Sometimes looking back at my food pictures makes me hungry again. 😁 The Husband starts traveling for work shortly, so you might see a few more vegetarian meals and thinks like barley and lentils. I thought I might be lonely, but Piggy is turning out to be goofy and so lovable that I might be less lonely than I think. She came with me to a new and beautiful park today for my outdoor staff meeting and charmed everyone. She mostly snoozed after saying hello.

We don’t think she has had much people food. She doesn’t even seem to get excited about peanut butter! That’s fine with me, it’ll be more peanut butter for me! I haven’t made any blog worthy pb recipes lately though. I’ll have to work on that.

Tonight’s chicken dish was good. I made tequila lime chicken with cilantro rice. We had chips and salsa on the side.

I made chocolate chip pecan muffins for breakfast that were pretty yummy. They were just my standard recipe with add ins.

Instant Pot Korean beef made an appearance. It’s super quick and delicious, so works well for work nights.

We had steak and potatoes on a sheet pan as well. I don’t remember where I got the recipe though. We used round steaks.

We needed some quick and easy comfort food one night after both of us were missing Fancy, so I made delicious caramel apple waffles with homemade caramel and whipped cream. Mmm… I made everyone jealous at work when I brought them for lunch the next day. I also cannot find this recipe, but you can use your favorite waffle recipe and store bought caramel for easier waffles. I just peeled and cooked down three or four apples with butter, cinnamon, and sugar.

On one of our nicer days, we grilled these chicken tenderloins and had them with a Mexican rice side and fresh pico. They were yummy!

And last, but not least, pasta salad with transportation shaped noodles. Hey now, I know what you’re thinking, but adults need whimsy and fun noodle shapes too! 😁

We’re trying to get back in the habit of meal planning again. Our days have been messed up, so we have taken our 3 month dive into on the fly dinners again, but it’s not super relaxing, so are trying to get structure back. I took all next week off from work, so am going to try to experiment with some new dishes. I may also can or bake, but we’ll see how lazy I feel.

I’m headed off to bed. I do have a new recipe to write up, but got a little too much sun today resulting in heat hives, so am super sleepy from the allergy meds. I think you probably want the recipe to actually make sense. 😬 So have a lovely night!

Hello from the variable weather of today. Yesterday it was so windy and cold that I couldn’t go outside for long because I like breathing without coughing. Our meals lately have been a lot of warm things, soups, and things without dairy as we both have a cold. We’re finally getting over it, although the Husband thinks he’s getting sick again. He better keep it to himself this time! I don’t need a second round, thank you.

I have been making sure to eat a good breakfast, even cooking, when I actually get up in time. I made these double chocolate, peanut butter chip muffins from a Food Network website recipe, but wasn’t happy with them.

They were super greasy, which was pretty disappointing. Normally I have good luck with FN recipes. I won’t post this one though, because it’s not very good.

I even made a fancy breakfast of French Toast for us last weekend. Nothing fancy, couple eggs, a cup of milk, and some cinnamon. I added cinnamon to whipped cream too. We used our friends’ homemade maple syrup as well and had chicken sausages.

I made chocolate chip pecan waffles for dinner one of the nights the Husband was moving his office late. I used Penzey’s Pie Spice in the batter as well, for a little extra deliciousness.

I got excited upon seeing a sale on passionfruit at the grocery store and bought 5 of them to play with. I ended up making passionfruit curd, which was absolutely delicious! Here’s the recipe I used. https://www.theflavorbender.com/make-passion-fruit-curd/

The Flavor Bender website has a lot of popup adds, so I almost used a different site, but it looked like the easiest one and had freezing directions as well. Here’s what the curd looked like on homemade yogurt.

It has a very distinct smell, which when you got a certain whiff was actually mildly unpleasant. The pulp smells like what you think tropical things smell like. It’s hard to describe! I was a little bit doubtful because of that and the Husband almost took the dog for an extra walk to escape it. It’s deliciously tart and has some texture from the seeds. It was amazing in yogurt, as they tamed each other. I felt so fancy!

Right as the Husband started the move in his new office, and coincidently his cold, we had corned beef in the crock pot. I don’t have a picture of that because we ate at different times, but I do have a picture of what I made with the leftovers. We had corned beef hash.

I used a recipe from The Spruce Eats, but left out the carrots and cabbage. https://www.thespruceeats.com/corned-beef-hash-with-cabbage-and-carrots-3054282

It may look homely, but it was delicious. The potatoes could be a little crispier, but they tasted good. The Husband raved about it and requested corned beef again, specifically so we could have this hash. We had fruit for a side as well, of course.

Tequila lime chicken with cilantro rice made an appearance on our menu again. It’s super easy and tasty.

We had burgers a week apart as well; beef burgers first and then turkey burgers.

The Husband requested seasoned fries and we had toasted buns. Mmmm. I used Montreal Steak seasoning in the burgers. I didn’t use a recipe for either burger, just made it up as I went along.

Here’s the turkey burgers with Cajun spices and seasoned fries. I was going to serve chips, but the Husband said that fries would “be good for my soul,” so that’s why we had fries again.

The turkey burgers turned out yummy as well.

We have been using Jet Tila’s 101 Asian Dishes You Need To Cook Before You Die. It’s been good so far, but I will save those recipes for a cookbook review, as there’s a couple more that we want to try first.

The Husband and Fancy are snoozing on the couch next to me and it’s making me super sleepy. It might be time for bed. Hopefully that will help kick the last of this cold!

Have a cozy night!