Pasta, Red sauce (Splendid Table based), Meatballs (Alton Brown based)
Sunday had gotten away from me, and so at that point I decided that to go for a simpler recipe. Then, since Shannon tends to work later on Mondays, I figured I could get it done in that time frame. So I went to work. i got the sauce going first, then formed the meatballs and started those baking in the oven. Over all either recipe isn't particularly hard, though both can be time consuming. After the meatballs were done (ish) I put them in the sauce to exude some of their goodness into the sauce. Good stuffs.
Pumpkin Lasagna (farewell to the market dinner party)
Chopped up pumpkin, for this and other pumpkin goodies. I was able to spend time off and on the day to get this done, making it not such a rush to do. I also spent a bit of effort to time some parts that are clearly not timed right. I have the data to update the recipe. I didn't not however, remember to reduce some of the content in there, to make it not overflow the pan, however I did put a half sheet pan below the lasagna dish to catch any spillage, which I will make a note of. I did not put on the top layer of noodles, since I didn't think there would be enough sauce left to let them soften up, and they'd clearly push the dish a bit further up. We had this a lightly dressed salad and some of Joseph's Whole Wheat Quinoa sourdough...and a couple of bottles of wine...and some whiskey...
Good times, good food.
Thai Style Soup with Pork
Quick and very good. Though I had to have Joseph bring me another can of coconut milk because I didn't buy enough (I'd like to claim that i thought I had one, but I'm pretty sure I just didn't add the 2nd one to the list). Very simple to make.
Stir-Fried Pork with Green Beans and Cashews
I clearly messed this one up. It just became too salty. Now this could be from any number of reasons, perhaps over salting the rice, or the fact that I'm using full salt other ingredients, but whatever the problem was, it ended up being not good.
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Burritos
Friday I was feeling tired and didn't want to cook, but then I red the recipe and thought hey, that's super easy...and it was. Good too.
