Dinnah

So someday I'll cook thinking about presentation...  for now you'll have to take my word that it's tasty:

Vegetable ESPLOSION!!!

Ingredients
A portabello mushroom
An egg
Some summer squash
Some feta
Spices you like (I went with onion powder,  paprika, garlic,  red pepper flakes, black truffle salt (yeah seriously))

Slice,  season and sautee squash (set aside)

Clean and cut a whole out of the center of the mushroom

Chop the middle part up and set aside

Spice and sautee holey mushroom

Crack egg into the center- cook to your liking. set aside

Toss center of mushroom and some feta into pan and cool high and quick until juicy and melty, spice.

Awe yeah, i splashed in some red wine vinegar

Then everything into the plate- cheesy and crispy and spicy and tangy and juicy. 

Hell yeah.

Week 1 (2.0)

We're gonna try this again... I think I'm going to start the week with Sunday b/c that's when I REALLY like to cook


Sunday
   Dinner- Pulled Pork
Monday
   Lunch- Leftover Pulled Pork
   Dinner- Chicken casserole (that I didn't make last week)
Tuesday
   Lunch- Leftover Chicken Casserole
   Dinner- Beef & Broccoli and Crab Rangoons (one night of unhealthy is ok, right?)
Wed
   Lunch- Leftover B&B and CRs
   Dinner- M&Js!
Thurs
   Lunch- Go out! (I already know I'm going to Pho... Oh Pho, thou art so delicious)
   Dinner- Rooster Chicken Panini's
Friday-
  Lunch- HOPEFULLY leftover dinner from the night before :)


I might take pictures of some of this, I'll probably even come up with recipes.

Rooster Chicken

OK. So it could have been worst!
I think that I was mildly, marginally successful in this week's endeavor.

Last night I made one of my new favorite recipies (a hybrid of about 47 ideas I found) I call it:
Rooster-sauce-oven-fried-chicken (still a working title)

ingredients:
Chicken boobs
ranch
milk (or half/half or cream or whatever you have)
Siracha (aka Rooster Sauce)
Worchestershire sauce
Panko
choice of spices (I like garlic, onion powder and paprika)

*Preheat oven to 475
*Cut your chicken into thin 'tender' or 'nugget' sized pieces. The smaller they are the quicker they cook

*mix liquid ingredients in one bowl- everything is to taste. You want enough final product to dredge all of your chicken that is like a cream consistancy

*mix panko and spices in a seperate bowl

*dredge chicken in liquid mixture, then into panko

*spread out onto cooking sheet

*bake at 475 for apprx 5-8mins until a bit brown/crispy

*turn heat down to 375 and bake until cooked

Delicious, crispy and a LOT healthier than fried!

alright alright

So... SHOCKER- we strayed from plans last night =$
I went to Sam's with a list of 4 items... we ended up dropping two-hundo. woops.
By the time we were done at Sam's the idea of then also going to the grocery store THEN going home to eat sounded like madness, so clearly, we decided to go out to eat.

Sigh... Rome wasn't built in a day, right?

The lack of groceries/cooking have pushed this week's menu back into oblivion- I've decided that the best reason (read: Excuse) is that trying to start a radical new way of meal-ing (it's a word!) in the middle of the week was just setting myself up for failure. SO while if/when it might work I'll try to stick to the plan... Let's be honest.

Next week will start the reboot.


I swear.


No Really...

Round 1: FIGHT!

Week 1 (well partial week 1, but as earlier established, who's counting?)

[This post will (fingers crossed) happen on Sat/Sun the week before]

• Tuesday- 
• Lunch- leftovers from Olive Garden
• Dinner- Salmon and roasted broccoli
• Wednesday-
• Lunch- Spicy Chicken Panini
• chicken
• leafy green
• mozzerella

• Dinner  Matt and Jens

• Thursday-
• Lunch- Spicy Chicken Panini
• Dinner- 
• http://www.wwrecipes.net/bruschetta-chicken-bake.html  
• http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2010/06/poppy-seed-chicken.html 
  
• 1 cup 2% milk shredded mozzarella cheese
• 5 cups chicken breasts, cooked and cubed 
• 2 cans condensed cream of chicken soup
•  2 cups crushed Ritz crackers (about 1 1/2 rolls of crackers)
• Friday- 
• Lunch- leftovers
• Sunday-
• Dinner-Pulled Pork
• http://www.mybakingaddiction.com/easy-crockpot-pulled-pork-recipe/# 

• 1 large Vidalia onion,
• 1 (4-6 lb) boneless pork butt or shoulder

the reincarnation of Blog

Ugh. No one even imagines reading this anymore.... even my imaginary friend was all- f that mess.

So- since this blog treated others so well in its last life it is reincarnated into a food-planning diary *oooo* *aaaahhh*

We're trying to save up for a condo so that means cutting back on superfluous spending. For us that really means eating out- especially for lunches.

So I'm going to try to be more proactive in lunch and dinner making (and therefore grocery shopping) to try to help with this.

Also, hopefully I'll get to try lots of fun new recipies and stuff.

OK GO!

Ok. I realize this is the 3rd time I'm back again and that not a single person pays attention... BUT I'm back. Let's do this,  bitches.