It’s hard to focus on my cooking when the Dodgers are playing the Blue Jays in the World Series. ⚾️ I’m a Dodger fan but I’m also from Canada. 🇨🇦 It’s like having to choose between cake and pie! Here’s what I cooked this week:

• Vegetable fried rice with carrots, cabbage, bok choy, spinach, and edamame + salad with ginger dressing.
• Tortillas
• Chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons (husband’s fave)
• No knead seeded bread
• Thin breaded chicken cutlets with rice plus steamed carrots and green beans.
• Oatmeal muffins
• Salmon patties with roasted vegetables
• No knead fruit & nut bread
• Vegetable bean chili + endive & romaine salad
• Apple pudding
• Taco salad

Here’s an un-staged picture of my spice drawer. Don’t judge me! 🙂 I know how it looks…. bad. But I know where everything is at any given moment. If you’re gong to judge me, do it for something dreadful… like cutting my own bangs.

It seems whenever there is work to be done, I somehow remember that I need to bake something. I mean really, isn’t pie more important than vacuuming?  Here’s what I cooked this week…

• Apple pie
• Chicken & penne with pesto sauce and added spinach + salad
• Tapioca pudding
• Bran muffins
• Egg salad
• Bread crumbs
• Chicken parmesan with spaghetti & my spaghetti sauce + steamed broccoli
• Granola bars

• Breadstick croutons (see below why I won’t make them again)
• Chicken kabobs with peppers, zucchini & basmati rice + salad
• No knead whole wheat bread
• Oatmeal muffins
• Taco salad

The breadstick croutons were easy to make. I just rolled a breadstick and used a scraper to cut little pieces. I tossed them in sesame seeds and they baked up round and pretty. I put them on my salad and quickly learned that you can’t poke them with a fork. You have to balance it on the fork and you know how that went. Three of them fell off the fork, rolled along the floor (that I didn’t vacuum), most of the seeds came off and now I HAD to vacuum. Next time, bread STICKS!

It’s hard to take these pictures when I’m hungry and ready to eat. They are quick snapshots in a messy kitchen but here they are. In sharing these weekly posts, I’ve come to realize that I make a lot of bread. That means I eat a lot of bread. But I like it! 😍 Here’s what I made this week…

• Chicken veggie kabobs
• Seeded no knead bread. (it’s my whole wheat version with 1/4 cup of a seed mix)
• One pan broccoli bran pasta + salad
• Almond butter
• Oatmeal muffins
• Tortillas
• Chicken & spinach skillet pasta + salad
• No knead fruit & nut bread

• Custard pudding
• Whole wheat no knead bread
• Granola bars
• Branzino with Greek spinach rice + crudite
• Apple bread
• Taco salad