Bison Joes
We got home very late on Sunday, I didn't have time to menu plan, so I did that Monday after work. The fridge was mostly bare, and the cupboards lean, and tried my best to throw this together. This was basically a combination of a bunch of things that I had in the kitchen already. Some Ketchup, mustard, BBQ sauce, a bit of tomato paste. Yeah it was a "I thought I had X, but I don't" moment. It still turned out ok, though I wish I would've had some of the things that I thought I did, like onions, or tomatoes...
Chicken Pot Pie with Savory Crumble Topping (p15 September/October 2010 Cook's Illustrated)
I made this for movie night. Though it did make me feel a bit guilty. Being that one guest is vegetarian and one is gluten intolerant. But it looked so good, and relatively easy to prepare. So there I went. I think it turned out really well. I nice sauce, nice topping and a good flavor. I left work later then I wanted to, and so by the time I got home, I basically started cooking and getting things ready to go. The timing worked out pretty well, being that it was finished just a little bit late for dinner service at 7:PM, though not too late. Certainly worth making agin.
Eggs prepared some way with bacon
Asked Shannon how she wanted her eggs, she said scrambled, so there I went. There have been times where the texture just isn't right when I make them, but I am growing more patient with my scrambled eggs (breaking long traditions of myself making it as fast as possible) and it turns out much better. I was very happy with how this turned out. I fried up some bacon, and saved the fat for:
Chili
The last time I made chili (my own recipe), I wasn't totally happy with how it turned out (not enough of the chili flavor came through), however, this time was much better. I started on Friday (took the day off to spend with the wife to celebrate our 4th anniversary) with prepping a lot of veggies, but then started cooking on Saturday morning. This included cooking down the onions for 1-1.5 hours until they were nearly all broken down. Going on from there. I'm pretty happy, but I think it needs some more refinement before I'm totally happy with it. The chili was deeply colored, and well, apparently I didn't take a final cooked picture of it. There are lots of leftovers. For game night, Holly brought a Veggie-Chili (pretty good) and Jimmy brought a venison, pork and beef chili (bright flavors). So we had lots of chili to feed people.