We had a ridiculously busy couple of weeks, with going back and forth to Hannibal and whatnot, but we’re back in the dinner groove now!! Stu’s visit meant homemade pizza and salad with an orange-vanilla vinaigrette. Emily, I realized while I was making the pizza that i never sent you the recipe for the crust! I use this one and it never fails!! It also makes really good breadsticks with some roasted garlic and parmesan cheese!
Again, I’m behind on Dinner posts. This one was tilapia, peas, and noodles from a packet. I got a little impatient with the noodles, so they were a tad crunchy. Oh well.
Spaghetti and garlic bread.
Grilled chicken, butter beans, and sweet potato chips.
I was hoping Meg might like the butter beans. And she did. She liked to smash them in her high chair seat. Her dinner this night was a half-eaten who-knows-how-old cookie that she had hidden in between the cushion and the seat of her chair. YUM!!
French toast with homemade multigrain bread, sausage, and peaches.
Andy’s birthday dinner. I didn’t think it was going well while I was making it (huge flames shooting out of the bottom of the grill didn’t seem like a good sign), but it ended up pretty good! Chicken “grillers” with red peppers and mozzarella cheese, cous cous and quinoa, broccoli, and beer bread made with our mild ale.
My favorite way to have leftover chili: Chili Mac. Meg also loved it, which is rare, but great!
Breakfast pizza and orange-banana smoothies. We thought the immersion blender was kaput, so the smoothies were a treat when we figured out how to fix it!
Mashed potatoes, Italian sausage, and green beans. An attempt at cheesemaking didn’t work out quite as planned last week, so I’m trying to think of ways to use the result up. The mashed potatoes were a perfect conduit for runny cheese!
Homemade pepperoni, onion, and red pepper pizza with whole wheat crust.
