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Cooking Sunday
Sometimes the best way to save money is to do as much as you can on the weekends to make your week go more smoothly. To that end, today I: Mixed up and refrigerated a tart crust to make a quiche later this week (recipe from Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from…
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Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad
Flattening a whole chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening it a bit makes it cook more quickly. I’ve done this before, with a recipe from Jacques Pepin that was browned on the stove and then finished in the oven. Tonight I did the same technique, but just rubbed some salt, pepper, granulated garlic…
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Menu: Pork Chops, Applesauce, Spinach and Baked Potatoes
No cookbooks to credit with this dinner tonight. Definitely one I can do in my sleep almost! In order of cooking: Baked potatoes Scrub, pierce with a fork a few times, bake on an oven rack at 350-400F depending on how much time you have and how large the potatoes are. My medium sized ones…
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Bacon, Watercress and Cheese Omelet with Fried Potatoes
Dinner tonight was two repeat recipes. It has been cold here, for many days in a row. I know it’s all relative and my cold, here in the San Francisco, is vastly different than those of you who live elsewhere. I read the weather reports for back East and down South and I know have…
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Creole Chicken Soup
I was in the mood for soup and had chicken broth in the freezer, but no cooked chicken. Could have added some chicken pieces to this if I wanted more protein but I’d had a bean heavy lunch and didn’t feel the need. I used a few cups of leftover mixed vegetables I had in…