Grilled lamb chops tonight with green beans and red potatoes sauteed in duck fat along the side. Tomorrow is zuni-styleroast chickem and a kale salad; and Sunday will be grilled halibut. I know the week was all about brunch and some of the posts from this week have me itching to try some stacked breakfast enchiladas along with the peanut butter bread pudding that was posted last year (which I never did make back then ) but sounds just as good now as it originally did. I'm getting hungry already!

Tomorrow I'm making roasted butternut squash and apple soup with chicken sausage.

Key lime bars! Spring is gonna HAVE to arrive with those.

i've been dreaming of trying out Monkey Bread tomorrow morning, then they'll be pot of chicken soup simmer throughout the day and I'm baking up Caramel Apple Tarts, Chocolate Caramel Tarts and Butter Tarts for my blog. I guess it's a good weekend for tarts.

once we dig out from all this snow, thinking of heading to the store to get the ingredients for Kat Treat's recipe for Chicken Tikka Masala http://myuntangledlife.com/slow-cooker-chicken-tikka-masala/

We plan on making some Sweet Potato Salad Wraps for the drive to the airport! http://kaleeats.blogspot.ca/2013/03/sweet-potato-salad-wrap.html And packing a few nut and seed biscotti for the plane trip to Arizona. http://kaleeats.blogspot.ca/2013/01/nut-and-seed-biscotti.html (thanks 101 cookbooks for the inspiration). Once we land in the sunny south I hope to find a bunch of ingredients in a local shop to cook up some Southwest inspired cuisine.

We hope to make our most epic, flavorful chili yet. Also on the menu: A giant bowl of Cinnamon Life cereal and whole milk. Or those Quaker Oat Squares. Or some Cracklin' Oat Bran. Tough choices, since I don't eat cereal, ever. But I love it. Which is why it's not in the house. But I was in two car accidents this week, so caution is being hurled to the wind.

Finally going to get some baking done this weekend since I'm going to be snowed in. Maybe some roasted vegetable soup and some herbed foccacia.

Having a tamale making party for my birthday. Making the fillings tonight-and tomorrow is the party of assembly! Looking toward to lots of food and drink!

Chicken tacos, roasted vegetable salad with goat cheese, Going out for wood-fired pizza tomorrow for lunch. Bonus: they have a kale Ceasar salad with hazelnuts. Divine.

Whipping up a batch of my mom's fantastic spaghetti sauce: http://foodforthoughtlinds.blogspot.ca/2013/01/moms-spaghetti-sauce-with-veggies-for.html And I'm hoping to find time to also try this delicious looking crock pot sesame honey chicken: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2013/02/crock-pot-sesame-honey-chicken.html

Tonight was bison burgers, Moroccan-spiced sweet potato fries, broccolini and frozen banana pie with a chocolate-walnut crust.

Tomorrow: Thai chicken curry soup and whatever greens I pick up at the farm. Also making vanilla bean white chocolate.

Sunday: slow cooking an 8 lb pork shoulder I have thawing in the fridge. Pulled pork, potato-rutabaga mash and more greens.

Wet snow, and no, there's nada at the market for at least a month. So, French onion soup! Got to get some sherry though.

Will also make a butternut squash soup for the FOS-averse little one, a drunken pasta with roasted vegetables, and a ridiculously health-foody oatmeal-nut-dried-fruit bar for lunch boxes.

I need to resupply my banana bread stash. I think I'll also be making some soups on Sunday. Just need to decide which ones before I go grocery shopping tomorrow.

Soccer, ballet, gymnastics, and cooking. About 4 hours of sleep and almost 600 calories when the weekend is over. Being a mother is super healthy.

Lawn mowing season has hit here, so I'm brewing some homemade ginger ale in anticipation of allergy season!

Hunter's Minestrone Soup http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/hunters-minestrone-recipe/index.html

Too much social life this weekend to do the cooking I need and want to do.

I froze soup from last weekend's cook-fest for lunches this week, so I have that covered.

Last weekend I made a wonderful traditional lasagna -- hadn't made it in years. It was delicious and lasted all week. Way too much cheese for normal life, but so good.

Sounds yummy!

Been craving seafood...making fried calamari and steamed mussels tonight for dinner. I'm also making almond flour coconut blueberry waffles for brunch on Sunday!!!

Tonight will probably be bread, cheese and kale salad, but I'm buying a slow cooker today so tomorrow will probably be something a little more exciting!

Nothing. This is an eat-leftovers-and-fend-for-yourself sort of weekend. Might even last a little longer if the crew doesn't pitch in and help. ;-)

What ARE northeasterners making (thinking vegetables) in this dead-zone of tired winter veggies and no fresh local stuff yet? This is the worst time of year. The locavores are eating turnips and apples. Which aren't bad mind you, but AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHH!

I would love to see a ramp.

Pineapple chutney

Once again, I'm trying to use up all the little scrids and scrads of leftovers and nearly-empty packets in the freezer.

Vegetarian fried rice deliciously used up all the leftovers from The Fella's mid-week taco dinner, plus the tail-ends of bagged frozen peas and broccoli. While I rummaged around in the freezer, I found a little bit of pastry dough, so tonight we're having mini-quiches (which will also nicely use up some spinach and mushrooms) and sweet potato home fries.

I also tossed together a simple almond-blueberry cake: essentially this recipe without the upside-down fruit base. Instead, I added blueberries to the batter and topped it with slivered almonds and spoonful of sugar for crunch.

We foraged for nettles last Sunday, and I made a nettles beer that is bubbling away right now. I'm thinking it will be ready for bottling tomorrow afternoon-- really fun!

Here's the account of foraging for stinging nettles, and I'll write about the beer-making soon: http://and-here-we-are.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/foraging-for-nettles-its-fun.html

Finally saved up enough for my first piece of Le Creuset (a red 2.25 qt braiser that I've been eyeing in a local shop for many months, the perfect size for my teeny kitchen). Being careful & cautious with it while I learn how to use it. Made a grilled cheese sandwich, sauteed some onions & mushrooms, and roasted some cauliflower in it already. Planning some baked hash browns for brunch tomorrow.

I ended up making Tator Tot Hotdish. My MN roots are showing. Yummy and comforting!

I ended up making Tator Tot Hotdish. My MN roots are showing. Yummy and comforting!

I ended up making Tator Tot Hotdish. My MN roots are showing. Yummy and comforting!

Tonight made pasta with meat sauce. Tomorrow lunch will be roast guinea fowl, puréed potatoes, roast zucchini and mushrooms, and perhaps lemon cake for dessert.

Your three day menu sounds delicious !

Eating up leftover slow cooked beef cheek, and making side and dessert for Mother's Day lunch (nobody panic... UK version!)

Inspired by Italian oranges at the greengrocer's, have done caramel-blood orange upside down cake. It was a little involved for my baking aversion, but it looks beautiful. Eating the caramelly bits from skillet not too much of a chore, either ;)

I'm just about to run in the kitchen to start cooking...making lemon chocolate biscotti, almond butter and chocolate Larabars and asparagus risotto! I might be able to fit something else in there! ;-)

Made scratch chicken soup with veg last night for a very sick friend. Leftover roast pork turned barbecue sandwiches for us for dinner. Chicken soup again tonight. Chili and cod hash in the fridge that need eating/repurposing. Going to try to find time to bake today or tomorrow (my "weekends" are Sundays and Mondays, usually).

Started reading "Blood, Butter, Bones" and getting some inspiration to cook again. Ate the most fantastic brunch ever today at a restaurant.A riff on eggs benedict with english muffins, bacon, caramelized onions, pulled chicken, poached eggs, and a cheese sauce. Divine. Made me remember how much I love caramelized onions.

I made blueberry pancakes using a King Arthur recipe for dinner Thursday night, and made enough batter to have pancakes again this morning, which rocked. I considered baking the batter in muffin tins (inspired by a Kitchn article from this week), but chickened out (and I already had a greasy bacony pan waiting for the 'cakes).

Now, it's a little rainy outside and I'm simmering red beans with some more bacon, white wine, herbs and onion that I will pour over brown rice when it becomes saucy.

We've been making sushi since Friday night...ahi, salmon, ahi with pineapple...such a sexy weekend!!

It's still very much winter around here, and at our last winter farmer's market of the year, I bought a bunch of swiss chard (the greenest thing I could find). To put it to good use, I made a quiche with a little pancetta and pecorino romano cheese thrown in for good measure. I also made my mom's chicken enchilada soup recipe (the recipe involves mostly canned items and is straight up East Texas goodness).

http://atexasbelle.blogspot.com/2013/03/swiss-chard-pancetta-quiche.html

I made chili with a bunch of dried cayenne peppers I got at the Chicago Food Swap this past fall--it was my best one yet! Buttermilk cornbread to go with it. Also stocked the freezer with one pan of lamb & eggplant lasagna, two pans of mac & cheese, KAF European-style Hard Rolls, bagels, and rye bread, and topped it off with blueberry buttermilk cake (from the blackberry buttermilk cake recipe from Fine Cooking).