So this post will have to be cleaned up later, but before all links get deleted off the iPad tonight, food with our friends rocked. Here's just a whole pile of recipes from the weekend:
Saturday: homemade pizza with the sauce from the vegetarian lasagna on this site.
Sunday: Swanson family flank steak, spinach salad with poppyseed dressing, herb roasted potatoes, chocolate cake to die for
Monday:
breakfast: overnight French toast (http://www.ourbestbites.com/2012/12/overnight-baked-french-toast/)
Fresh berries, maple syrup
Lunch: watermelon, peanut butter/apple sandwiches, chips and one-minute salsa
(http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2010/06/one-minute-salsa.html)
Dinner: kale salad
grilled pineapple (http://www.skinnytaste.com/2008/05/grilled-pineapple-2-pts.html
Grilled portobello burgers
(http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/portobello-mushroom-burger-recipe/index.html
(The aioli was great for both the portobello burger and beef burger)
Grilled corn on the cob with lime butter sauce
(lime zest and juice and salt mixed into butter at room temp then chilled)
Grilled burgers with Montreal steak seasoning, fresh onions, avocado, tomatoes, aioli
(but how cool would all these sauce concoctions be??
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes-and-cooking/50-condiments/page-2.html)
Watermelon (because you have to have it every day of the summer)
Apple pie with crumb topping (http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/11/crumb-topped-apple-pie/)
Cherry pie (http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/06/sweet-cherry-pie/)
Tuesday:
breakfast: crepes with topping choices of fresh fruit, nutella, cinnamon, some biscotti spread that
was part ambrosia, leftover pie
Lunch: corn, edamame, tomato salad, kale salad
Dinner: spaghetti (http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2009/10/homemade-spaghetti-sauce-perfected.html)
Food, friends, and fun. It was a great weekend!
