Week 6: In Which the Eating Continues

Recipes to Go: 507 451
Weeks to Go: 52 46

Recipes Made This Week:
Sparkling Ginger Lemonade
Two-Tone Yeast Bread
Orange Chicken with Sweet Potatoes
Fancy Bean Salad
Chocolate Glazed Almond Bars
Stromboli Sandwiches
Salsa for a Crowd
Pepperoni Spinach Quiche
Tossed Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

Monday night we had dinner with some friends, so I didn't have to make anything. So I made some lemonade and baked some bread.What can I say, it's not a chore unless you have to do it. Plus, nothing smells as good as baking bread. Not even cookies, and I can't believe I'm saying that. I do love me some cookies . . . But the house smelled awesome.Plus, both were really yummy. And this bread is really easy to slice through. And we ate almost two loaves in a week.

Tuesday the missionaries came over for dinner and I made the Orange Chicken in the slow cooker and we ate it with the Fancy Bean Salad, which might become the new Tim Salad. It was tasty.
And I made dessert. Even though the almond bars were chocolate covered, they weren't my favorite.I guess bars without chocolate in them don't really count for me. I am a cookie girl and a chocoholic. But maybe by the year's end I'll have converted, well, expanded my dessert horizons at any rate.

Last week was a really tough one, but this one certainly started out better. Tuesday also brought my sweet old neighbor, the gardener of the street, with this.Nothing is as bad with roses as it would be without.

I didn't cook again until Friday when I made Stromboli Sandwiches.I think fresh Italian bread is something I will be picking up more often.
You get two pictures so you can see the yummyness inside. And also to make up for the fact that I don't have a picture of the salsa. But it was good, a little spicy, and it helped me learn that I don't really like coriander. So now I know I don't like rosemary, or coriander. Still like cilantro though, and they come from the same plant. Interesting. I got to use tomatoes from my very own garden for the salsa. I cannot express in words how totally awesome it is that I, Miss Brown Thumb, am actually eating things planted in soil that I actually touched. Cool.

Well, Saturday morning's breakfast was this beautiful quiche.It might be the best smelling thing I've cooked. The Captain really loved it. But he likes pepperoni.

And to go with all the leftovers we ate for dinner Saturday night, this beautiful salad that ended up being too salty.
It's fine I'll just cut down on the salt next time. At least I know how to fix that problem.

And on a happy note, I think my food photography is improving. This week's pictures look great, even if it is me saying it.