Week Five

Monday-Left over spaghetti and meatballs. I generally enjoy them left over even more than I did when we had them the first time. Again I was not disappointed. Charlotte also enjoyed them, as did Sam who did clean up on the carpet. Yum for everyone.

Tuesday-Lucas and I had an extraordinarily delicious dinner. We had marinated round steak, baked potatoes, yummy artisan cheesy garlic bread, and my favorite...asparagus. I love when we can find asparagus at a reasonable price-it is such a fabulous vegetable. We are planning to attempt growing asparagus this year in one of our garden boxes. I am very hopeful that it will be fruitful.

Wednesday-mmmm tortilini soup. My mom makes this very nice soup with a simple chicken broth and vegetables. Then it has these perfectly plump cheese filled tortilinis. We like to spice the broth up a little by adding red pepper and red pepper flakes. We had some left over bread from Monday night that went perfectly with the soup and it was delish. We are having some cold, wet weather on our mountain so that soup was just the ticket.

Thursday-Scavengers we are. Lots of left overs to work on...we made good progress!

Friday-We went to Pastinis before the gymnastics meet. I had chicken marsala and what I loved about it was the artichoke hearts. They have such a nice, salty flavor to them. It is a reminder to me to add them to my cooking more often.

Saturday-In our preparations for meat fare (see Sunday's post) we grilled some steaks (twice this week!). Kendra's parents generously left some meat with us when they were here a couple weeks ago, so we have been working on that. They were very good, BUT the absolute highlight was the grilled asparagus with garlic and parsley. It was so tasty. The garlic pieces crisped up with the oil and seasonings to make these perfect little chips to eat with the asparagus spear. Plus, they only cooked for about 7 minutes in the oven before they were done. I absolutely recommend them. An additional meal highlight for the day was our breakfast. We shared waffles, bacon, and plum sauce with Mom and Les, who spent the night after the OSU meet. We all enjoyed the waffles, which is 100% due to the recipe we use: waffles.  If you are going to eat waffles, eat these ones!

Sunday-WARNING NON-MEAT-EATERS, this post is very meaty! Today is meat fare, which means today was the last day for meat before lent (as the childbearing, breast feeding one in the house, this doesn't apply to me). So for dinner we ate...meat. It turned out to be a hysterical combination of dishes. I made brocoli (we had to have something green) and cole slaw (something crunchy) and I also made cheesy rice with jalapenos (very spicy)...all of this accompanied the grilled steak, hot links, and pork loin (wow) and...get this...a pepperoni pizza (Sally's request). It was great, and delicious. A little of everything please. And then, we ended with root beer floats. I am very full!