Black Bean and Pepper Jack Burgers

No pepper jack, but these are pretty good, like always.  Toasted some thawed out Wild Yeast Bakery buns and had a nice meal

Pasta with Smoky Pumpkin Cream Sauce

This was gross.  Often times if something doesn't quite work, I'll struggle through the leftovers...I did not do that here.  I don't like food waste, but in the trash it went, that's how bad it was.

Chana Masala

So you think hey, healthy (ish) dish, using chickpeas instead of chicken...woo!  Except chickpeas will have added carbs, so that, with rice, suddenly I'm eating a lower portion to keep everything in check.  So then I have a pile of spinach next to it to make me feel as if it is a full meal.  On the other hand, I did figure out that rice serving was 3/4th a cup after cooking as opposed to doing 1/4th cup after serving to keep that in check.  So that was good, seems far more reasonable.  Anyways, it was pretty good, It needed a bit more salt.

Shanghai Chicken Salad

I got a freshly picked, gigantic (literally huge) head of Napa Cabbage from Blue Gate Farm.  And made a nice salad.  I had the, once upon a time, addictive chow mein noodles (not as good as I remember) to top it off.  The chicken did not absorb a lot of the flavor from the boiling liquid, which was...disappointing.  Since it was boiled in a very salty used it threw off the sodium content for the recipe as a whole, since clearly there was no way that it could've absorbed all that salt.  Maybe it would've been better to brine it first, then sear it for the better flavor.