Cooks in the Kitchen: Week 4

The two new recipes from last time were a smash. The meatball soup was a particular favorite of mine. Garnished with a little bit of coconut cream it was perfect for a cold night. I didn't end up making the truffles but made two cakes instead. I also added in some waffles, pork ribs, and a loaf of bread.

For this next installment I'm getting a bit wiser to the way things work and I'm starting quite a few things on Friday night. With the roast (I'll stop eating these when they stop tasting so amazing and/or summer starts) and ground beef a la homemade sausage, I'm cooking up a couple of acorn squashes and making up the chocolate for the chocolate chunks in my cookies.

I'm mainly sticking with old favorites from the last couple of installments since I've been, and will continue to, work really long hours at work. I'm going to need portable comfort food and lots of it. Breakfast is the usual deal so I'll skip over that and get to the chicken stew and chicken and gravy with cauliflower mash I'm planning on making. The stew is the same one I made two weeks ago (this time I'm not sharing) and the chicken with cauliflower mash is a combination of two recipes. I'm going to try making them both in the same crockpot, layering the food- onions, chicken, cauliflower- and then mashing and mixing as needed. For dinners I'm planning on a new ginger chicken recipe as well as the staple roast and sweet potatoes. And finally, I'm doubling up on pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for snacks.

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