Homemade "Hamburger Helper" Extra Extra Cheesy or (American Chop Suey? WTF?)

On the internet, "American Chop Suey" popped up in my food surfing.  I remembered seeing it on a cooking show once and thought it was a ridiculous name.  To me as a kid chop suey was Chinese vegetables stir-fried with oyster sauce and you could order it with beef or chicken.  It was the yucky vegetable dish we were forced to eat when my parents ordered in Chinese food.

Fresh Peach Tarts

Peaches are in season.  I found a deal on really ripe peaches today for $1.28 a lb and they were local (from the Okanagan).  I wanted to make something easy so came across this recipe which I doubled (except the sugar).  I baked the tarts first according to package directions.

Farmer's Market Tomato Salad, with Corn, Avocado, Cucumber, Red Onions, Swiss Chard and Lemony Arugula

Everything I used was fresh and local except for the avocado.  They always come from Mexico but was fresh, lol.  The star of this salad would of course be the tomatoes.  Finally got the summer dream bounty of tomatoes that put me in food heaven.  There is nothing like tomatoes in season.  Soooo much better than anything from a hot house.  Sweet, flavorful and just outstanding.  I've already made my tarte tatin, and tomato sandwiches.  Tonight was salad to go with some ground turkey burgers I did on the grill.  But, to make it a meal, I would just add large prawns done on the grill and some homemade Ciabatta croutons - not tonight...

Sautéed Japanese Turnips With Turnip Greens

Serious Eats gave me this recipe, which really just confirmed what I was going to do except I wasn't sure about the stems and leaves, so this helped.  I found these turnips at my local farmer's market yesterday and had to try them. They were grown by Fresh Roots at a local high school (VanTech).  In one sentence and from their website:  "Fresh Roots is a non-profit organization working with school communities towards Good Food For All".

Cold Chickpea Pasta Salad

The heat wave is returning, so salad sounded like a good plan.  I buy this rotini pasta (below) from Costco which is made out of chickpeas and I quite like it.

Baked Crusted Cod

I really had planned to cedar-plank my cod, but alas, there were no planks at Costco when I went shopping.  😞  So, after looking through multiple recipe ideas, I came up with this for dinner tonight.  It was a cool day outside (finally!) so I was able to use the oven.

Barbecue Mushroom Quesadillas

I based my dinner on this recipe,  making adaptions to suit me.   I made different quesadillas (with boneless Maui ribs & avocado) for my son tonight.  He was not digging the mushroom idea thingy...

Buttermilk Cheddar Biscuits

Out with the healthy eating today.  It is a stat holiday here (B.C. Day).  I am celebrating by making BBQ ribs, corn on the cob (first peaches & cream that is local that I've found), baked beans (I bought these and added green chilies) and finally homemade biscuits.  I always feel safe using an Ina Garten recipe.  I followed all her ingredients and her instructions exactly.

Greek Moussaka 2.0

I have the recipe that I've used for years and years AND years.  I changed it up a  little today.  Eggplant were on sale and I soon as I saw that, I knew I had to make Moussaka this weekend.