All of this middle eastern food is making me crazy!
@mgaretz – gorgeous challah. The very first bread I ever made was a challah loaf. I was 19 and it was wildly successful – better bread than I’ve made in the ensuing 40 years. One of my friends was Jewish and insisted on taking some to his mom, who asked me to make it for her every so often from then until I moved away for good. No idea what the recipe was, but yours looks so good, I think I need to try again!
@Franci – love the corn fritters. Perfect summer dish!
@liamsaunt – those are perhaps the most beautifully grilled steaks I’ve ever seen!
Made some dinners to take over to Mr. Kim’s dad and stepmom. I made enough that we’ll also be eating them this week. I realized that made more sense and cut down on the mountain of cooking I’ve been dreading. I love to cook, but you can have too much of a good thing.
IP braised beef and gravy:
Sour cream potatoes:
Green beans:
Pardon the solidified bacon grease – I forgot to take a picture while they were hot.
The next meal was Apricot BBQ Chicken:
Mr. Kim and I thought it would be better with thighs, but I am "shopping" in their crammed freezer, trying to not let all that food go to waste and they only eat boneless, skinless.
Broccoli casserole:
This was really good – it calls for using FRESH broccoli, which is unusual in a broccoli casserole. And I took a microwavable rice pouch – easy enough that his dad should be able to do it with his stepmom supervising.
Dinner for us Friday night was roast chicken done in the CSO:
Salad:
Jessica requested roasted broccoli and @Marlene's Smashed Potatoes:
Yeast rolls and gravy (freezer surprise):
Not a great job on defatting!
Plated – without:
and with:
Dinner tonight started with a salad:
And some of the Apricot BBQ chicken we took to Mr. Kim’s parents, cheater creamed corn (a bag of frozen corn + a can of creamed corn), roast broccoli, yeast roll, and chicken rice a roni:
