Makeshift Chinese
January 31, 2019 4:46 PM
This meal was somewhat inspired by the Sesame Slaw recipe I saw on Budget Bytes. Yup, it's something like -2° Fahrenheit outside, and we're making salad.
This was just one of those meals where I tried to utilize whatever was in my fridge/freezer as much as possible. We still had a small amount of frozen dumplings left over from the dumpling party. We also had one piece of sweet and spicy chicken left.
Oh, and lots of salad dressing packets. I keep buying various salad mixes that come with dressing packets, and then only end up using the veggies since I put them on my tacos.
It was a pretty delicious makeshift Chinese meal.
Of course, now we have a bunch of leftover salad. But you know what's great about cabbage? You can always stir fry it...
Strawberry Pizza
January 29, 2019 2:09 PM
I really like How Sweet Eats. Jessica Merchant just posts so many interesting recipes. During my food blog browsing I came across Strawberry Pizza with Bacon and Caramelized Onions.
Which sounded real intriguing. I looked at the ingredients and I like pretty much everything that she put on the pizza. Of course I also scrolled through the comments to make sure someone actually tried it and gave it a good review.
Making anything involving dough kind of scares me, but my sister is great with dough so I had to make this while she's here. Plus strawberries were on sale!
It was delicious. If I ever make it again, I'd need to make note of a couple of things.
- Use two onions. Maybe three onions. Seriously, this needs way more onion.
- Get a larger baking sheet so I can make a larger pizza. The pizza crust was a bit too thick for my liking.
Chili with Chocolate Ice Cream
January 29, 2019 5:00 AM
That's right. I saw this Fire and Ice Chili recipe from How Sweet Eats, and I was so intrigued by the fact that she put chocolate ice cream in her chili.
I actually looked for dark chocolate ice cream in three different grocery stores, but I couldn't find it until I went to Whole Foods. And then I spent a whole $9 (!!!) for a Haagen Dazs-sized thing of Jeni's ice cream, which is ridiculous.
Okay, but I gotta admit, Jeni makes pretty good ice cream.
This was a really interesting tasting chili. It was sweeter and less tomato-y than I'm used to, but I liked it. Not sure I'll ever make it again though, mostly because it took two hours, and that ice cream was stupid expensive.
But if I ever see it on sale, I'm totally trying the coffee flavor.
Leftovers and Chicken
January 28, 2019 4:31 PM
I had a lot of rice in the fridge with no protein to go with it, and I also had chicken in the freezer.
I made Sweet and Spicy Glazed Chicken Thighs from Budget Bytes. It was super easy to make, and it tasted pretty good, but I thought it was missing something: fish sauce. That would have made it so much better.
Leftovers and Broccoli
January 27, 2019 4:53 PM
We have way too much food right now. I cook dinner around every other night, and my sister bakes stuff, and all of a sudden our fridge is filled with food. I decided we needed a leftover night, but I also decided we didn't have enough leftover vegetables. So I cooked broccoli.
I sorta kinda used the Quick Garlic Parmesan Broccoli recipe from Budget Bytes. Somehow I made my broccoli really yellow though ): I don't think I'll be making this again, because that was way too much work for broccoli.
I also used two whole pans for the recipe. And I wanted to heat up the rest of my pierogies, so I used another pan for that! This is way too many pans for leftover night.
