I'd had plans to go to PA this weekend for a garlic festival to finally see my cousin, but it was cancelled due to rain. So instead, I had grand intentions about getting a lot done and preparing many posts for my blog today. Instead, after an epic Costco trip, I started a batch of croissants from Tartine, tried to figure out what to make with all the fresh vegetables I managed to cart home (barely), made three batches of cookies to freeze for later instead, roasted a bunch of red peppers and eggplant for turning into chickpea red pepper fritatta and baingan bharta respectively, then parked myself on the couch with the fourth book in a YA series, Throne of Glass, which I cannot tear myself away from. It's a good thing the library hasn't lent me book five yet, so I can actually do something useful with myself tomorrow.
As I might have overshopped just a smidgen, my plan for the week is to efficiently cook from my fridge stocked full of mushrooms, kale, spinach, cabbage, apples, carrots, spring onions, and beets plus a pantry full of squash, sweet potatoes, and onions. Those ingredients are guiding this week's list of recipe ideas:*
A) Jennie's Chicken Pelau from Small Victories
B) Tomato, Beet & Carrot Soup from Gjelina
C) Buckwheat Bergamot Double Chocolate Cookies {gluten-free} from Alternative Baker
D) Kabocha, Olive Oil, and Bittersweet Chocolate Cake from Gjelina
As usual, please vote by Monday night, and if you have a different idea or would like to see something proposed previously, please say so here!
*Well, okay, the produce has nothing to do with the chocolate cookies....
A) Chicken Pelau has my vote.
While we are never in California in July for the Gilroy Garlic Festival we really enjoy visiting the town.