last week in food…

[topaz119]

Between my mom being in the hospital, DragonCon, a late summer cold, and the office move, I have just been staggering through life, but last week I hit the wall and exploded into some kind of over-compensating kitchen binge.


Soups (it's been raining for a week, I needed the comfort food factor):

Classic chicken noodle

Semi-healthy broccoli-cheese

Italian wedding, with chicken meatballs and spinach (I brought some of this into the office today, with some prosciutto and melon and cheese, and a little bit of no-knead bread. I can't wait for lunch.)

Mains:

Pot roast, very classic with some root veggies, made with a couple of shoulder roasts from my father-in-law's cattle (ie, organic w/o the paperwork that says organic.)

Lemon thyme chicken, pan-seared and finished off in the oven

Chicken pot pie (but I cheated and used frozen biscuits to top it)

Chicken-bacon ranch French bread pizzas (which, yay! used up all the fresh mozzarella before it went off.)

Random extras:

Banana bread

Brownies


After all that, I'm thinking this week is going to be nothing but creative re-use of the leftovers (opening the refrigerator door is an exercise in dodging falling Tupperware. The dog is in heaven, waiting to see what might explode upon contact with the floor.)

Comments

[turps]

I love the mental image of your dog sitting waiting for exploding leftovers.

I do hope life calms for you soon, though.

[topaz119]

RileyTheDog is a constant source of amusement around here. He looks soooooo hopeful every time.

My mom is being discharged from the hospital, which is good, but we're all going to have to have this big talk, because there is no way my brother and I can do a repeat of the last few months, not when we live 6+ hours away. So that's going to be no fun.

[musesfool]

Chicken-bacon ranch French bread pizzas

oh, that sounds excellent.

[topaz119]

They are excellent to use up the last bits of a roast chicken. Very tasty. I got the idea from here, though I most certainly am not making my own bread/canning my own tomatoes.

[musesfool]

Thanks for the link!

[st_aurafina]

I bet it smells awesome at your place now. Yum.

[topaz119]

It's been good to be cooking again--it really is my prozac.

[rikes]

Everything sounds amazing omg.

[topaz119]

I'm playing with all the leftovers this week--I made fried rice tonight, with some of the extra chicken.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I will have to try the buttermilk trick the next time I have enough veggie bits to make a quiche (it sounds like I make my quiche like you make Nothing Soup!)

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Ohh, Italian wedding soup. I need some now, it would be perfect on this chilly grey day.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

It turned out very well for all the shortcuts I took. I did make my own meatballs, but I only used ground chicken (rather than the veal/pork/chicken mix my grandmother used) and I just threw in chopped, frozen spinach rather than hunting down escarole. It's been raining here for a week--the soup was perfect.

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a delicious week of food! I'm hoping it cools down here soon so I can feel better about having soup :)

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

My AC is still kicking on, but it's been raining for a week, so I just threw in the towel and went for the soup cure.