Successful meals this week

[readera]

 This week i have done fairly well on making meals at home. I am trying to keep doing that for several reasons- money, better quality & taste, more variety in food. 

Risotto with bacon, roasted bell pepper & tomato. Finished with butter, parm cheese & lemon juice. Rather rich but it did have some veggies. Very comforting. Based on hello fresh recipe. 

Pot roast with carrots & russet potatoes. Also made dinner rolls to go with the leftovers. Very good. Remember to make rolls ahead of time so we can have them with the meal & not just the leftovers. Recipes for Instant pot pot roast & dinner rolls. Do put honey butter on them if you have honey. 

Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans. The meatloaf was my go to alton brown recipe with some alteration. I used a bit less meat, 1 lb each of ground chuck & ground turkey. Added 2 big handfuls of spinach. I used rits crackers since i didn't have any bread on the house. I have also used breadcrumbs from homemade bread & the crutons in the recipe before. They were all fine.  Mashed potatoes were done in the instant pot, though I did make sure to take the skins off. The green beans were good & I was surprised we ate the whole 1lb i made. I could have cooked them a bit longer but they were fine. 

Any meals you have made lately that were really good? The pot roast was the new recipe I tried & it is already saved for future use. 😁 

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Yay food!

There is a really nice ramen brand which Wolf gets from Costco and I have been having fun topping it with interesting things.

I bought myself a paddle slicer which turns anything that fits into paper thin slices, so I've been sautéing summer squash with garlic or shallots, all run through the paddle slicer. We also have sous vide beef on hand often -- blade steak works really well in the sous vide as about half of the gristle line melts away. So that's the kind of thing I've been slicing up and putting on my ramen.

Also I try to help keep my roommates fed, so I was working on incorporating scallions into sourdough crumpets for the teenager. I may re-start the sourdough culture and try again.

[readera]

Ohh Ramen is nice & toppings are fun to play with. The sous vide steak sounds really tasty!

[zesty_pinto]

Michelle figured out how to make Japanese milk bread. It was in a quest to get some homemade loaves that are equal to the wonder bread stuff.

This stuff is fantastic. It's the best bread we've ever had in terms of softness and even in long storage it comes out being ridiculously good. I joked that after having that with some of our homemade jam, that our kitchen got gentrified.

Also found that I can make pesto out of anything, which is awesome because we have a CSA full of vegetables and some I just aren't a fan of (romaine is ugh for me).

[readera]

Ooh! I've seen a recipe form japanese milk bread but I haven't tried it yet. They have a technique for making it softer & last longer.

Yay for pesto & using up ingredients.

I had a salad for lunch today with the last of the berries plus spinach & some Oaxaca cheese. It was really nice & used up the last of the fruit.