Food in/and my kitchen

Last week I was a little sporadic with the dinner-picture-taking (and hell, with some of the meal-plan-sticking-to in general; I could never be a food blogger) so I don’t have much to show for this week’s meal plan come to LIIIIIIIFE.

To recap, here was the plan:

Monday’s dinner of burgers was delicious, which should surprise no one, as Delicious is Burger’s middle name. Hi, I’m Ham Delicious Burger, at your service!

Ahem.

Tuesday night’s baked egg boats were a hit and made great breakfast leftovers the next day. I’ll do these again, changing up the meat and cheese based on whatever I have on hand.

This meal was basically just a way to trick Chris into breakfast-for-dinner

The gnocchi was fab, as always, even though Jimaie pointed out in the comments that the recipe I linked to only received three stars. Psh! Hogwash! I have made it many times before and it’s always good. Maybe those three star raters didn’t add enough cheese. I always double the cheese.

Thursday’s vegetable fried rice was some of the best we Chris has ever made. I find rice offensive for a variety of reasons — it’s bland! It falls off your fork or chopsticks too easily! It’s all carbs! I never cook it right! — but this was top notch. I even had the rest of it for lunch on Sunday.

As for the chicken that night, I got a wild hair to make foil-wrapped chicken, a recipe for which I couldn’t find online. I ended up just wrapping some chicken thighs in foil with a little Veri Veri Teriyaki sauce and baked them at high heat. Good flavor, but they ended up basically steaming, rather than having that awesome sticky texture of Chinese restaurant foil-wrapped chicken. So! Back to the drawing board.

Friday’s pizza was scrapped for dinner out at a Mexican restaurant. I was a little hesitant to bring LG, but she was in good company among a bunch of loud drunks in the restaurant bar. She just sort of hung out, but was unable to sleep among the people (her parents) doing shots next to her and by the time we got home at 8pm, she went right to bed and didn’t get up till 9am on Saturday. We’ll be going out to dinner every Friday night from now until whenever that doesn’t work anymore.

In news unrelated to food, but related to where you make food, we started the beginnings of our kitchen remodel this weekend. Nothing too exciting, just painting the cabinets, adding hardware, and replacing/updating the lighting fixtures.

It’s a long time coming for what started out as a very dark, very drab kitchen with a missing pantry door.

Excited to one day (soon!) be showing you the After pictures to this one’s Before. But that guy won’t be in the After shots.

While I am excited to have all our food contained and hidden behind four actual doors, I am a little worried about all that energy I’m sure to expend opening and closing all these doors to get to the rice.