Week 29: Alone Again

Recipes to Go: 507 227

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Recipes Made This Week

Super Sausage Dip

Turkey and Squash Lasagna

Sweet-and-Sour Brussels Sprouts

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Curried Carrot Soup

Chicken Pot Pie

So while The Husband was away, there was a small crisis at work, which required extra hours from everyone. For convenience, The Husband volunteered for the night shift. It was only supposed to be for a few days, but ended up being pretty much all week. So, essentially, I was alone again. As you can see, this greatly diminished my ambition to cook.

Since I knew that lunch would essentially become breakfast and dinner, I made the sausage dip for lunch on Tuesday. It was good, but not tomato based like I was expecting, so it was not as yummy as I thought it would be.

Yet somehow, it was very addictive, I just had to wait 10 minutes or so between eating fests.

Since I was feeding the missionaries that night, I made turkey and squash lasagna. This was only half as yummy as it could have been, since I somehow missed spaghetti squash in my shopping list and couldn't find any in the local stores. I think the squash would be a great flavor. Not that you can ever really go wrong with lasagna.

It kept us in leftovers for most of the week. And it just kept getting better, as is usually the case in my lasagna experience.

To go with the lasagna, I made brussels sprouts. I can only recall trying brussels sprouts once in my childhood and it was a bitter experience. Just taste-bud wise, it didn't make me resent my mother or anything. But I remember thinking all the rumors and jokes were true, brussels sprouts were horrible. And I decided I didn't like them.

I will now officially redact that statement and say that clearly I just didn't have the right recipe, because now I have tried two that were equally wonderful. I actually found myself craving these all week long.

For dessert I made the pumpkin cupcakes. I had wanted to make these last week, but didn't, obviously. With the pineapple in them, they had a unique taste, more like apple cake than pumpkin cupcakes. And they really needed the frosting, which isn't always the case with cupcakes. Oh, and they stuck to the liners something horrible. I haven't ever had a problem with that before.

But don't let all this talk convince you that they aren't delicious, because they are. And pretty darn healthy, considering.

It's a little sad that I got more than half my cooking for the week done in one day, but that's how it goes sometimes, I guess. It didn't help that I didn't have class Wednesday through Friday, either. Everyone slept in, except The Captain, and our schedules were all over the place. However, we still needed a quick dinner on Wednesday since The Husband went into work earlier in the day so he could lead the church youth activity that night and still get his hours in. So I made the Curried Carrot Soup.

Last time I made a creamy soup, it seemed a little weird to The Husband, but this got rave reviews and inquiries into the ease of construction, which usually means he would like it to be a staple when the year is out. This was a pretty easy recipe, and so perfectly spicy that I won't have a problem making it again.

By Thursday, they had moved The Husband's work schedule from 12 hours at night, to 8 hours ending at 11. So it was slightly more normal and The Captain learned that Daddy hadn't moved away or disappeared. We didn't have Game Night on Friday since I had a meeting and The Husband was working. Saturday, by some miracle, The Husband didn't have to go into work, so I made a chicken pot pie after a family trip to the grocery store. It's been a really long time since we've done that. This is a recipe I feel deserves another chance, since the only problem we had with it was my thyme, which tasted moldy. Unfortunately, that was the base of the gravy, so the whole pie tasted somewhat moldy. Not the pie's fault.