Chaotic Kitchen

Don't get me wrong, I love the way a clean kitchen feels; BUT if I am cooking great food for a bunch of great people I expect my kitchen to be the epicenter of crazy. Thankfully I have the best friends a girl could ask for that are always asking and willing to help. Here is what we created this week!

Salmon Matecumbe  -This was a tasty recipe a made thanks to Dan's suggestion last week. I am trying to become a fish lover, one because of the Omega-3's and also because I think it opens up a ton of options for tasty food. This recipe proved reason number 2 to be true. I served with it some mildly mashed and buttered red potatoes, an eggplant feta salad with dressing made of garlic, red wine vinegar, chili powder, and olive oil. A friend also brought some toast for the side and someone else brought a tasty chocolate mousse to finish us off.


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Next up was my Smoked Ham: I used some indirect grilling and let that hunk of meat cook for a good 4-5 hours. About an hour and a half in I would sporadically brush it with this tasty Apricot Glaze (If I use this glaze again I'd lay off the mustard a little, or go for something a little more unique than the regular yellow stuff). The best accompaniment to this meal was the many people crowding around my little table.   There were some great scalloped and funeral potatoes that were brought and I grilled up some asparagus,  squash, and flat bread with a little help from my loyal partners EVOO, salt, and pepper.


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On Saturday some of my besties came by and we ate a delicious but simple meal. We grilled up some chicken breasts coating them with some Italian dressing along the way, made some more buttery red potatoes, and cooked some frozen peas and carrots. We ended the night with a lot of laughter and some mixed berry frozen yogurt.

Sunday morning I made some poppy seed muffins that came out a little weird looking and some toasted walnut brownies for my ward's recognition of future fathers day. We tied ribbons around empty plates and took them into priesthood (kind of joking that since they have no children they get no treats). Then we let them know that there was table, sure to make one slip into a diabetic coma, next to the kitchen where they could go load up their plates.

That's all I have for right now. If you are sick of reading about food you can either stop reading, find me another hobby, or even better find me a full-time job with benefits and I won't have the absurd amount of time to cook and blog anymore. Looking to the future I think I am going to make a tasty potato soup with my leftover ham bone and probably some stacked enchiladas because they sound really delicious.