R's cooking adventures

Last night, craving something other than leftover jambalaya and corn chowder, R prepared a meal of beef stroganoff for me. I came home from the dog park, offered assistance, was rebuffed, and awaited the meal ahead. Everything seemed to go smoothly, and the resulting meal was quite tasty (albeit, a bit drab looking). Well done R! I salute you!

Experimental Snack Food

So, as Miss A will recall, I purchased a bag of Totino's Pepperoni Trio pizza rolls on Sunday afternoon, for a v. light and fatty lunch before we ate a fab dinner (to be discussed later). THREE flavors of pepperoni! THREE! They were hot, nuclear hot, and very spicy after you ate more than 3 of them. One of the three flavors was clearly "nuke-ular." Am not sure what other pepperoni flavors were present.

Ingestion of the Trio rolls forced ingestion of these:

Pigskin Pigout

So, R and I indulged a LOT on Saturday afternoon/evening between the Notre Dame and OSU games...our menu included chicken empanadas, pigs in blankets, and fried ravioli. All were delish, but particularly the chicken empanadas. I used the Paula Deen recipe, with some changes. I increased the cream cheese, decreased the chicken, added a chipotle in adobo (b/c I heart them) instead of a regular pepper, added a roasted red pepper and some carmelized onions instead of just a regular sweet pepper. I still have half of the filling left, I may make enchiladas, or more empanadas. They were really really REEEEALLY good. For the fried ravioli, I used a Giada recipe, of course, and I don't think I made any changes!