Homemade Sushi

Beans with homemade salsa and guac

Green Curry

Venison, Kale, and Sweet Potatoes

Tuna Bites

Cashew Fried Rice

Baked Mac and Cheese and Roasted Vegetables

Lentils

Baked Bolognese

Corn Fritters

Corn fritters and baked sweet potato. (I altered the recipe a bit by adding more flour, and I wished that I'd added a bit more salt.) This meal is cheap, cheap, cheap. It was our penance for going out to eat three days in a row, but it was so good that it really wasn't any hardship.  

Spinach Alfredo

Pasta with Alfredo sauce from a jar, fresh spinach, capers, and a little left-over chicken. This took 20 minutes, tops, and only dirtied one pan. They can't all be winners. 

Homemade Pizza

Homemade pizza with whole-wheat crust, turkey pepperoni, and mushrooms. (Turkey pepperoni doesn't taste funny, I promise. It does, however, eliminate the little pools of grease that accumulate on top of regular pepperoni.) If you have a stand mixer, you should be making pizza dough--the dough hook does the kneading for you, and in half the time! Now if it would only roll it out for you. I made the dough ahead of time, let it rise, punched it down, then put it in the refrigerator until I was ready to make my pizzas. 

Blackened Tuna Alfredo

Tuna steak, blackened. Pasta with Alfredo sauce from a jar, fresh spinach, and capers. 

Winter Veggies

Roasted winter vegetables and loaded baked potato. 

Homemade BLT

How to make a BLT: 

Proof yeast. Mix yeast, butter, honey, eggs, and flour (whole wheat and white) to make two loaves of honey whole-wheat bread. Knead. 

While dough is rising, go to a Polish meat market, your choice, on Manhattan Avenue and buy a slab of bacon. Dziekuje. 

Punch dough down, shape two loaves. Cover and let rise again. 

Bake bread. 

While bread is cooling, go to Sun-Hee Farms on Manhattan Avenue and buy a tomato and Romaine lettuce. 

Slice slab of bacon, then fry. 

Slice tomato. Wash and tear lettuce. 

Assemble sandwich: tomato, bacon, lettuce. 

Possible additions: soy mayo, avocado, brie. 

Enjoy! 

Total time: 4.25 hours, mostly unattended. 

Superbowl

C made his Polish-Mexican stew for Superbowl Sunday. It involves kielbasa, beans, and corn. Definitely boy food. 

Green Salad with Garbanzos and Olives

Salad and bread only counts as dinner after you've stuffed yourself with leftover chicken and pastry for lunch. 

Chicken and Pastry

Homemade chicken and pastry, made with (not to brag or anything) homemade chicken stock. This might be the most delicious un-photogenic food ever. I cobbled together the recipe from a couple of sources. 

Tofu Teriyaki

Tofu Teriyaki deluxe box from Sakura 6. I would like to eat this every day, please. 

Roast Chicken, The Fun Way

I roasted two chickens using this method, which I first read about here. I don't think I'll ever cook a whole chicken any other way. I did cheat and put a quarter of a lemon, clove of garlic and a spring of rosemary in each chicken. 

We ate most of one chicken then de-boned the other to use in chicken salad sandwiches and chicken and pastry. I also saved the skin 'n bones for homemade chicken stock.

I cooked up these as a side dish because they had been languishing in the fridge.