Stir-Fried Chicken With Ketchup

Facebook reminded me that I've made this dish before, exactly one year ago today, and it was surprisingly very, very good!  I found the recipe here and decided to make it again tonight.  It is one of those "simple" dishes which yields amazing flavor.  It reminds me of Chinese sweet and sour chicken actually.

Swedish Meatballs

I think meatballs are great.  I rarely make them though, as they are a lot of work in my eyes and it's something that that never gets on my kitchen "to-do" list often.  However, my co-worker went to Sweden and I asked him to bring me some Lingonberry jam back, so this was the opportunity to make some balls!

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

So, I was going away for the weekend and being the nice mom I am, I always make a casserole for my son - to start him off for meals while I'm away.  I saw this on the past weekend and decided to make it and tailor it a little to make it a complete meal.  By doing so, I added some (1/3 of bag) "gnocchi sardi" pasta which looked like baby gnocchi noodles and some coarsely chopped broccoli crowns.

Cucumber Gazpacho Soup

This looked so good - I was excited when I saw it!  The recipe is here.  Seemed perfect for summer and easy.  Plus, long English cucumbers and grapes were on sale at IGA this week so I decided to go for it.  I was really hoping mine would turn out with that pretty green colour like is on the recipe website above.  I am a cucumber fanatic.  I love finger tea sandwiches with them, plain cucumber sandwiches with mayo & pepper, slices soaked in vinegar with pepper, cucumber boats with shrimp or chicken salad, every salad imaginable, in drinking water, and pretty much anywhere else I can put them in food!

Roasted Tomato Dip with Crab

Today was going to be appy day at our house.  I was making this dip and this.  I decided to add some crab to this recipe and got some blue crab claw meat from Costco, it's about $13 for a lb.  It's dark, so its best for using in dips, in my opinion.

Green Bean Bacon Bundles

I saw this recipe and decided I had to make it.  It looked delicious!  I had picked up my favourite green beans at Costco and we were having appy night.  I also made this.  These were nice because I could prepare them beforehand, and I did.

Spicy Asian-Chicken-Salad Lettuce Cups

This was not my "go-to" lettuce wrap recipe but it was certainly much easier.  The recipe is here.  Basically this was like a chicken salad in lettuce cups.  I would have liked to add cilantro, but forgot to buy it.  I added some cucumber on the side with the avocado.  I also served some crushed cashews with it.  I used my own measurements for the ingredients as well.

Roast Beef Hash with Mock Cauliflower "Potatoes"

I made a roast and had LOTS of leftovers.  My son already had beef dips the night after but it didn't even make a dent, nor did using it with lunches either (I even brought someone lunch too).  I decided to make a hash for both of us.  I remember making hash browns out of cauliflower when I was doing "Atkins" years back, so I used that in place of potatoes.  My son wasn't big on the "cauliflower" thingy but I was hoping to change his mind.  My ingredients:

Roasted Tomato, Chick Pea, Red Onion Salad

I had these beautiful mini San Marzano tomatoes in the fridge that looked like grape tomatoes.

Spicy Cilantro Chicken, Spam & Shrimp Tacos with Guacamole

I had made some homemade guacamole and saw that I had some great wild Argentinian red shrimp in the freezer (31 - 40 count) so decided to make tacos.  I saw a couple of frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts beside the shrimp so decided to use those up too.  I thawed them the night before.  I had been craving SPAM, so had a couple of fried slices for breakfast.  I decided to cube it in small dice and throw it in with the rest of the ingredients tonight.  I based my recipe loosely on this one.  Easy and straightforward.  I added some fresh corn off the cob, chili powder and cumin too.