what's been cooking? fall 2013

 Recipe 1: Homemade Calzone
(with a homemade crust- no yeast dough- AND
homemade spicy marinara with red pepper flakes & honey)

Recipe 2: Smoked apple chicken sausage
(bun is a multi-grain baguette cut in half,
and lined with a few slices of honeycrisp from the farmer's market..
for a unique twist)

Recipe 3: White wine and truffle risotto

(oven baked!- based on a recipe from the barefoot contessa)

Recipe 4: Butternut squash, corn, quinoa, & white bean soup

...with sage.

This is a meal! 

Recipe 5: Homemade chicken, potatoe & leek soup

Recipe 6: Chorizo meatloaf and mashed sweet potatoes

Recipe 7: Boxed macaroni showdown

also known as dinner on a budget

(trae's full fat kraft vs. liz's slimmed down market pantry)

the combination of the two was the best. 

Recipe 8: Grilled farmer's market eggplant & tomato stack,
with flank steak & a farmer's market red kale salad

Recipe 9: 5 minute (& 5 ingredient) nutella fudge

 (made with <3 for the egan's visit!)

Recipe 10: Herb roasted cashews (with the last of my 'garden' herbs) 

(made with <3 for the egan's visit!)

Recipe 11: Chocolate stout brownies with bailey's irish cream-cheese frosting

(made with <3 for the egan's visit!)

Recipe 12: Shakshuka
(spicy tomato based sauce, pancetta & eggs)

Recipe 13: Baked spaghetti  with spaghetti squash

(whole wheat spaghetti + spaghetti squash, cooked separately,

then combined with mushrooms, marinara, and parmesan,

stuffed into squash shells and baked together in oven)

Recipe 14: Lobster tail and brocolli rabe with lemon garlic butter sauce

and farmer's market savory chocolate pasta flavored with 

a hit of cream, orange zest & cayenne- I think?! 

the attempt was to prepare a nice, rich dinner 

before trae went out of town for work for 2 weeks-

(yes, I overcooked the lobster tail- it was a shame)

(and no... chocolate pasta is not sweet)

meal fail.

Recipe 15: Vodka cured salmon

(salt, sugar and vodka mix over a small wild caught salmon filet

for 48 hours

salmon purchased from our favorite local seafood store)

meal recovery!

Recipe 16: Crock-pot pork rib & bean chili

(the less tomatoes the better in our opinion)

served with corn muffin