Hahaha. I plan to make a pork shoulder with Stonewall Kitchen's Pulled Pork Simmering Sauce (I purchased this last week while visiting York, Maine. *swoon*) for sandwiches and meals during the week. For lunches, a slow cooker chili, or perhaps slow simmered on the stovetop. For the big game: Detroit Honey Hot Wings from Allrecipes, a loaded bacon cheeseburger dip, deviled eggs, and rolo cake mix bars. I also need to make sandwich bread and a cinnamon swirl bread.

I broke a bottle of sesame oil INSIDE the fridge so I'm clearing out the fridge and freezer, cleaning it top to bottom, then will restock next week. Whatever's good will end up in a big pot of soup or stew (and that's mostly frozen veg and beans).

No investment in this year's Super Bowl teams so I'll be working to develop a recipe for hot chocolate ganache squares. I saw them finished, for sale, and want to see how well it works.

tomorrow i'm making piquant lamb meatballs. my friends are crazy about them.
http://www.mazamag.com/2011/12/lamb-kufte-with-cabbage-salad-and-ajvar/

Pretty inspired to cook as it's so cold outside (and inside tbh!)

Tried the baked sweet potatoes w/w chickpea spinach goodness from this site last night, definite win! Tonight, stirring up a mega batch of chilli, feels like the perfect place to be as it's just started snowing outside. For the game, nachos with the queso recipe just linked, and hot chicken drumsticks and blue cheese dip from a tried-and-tested recipe :)

Vegan hot and sour soup, and the life changing vegan thumbprint cookies that were featured on this site.

This morning was such a pleasant cooking time! I have a needy 8 month old, so time in the kitchen is precious, but I managed to make the barbacoa beef (yum!) and the boston cream strata from this site, some homemade stock (which then became tortilla chicken soup), some roasted cauliflower, and a big green salad. So satisfying to have a stocked fridge.

The boy and I have been cooking a TON and it makes me so happy that I don't even miss going out (all that much!) We've been busy cooks this weekend. Friday night we made meatballs, sauteed rainbow chard with mushrooms, onions, garlic and pine nuts. This morning brought a frittata with leftovers from the week (sausages, peppers, onions, spinach, parmesan and goat cheese.) Dinner tonight was a Mediterranean turkey crock pot dish from cooking light. Currently in the process of cooking for the big game tomorrow! Deviled eggs, spinach and artichoke dip, cutting tons of cruidtés, antipasti skewers with Michael Chiarello's angry shrimp and Pioneer Womans caramel brownie goodness. Going to attempt to find time to prep meals for this week as well. Happy weekend!

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 braised red cabbage from the Joy of Cooking (but with olive oil, and less!),

and Orange-Roasted Carrots with Mellow Miso Sauce from "Triumph Wellness" (here http://triumphwellness.com/orange-roasted-carrots-and-scallion-pancakes/).

My quest for low-fat, low-carb recipes goes on....

I whipped up some green and gold chocolate zucchini bread for the big game. Even though the Packers aren't playing, this Green Bay girl still has to make something Packer-themed for our guests. I'm also serving pheasant nuggets, ham and potato chowder, and crusty artisan bread. Let the GAME begin!!!

Made some taza chocolate chili - was yummy!