Happy weekend, folks! What's cooking in your kitchen this weekend? Anything delicious you want to tell us about? I personally am still bonding with my brand-new wok, heating it up for some chicken and vegetable stir-fries, and getting acquainted with this lovely way of cooking. What about you? Are you stir-frying? Grilling? Enjoying some ice cream? Tell us — what's cooking?

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Mostly I'm using up things in my CSA, so sweet potato bread, a swiss chard pasta, and, well, I've got a whole lot of bananas to eat...
I'm having leftover red wine spaghetti with broccoli rabe and maybe making some more orecchiette with sausage and broccoli rabe to use up the rest of the broccoli rabe. I also have a craving for strawberry rhubarb, so I may make some of these mini strawberry rhubarb pies.
Tomorrow is fried fish with tangy potato salad. Yesterday (technically Thursday, so not the weekend) I made two homemade pizzas - one pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and red bell peppers, the other a "heartburn free" pizza (for a friend who can't eat tomatoes, onions, garlic, zucchini, or anything spicy) - just crust, mozzarella cheese, mushrooms sauteed with diced pancetta until golden brown, and fresh sugar snap peas. They were both amazingly delicious.
Blueberry clafoutis is on the docket, but I may end up just eating the blueberries with a little sugar and heavy cream!
We'll be cooling off with some Vanilla Milkshakes (no sugar, sweetened only with dates!). Super yummy and guilt-free!
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Meatballs&Milkshakes, your red wine pasta recipe looks amazing! If I don't make it this weekend, I'll be making it soon, that's for sure.
It was our first week of CSA deliveries for the season, and I am so happy! Strawberry rhubarb pie, arugula and baby turnip salad, braised bok choi, and probably some green smoothies with the huge bunch of kale I got. I love spring!
@mkgold, sounds like an awesome CSA haul! Not very seasonally appropriate, but I feel like chili so that's going on Sunday's menu--probably with a chuck roast and some non-sweet cornbread.
Tomorrow I have to bring a side dish to the first of many graduation parties!! My partner and I are both finishing our Masters programs, and we have five parties to go to in the next three weeks! Anyway, I'll probably make a new potato salad with salsa verde, my current obsession since the potatoes are so delicious right now.
Enjoying all the wonderful fresh veg at the market - asparagus still going strong in NYC, pea shoots, new season garlic and garlic chives, blossoms of leafy greens, sorrel etc. - paired with some nice halibut and a delicious Umbrian Bianco
I need to replenish my week day breakfast banana bread. So I'll be baking 2 loaves of that. Then I slice it, and freeze the wrapped slices. Then I grab a piece of it each morning and put it in my brunch bag.
I promised my son I'd make him some poppy seed lemon cake
Also thinking of making a recipe I saw for no roll cabbage rolls made in a pressure cooker.
I finally buckled and bought Ottolenghi's amazing Plenty cookbook and have bookmarked basically everything in it! We're hosting 8 for dinner tomorrow, so I'm just going for it and picking a bunch of recipes for a 'middle eastern smorgasbord'. Never cooked any of them before, so fingers crossed that it's not a fine mess.
I just made braised leeks, with a poached egg apiece, some baby arugula, and a mustardy vinaigrette with pickled red onions - it was so very, very delicious, and perfect for an unexpectedly cold spring day. If I can find rhubarb at the farmer's market tomorrow, I'm also pretty tempted to make Deb's recently posted snacking cake, too. Or rhubarb curd - but then I'll need to make something to eat it with!
I've also got plans for some fried tofu with lemongrass and chiles, and I'll use up some leftover basmati rice in this pilaf, with a bit of paneer cooked with the vegetables.
hoping to wake up early enough tomorrow morning to catch some good stuff at the farmer's market, but i'm really not a morning person. i might just end up grabbing prepared food to eat on the spot instead of buying produce to cook at home. i've had a hankering for french yogurt cake and finally obtained some lemons to use so that might be on the menu for this weekend.
I'm trying my first batch of homemade ice cream (without a machine) thanks to your ice cream posts. And baking some dacquoise to go with it. If the sun comes out, there'll be some grilling in our future this weekend too.
I made a savory asparagus and herb bread pudding for dinner last night and a batch of breakfast bars to take on this morning's hike. I haven't thought further than that.
I harvested my first full batch of alpine strawberries for the season so they'll be used to top a tart later today. I've also harvested my first full batches of Spring potatoes and green beans this season so I'll be making a potato, green bean, hazelnut salad with a mustard vinaigrette. And the foggy tomatoes (Early Girl and Stupice are the best varieties for fog) have ripened so maybe a tomato sandwich with some heirloom arugula (I've been growing the same arugula plant for over a decade, it's been transplanted from house to house with me, it never dies).
I'm trying to use up my CSA veg, too, so I made strawberry-rhubarb crumble, cole slaw, and baked egg rolls yesterday (8 cups of cabbage!) Leftovers for lunch today, then we're going out to dinner. Tomorrow, I think I'm going to make pork roast for Cuban sandwiches--can't wait!
It got chilly here in New England. I've made an onion & potato frittata. But my plan is to kick off the summer at our local Greek food fest--I look forward to these dishes all year, especially the pastitsio and the loukamades (this is "what's eating" not "what's cooking).
Cold and rainy here, so I think I'll warm up by baking some blueberry-almond muffins. Dinner will be something easy, maybe a tomato salad topped with (storebought) falafel and roasted red pepper.
Tomorrow will be bread-baking day; I haven't decided whether to make oatmeal or a plain white/wheat loaf.
Carnitas with mango-jalapeno salsa last night. Spanikopita today.
On friday we had oven-baked chicken and potaoes with mixed green salad, yesterday the kids requested pasta for dinner (with creamed zucchini sauce+parmiggiano) and for lunch we had a salad bar with leftover cold chicken and herb pesto.
Today the kids asked us to dig out the grill but unfortunately it rained so I cooked the lamb sausages on the stove top and we had them with quesadillas, mixed green salad, crudité for the boys and lentils+beets for me.
Just got back from the farmer's market so that means veggie egg scramble for breakfast with sun-dried tomato toast, strawberries, and coffee. There is a large pot of mint green tea cooling on the stove. Dinner will be leftover stip steak over arugula with a cilantro vinaigrette followed by strawberry rhubarb crisp! I love this time of year!
I'm going to be working 7 (10 hour) days in a row (!), with the husband gone for the last 3. So, I'm trying to plan very easy, healthful meals that can be for just me. I'll probably do some sort of fritatta one night, and a salad topped with salmon another night. Does anyone have any other ideas?