I'd had plans to go to PA this weekend for a garlic festival to finally see my cousin, but it was cancelled due to rain. So instead, I had grand intentions about getting a lot done and preparing many posts for my blog today. Instead, after an epic Costco trip, I started a batch of croissants from Tartine, tried to figure out what to make with all the fresh vegetables I managed to cart home (barely), made three batches of cookies to freeze for later instead, roasted a bunch of red peppers and eggplant for turning into chickpea red pepper fritatta and baingan bharta respectively, then parked myself on the couch with the fourth book in a YA series, Throne of Glass, which I cannot tear myself away from. It's a good thing the library hasn't lent me book five yet, so I can actually do something useful with myself tomorrow.
As I might have overshopped just a smidgen, my plan for the week is to efficiently cook from my fridge stocked full of mushrooms, kale, spinach, cabbage, apples, carrots, spring onions, and beets plus a pantry full of squash, sweet potatoes, and onions. Those ingredients are guiding this week's list of recipe ideas:*
A) Jennie's Chicken Pelau from Small Victories
B) Tomato, Beet & Carrot Soup from Gjelina
C) Buckwheat Bergamot Double Chocolate Cookies {gluten-free} from Alternative Baker
D) Kabocha, Olive Oil, and Bittersweet Chocolate Cake from Gjelina
As usual, please vote by Monday night, and if you have a different idea or would like to see something proposed previously, please say so here!
*Well, okay, the produce has nothing to do with the chocolate cookies....
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A) Chicken Pelau has my vote.
While we are never in California in July for the Gilroy Garlic Festival we really enjoy visiting the town.