Chili and Macaroons

Last weekend I made up some macaroons and chili for Sunday dinner. I have never made macaroons, but they were really simple and tasted SOOO good. All eggy and coconutty. I decided to use two types of beans in the chili and was pleased with the taste. Here are the pics.

Chili beans, they look so pretty:


The completed Chili:


Dessert, well okay we actually ate these first:


Today I am practicing Thanksgiving dinner. Pictures to come later.

Ribs and muffins

So it has been a while since I have posted. It is fall again!! Yea! I love to cook in the fall. Once the weather turns cold the urge comes back. Football season began and in honor of that I made some coca cola glazed ribs and corn on the cob. The blog I found the recipe on is a great Southern cooking blog, and I love it. Here is a picture:



This morning I used some of the apples we picked last weekend and made some apple muffins with cinnamon streusel topping :



They smelled SO good baking, and they tasted just as good. How am I ever going to loose weight during the winter??

Blueberry Muffins...

that are so good I don't have to go to the bakery to buy them again. I also do not have to use any box mixes again. Lower sodium and I know what is going into my muffins! They were fantastic! I do not have a picture, but that is probably a good thing. Licking the screen tends to ruin your computer...

Salmon

So Josh and I decided to eat healthy. Oh boy...I just can't tell you how excited I am about this (it is a shame you can't hear sarcasm through the computer). The first meal I made was actually pretty tasty. It was salmon fillets with a sauce that is made with the juice of one orange, ginger, garlic, chopped green onions, and some tamari. I served it over fresh spinach leaves, with a side of steamed squash. It was actually really yummy, and Josh LOVED it. So without further ado here is a pic:

I made Sushi

So my first attempt at sushi came out ok. It looks like a sushi roll at least and it tasted good, not exactly like I wanted, but edible. This is also the first food I am posting that was made in the new kitchen. So here it is:

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

So I have been very lapse in my baking and my posting. Last weekend I made a Strawberry Rhubarb pie for the first time, and it was good. WHy have I not been eating this wonderful pie until now. The sweet and the bitter blend together to make deliciousness in your mouth. Next time I will be sure to make some homemade whip cream to go along with it. Here are some pics:



I can't wait to move to our new apartment. It will just be a galley kitchen, but it will have tons more counter space, and none of it will have to be taken up by the dish rack because there will be a dishwasher!! Yeah I have missed having a dishwasher SOOOO much. It will make cooking so much easier, especially the cleaning.

Banana Bread

So what do you do when you have left over bananas that are to ripe to eat? Why you make banana bread of course! Well at least I do. I have not had much time to be in the kitchen since I started grad school, but I found time this morning. I hate to throw anything out if I can use it to bake so I whipped up an easy banana bread (sans nuts, I don't like nuts in my banana bread). Then later in the day I made up some chili. I have a picture of the banana bread that I will post later.