Chicken with Mustard-Fennel Crust

With the second time around I guess I should admit that I halved the amount of chicken, but kept the same amount of the breadcrumb mixture.  So you end up with a much thicker coating of the breadcrumbs.  Second time around it was again, very good.

Chicken with a mustard-fennel crust

Cannellini Bean and Radicchio Salad with Tuna

This was pretty simple to put together and Loki got his first taste of tuna (he was pretty happy).  I didn't combine the greens with the beans and heat them up, but this ended up being pretty simple, and ok to eat.  A decent veggie option.

Pizza (spice Testing) (Lamb Sausage)

Yay!  I think I'm done here.  Sauce recipie coming shortly  Maybe one more test, to make sure that it works.

Grass Fed Beef burgers (the last in the freezer from Coyote Run Farms)

I admit...I got excessive.  Before the cost of the meat (bought at winter market) and cheese (left behind by Eric at game night), so just taking the cost of the bacon, lardo, and challah, we're talking $7 in (retail) food cost per burger.  So for the challah, I took the time to toast it in the oven, and while doing so, melted some of the Iberico de Bellota Lardo into the bread and then the cheeses one the bread.  So by layer, challah, Iberico de Bellota Lardo, we have some Clothbound Truckle from Milton Creamery, grass fed beef, Tamworth country cured bacon, not pictured: mixed baby greens and spicy mustard, a blue cheese which is small dairy produced but I am forgetting the name of, a bit more Iberico de Bellota Lardo, and challah.  Clearly not a healthy choice, but it was so, so good.  I think I felt my cholesterol drug just throw up it's hands and give up...

Perhaps a bit excessive burger

Spicy Meatballs with Fragrant Tomato Sauce

Sometimes you read a recipe and you wonder how, by combining one cup of bread crumbs (even compressed) and a pound of ground beef will make 30 inch to inch and a half meat balls.  I admit that most of mine were around the inch and a half mark but even so, there were no where near 30 meatballs.  Even so, served over rice, it made for a nice dinner for Shannon, Joseph and I.

Spicy Meatballs with Fragrant Tomato Sauce

Rigatoni with Spicy Tomato-Vodka Sauce

Quick, good, and a good weeknight meal (and it gave me an excuse to buy a bottle of vodka, which I had run out of).