Happy weekend everyone! What are your cooking plans this weekend? Eggs on the menu? I've been playing around with fluffy egg nests, and plotting a spinach and chicken sausage casserole for weekend brunch. What about you? We hope there's something happy and good cooking in your kitchen this weekend!
→ Pictured above: Egg Nests at Simply Recipes
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I'm making the Weekend Apple Pancake you featured in your "15 Sweet and Savory Apple Recipe post." We haven't made Dutch Pancakes in a while and I'm really excited.
I grilled up some chicken thighs... http://lifewithlampnsofa.com/2012/09/06/grilled-maple-mustard-chicken-thighs/
and tomorrow to go with all your egg posts I'm doing baked potatoes stuffed with roasted veggies...
Definitely a couple egg dishes in the mix. This has been such a fun week. Tonight is eggs baked in portobella mushrooms. Also have sweet potato hash browns on the weekend menu and perhaps an egg-cellent breakfast casserole for Sunday bruch if I can narrow my choices down to just one. Tommorrow evening is cajun steaks and roasted sweet potatoes hot off the grill. Headed to the kitchen now (and btw, those egg nests look fun, too - adding them to my !ist). Eggstatic here...love me some eggs!
I'm going to give Baked Eggs en Cocotte a try. Your post from earlier this week has got me excited to put my neglected ramekins back into service. I will also cook something large that will serve as leftovers for lunches and dinners this week. Haven't figured that out yet.
tonight: grilled potato sacks, skirt steak, green beans, bruschetta and salad
tomorrow: peach pie, cookies and some sort of easy one pot dinner to bring to friends who just bought a house
sunday: frittatas, bacon and mimosas for homemade brunch!
I'm doing a classic lazagne for a friends anniversary party. Also I'm so glad egg week is over. I would love to love eggs but I hate them. So sad.
quinoa chickpea salad: http://foodforthoughtlinds.blogspot.ca/2009/09/tabouleh-salad.html with some of that avocado ice cream that you recently posted for dessert :)
Tomorrow is a work day for everyone in my household, so there won't be much cooking happening then, but on Sunday I'm heading over to a good friend's place so that we can roast peppers (over an actual fire!) to pickle and can. And I'm planning to bring pizza dough with me...
And I might also make something eggy for brunch, I suppose. ;)
The fam has requested heavy rotation of their favorites and no trying weird stuff from thekitchn. Crazy fam: they demand vegan gumbo, which I heard about on thekitchn. Vegan gumbo they shall have. On the egg front: a Spanish tortilla. Oatmeal-craisin cookies for next week's lunchboxes. Pear muffins were also demanded (and originally found here). Broccoli will be roasted. Yelllow squash will be sauteed and poured over pasta. No R&D.
Ratatouille. It's that time of year, the kitchen is full of onions, garlic, eggplant, tomatoes and peppers.
Ratatouille. Ugh. Made it for the first time actually a few wks ago & dh is requesting it again. He wiped out the whole batch all by himself in a few days. Glad I wasn't served it as a guest somewhere because it was the nastiest thing I have ever attempted to eat. Couldn' do it. All I can figure is that it was the combination of herbs that turned my stomach because I enjoy all the ingredients otherwise. I'm not a picky eater so was surprised & very disappointed because I expected to love it :(
Been eating out all weekend... spending some time at home today prepping for the week. A big pot of potato corn chowder, a big salad, putting some chicken thighs in the slow cooker for Mondays dinner and to have as lunches during the week, and maybe some cookies too. Tonights dinner is steaks and veggies on the grill... gotta use it while we still can!
Spent Saturday learning how to do cyclocross, so no cooking. Today I'll be trying out the new cuisinart by making pie crust. I've completely failed at this in the past when doing it by hand, so here's hoping! The husband is making meatballs using sausage meat as the base and it smells delicious. For this week's lunches, salmon in mustard vinaigrette and some sort of quinoa salad thingie.
I'm so glad that here in NYC, we're getting some less humid, less hot weather. Makes it easier to cook and enjoy it.
For a football snack, I made The Kitchn's Roasted Jalapeno Lime Hummus, which was DELICIOUS. I decided to tiptoe into accepting that Fall is on our doorstep (in Boston anyway), and I made tomato sauce and meatballs over spaghetti squash one night and roasted cauliflower and garlic soup another night.
Cmcinnyc, how was that Vegan gumbo?? I'd LOVE to check out that recipe -- I'm predicting lots of grains and okra, perhaps? Already hungry ...
I actually made my first frittata this weekend, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow's lovely "My Father's Daughter" book. I added her slow-roasted tomatoes, lots of fresh basil, and some lovely mozzarella and parmesan cheeses. Even my would-be-a-carnivore-if-he-could-get-away-with-it boyfriend loved it!