Catching Up

My menu plans for last week kind of fell apart. It happens. I go to the grocery store, I buy food for the week, but then things happen and for whatever reason we end up eating out.

Tuesday I made Italian Wedding Soup from Cooks Illustrated. It was ok. I am convinced if I make enough different kinds of soup, I will eventually find one I like (Cooks Illustrated does have an excellent cream of tomato soup recipe). I also made an arugula salad. I love arugula. This salad was delicious, I will definitely make it again: Pear, Arugula and Pancetta Salad from Epicurious.

Wednesday I needed to use the leftover meat (a combination of ground pork and ground beef) from the meatballs in the Italian Wedding soup. So I made burgers, with sauteed mushrooms (which I had bought for a meal the previous week that we never made) and some left over provolone cheese. They were quite delicious actually.

Thursday I went to an auction, where dinner consisted of several glasses of wine.

Friday we ate at the local taco truck. I love the taco truck.

Saturday we had BBQ at a friends’ house after spending the afternoon helping them lay sod. There are now three BBQ places in Ballard. This one was pretty good. They did have good greens.

Sunday was Easter dinner at another friends’ house. I brought gougeres.

Tonight I made roasted salmon, which was supposed to be on the menu last week but never seemed to happen. It was really good, and super fast and easy. Best of all (from Adam’s perspective) only two dishes to clean! I’ve experimented with a lot of different ways of cooking salmon, and I have concluded that roasting is really the best.