An improvised pork stew, posted because I want to give props to the Trader Joe's whole wheat couscous I ate it over. I've never been terribly fond of couscous so when I bought this box on a whim it sat around for at least a year before I used it. Prepared according to the instructions on the package I liked it so much I immediately bought another box (and haven't used it yet:-).
The Ina Garten Thanksgiving recipes Google posted in November looked so good that when I had some sweet potatoes handy my first thought was her
smashed sweet potatoes. I liked them but I loved the pork chop (Cook's Ill. Mar/Apr '09 pan-searing technique) with an improvised pan sauce of onions, garlic, white wine, and butter, mainly because pork from
Bluebird Meadows farm is so delicious.
Macaroni and cheese from
Simple Cooking
: easy, cheesy, good.
Influenced by
this and
this and many other recipes over the years, I made a version of spaghetti with fried eggs. It was OK, but unless I were desperately in need of protein I don't know why I'd ever choose it over even more basic spaghetti aglio olio.
Or better yet, something like this.
Beef fillet sauteed with onions; mixed roasted organic potatoes; sour cream horseradish sauce. This photo was on my camera for a long time and whenever Joe beeped his way through my pictures, he'd stop and say, "Yum!" at this one.
French toast technique from
A Homemade Life. Frying in hot oil gave the promised crispness, but next time I'd return to butter for the flavor. On top is blueberries cooked with lemon and ginger syrup.
Creamed boiled eggs on toast, my mom's (or rather
Fannie Farmer's) old recipe. It tasted like Easter weeks of my childhood.
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