Potato pancakes are one of the most basic food. The odds are very good you have a potato, onion, and eggs just hanging around your house so this is a great meal or snack for a night when you don’t want to make anything too fancy. The texture of these will change depending on which way you grate the potatoes. I just simply used a mandolin to julienne them but feel free to use a box grater or even get your lazy on and drop them in a food processor!
While I do have a perfectly good quiche recipe already posted, this combination of things is completely out of this world and deserves it’s own recipe. Also in this one I used the shortcut of freezer puff pastry which creates a light vehicle for this but you can make your own crust or even use a pie crust if that’s how you want to do it.
I thought for a while that I didn’t like carrot cake but after some careful considerate I think I just don’t like the overly sweet commercially made carrot cakes. For this one I doubled the amount of spices to give it an extra kick too.
Just a quick and delicious salad that brightens up any meal and come together in 5 minutes. I love myself some green salad but sometimes you just need something a bit different.
Who doesn’t love Pad Thai? It’s the perfect Thai style blend of sweet, sour, salty, savory, and spicy flavors. I always assumed it was difficult to make but actually it only takes a couple of minutes! The hardest part is going to the store and getting rice noodles which is something I don’t usually keep on hand. You can make this easily vegetarian or vegan with a couple quick swaps but I like fish sauce too much myself!
All the flavors of a taco neatly baked in to a casserole. My only problem with this recipe is that because it uses cans you can’t halve it really neatly unless you’re making something with the other half of those cans and this really makes eight full servings of food and I tend to enjoy it the first three times and then get bored and it doesn’t freeze particularly well.
We first had spätzle in Germany, which probably surprises no one, and we quickly fell in love with it. It’s a very simple recipe that provides you with pillow soft egg noodles. You can make these with a Spätzlehobel (spätzle maker) OR you can push the dough through colander or you can try your hand at cutting them on the edge of a board which looked like all together too much work. Yeah the maker is a mono-tasker but for $5 it was worth it for me.
This weekend is the cider festival! I’m pretty excited about it, especially because I had to miss last years event. On Sunday we’re going to the Seattle Craft Uprising as well, which is at the Space Needle. We’ll probably walk over to get all our weekend exercise in one go 🙂
Saturday Cider Festival!
leftovers (vindaloo, shrimp fajita)
Sunday big salad with boiled egg
chicken sausage, peppers, potatoes
Monday tuscan chicken soup, carrots/hummus
chicken goulash over noodles
Tuesday bean burger, salad, fruit
chicken sausage, peppers, potatoes
Wednesday tuscan chicken soup, carrots/hummus
baked salmon, couscous, salad
Thursday bean burger, salad, fruit
chicken goulash over noodles
Friday leftovers
out @ EMP
Chicken Goulash
Tuscan Chicken Soup
Bean Burgers
Roasted Chicken with Peppers and Potatoes
onions
carrots
zucchini
brussel sprouts
potatoes
peppers
salad
jalapenos
apples
cherries
eggs
milk
cereal
black beans
small pasta
tomato sauce
ground turkey
chicken thighs
I love Oyakodon and Yakisoba so for this dish I decided to combined the best of both worlds and then top it with a perfect little fried egg hat. The dish is definitely one best saved for a special occasion thanks to a considerable amount of work but it not fail to impress any guest.
Who doesn’t love funfetti!? Basically a funfetti cake is just white cake in which you dumped a bunched of sprinkles (aka colorful sugar) in to. It really only make the cake better! This is one I did for Gravity Falls party hence the colorful buttercream and fondant designed but you can do whatever you like on top.