What I'm Cooking
Beef barley vegetable soup. This is loosely based on a recipe from a lady at church, but I improvise with what I have on hand: a large can of V8, a can of tomato soup, a pound(ish) of ground beef (browned with onion first), a few carrots, a handful of peas, two handfuls of corn . . . pop it all in the crockpot for the day. Add barley (2/3 cup or so) an hour before dinner.
Carrot cake oatmeal cookies, for a church ladies' get-together. They're a little too soft for my preference, but quite tasty.
Lacto-fermented ketchup. Because fermented things are good for you, and we don't eat many of them, so ketchup seemed like a safe(r) choice. I haven't tasted it yet, as it's still fermenting. I'll let you know.
Oatmeal apple butter bars. I subbed whole wheat flour, reduced the sugar by half (and used sucanat for all of it), and reduced the butter by two tablespoons, making it totally breakfast-worthy for a Saturday morning. It was a bit crumbly (I guess all the butter really was necessary), so we ate it out of bowls with spoons. If I'd had any yogurt on hand, I would have drizzled some over to help hold it together, but I didn't.
Roasted cauliflower rice. I'm a big fan of roasted cauliflower, and this only made it faster! It definitely still tastes like cauliflower, so don't expect something else, but only having to roast for fifteen minutes instead of forty made it a win in my book. (I'm forever forgetting to start roasting vegetables soon enough.) That's a recipe note, there: I roasted for fifteen minutes, not ten, because I like it more golden. I served it as a side with orange chicken thighs (package of thighs, 1/3 cup orange marmalade, 1/3 cup barbecue sauce, 2 tbsp soy sauce, some garlic and ginger if you feel like it, in the crockpot for 6ish hours).
Rachel Ray's chicken satay naan. I love this recipe. I didn't have any lettuce but was liberal with the cucumber. We like the Stone Fire brand whole grain naan you can find next to the donut case at Kroger. :)
I'm hoping to make a batch of tortillas this afternoon, and this loaded chicken and potatoes for dinner, but you never know how a Saturday afternoon will go. Depends on how much napping happens (mine included). Isaac also has a batch of sourdough waffles going for the freezer today.
What I'm Reading
Right, about that . . . except for half of a Cook's Country magazine, I didn't read a thing this week. It happens.
Weekly Snapshot
That would be the family picture from our photo session this week, of course!
Beef barley vegetable soup. This is loosely based on a recipe from a lady at church, but I improvise with what I have on hand: a large can of V8, a can of tomato soup, a pound(ish) of ground beef (browned with onion first), a few carrots, a handful of peas, two handfuls of corn . . . pop it all in the crockpot for the day. Add barley (2/3 cup or so) an hour before dinner.
Carrot cake oatmeal cookies, for a church ladies' get-together. They're a little too soft for my preference, but quite tasty.
Lacto-fermented ketchup. Because fermented things are good for you, and we don't eat many of them, so ketchup seemed like a safe(r) choice. I haven't tasted it yet, as it's still fermenting. I'll let you know.
Oatmeal apple butter bars. I subbed whole wheat flour, reduced the sugar by half (and used sucanat for all of it), and reduced the butter by two tablespoons, making it totally breakfast-worthy for a Saturday morning. It was a bit crumbly (I guess all the butter really was necessary), so we ate it out of bowls with spoons. If I'd had any yogurt on hand, I would have drizzled some over to help hold it together, but I didn't.
Roasted cauliflower rice. I'm a big fan of roasted cauliflower, and this only made it faster! It definitely still tastes like cauliflower, so don't expect something else, but only having to roast for fifteen minutes instead of forty made it a win in my book. (I'm forever forgetting to start roasting vegetables soon enough.) That's a recipe note, there: I roasted for fifteen minutes, not ten, because I like it more golden. I served it as a side with orange chicken thighs (package of thighs, 1/3 cup orange marmalade, 1/3 cup barbecue sauce, 2 tbsp soy sauce, some garlic and ginger if you feel like it, in the crockpot for 6ish hours).
Rachel Ray's chicken satay naan. I love this recipe. I didn't have any lettuce but was liberal with the cucumber. We like the Stone Fire brand whole grain naan you can find next to the donut case at Kroger. :)
I'm hoping to make a batch of tortillas this afternoon, and this loaded chicken and potatoes for dinner, but you never know how a Saturday afternoon will go. Depends on how much napping happens (mine included). Isaac also has a batch of sourdough waffles going for the freezer today.
What I'm Reading
Right, about that . . . except for half of a Cook's Country magazine, I didn't read a thing this week. It happens.
Weekly Snapshot
That would be the family picture from our photo session this week, of course!
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