What was the last meal you cooked?

Breakfast this morning was 3 Applegate chicken maple sausages (they're small and the three end up being a combined 110 calories), three slices of toasted leftover challah (more on that later) with a tbsp of lingonberry jam between them, a grapefruit, and some peppermint tea with very local honey from my friend's bees.

Thursday night was apparently procrastinating via baking night.




The challah made with honey instead of white sugar (for taste, not for some sort of unsubstantiated health claim), which made for a very wet dough and thus some sloppier than usual brading (I did a 4 strand braid). Everyone liked it though and the adults I do Shabbat with could taste the honey (the children, not so much). The other two are made from Bake From Scratch's Do it All Dough. The first are rolls brushed with garlic butter before being baked and the second is a cinnamon braid that is less cinnamon roll and more dough with a hint of sugar and cinnamon. I used half of the dough for the rolls and the other half for the cinnamon thing.

panzanella salad and omlette with sausages

Baked pork chop (I think I put a few too many spices on it!), cheesy mashed potatoes and mixed veggies.

aokoye wrote: »

acpgee wrote: »

Pumpkin gnocchi a total failure so far. That stuff when microwaved and pureed is very watery. I have already incorporated all the flour in the house and it is still to wet to handle like dough. Dumped all the gloop in a huge tupperware box in the fridge to deal with tomorrow, because tonight's dinner guests are arriving soon.

For next time, I typically have very good luck making pumpkin puree by roasting the pumpkin. It is far less watery that way.

Try using butternut squash. Pumpkin you buy is not the same pumpkin that they use in the cans. The canned stuff is pie pumpkin and the same color as butternut squash.

snowflake954 wrote: »

Pasta al forno--Pasta baked in the oven. This was a dish my mother-in-law always made. You need a large tubular pasta that needs 12 min or more to cook.

Make a simple tomato sauce with EVOO, garlic, tomatoes, salt (I make my sauce a little saltier than usual for this dish and frequently add broth crystals) and fresh basil.
Boil the pasta about half the time on the package, drain, put back in kettle (without the water)and add 1/3 of the sauce and stir delicately.
Take your baking pan (I use glass or ceramic) and pour in 1/3 of the tomato sauce, add 1/2 of the pasta, spread some chopped or grated fresh mozzarella cheese on top, add the other half of the pasta on top, sprinkle with freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, then add the other third of the tomato sauce over that.
Bake on high until crunchy looking--my youngest son wants it black on the edges.

If your family fights over the crispy corners you can also do these in large metal muffin tins. Lots of crispy corners.

Whole wheat waffles for dinner, because it's all I could really stomach (I hate being sick). Used this recipe from King Arthur Flour and I would highly recommend it. So tasty.

Ginger Chicken Congee cooking now in Slow Cooker.

Hubby is the weekday cook but he warmed up some cola chicken from the freezer that I made a couple of weekends ago. I did the Indonesian tomato salad and the Japanese cucumber salad using dressings that we make in batches to keep in the fridge. Rice was made in the rice cooker. So this was more or less a frozen ready meal.

grilled cheese toast and tuna salad with pomegranate dressing

Not sure how to describe this, a sort of fajita style dish I think.

Chicken strips, marinated in honey, soy sauce, lime juice, chili, cumin, paprika and olive oil, with bell peppers, sweet potato and carrots cooked in the same marinade.