Dinner

What we ate this week…

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As promised in last week’s post, we did in fact eat Glazed Pork Cutlets with Japanese Slaw, the BLT Salad and Baked Chicken Taquitos from I Heart Naptime Cookbook…and Steak with leftover Bearnaise Sauce.   The salad was definitely the week’s winner!  

BUT the surprise was that I made Chrissy Teigan’s internet famous banana bread thanks to the child’s sudden dislike of bananas in his lunch.

Believe me, this banana bread is more cake than bread but it 100% lives up to its hype.  I don’t know if I’ve written about it before but honestly, walk, do not run to the shops to buy bananas and then wait all week for them to ripen so that you can make this bread/cake.  It is the reason I bring back Vanilla Jell-o Pudding Mix back from the US every time I go.  So good.  So so good. If you’re looking for a reason to eat cake for breakfast, this is 100% it.

Oh, and lest you think I was exaggerating about Burgerhead and Butter were last week, Concrete Playground published a list and they were both on it!


This week, we’re having Sweet Pork Hawaiian Haystacks (also from I Heart Naptime), Gazpacho with the leftover croutons from last week’s BLT Salad, standard Old El Paso taco kit tacos for Taco Tuesday, and All Day Noodles with Fried Egg and Furikake.

It will be a pretty easy cooking week since I’ll be in the office most days. The haystacks are made using slow cooked pulled pork and the other meals are pretty quick and easy too!

Oh- and the smallest member of our household won his very first Tennis Tournament! One more trophy for the trophy cabinet!

An unexpected benefit…

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So far, this little experiment is not only fun but is already yielding unexpected benefits:

1) An excuse to catch up with friends for dinner– did I mention I LOVE throwing dinner parties

2) A way to occupy myself while I’m in between paying gigs-  a lot more entertaining than some of the alternatives….

3) Dinner! Dusting off randomly picking up a cookbook, opens up so many more options for what to cook for dinner…. Thanks to my current position of being “job challenged”, I actually do have time to cook fun and complex dinners at night– except for Mondays and Tuesdays when I go to “dance” classes.

I’m the first to admit, I should be doing more baking and cooking while I’m not working, although considering I’m supposed to be gluten-free and with summer coming, I’m not sure having loads of tempting, tasty, gluten filled baked goods in the house is the right plan….  However, I digress.  The Runner was clearly not impressed with his toasted sandwich for dinner last night because this morning I awoke to find Apples for Jam open on the counter.   The Runner swears he was only “flicking through the book” and “wasn’t sure what page he left it on”, however  I will take the not so subtle hint and make the man his Spaghetti with Egg and Toasted Parsley Breadcrumbs for dinner!