What we've been eating

This is just a little rundown of what we've been eating!

Meals

Recently I decided to approach meal planning a little differently. Generally I spend about an hour going through our saved meal files (yes, tedious), pick a few, narrow them down and write the grocery list. But in the last few weeks I've changed up the approach a bit. Two things have led to the change in meal planning. 1) We are trying to minimize our food waste and 2) I got an iPad through work and synced several of our magazine subscriptions with it. It's been fun to select an issue or two and pull out a few recipes to try for the week.

Last week we tried out a new pizza recipe - Goat Cheese & Asparagus pizza. A tasty and fun alternative to some of the more traditional pizzas.

This past weekend we made the cover recipe from Bon Appetit - chicken khao soi. We pretty much followed the recipe exactly and it turned out really well. Next time I think I would change a few things to try to reduce the fat content (chicken breast instead of thigh, low fat coconut milk). This made for a great work week recipe because it was easy to reheat and we each could customize it based on our likes.

We also made the stuffed cabbage recipe from Smitten Kitchen and roasted some fingerling potatoes as a side. It took me about an hour to prep the entire meal and then another hour to cook but the recipe is easy, simple, and cheap. Oh, and really yummy.

Desserts

I tried two more recipes from the Good to the Grain cookbook I got two Christmas' ago from my SIL and BIL. The first recipe, Sand cookies, used Kamut flour. Yeah, I had no idea either until I raided the Bob's Red Mill section at our local grocery store and found it. The cookies only have four ingredients: Kamut flour, powdered sugar, salt and high quality unsalted butter. They are seriously amazing and super easy to make.

The second cookie recipe I whipped together for a last minute dinner with neighbors. It was a simple chocolate chip recipe made entirely with whole wheat flour. Also quite tasty and no one knew they were made with whole wheat flour! I added a little smoked sea salt to the tops of the second batch - yummy!

I apparently was not great at taking pictures of all of this. Oh well!