My top 3 favorite dishes that I've cooked this week following Real Simple's one month of 400 calorie cooking are:
1. Roasted Shrimp with Peppers and Lemon
2. Gnocchi with Roasted Cauliflower
3. Ham, Guyere, & Shallot Pizza
We made the pizza tonight for Superbowl Sunday...mmmm! I think we should totally make our own pizza from now on!
I'm also trying to get W in the kitchen more...he helped yesterday and today. I think he'll help more when we have more kitchen to move around in :-)
It's been a relaxing weekend, grocery shopping done for this next week, general house cleaning accomplished, dishes done! If only the laundry had washed itself!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Today I took a "mental health" day. I left for school and by the time I got to Galveston, I had decided I was going back home. It's not that I feel sick or anything, mainly just tired and wanted a day at home to piddle around, read, watch TV, cook, and do some chores.
I went ahead and went in for a bit this morning just to quickly do some email, cancel my classes, and deal with a student. I caught her "stealing" library books yesterday! I think she may have done it last week too but I didn't catch her until this week. She got caught because she took the book that I meant to read to the next class and when it wasn't there, I knew someone in the class before them had taken it. Sure enough, when I went into their room after reading the other class something else and checking them out, there was the book on her desk with ANOTHER library book! Her punishment this morning was a morning of ISS and I have suspended her from the library for the month of February.
Anyway, in other news my experiment of doing the 400 calorie cooking every night is going well, last night tho I skipped the meal for a sandwich and chips and beer and reading. :-) But I made last night's dinner for lunch today, since I decided to stay home and relax.
I must say tho the other night I was rather impressed by the Gnocchi with Roasted Cauliflower...I was a little bit hesitant at first mainly because everything was white. I thought all the same color was a no-no in cooking but it turned out really good. Gnocchi takes like 3 minutes to cook, you can put the cauliflower and sage in to roast for 30 min and forget about them for a bit...top all with parmesan...Perfecto! My only change was to stir the gnocchi with a spoonfool of pesto & garlic that I had in the fridge so it was a bit green and had a touch of flavor from that. I've never had cauliflower roasted before and it was really yummie. The sage was a first for me too and it wasn't as strong a flavor as I expected.
I'm excited that W is coming home tomorrow! It's been 2 weeks since I've seen him!!! Today is his last day of the rotation in North TX. I think he really enjoyed the small town doctoring. I know he visited alot of nursing homes and did house calls. I think it was a nice experience for him. He has one more school I think to do a 2nd look with and then I think he will turn in his list. I'm anxiously awaiting March.
I went ahead and went in for a bit this morning just to quickly do some email, cancel my classes, and deal with a student. I caught her "stealing" library books yesterday! I think she may have done it last week too but I didn't catch her until this week. She got caught because she took the book that I meant to read to the next class and when it wasn't there, I knew someone in the class before them had taken it. Sure enough, when I went into their room after reading the other class something else and checking them out, there was the book on her desk with ANOTHER library book! Her punishment this morning was a morning of ISS and I have suspended her from the library for the month of February.
Anyway, in other news my experiment of doing the 400 calorie cooking every night is going well, last night tho I skipped the meal for a sandwich and chips and beer and reading. :-) But I made last night's dinner for lunch today, since I decided to stay home and relax.
I must say tho the other night I was rather impressed by the Gnocchi with Roasted Cauliflower...I was a little bit hesitant at first mainly because everything was white. I thought all the same color was a no-no in cooking but it turned out really good. Gnocchi takes like 3 minutes to cook, you can put the cauliflower and sage in to roast for 30 min and forget about them for a bit...top all with parmesan...Perfecto! My only change was to stir the gnocchi with a spoonfool of pesto & garlic that I had in the fridge so it was a bit green and had a touch of flavor from that. I've never had cauliflower roasted before and it was really yummie. The sage was a first for me too and it wasn't as strong a flavor as I expected.
I'm excited that W is coming home tomorrow! It's been 2 weeks since I've seen him!!! Today is his last day of the rotation in North TX. I think he really enjoyed the small town doctoring. I know he visited alot of nursing homes and did house calls. I think it was a nice experience for him. He has one more school I think to do a 2nd look with and then I think he will turn in his list. I'm anxiously awaiting March.
Monday, February 1, 2010
The Roasted Shrimp with Red Peppers and Lemon........AMAZING! http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/roasted-shrimp-peppers-lemon-00000000008880/index.html
Use orzo pasta as a bed instead of rice, it's not as gritty.
Make this as the side dish:
Cumin Polenta
14 oz chicken broth (or use 1 chicken bullion cube + water)
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 c yellow cornmeal
1/2 c milk (whole is best, if you have a lower percentage just stick a bit of sour cream in with the milk and stir it around that way it is "thicker")
1/2 tsp butter
combine broth and cumin in a heavy saucepan; bring to a boil. reduce heat; gradually whisk in cornmeal. cook and stir *constantly* until thick, whisk in milk and butter. season with salt and pepper.
serves 4ish
This is half portions of the original recipe and it makes a huge amount for just W and I. I can't imagine doubling the above!
Perfect side with the Shrimp!
bon appetit!
Credit:
Cumin Polenta recipe ran in the October 2009 BH&G magazine, but according to them originally comes from the book Sunday Soup by Betty Rosbottom.
Use orzo pasta as a bed instead of rice, it's not as gritty.
Make this as the side dish:
Cumin Polenta
14 oz chicken broth (or use 1 chicken bullion cube + water)
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 c yellow cornmeal
1/2 c milk (whole is best, if you have a lower percentage just stick a bit of sour cream in with the milk and stir it around that way it is "thicker")
1/2 tsp butter
combine broth and cumin in a heavy saucepan; bring to a boil. reduce heat; gradually whisk in cornmeal. cook and stir *constantly* until thick, whisk in milk and butter. season with salt and pepper.
serves 4ish
This is half portions of the original recipe and it makes a huge amount for just W and I. I can't imagine doubling the above!
Perfect side with the Shrimp!
bon appetit!
Credit:
Cumin Polenta recipe ran in the October 2009 BH&G magazine, but according to them originally comes from the book Sunday Soup by Betty Rosbottom.
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