This Week's Concoctions Ending 7/23

Here are some highlights of items that I made this week other than the "Weekly Cookie"

These are banana pudding squares. It was for the kids book club that mentioned bananas. It has a crumb bottom, a layer of bananas, banana pudding and cool whip on top (not pictured).

This is from Betty Crocker. It was super easy to make and very good!

BBQ Chicken Fajitas

This is a candy bar pudding pie. It has cut up Three Musketeers, Snickers and Milk Ways on the bottom and then pudding on the top. I think it would've looked better if I had used chocolate pudding, but I only had vanilla and I didn't feel like going to the store. Maybe one day I will able to make my own pie crust successfully...

This is a flu-curing Clementine smoothie. It has 2 clementines, a banana, lemon juice, almond extract and milk. It also called for an avocado, but that sounded unappetizing. However, this smoothie was not very good. Patrick thought adding some vanilla protein powder would make it better but it made it worse.

As part of our vegetable share, we have been getting a lot of beets so I have made several different dishes. I had a half jar of pesto so....

Pesto Roasted Beets

On a side note, this week I made chili. I was out of chili powder, but I noticed that I had a jar of chipotle chili powder. I made the substitution and it was so hot (I generally don't eat a lot of hot foods). I sat there eating it with a box of Kleenex.

This Week's Concoctions Ending 7/16

Here are some highlights of items that I made this week other than the "Weekly Cookie"

 All of the main ingredients were from our fruit and vegetable shares.

We received a quart of blackberries which we overheard would be best used if it was consumed within the next 24 hours. So I made the blackberry cobbler that night for the kids book club the next day.

Blackberry Cobbler

We got 3 pounds of fava beans. I had never really seen what they looked like or much about them other than the references in "Silence of the Lambs". They came in pods that were furry inside with only maybe 3-4 beans/pod. I boiled them for a minute and then had to peel off the outer layer of the bean which yielded the green bean seen below. The taste was pretty meh.

Fava Bean Pesto Pasta

We got 2 pounds of sweet cherries. I had a hard time finding a recipe that I liked...I initially wanted to make a pie with a premade crust and most of the ones that I found were calling for either a can of cherry pie filling or double crusts. I really liked this cake.

Sweet Cherry Pound Cake

This Week's Concoctions Ending 4/9

Here is the only out of the ordinary item that I made this week other than the "Weekly Cookie".

Shrimp Pesto Salad

This Week's Concoctions Ending 2/10

Here is the 1 highlight that I made this week other than the "Weekly Cookie". (It's been a slow, routine week of baked chicken, salads, etc.)

Pesto Stuffed Shells