Happy weekend everyone! What's cooking this weekend? We're finishing up an editorial retreat and planning session with The Kitchn's editors (we're all so excited to share some new things with you this year!) and we're about to head out for cocktails and pizza. What about you? Do you have big kitchen plans? A healthy winter meal for the weekend? Tell us — we'd love to hear all about it.
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roasted carrot soup featured on food52 and no-knead bread (using my new dutch oven)
Tonight's dinner consisted of roasted Jerusalem artichoke & chestnut soup; pan-fried plaice with chervil, slow-roast fennel, chicory, shallots, baby carrots & tomatoes; and blood orange & bay leaf jelly. Winter grub rules!
Having some friends over for dinner tomorrow, we'll be serving Smitten Kitchen's "ethereally smooth hummus" she just posted this week, kale salad from the SK cookbook, and Dorie Greenspan's chicken tagine with sweet potatoes and prunes. Oh, and sticky toffee pudding for dessert!
Trying to go meatless on Fridays, so made my super easy cioppino with mahi mahi.
http://wp.me/p1G3Z4-1Ke
My boyfriends loves it! Tomorrow is chocolate pudding cakes!
I'm thinking of Ottolenghi's Sweet Potato Wedges with Lemongrass Creme Fraiche although finding creme fraiche in this small town willl be tough. http://thefoodarchive.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/ottolenghis-sweet-potato-wedges-with-lemongrass-creme-fraiche/
Husband is out of town this weekend. Homemade Applesauce and a Pear & Apple Crisp. Inspired to clean out my pantry, cupboards and freezers this weekend. Maybe some sort of Veggie Quesadilla for dinner on Sunday.
Making the Simple Cinnamon Lamb Stew recipe from the Kitchn, carrots with cumin, cilantro and yogurt, and some sort of winter citrus/pomegranate salad to start.
I found a great price on boneless pork shoulder roast. I've wanted to try this recipe for a long time, so Sunday it is
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pork-Roast-Braised-with-Milk-and-Fresh-Herbs-em-Maiale-al-Latte-Em-242034
Also need to make banana bread. I also might try to make some soup and freeze it for lunches this week
I just made the Chicken Pot Pie and finally thawing out the whole chicken to make the Viking Chicken. Thanks!
Just got a Vitamix, so I'm going to be using a lot of my root veggies from my CSA to make some pureed soup. I'm thinking definitely acorn squash, but I also have a lot of kohlrabi. Might try and find a good recipe for kolhrabi soup.
No-knead wheat bread is rising, I'm probably making cabbage lime soup to go with it, since I have to use up the ingredients, but I also have other stuff to use, so it could be kale salad and roasted root vegetables for dinner instead. Tomorrow, I'll start more bread, and I'd like to make either bolognese sauce or Smitten Kitchen's artichoke stuffed shells - if I am through the queue of stuff I bought too much of last week!
I have had a horrible cold this week, so, tomorrow, I'll make up for lost time. Making two different soups, a broccoli/veggie soup, and a chicken soup with little shells for me. I need to either make banana bread or muffins with all the bananas I have in the freezer. I'm also making the club roll from plain chicken for game day snacks. Hopefully the Patriots will lay the smack down on the Texans!
Saturday night we had friends over for a make-your-own pizza party, so I spent time on Saturday making dough and sauce and preparing toppings. Tonight I'm making enchiladas from all the leftover veg and sauce, and the healthy cookies from 101 Cookbooks. I'll also make a pot of beans.
I made Emeril's Chicken Cacciatore on Saturday, with bread pudding for dessert. Today is a clean out the fridge day.
Friday night was home made pizza night, and we enjoyed a little goat cheese on the pizza. Saturday was the curried cauliflower (aloo gobi?) and rice, and this morning I made a simple blueberry coffee cake with yogurt in the batter and a not too heavy crumble made of chopped almonds, brown sugar, flour, and melted butter. We have leftover avgolemono and onion soup in the fridge, so we need to disappear these very soon.
Big pot of beef stew
Friday, we had spinach and avocado quesadillas, black bean soup, and roasted sweet potatoes. Saturday, The Fella surprised me with takeout: a gyro packed with spinach and onion for me, a veggie burrito for him, and sweet potato fries. Sunday, a friend is coming for dinner (and to watch the Golden Globes), but I pulled a shoulder muscle, so I'm making the easiest dinner possible: grilled cheese sandwiches, canned tomato soup (jazzed up with sherry and a pinch of curry), and --- wait for it --- sweet potato oven fries. And she's bringing dessert!