Chicken & Golden Rice (p24 Food & Wine August 2012)
This turned out really well. Nice flavor of the rice, nice flavor of the chicken shredded on top, it just worked and was relatively simple. I plan to use the rice again to stuff some peppers.
Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap (p19 Food & Wine August 2012)
We didn't really have any lettuce to wrap around, we can pile it on arugula (very good arugula), but after watching ISU suck less the Iowa (a Win is a Win), I didn't really feel that it was fitting for the meal. So this turned into pork burgers. Shannon went off and picked up some dip things and we ate.
Smoky Beef Fajitas
These were messy, but tasted good. I twas worth the effort, though it wasn't that smokey.
Chicken with Peach-Jalapeño Salsa
Made a chicken sandwich instead. Yeah Yeah, I just didn't feel like it. I served the sandwich with some of Larry's cantaloupe.
Quick Skillet Mac and Cheese
Modified this a bit, and ended up making the topping a combination of bread crumbs and parmesan. I'm not sure what the ratio was (I used quite a bit of parmesan and whatever I had left in the freezer of bread crumbs). But it worked, The crust almost broke and had this magical taste to it. It could be that I was using the 24 mo Parmesan, or it could be that it was a combination of that and the bread, but whatever the crust was amazing.
