In my fridge, I had one large zucchini that I forgot I had when I should have used it a couple of days ago, 2/3 of a chicken breast I kept out when I froze the rest of the package, and half a can of Cream of Jalapeño soup. (I bought the soup on a "let's see what we can do with this" whim. The soup is a disappointment, it has almost no heat but ( Read more... )

I threw something a little different together for lunch, and it was tasty enough that I'm going to post about it ( Read more... )

I've been in a rut cooking wise, so I wanted to try something a little different.  I picked up a couple of Granny Smiths at the grocery store on Monday.  I was figuring on a curry type thing with pork, but I got the urge to try something I really hadn't done before, so to something not otherwise too daring for me, I decided to add cheese.  It's ( Read more... )

I've had this can of chickpeas in my cupboard for ages.  I also have more big cans of tomatoes than fit in their space, because they've been 88 cents at Schnuck's for the last couple of weeks.  And I have a cannister of barley that's been sitting there for quite a while.  Taking inspiration from these, and the fact that I just bought a package of ( Read more... )

I got creative in the kitchen.

( recipe enclosed )

I tried a little experiment for lunch, and it was pretty successful, so I'm going to record it.  I knew I was going to make something with chicken, but I couldn't decide what.  I considered my pseudo chicken a la king, but it didn't seem quite what I wanted.  I was mulling the idea of some sort of curry, and the idea of spinach occurred to me.  I ( Read more... )

Last night, Meijer had this deal where "all squash" was 3 lbs./$1.  Included in a pile of mixed squash under one of these signs was yellow summer squash so I picked up a couple decent sized ones, and then started trying to decide what I'd do with it.  I drew some inspiration from a can of spinach that's been sitting in the cupboard for a long time ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I bought a bottle of mole concentrate at World Harvest Foods, a nifty international food store in Champaign. I put together something with chicken and zucchini that wasn't quite as successful as I'd hoped, but I still had a lot of it left, and I tried another experiment today, drawing inspiration from the fact that Granny Smith ( Read more... )

I'm celebrating Groundhog Day in my preferred way, with a dinner of sausage spaghetti.  (Sausage?  Ground Hog?  Oh, never mind.)

( Here's the recipe I used today, more or less: )

I am now going to write an entry about what I had for dinner ( Read more... )