I've been dying to craft some homemade egg rolls!

We're having friends over for dinner tonight, and it's a festival of Julia Child - poulet en cocotte bonne femme (chicken browned in butter and bacon, then roasted with the bacon, potatoes and onions), and her Lemon and Almond tart. Rounded out with a nice green salad and some wine, it should be a lovely evening.

Watching the big storm in New England with hot chocolate and frangelico. Later a big pot of pasta with turkey sausage and mâché, tangelo salad.

I'd cook something if I could be sure that I wouldn't lose power when it was half-finished! My house has a well, so when we lose power, we lose water as well; I'm worried that I would be left with a pile of dirty dishes and no way to wash them, or a half-baked pie!

We're up to our eyeballs in snow so this weekend will include:
Mushroom Frittata Hash-brown Sandwich
Whole Grain Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes
Triple Chocolate Pancakes

Pazcki! I'm off to buy some 151-proof booze (the recipe requires it so who am I to argue?). I'm using the recipe from Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland, and hopefully they turn out well!

I'm trying to find a good, reliable recipe for prune filling though and Google is failing me.

MMMmmm... Triple chocolate pancakes!!!

Fragrant beef curry, brown rice and sautéed kale. Happy Friday!

blueberry lemon baked oatmeal.

gonna try and attempt to make oriental's super rings >:)

Today: 2 loaves of anadama bread, chilled dough rising overnight for 2 loaves of wheat-white sandwich bread, black bean soup (to be topped with avocado, cheddar, and sour cream), a roasted butternut squash galette w/ caramelized onion & garlic (pulled from the freezer), a side of lemony broccoli, and an almond cake.

Tomorrow: the frozen pizza that The Fella brought home tonight because he didn't know if we had any food in the house! It is kinda amazing what one can make from the pantry.

Thanksgiving Redux in February - turkey, stuffing, taters and gravy....

I've been craving chocolate sheet cake. And maybe some nachos made with Doritos. We're North of Boston, so, I want comfort food and lots of it.

For once, it's chilly enough in Los Angeles to crank my apartment oven up to 500 for a couple hours and finally try Peter Reinhart's Best Pizza Dough Ever. The mise en place of toppings are good enough to eat alone... Prosciutto, the kitchn's fresh tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, basil chiffonade, goat cheese, heirloom tomatoes, garlicky kale, hot italian sausage, oooh. Good thing friends are on their way to prevent me from eating all five pizzas.

Made a lasagna, a pan of chocolate chip bars (I hate making cookies) and prepped an apple crisp to take to my brother & sister in laws for dinner tomorrow night with a salad and bread since they just had a baby. Will probably make some banana bread on Sunday and some veggie quesadillas since the hubby is working. Stay safe East Coasters!

We're having a Valentine's dinner party tomorrow night so I've been cooking up a storm. Braised beef short ribs with swiss chard, hearty rustic rolls and tapenade for the polenta hearts (appetizer). My husband made his grandma's beef broth soup and the dough for noodles tonight. Tomorrow I'll prep the arugula salad with figs and proscuitto and bake the Barefoot Contessa's chocolate cassis cake.

I planned on making Smitten Kitchen's intense chocolate sables as little gifts/goodies for my guests, but I wasn't crazy with how they turned out so I also made a batch of Martha Stewart's peanut butter and jam heart cookies....so much cuter and much less fussy than that sable dough!

it's a standard baking weekend for me, resupplying my granola and banana bread that I take to lunch every day.

Dinner Club this weekend. Fried Oysters and classic shrimp cocktail to start. Then a shaved yellow beet and jicama salad. Then mustard greens and kale gratin, beef tenderloin with horseradish cream and popovers. Finish with a cranberry curd meringue tart. Then everyone can shovel our driveway to work off the calorie load. ; )

We are staring out a two feet of snow this morning! I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast and am planning chorizo empanadas for lunch and Asian-style ribs tonight.

Digging our way out of snow here! I've got six boys on our backyard rink so I"m about to make some Roasted Vegetable Hemp Seed Lasagne for lunch http://kaleeats.blogspot.ca/2013/02/roasted-vegetable-hemp-seed-lasagne.html And later on I hope to make these Banana Oatmeal cookies Sweetened with Dates(http://kaleeats.blogspot.ca/2013/02/banana-date-oatmeal-cookies.html)
I figure if I nourish those little bodies they will stay out and enjoy the winter sun all day long.
I also hope to get a pot of Caldo Verde soup on the go to have for weekday lunches this week.

Last night was clear the refrigerator and freezer vegetable soup--in case we lost power. This morning was blueberry muffins made from a bag of leftover blueberries in the freezer--in case we lose power. Tonight we will have hot dogs and canned beans--in case we lose power.

I have been cooking a lot this weekend! I made crock pot chicken cacciatore and lemon squares yesterday; this morning I made banana-chocolate chip pancakes and tonight is an asparagus risotto. The best part: everything I've made has been weight watchers approved! :)

Can I just say this party sounds amazing? Have fun!

Two types of Jiaozi for Chinese new year.

Digging out here, too!

Last night, lemon-thyme turkey burgers, sautéed zucchini & roasted kabocha squash.

Tonight, herbs de Provence beef shank stew.

Snowed in - going out plans for the weekend canceled! Stocked up at the store yesterday though, and the power is fine. I made oatmeal butterscotch bars and a loaf of bread yesterday, dinners this weekend will be pizza one day and black bean tostadas with sweet potato and cabbage slaw on the other, and maybe we'll have huevos rancheros or pumpkin cinnamon rolls for brunch tomorrow.

I made this recipe from here today and it was great! http://feeds.thekitchn.com/~r/apartmenttherapy/thekitchn/~3/pZ9rPkaFaE4/recipe-hoppin-john-risotto-with-collard-pesto-recipes-from-the-kitchn-182045