I'm making up for lost time!!
Sunday morning I decided to make some pancakes. R suggested a package but I decided to go from scratch. It's incredibly easy! I decided to try
Todd's Famous Blueberry Pancake recipe from Allrecipes.
The recipe calls for the mixture to sit for an hour so I also decided another fruit salad was in order. This time I bought a full pineapple - skin on! It was quite easy to cut up. There's actually a
web site dedicated to doing it! Who doesn't love fresh pineapple?!?
Am I the only one who loves the green bin? I seriously love it when I'm making something like this knowing that all the waste is going there instead of the garbage. I'm a garbage nerd. It's OK.
So anyhow... to the pineapple I added strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and bananas as well as a splash of orange juice.
When that was ready the pancake batter had sat for a while and had really thickened up! I made about a dozen small pancakes. A bit much for us but I like leftovers.
The cool thing about that link to the recipe above is that you can change how many portions you want and it will adjust the ingredient list automatically!
So there's our Sunday brunch.
Errands and snowshoe break
And we're back! Time for dinner! After a trek in the wintery woods we decided chili would be the perfect warm up. I've come up with a recipe that mixes my mom's with Rich's.
Here's what I put in it:
1 pkg Lean ground beef (no set amount)
1 Onion diced
1 Pepper (we used half yellow half green)
2 cans whole Tomatoes
2 cans Baked beans
1 can Black beans
Chili powder (to taste)
Red pepper flakes (to taste)
Pepper
I start off by sautéing the onions in a little olive oil. When they are translucent I add the ground beef. When the beef is about halfway done I add the chopped peppers and cook it all up until the meat is brown. Then I just add the cans (roughly cutting up the tomatoes in the can) and spices. Then you just have to let it simmer away. It's best if you have a few hours to let the spices do their magic. We didn't have very long so it was a touch mild but it was perfect for lunch today!
Oh - and don't forget the cheese. The picture to the right shows how much cheese I put on it.
The one below shows how much cheese R likes on the chili.
Now it's on to a new day!!
Today (Monday) I was too tired and hungry and broke at the end of the day to go grocery shopping. So I thought about what I had in my cupboards and did a little googling and came up with pasta with pesto, goats cheese and tomatoes.
I started off cooking up some spaghetti. While that was going I put some olive oil and garlic in a pan and let that start heating up. I roughly chopped some canned tomatoes and crumbled in the goats cheese.
When the pasta was done I left a touch (a touch too much in fact) of water for the sauce and then poured in the mixture from the pan and a healthy scoop of pesto. I also threw in a handful of spinach for good measure. I had some to use up so why not?
It was good. I had enough of the sauce to make a second helping for my lunch tomorrow! This saving thing will be a breeze!
I am going to tell you now tomorrow will be a leftover day because I'm going to the ballet with a couple of friends after work. Oh - and Wednesday we have a friend coming in to town so we're going out for dinner.
I suppose I better come up with some muffins or breakfast food or something!
Happy cooking!
When I got home I took stock: spinach, peppers, mushrooms and zucchini. I wasn't in the mood for a salad so I pulled out some pasta. As it was boiling away I chopped up the veggies and diced up some cheese I found in the fridge. I added the spinach last so it would only wilt a little. When I drained the pasta I saved a little bit of the water and poured both into the pan with the veggies. I added the cheese and the last remnants of my pesto. I still wasn't satisfied so I added about a tablespoon of salmon cream cheese. I wasn't sure how it would turn out. It could be really bad.
