Happy Birthday to your wife, Mike!
I agree Joan - cook once, eat twice! But I still struggle with the cook once, eat twice, eat three times, and sometimes even eat four times! I often put some of it into the freezer, but usually recognize it if I pull it out for a fourth meal! Ugh.
I made two loaves of whole wheat sandwich bread this morning.
Breakfast sausages with blueberry pancakes and maple syrup.
When we lived in Germany, my husband spent a lot of time with the local Jagermeister, (or "hunt master" which we might interpret as forest ranger) who also raised hunting dogs and entered them in competitions. My husband had to learn the German commands for when he showed the dogs. Today, my son is a K-9 officer, and he uses mostly German language to communicate with his shepherds and malinois (the family pets as well as the working dogs).
I thought I posted this a couple of minutes ago, but I don't see it here, so again, Dinner tonight was grilled chicken thighs, quinoa with veggies, and a green salad.
I started baking cookies for my cookie tray today, but realized as I started this post that my first cookie of the season was non-baked! I'm calling it "baking" anyway! I made Buckeye Bars and they will be the first to disappear from the cookie trays. I put most of them into the freezer, but if my husband discovers them, they will disappear before they even make it onto the trays!
Tonight we ate grilled chicken thighs, quinoa with veggies, and a green salad.
Today I made chili and we ate it with Olive-Gruyere rolls from the freezer.
I'm going to try that recipe soon, Mike although I'm not sure which edition I have. I'll have to look for it.
I made creamed chicken on baked potatoes. I made the cream sauce from scratch, and really got the flavor profile perfectly: chicken broth, sauteed onion and celery, roasted garlic, thyme, and marjoram. Thyme is probably my favorite herb, after garlic of course! (which I realize is not an herb!)
I made two loaves of whole wheat sandwich bread today.
Dinner tonight was sirloin tips, quinoa salad with black beans, corn, tomatoes, onions, peppers, black olives, feta, lime dressing and a green salad.
They look fine, Mike. I can almost taste one now.
We had burgers on the buns I made this morning. My husband cooked them on the grill, with the temperature at 10* and going down to 0 tonight.
I baked a spiral cinnamon bun in my large cast iron skillet. I added thinly sliced apples. This is the kind where you put a melted butter-cinnamon-brown sugar mixture in the skillet, and wind the dough strips that are covered with more butter-cinnamon-brown sugar into one large bun. When it done, flip it over onto a plate and drizzle with icing or coat with a thick frosting. I skipped that part, it's sweet enough without it. I find the flipping-over to be nerve-wracking, and when flipping a hot 14" cast iron skillet it's downright terrifying - but worth it!
