Overall I made 28 things in February.

February 1

Cheesy Baked Pasta With Sausage and Ricotta (Dinner)

This was great. Easy and everyone ate it. I used two 28oz cans of whole tomatoes and a full lb of pasta and it worked well.

Roasted Broccoli (Side)

February 4

Beef Pot Roast (Dinner)

From Alice Waters The Art of Simple Food, pg 355.

Not the hit it was last time, although I think it turned out well, reheated in the oven it was nice and crisp. The second night everyone enjoyed making their own bowls from the ingredients - pasta, veggies, beef, broth.

February 7

Oven-Baked Ribs (Dinner)

With white rice

I got 2.3lbs of ribs, probably could have used at last 4.

Kale (Side)

February 8

Rice Bean Cheese Burrito (Kid's Lunch)

Grilled Cheese with Ham (Kid's Lunch)

Chicken with Scallion Dumplings (Dinner)

I like this recipe, although I always think it's faster than it is. I think it's better if you don't try to add more chicken than recommended (although I want to, to have leftovers).

February 10

Baked Panko Rockfish (Dinner)

Roasted Broccoli (Side)

February 12

Rosemary-Brined Pork Chops with Apples and Potatoes (Dinner)

February 13

Cheese Toast (Lunch)

Toasties with ham.

Christmas sugar cookies, roll-out dough with simple glaze icing

I made them too thin in the first 2 batches, so they were burning around 10 minutes. The third batch I made much thicker (I'd guess 5mm but maybe the problem is that I'm not good at estimating this), and it was ready at 13 - and better, because it's thicker, and get a layer effect that was nice. We did real decorating the next day and it was super fun.

February 14

Salmon and Leeks (Dinner)

With \

As usual the leeks burned. Salmon was great though.

Sauteed Baby Bok Choy (Side)

February 15

Crispy Tofu with Cashews and Blistered Snap Peas (Dinner)

February 16

Perfect Buttermilk Pancakes (Breakfast)

Chickpea vegetable soup (Lunch)

Super-Simple Friday Night Meatballs (Dinner)

With romanesco

Same adjustments as last time. Used 2 quarts of my sauce, that amount was good. Only adjustment would be a bit more (maybe quite a bit more) salt in the meatballs. I really like how the meatballs get into the sauce a little bit, there's some nice texture magic all around.

February 19

Bread

The dough felt good after the long bulk; maybe that was good with my fairly cold house. I also did turns maybe every hour.

My oven was taking a long time to heat up and I wasn't sure it was staying hot, so I gave everything a bit more time.

February 20

Fried Eggs (Breakfast)

With my sourdough

February 21

The Best Basic Guacamole (Lunch)

Pretty good! Also easy.

Pony Pie

I thought this was great. No one else likes it, so more for me. The texture is great, I really like the honey instead of corn syrup.

Also this was my first pie!

February 22

Chicken Braised With Potatoes and Pine Nuts (Dinner)

With Roasted Spring Onions

Turned out pretty great. The kids liked the broth! That in itself is amazing. They don't care for most broths. It's pretty savory.

It's an easy recipe; it takes awhile but there's lots of downtime.

Rice Bean Cheese Burrito (Kid's Lunch)

Grilled Cheese (Kid's Lunch)

With ham

February 24

Cheesy Baked Pasta With Sausage and Ricotta (Dinner)

February 26

Panic Carrots (Side)

Carrots cut up a bit, in a pan with 1/4 cup of water. A bit of salt, a few glugs of olive oil. Bring to a boil, reduce and cover at medium heat. Keep it there until the water is booked off (10? 15?) And a minute with no lid to get rid of any water left. Not bad! They came out nice and sweet.

I think this is off of a recipe my Mom told me about some time ago, but I don't really remember.