General Housewifery

I've been cooking my butt off recently. I started my 30+ hr work week, but somehow it's easier to get meals cooked each day. (My camera is broken so I couldn't take any pictures or anything, so I'll probably spice this blog up with random pictures stolen from the interwebs.)

Last week for my first day of cooking (my boyfriend's first day of work for his internship this summer!) I made steak and shrimp kabobs. They could have been a little more heavily seasoned, even though I could have sworn I put a ton of pepper on everything. Neither me nor him actually like the vegetables it seems (or at the very least, we like the meat more). We had a lot left over (it's really hard to cook for two), but unfortunately I didn't get to eat the left overs because he took it for lunch. (Picture from: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Steak-and-Shrimp-Kabobs, although I didn't use any particular recipe)

I also made lasagna one day, which was pretty good, although it could have used more tomato sauce. And of course nearly the entire pan was left over, because it was pretty thick and heavy (although good). It's pretty intimidating to eat for left overs, as far as I'm concerned, because cold it's pretty solid.

I'm really happy with my first meal of this week-- pesto pasta with feta cheese! The pesto recipe I used was at link. I had to change the ratios a little bit because I didn't have enough basil (it's so expensive, and I didn't want to kill my basil plants!) The sauce ended up being too garlicy, spicy, although the other eaters of it said this wasn't necessarily a bad thing? However, with the feta cheese, it was really perfect! I also made bruschetta, I thought the tomatoes would be a good contrast to the strength of the basil, and it was really good I thought, although usually I'm not too big a fan of bruschetta.

Last night I made pierogies, which was apparently impressive? They actually turned out really well, although I made them a little too big (I've never eaten pierogies before, so I had no idea what size to make them! The link I used was here. They were actually really good, although I wish they'd been smaller (so that the dough to potato ratio would be slower). The picture is from the website with the recipe.

Tonight I'm just making shrimp scampi, but hopefully it's good!