Whew. Just finished cleaning up after dinner tonight. Of course, on Thursdays, cleaning up after dinner turns into changing the cat litter, which turns into doing laundry...and pretty soon I feel like I'm going to drop. "Workout" just about covers it.
This week was truncated a bit, because Mum made spaghetti on Sunday night, and there was a ton left over. She makes a great vegetable spaghetti with fake beef...I'd like to try it at some point.
Night #3: Tuesday, March 16. Cheese (for the veg-people) and chicken (for the carnivores) quesadillas, and a hot salad. Quesadillas are from Dad's recipe...just a flour tortilla with a layer of shredded "Mexican" cheese blend, with a layer of diced bell peppers and onions and minced jalapenos, a sprinkling of chicken breast (I buy Oscar Meyer's Southwestern chicken strips, because I am NOT going to the trouble of making the chicken, too), some seasoning, and another layer of cheese. I tried jalapenos for the first time the last time I made them...they're not as hot as I thought they would be, and they add flavor. The hot salad is just broccoli, cauliflower, red and green bell peppers, carrots, and zucchini, steamed in a big pot with seasoning, and with a little dressing mixed in at the end. Pretty good, if you like vegetables. : )
Night #4: Wednesday, March 17. Colcannon (mashed potatoes with cabbage and leeks) and baked trout with a spinach-butter sauce. Well, it was supposed to be a spinach-butter sauce...it was more of a realllly buttery creamed spinach. The recipe called for reducing 2/3 cup heavy cream down to 3 tablespoons...and I am just not that patient. So, I got it reduced down quite a bit...then added more cream. Whatever...it tasted fine. The colcannon turned out ok...I don't like the recipe I used, or maybe I just didn't use the right proportions of everything. The recipe calls for boiling 5 tablespoons of milk, and then cooking potatoes in that for 20 minutes...how do you boil 5 tablespoons of milk without automatically scalding it? That's weird. So, I think I'll use a different recipe next time. The fish was pretty good...I think I needed to clean it a little better, though. Also, coarse salt and fresh ground pepper would have been better than the refined stuff I used. Those I cooked in a foil packet in the oven with butter and fennel. It did remind me how much I don't like cooking anything that was once alive and walking or swimming or flying around. Bleh.
Night #5: Thursday, March 18. Caprese salad with pesto pasta and steamed broccoli. Everything was laughably easy in this dish except for the pesto. This was my first time making my own pesto...I think it tasted alright, but I didn't really follow the instructions, and it might have been better if I'd done so. I also think that it would be better with a different blade in my Magic Bullet, which is what I used to blend everything. It ended up being a pureed sort of paste...which may be right, I don't know. Anyway, they liked it. All it had in it was basil, olive oil, walnuts, garlic, and parmesan cheese. My favorite was the caprese...I chopped up basil in long strips, and sprinkled it on thick slices of tomatoes and mozzarella cheese with just a bit of salt and pepper on them. Cheeeeeese goooooood.
Ok, that's my week. I'm sitting on the couch currently, in rebellion against movement. Next week will be a full cooking week, hopefully. : ) G'night!
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