A couple of new cookbooks I was exploring this month, including JapanEasy and Half Baked Harvest.
- Sweet miso-glazed eggplant, sweet potato croquettes with tonkatsu sauce, rice (all from Japaneasy – Amazon link)
- Green beans with sesame sauce, cabbage with ginger dressing, repeat of eggplant with miso, reheated sweet potato croquettes (from Japaneasy)
- Leftover half a baked potato with bacon, sauteed onions, etc. and a simple green salad
- Ground beef hard shell tacos, refried beans
- Quesadilla with beans, lettuce, salsa and onions
- Pork tonkatzu, rice and green salad with onion ginger dressing from from JapanEasy
- Curry from JapanEasy with cauliflower, potatoes, onions and carrots
- Dad’s Friday Night Pasta from Half Baked Harvest, a cookbook gift from Christmas. https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/dads… is very similar but in the book she simplified it even more by adding uncooked angel hair pasta and some water. Really good!
- Trinity chicken (bone-in thighs sprinkled with Tony Chachere’s Creole seasoning and pressed into flour, then pan-fried). Baked potato and roast cauliflower as sides.
- Pork piccata, mashed potatoes, broccoli.
- Chicken gyros with roasted garlic tzatziki, fries with feta cheese https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/roas…
- Ground beef chimichanga, leftover rice heated up with salsa to make red rice, black beans from the freezer. I totally winged it on the chimichanga and it came out great!
- Crispy quinoa buffalo bites on naan. Similar to https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/cris…
- Cuban mojo pork tacos, rice. The tacos were from Half Baked Harvest. A bit hit here!
- Homemade pizzas
- Hamburgers and fries
- Pasta with bread crumbs and a green salad
- Leftovers
- Popeye’s chicken sandwich https://gimmedelicious.com/popeyes-ch…, sweet potato fries
- Chicken Divan with fresh broccoli
- Pork tonkatzu from JapanEasy except I used a boneless pork chop, rice, broccoli
- Al pastor-style ground beef enchiladas from Half Baked Harvest, Cuban black beans from the same, red salsa rice.
- Grilled cheese sandwiches and what we call frog eye soup, (chicken broth and carrots and tiny pasta)
- Quarter recipe of Chrissy Teigen’s macaroni and cheese, baked yellow pepper and bread crumbs, green salad
- Rib eye steak with Teigen’s blue cheese butter, baked potato, salad
- Leftover Steak and potato
- 30 minute chicken katzu ramen from Half Baked Harvest
- Baked chili rellenos from https://www.bellylaughliving.com/bake…, pinto beans, salsa rice. Loved these chili rellenos.
- Leftover macaroni and cheese, roast cauliflower and broccoli, salad
- Steak, baked potatoes, sauteed onions, delicata squash
- Orzo with shrimp, tomatoes and feta from Bread Toast Crumbs, salad Loved this!
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