To finish up this weeks “planned” meals we have the Vegetarian Chili from a Martha Stewart magazine from a few years ago. This is usually thee recipe for the winter but the rainy weather this past week really made this apropos.

Whipped up a Sesame chicken recipe with soba noodles that came out really good. This was also from the Real Simple April 2007 issue.

On one of my trips to the grocery store for some eggs I found myself passing the spice aisle and spotted some Jamaican curry powder. I’ve never cooked with it but I decided to pick up a jar anyway and experiment. So after our trip to Fairway I got the chance to whip up something with the curry powder. I shelled and deveined some jumbo shrimp tossed it with a teaspoon of curry powder and a 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper, threw it into a skillet and panfried it. Voila! I prepared some couscous with broth and parsley and roasted some asparagus to go with the shrimp, needless to say it was really good.

Amanda picked out some recipes to make before we headed to Fairway this week. First recipe we cooked up was from Real Simple April 2007. I present Orecchiette with leeks, peas, and pecorino. If you’d like to get the recipe hit us up.

Mae’s birthday cookies were sugar cookies with royal icing, we picked up some nice colored sprinkles at Whisk in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. M – MAE , 1 – FIRST B-DAY. Amanda had to pasteurize egg whites for the first time for the royal icing.

I allowed my creative juices flow and created a “breakfast stack” this morning. Taking leftover turkey burgers, toast, fried eggs and parmesan cheese and throwing it together.

I used a circle cutter because I like to waste food… actually we ate most of the scraps afterwards. Just flexing some creative muscles.

It bleed yellow gooey yummers.

I made some banana bread at some point between feeding Mae and putting Mae down for nap. This recipe did the trick –> Banana Bread. #food