Weekend Food

We had a wonderful weekend filled with lots of food!

Eggs Benedict

Tom makes wonderful eggs benedict. We use smoked turkey instead of Canadian bacon, Tom poaches eggs perfectly and tops it with homemade hollandaise.

Spanish chicken with refried beans and rice

There is a wonderful Mexican restaurant close to us that does a chicken dish called Pollo Arriero. I order it every time, so Tom decided to try to make it. The chicken is marinated in hot sauce and butter, topped with sauteed onions and cheese. Then its baked. Its served with homemade refried beans and confetti rice.

Eggs, bacon, and toast

This was Tom's Sunday breakfast. 3 eggs over easy, 1/2 pound of bacon, and toast.

Potato Corn Chowder

I made dinner tonight! A potato corn chowder, topped with cheese and cayanne. Here's the recipe!

Ingredients
3 tablespoons butter

1 yellow onion chopped

1 tablespoon flour

32 ounces vegetable broth

2 1/2 cup diced Yukon Gold potatoes (bout 4 large)

2 cups frozen yellow corn

2/3 cup milk

1 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

Salt and pepper to taste

Pinch of cayenne pepper (garnish)

Chopped parsley (garnish)

Method
In a large saucepan over medium high heat, melt butter and sauté onion about 5 minutes, until tender. Mix in flour, coating the onion. Add broth and bring to a boil, whisking constantly until smooth. Reduce heat, add potatoes and simmer 20 minutes until tender. Slightly mash potatoes in soup, then stir in corn and milk. Cook another 5 minutes, remove from heat and stir in cheddar cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish, if desired.

Not Thanksgiving

Roast Chicken, Broccoli, Polish Stuffing, Gravy

Plated

We're doing Thanksgiving at my mom's house this year, which means no cooking for Tom. So tonight he roasted a chicken, which he stuffed with onions. The broccoli is just steamed with butter. The Polish stuffing is incredible. Its a bread and potato dressing cooked next to the bird, from Tom's great-grandmother's recipe. The gravy is made with the chicken drippings, giblets, and a roux and its the best gravy I've ever had.

Moving

As many of you know, we've recently moved. So, we haven't had much in the way of cooking because we've been surrounded by boxes. Tom got a little bit of cooking in once we found the kitchen, so I took some pictures. When I found the camera. We're getting a new kitchen in December, so we're only kind of unpacked. We did get a fancy new stove today though, and its gas instead of electric!

Marinated Chicken with broccoli in cheese sauce

Chicken thigh marinated in homemade italian dressing. We had some frozen broccoli and needed some green.

Chicken in creamy marinara on pasta

Tom's homemade marinara sauce with some cream in it, peppers, onions, mushrooms, and other stuff. Served on angel hair pasta. This was so amazingly good. Tom is the best.

Fancy New Stove!


BAR!
Our basement has a bar in it! As you can see, we still need to put carpet in, but the walls have been painted. Tom put up the lighting and glass shelves. I think we'll get good use out of this area.

Football

Sunday is football day, so Tom made football food!

Chicken "Wings"

A few months ago Tom made some buffalo chicken in the oven and I told him I liked them as much as regular wings. So he made them for me today! I got excited and ate some before I remembered to take a picture. They are breaded and baked and then dredged in hot sauce.

Pizza

This is the precooked pizza. Tom-made dough and sauce. I topped my pizza with cheese, garlic, onion, scallions, mushrooms, and turkey pepperoni.

Cooked Pizza

Tom's Pizza

Tom put some of the leftover buffalo chicken, bacon, onions, scallions, and mushrooms on his pizza.

Teriyaki

Teriyaki chicken sausage...

This is teriyaki chicken sausage over confetti rice. Its served with veggies in a thai peanut ginger sauce topped with scallions.

Salsa Corn Chowder

Salsa Corn Chowder

Tonight I let Tom take the night off and I cooked dinner. We have a freezer full of corn from this summer, so I decided I needed to find some way to use it. At least some of it.

To make this, I cooked onions in butter, added flour, chili powder, and cumin. Then I added chicken broth, salsa, and corn. After that boiled I poured it over cream cheese and added milk. Its topped with sour cream and fresh diced tomatoes (from the produce auction, of course).

This was super easy and really good, I'm sure I will make it again.

Fried Chicken

Fried Chicken, Broccoli Salad, and Tossed Salad
Another Tom creation. Fried chicken that has been marinated in pickle brine. Breaded with italian seasoning, cayanne, and dill. He used boneless, skinless chicken thighs for this and pan fried them. So amazingly good.

I went to the produce auction today and brought home a lot of broccoli, so we had broccoli salad. Made with mayo, sour cream, cheese, and pepper.

We had a basic tossed salad as well, we needed to use it or toss it. We opted for use it.