Sunday dinner: trying to eat better edition. Whole-wheat spaghetti with garlic-lemon sauce, steamed (farmers’ market!) asparagus, baked (farmers’ market!) goat cheese rounds. I should really go to the farmers’ market every week.
i somehow didn’t get any pictures of the savory food we ate (omg arancini bros basil/mozzarella/tomato arancini I DIED), but i did get hilariously stylized photos of our baked ice cream sandwiches (chocolate chip-walnut cookies with vanilla ice cream and red velvet cookies with cream cheese ice cream) and people’s pop goodies (rhubarb chai shave ice and blueberry-apricot popsicle). i consider the first googamooga a success!
spur of the moment saturday night dinner: lemon-basil orzotto and roasted zucchini. not bad for someone who hasn’t put on pants yet today.
We had a guest for dinner tonight, so I made orzo mac & cheese (with a feta, sharp cheddar, and parmesan sauce), salad, and…cookie dough brownies.
but the other day I made southwestern corn/potato chowder with homemade bread bowls, so I’ve got some stuff going for me.
today is all kitchen prep and finishing season four for the mad men party at my place tonight. vegan curried potato-red pepper-pea filling for phyllo triangles.
tonight’s dinner: slow cooker spicy peanut stew with sweet potatoes, lentils, and chickpeas.
for darren’s birthday (go wish him a good one, huh?), i bought him underwear, made him a powerpoint with all his favorite things, and made homemade pizza for dinner. the best pizza of all time, apparently.
Vanilla, Pear, and Vodka Cocktail.
I’ll take 100 of these please.
i think i might make these for my mad men party. get excited.
I participate in this art/craft/etc. exchange*, and these were what I sent out** to my swap partner, who also happens to be a good friend of mine! On the left are Mayan chocolate truffles, and on the right are Oreo/cream cheese chocolate-covered chocolates. And I twee-ed em up good with mason jars and flowered fabric. I hope she loves them!
*If you are legitimately interested in joining, I can send you a link to a google doc to sign up! It’s once a month, you send anything you want to make (crafts, stories, food, jewelry, knitted things, shoes, woodworking, sounds, anything!).
**At least, I hope I sent them to her, because I used the self-service station at the post office because it was so goddamn busy, then my box got stuck in the mailbox, and I ran away because I was too crabby and awkward to talk to anyone about it. Someone will have to deal with it someday.
tonight’s dinner: vegan tortilla soup with seitan, sweet potatoes, quinoa, and chipotle (from big vegan). so good!
birthday weekend is going swimmingly, friday night we had an accidental fancy dinner that was bananas-level good; i had a watercress-endive salad with pomegranate and pistachios and mac & cheese, and darren had filet mignon with asparagus and blue cheese mashed potatoes (omg). plus chocolate torte!
new year’s day dinner. italian “beef” sandwiches, roasted parmesan-rosemary potatoes, roasted broccoli, and cranberry upside-down cake with homemade whipped cream. ROLL ME INTO BED.
i made spinach & sun-dried tomato chicago-style deep dish pizza for dinner tonight (recipe - the dough was a bitch but i’m betting once i freeze it, it’ll be considerably more obedient). about to die of joy.
because i am becoming a Serious Cook (i guess), i made two recipes from serious eats for dinner today: cheesy “focaccia” and roasted tomato risotto. both were seriously delicious, and now my boyfriend and i are going to spend the rest of the night in a haze of cheese and tomato-y carbs.
