I have been a total slug about getting the food porn posted! I know some of you just love the food photos, so I hope you don’t overdose on this one!

Feta, onion, basil, and mushroom mini meatloaf with oven fries and a garden salad. The meatloaf was top notch, and I will be repeating the combination.

Pizza night! I’ve given up trying to make the perfect crispy pizza crust and am now focusing on making the perfect standard crust. I also changed my sauce recipe to make it thicker, so I could put more on without it getting soggy. Toppings included pepperoni, mushroom, grape tomatoes, feta, onion, and provolone cheese. Lin declared this the best pizza I’ve ever made. It was quite yummy!

Basic stew with beef, cabbage, carrots, onion, and potatoes. This is the first stew I’ve ever made that didn’t use a tomato base. It’s also the first huge pot of stew that vanished in one day. Apparently, we liked it. A lot.

Spinach tagliatelle with beef and mushrooms topped with repurposed pizza sauce and shavings of provolone cheese, served with steamed broccoli. Mmm, mmm, good!

Last night’s dinner was a bit of a culinary adventure. I had some veggies I needed to use before the next box of groceries arrived but that I wasn’t entirely sure I really liked (or knew what to do with, especially all together). Greenling to the rescue! One of the recipes they sent along with the groceries used the things that needed using, so I made it!

Cabbage, fennel, spring onion, garlic, and snow peas (which I added to the recipe) sautéed in an orange juice sauce, served with poached Italian sausage. I wasn’t sure what the veggies would taste like, and I was concerned it would be really sweet or otherwise obnoxious in flavor. It wasn’t! The flavors all blended well and ended up being really mild. I can’t say I’d go out of my way to buy the ingredients to make it again, but should I find myself with them in my fridge, I’d definitely repeat this.

There then, all caught up on the food porn! Hope I didn’t make you too hungry!

Had leftover chicken from last night, and since today was grocery day, I had a load of fresh veggies, so it felt like a good night to have a huge salad with some chicken on top! We need to eat salads like this more often. Tasty, filling, and healthy!

And … because my grocer sent along extra peaches today and now I also have a load of fresh fruit, PLUS I ordered too much milk, today seemed like a great day to get out the ice cream machine, clean it up, and make some peach sherbet. So light and fluffy and OH MY GOD PEACHY! Best idea I have had all week!

Now, I’m stuffed. I have to sit quietly and digest. LOL!

The last two nights’ dinners!

First up is pork and veggie stir fry with snow peas, cabbage, spring onions, and mushrooms with a mustard sauce, served on a bed of steamed rice.

Last night we had oven fried chicken breast, steamed broccoli and squash, and a huge salad (with kale chip sprinkles on top).

While our meals have always been tasty and as healthy as possible, I have to say, now that we are eating even more local, seasonal, and organic than ever (thanks to Greenling), meals have been extraordinarily tasty the last couple of weeks. Also, cooking with so many fine and fresh foods has been an absolute joy! I’m so glad we’ve upgraded our diet once again (and I’m tickled it all gets delivered to my door).

I’ve been a lazy slug about getting these photos posted. Here’s the pizza and angel food cake I made for dinner a few nights ago!

This was my first time making an angel food cake from scratch! It turned it so perfectly, I wonder if I can do it so well again in the future … or if it was a fluke. LOL!

Today, I had to think outside my usual box for dinner plans. Steamed Italian sausage, sautéed romaine lettuce with onion, garlic, grape tomatoes and a white wine sauce, and oven-baked kale chips.

I have discovered I hate, hate, hate fresh and raw kale. Yuck! Don’t like the texture or the flavor one bit. But I love, love, love kale chips! Good thing I found a way to like kale, seeing as there’s a huge pile of it in my fridge. LOL!

Tonight’s sloppy joes and coleslaw, both of which were oh so very tasty. Normally, I can’t stand coleslaw (I know, very unsouthern of me), but I have a lot of cabbage and carrots to use, and well … coleslaw uses them. Turned out so tasty, I liked it! Good thing, seeing as there’s a bunch leftover.

The homemade pizza I made a couple days ago. I didn’t feel like cooking, and I’m really trying hard to stop ordering delivery foods like, say, pizza, so making a pizza was the easiest thing I could come up with for dinner that night. A really grainy whole wheat crust topped with ground beef, mushrooms, black olives, bacon, onion, and a variety of cheeses. It was yummy. It’s pretty hard to screw up a pizza.