Words cannot describe how good this dish was... because it wasn't good. For as pretty as it looks, it was bland (at best) with a really bad aftertaste. It was surprising - because we like all of the ingredients separately, but together, it just didn't work. So if you want to know how a whole bowl of this tasted... ask our dogs - because we ate leftovers and gave the rest to them.
The rest of the week went spectacular - here's the visual:
Wednesday was a Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie (top left), a Tex-Mex Skillet (top right and bottom left), and Saturday was a Mexican Egg Skillet (bottom right) - Friday night was leftovers night. These three dishes may very well have been our favorites - and the last one was an impromptu recipe. We were supposed to have a Three-pepper stir fry - but neither of us felt like having it that night... so we used a few of the peppers from that recipe, leftover chorizo sausage from the Tex-Mex skillet, some eggs, and frozen potatoes to make this wondrous feat of a meal. Great, great stuff. It will definitely be made again.
But the best thing from the week? This:
A completely made from scratch Boston Creme Pie. I spent most of the day Tuesday making the cake, the custard filling, and the chocolate icing. Not a thing in this is processed, and everything in it is absolutely freakin' delicious. It's been our dessert almost every day this week. Now we just have to figure out what we're making next week :)
This definitely has us looking forward to future recipes to try (and making most of these recipes again). The plan from here on out is to have one or two "easy" dinners a week - mainly the processed stuff (like frozen pizzas) that we still have around from previous shopping trips and the occasional dining out, 3-4 dinners made from scratch, and 1-2 dinners of leftovers. Lunches will be a mixture of leftovers and stuff like lunch meat. We still need to figure out breakfasts (at the moment we have about 4 different kinds of Cheerios - better than most cereals, but still processed). The goal for us is to have 75-80% of our meals be unprocessed (we estimate we were eating 50-60% of our meals processed). And, despite the fact it will be more work, we're both really excited because the meals really do taste better - and it feels better to make them as well. Above everything else, we're really excited at the idea of starting a trend of giving better food to our kids over the years.
As far as the halving of the rest of our stuff goes, as we thought, it's been a slow week continuing going through the Corner from Hell. I've gone through a few of the boxes that ended up on the table, and actually gotten rid of about 95% of what I went through, but in the end going through those two boxes really hasn't done much considering there are about 15-16 boxes on/around that table. Where we did do some work is with everything that ended up on the fireplace. Here's the before and after:
We got rid of everything here with the exception of the poker chip set (the metal case in the center) and the train set (against the wall in the back). Everything else was either donated, thrown out, or given to people we know that wanted them. Hopefully soon we'll be able to say the same about the table!
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