cook one new dish every week

I made a wonderful beef stew tonight. I let it cook for about five hours, and the meat practically fell apart when you looked at it.

For Valentine’s dinner, I made this amazing chicken scallopine. I mixed Dijon mustard with the egg that I used to make the breading stick, and the flavor was amazing. YUM!

I made the most DELICIOUS butternut squash soup tonight – it only took 20 minutes and will only set me back 67 calories per serving. I will be making this all the time.

I finally made a stir fry that I liked, with chicken breasts and snow peas. ‘Bout time! Every stir fry I’ve tried in the past has been bland, so I marinated the hell out of the chicken, then cooked it rather slowly. I know my technique isn’t right, but the flavor was spot on.

I cooked a ton of things lately, and most of them turned out great.

While vacationing in Maine, I cooked a huge pot of lobsters, and another of steamers in homemade veggie stock.

This weekend, I made garlic chicken bites, zucchini chips, and some chicken pesto pasta. All of it was really delicious.

I also recently made some to-die-for scalloped potatoes.

From here on out though, I’m going to be trying really healthy recipes, as my ass is too big for my pants.

I wrapped scallops in bacon and broiled them with garlic butter and they were delicious along with some au gratin potatoes. Not very healthy, but definitely worth the calories!

I made the most delicious peach tart last week. I made it out of phyllo dough, peaches, vanilla, cinnamon, and sugar. Then, I topped it with my mock cheesecake made out of a block of light cream cheese, a tub of light cool whip, some lemon juice, and some lemon zest. It was really delicious, and I made it up myself!

I made this for my two friends and myself. It was really delicious. I also made strawberry balsamic sorbet for dessert. I followed the recipe and it was a disaster, so I had to doctor it up myself. The salmon was a lot of work. I probably won’t make it again, but I really enjoyed the finished product.