We had our second week of trying to eat breakfast and dinner at home each night. We did pretty well with a few exceptions. Friday night we had some friends over for Bags and drinks, and we ended up ordering pizza. It was delicious and immediately made my stomach hurt. I ate the leftovers on Saturday, and they again made my stomach hurt. Sometimes I am not so smart. Today we were out running errands at lunchtime, so we ended up getting tasty Chipotle.
I tried a few new recipes this week that turned out pretty good. They are as follows.
We got some delicious pork chops from Geest Farms, a local pork producer. Tim grilled them up, and I made Mexllali Sweet Potatoes to accompany them. The mixture of the salty pancetta, spicy adobo sauce, and sweet potatoes was super delicious. I’ll definitely make this recipe again.
We also made Overstuffed Burgers. We didn’t have any duck fat (still haven’t tackled making duck), so we just used olive oil. These burgers turned out quite tasty. They almost tasted like meatloaf.
Tonight I baked a chicken from Behnke Poultry. I cut up 2 lemons and 1/2 a head of garlic, stuffed it in the bird, rubbed the outside down with olive oil and then sprinked it with copious amounts of fresh ground pepper and kosher salt. It turned out fantastic. The skin was super crispy and delicious, and the meat was juicy and tender. For a side I made Roasted and Marinated Mushrooms. I have previously never cooked with shallots, and now I’ve used them twice in a week! The mushrooms were easy and delicious. Definitely will make them again.
Hopefully this week we can do a little better with eating at home. No more pizza for me this week! However, we are planning on hitting up River Roots Live, so I’m going to have to steel myself to resist the fair food!
Outside of eating well, exercising, and playing Bags, we also did the Xstream Cleanup on Saturday morning. Here is a pic of Teem and me pulling a log out of the creek. Here is a group pic. It was a really dirty job, and I got copious amount of gross creek water (steeped in a dead possum) down my left boot. But it was a pretty quick 3 hours, and the group we were with was full of hard workers with positive attitudes. We cleaned a ton of junk out of the creek. It really made me think about my plastic usage too. We found so many straws, plastic bags, and paper cup lids. I’m really glad we did it.
That was our week in a nutshell. Hope you had a great week too!