Food, Glorious Food!

Because we are poor, college-type people and because we like to cook, we have made several meals in the last lil' while. I've been taking pictures of all of them, because I keep thinking, "oh, I'll put this on the blog! That'll be fun!" This usually happens right before Zach is about to dish himself up some food and then has to wait for me to take a picture, usually several to get okay-ish lighting, before he can eat.

Unfortunately, the down side to all this cooking is that it takes a lot of time and because it takes so much time, I haven't been putting in the food entries. So, I thought, I'll just do one big food entry. Sounds good, right? I thought so. So, here you go my friends, some yummy things that I made.

Skillet Lasagna

Have I mentioned that we don't have cable? We don't. And because we don't have an antenna either, we only get three PBS channels, two Spanish channels, and one Asian languages channel. One of the PBS channels has a cooking shows morning, that I happened to catch a few Saturdays ago. I saw the good people at America's Test Kitchen make this Skillet Lasagna, and thought it looked like a yummy alternative to layering all that pasta and sauce and such. On the show they said they kept making jokes about the recipe. I guess you have to be a cook to get it.

Meat Pie with Cheesy Potato Topping

This turned out quite well, though it was pretty time consuming to make. I really liked it. It came from Classic Home Cooking, which is full of deliciousness. I've made several recipes from that book. Of course, for this one we changed several of the ingredients, for the sake of convenience and finances, but it was still great. I don't remember ever having something quite like this, so I thought it was especially good. Very hardy. Zach says he grew up on food like this, so it was more of the norm for him.

Pumpkin Seeds

These are the pumpkin seeds that Zach baked from the innards of our Halloween pumpkin. They turned out quite well, especially with a little salt scattered over the top. Yum.

I think my next culinary venture will be a split pea soup and some Thanksgiving-ish pies. I'll let you know how it goes!

P.S. If anyone is interested in actually getting the recipes let me know. I'm not sure I want to commit to another food only blog like the glorious Meg or fabulous Jodi, but if it comes to that, I'll bite the bullet. But only if I really, really have to.