Week 35: Off Again

Recipes to Go: 507 194

Weeks to Go: 52 16

Recipes Made This Week

Seafood Angel Hair

Snap Peas 'n' Mushrooms

Nutty Cheese Tortellini

Snow Pea Stir-Fry

Root Vegetable Soup with Sausage

Sunshine Gelatin Mold

After a week by myself, it was my turn to pack up and leave again. Only, I got to take The Captain with me. Which, while it was nice while we were with family in Utah (for a wedding), was not so great on the flights over. I've flown alone with The Captain many times now, and the actual airplanes were totally easy, but keeping hold of him and the bags in the many airports was not. I think it would have been hard for anyone, but being pregnant certainly didn't help any.

But before that whole adventure, I did get to make some food for the family. We had the Seafood Angel Hair, which was delicious. I will have to start keeping and using seafood. It's not usually something I think of for a go-to meal, but shrimp cooks really fast and is very tasty. Well, I have yet to convince The Captain of that, but he'll come around. He already loves fish.

To go with that, we had the Snap Peas 'n' Mushrooms. I bought frozen snap peas because they're so expensive around here, especially out of season. I love peas, and mushrooms, so it was pretty much inevitable that I'd love this.

Along with my snap peas, I also got some frozen tortellini. And the Nutty Cheese Torellini was nothing I would have thought up, but it was great. A fast, one-dish meal and the leftovers were great.

Speaking of leftovers, the Snow Pea Stir Fry earned me a lunch-time, next day email of thanks from The Husband. And it was another really easy one. Basically soy sauce in a skillet with snow peas. Who knew?

One of the things I (and my mom) was looking forward to on my trip to Utah was having time and a baby sitter to cook through a lot of recipes. I was hoping to catch up on some lost time. We started with a trip to the store and a root vegetable soup.

Can't say that I used all the same veggies that the recipe called for, but they were all roots, so it counts. And it was delicious. It was nice to have a little sausage in the soup, though next time, I'd add more. Even though we put in a pound and the recipe called for a 1/4. It seemed like there was barely any sausage in there at all.

Saturday, in addition to the soup, we also put together the Sunshine Gelatin Mold for the family dinner on Sunday.

I don't have any jello molds at my house, and we haven't really been big jello eaters, but my family certainly is, so I made all but one jello recipe while I was there. This one was mixed with ice cream, so it was good, as you may imagine.