What I’m eating Wednesday

Well I sort of feel like a fraud for even posting this, because this week and last week have been shitshows when it comes to food (we’ve all been sick, send help), but it is Wednesday, so here we go…here are some things we’ve been eating recently-ish.

Carrot Tahini Salad With Crisped Chickpeas (Smitten Kitchen)
This is so good. I double the garbanzo beans because YES.

Carrots under there somewhere…

Eggplant Rollatini (Skinny Taste)
Even though it comes from a blog with the worst name ever (what, doesn’t everyone want to be skinny? Isn’t that your main goal in life?!) this was TASTY. I used much more ricotta than it called for (whole fat, too–quick, someone call the skinny police) and I added sausage to the sauce. Neither Chris nor I usually like eggplant, but we liked it here. (Thanks, Maura, for the recipe rec!)

Chicken Shawarma (Panning the Globe)
This was tasty. It’d be tasty with the carrot tahini salad above, but maybe that’d be too much tahini? Possibly. I marinated it for well over 24 hours (used lemon zest, not juice in the marinade) and served it sans pita and on a salad instead. (Again, thanks Maura!)

Greek Meatballs (Michael Symon)
I bake my meatballs to have easier cleanup, but I’ve also pan-fried them like he does. I served this with roasted garbanzo beans (see the carrot tahini salad recipe for the method) and salad.

We like garbanzo beans here…

Chicken tikka masala (The Kitchn)
This was supposed to be crock-potted, but I was home with an ear-infected kid that day, so I made it on the stovetop instead. It was really good (I used chicken breasts instead of thighs), but it didn’t get creamy-looking like the picture on the recipe shows. I used like half a can of coconut milk, so who knows.

That’s what we’ve been cooking up! What about you?