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March 2023 / cooking

Overall I made 26 things in March.

Day Breakfast Lunch Kid's Lunch Dinner Side Other
1 1 Dinner: Reverse Sear Steak 1 Roasted Cauliflower
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3 1 Roasted Brussels Sprouts 1 Caramelized Onions 1 Pasta & Butter
4 1 Lunch: Pasta & Butter
5 1 Perfect Buttermilk Pancakes 1 Grilled Bread
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9 1 Dinner: Shrimp tacos 1 Asparagus
10 1 Breakfast: Oatmeal 1 Brussels sprouts
11 1 Dinner: Chicken Sweet Italian Sausage 1 Pasta with Butter 1 Sauteed Mushrooms 1 Chicken Broth (Caldo de Pollo)
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13 1 fish taco salsa 1 tortilla soup
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19 1 Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs 1 Dinner: Chicken with Artichokes 1 https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023019-cauliflower-shawarma-with-spicy-tahini?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share 1 Zov's Hummus
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23 1 Dinner: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024024-clay-pot-rice-with-chicken-and-sausage?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share 1 Sauteed Mushrooms 1 Roasted Asparagus 1 Roasted Brocolli
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March 1

Reverse Sear Steak (Dinner)

Roasted Cauliflower

I've cooked this 14 times before

March 3

Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Caramelized Onions

I've cooked this 4 times before

Pasta & Butter

March 4

Pasta & Butter (Lunch)

With with sauteed leftover steak

yesterday

I've cooked this just once before

March 5

Perfect Buttermilk Pancakes

Dad's Recipe from Huckleberry

I've cooked this 11 times before

Grilled Bread

For avocado toast

I've cooked this 5 times before

March 9

Shrimp tacos (Dinner)

Asparagus

I've cooked this 14 times before

March 10

Brussels sprouts

I've cooked this 2 times before

Oatmeal (Breakfast)

I've cooked this 22 times before

March 11

Chicken Sweet Italian Sausage (Dinner)

Pre-cooked, so heated them up on the grill pan

Pasta with Butter

I've cooked this just once before

Sauteed Mushrooms

I've cooked this 9 times before

Chicken Broth (Caldo de Pollo)

For tomorrow night's tortilla soup

March 13

fish taco salsa

tortilla soup

This was maybe the first challenging dish I made.

It was better than the last time I made it. I don't think the ingredients were better, but I wonder if i was more willing to use high heat, more willing to let things reduce, and used more salt. I guess I've improved?

On the other, a lot of work for not a lot of soup (2 nights!) but we'll have chicken for days.

March 19

Scrambled Eggs (Breakfast)

I've cooked this 54 times before

Chicken with Artichokes (Dinner)

Didn't turn out great - the chicken had a rubbery texture. Maybe not as cooked as I like it?

2 days ago

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023019-cauliflower-shawarma-with-spicy-tahini?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

Nice vegetarian main. I served it with naan (from Whole Foods), cucumber and tomato tossed with some olive oil and salt, and hummus. I misread the spicy tahini in the recipe as tzatziki (which I don't care for) so I skipped it, but the spicy tahini sounds good. It was good with hummus too.

Zov's Hummus

I've cooked this 45 times before

March 23

Sauteed Mushrooms

I crisped bacon in the pan first, then took that out (and discarded some of the fat) and sauteed the mushrooms in bacon grease. I thought it'd be amazing and decadent, but it was actually just kind of OK. Olive oil and garlic makes for better mushrooms.

I've cooked this 10 times before

Roasted Asparagus

March 22

Roasted Brocolli

March 21

I've cooked this 4 times before

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024024-clay-pot-rice-with-chicken-and-sausage?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share (Dinner)

This was easy, and yielded 3 days of meals. I used 2lbs (or even a bit more) of chicken thighs and they cooked up fine, and some nice thick "steakhouse bacon" from Nature's Ranch.

March 21