Bouillabaisse

One of my dreams is to travel to Marseille and have Bouillabaisse there.  I viewed a LOT of different recipes.  In the end, I did my own thing, with what I had.  I made a rouille (I added a fire-roasted red pepper) too and used it on toasted slices of potato bread.  My seafood was frozen except for the shrimp.  What I used:

Chicken, Mushroom, Stuffing Casserole

We had company coming over and I felt like making something easy but also comforting and crowd pleasing.  As it turned out, my son left work and was sick as a dog, so we cancelled our guests.  Anyway, this came to my mind for the casserole dish I would create.  I still made it as I had all the ingredients now.  It is so not diet friendly in any sense of the way of healthy eating but I like to make casseroles for them.  Besides that though, I think it'd be great with leftover turkey.  I used rotisserie chicken for this tonight, purely for the ease of it. I made a simple chicken gravy to serve with this.  I put cheese on because my son is not a huge fan of "stuffing" (I know, he's crazy!  😜) ...so both the sausage and cheese were added to make it more likeable/palatable for him:

Maple Syrup Pecan Glazed Sticky Buns

I saw a show on Food Network which featured Pennsylvania-Dutch Amish sticky buns made with potato flakes and they looked fantastic.  So, I found a recipe that used potato flakes and made them.  I have never baked anything like this before except out of a Pillsbury tube, so this was new.  I made them for my son.  I used:

Egyptian Barley Salad

This looked appealing to me so I thought I'd give it a go... adjusting to my own desires...

One-Pot Chicken and Whole Grain Rice with Swiss Chard

I saw some beautiful organic Swiss Chard.  I bought it because it looked so pretty.

Perfect Pot Roast

I saw a decent looking blade roast on sale so decided it was pot roast time.  This recipe was courtesy of Ree Drummond from Food Network.  I followed it as a baseline and did some adaptions to my liking:

Cod Florentine

I was inspired by a recipe I saw on Skinnytaste.  She adapted hers from another to make it healthier and it looked good to me.  I minor tweaked to suit me.  What I used:

Vegetarian Twice Baked Sweet Potato "Burritos"

I got the idea for tonight's dinner here.  I bought one huge mother of a potato!  So, this would be the whole dinner for two.  A half tater each.  I'd call this a yam, but I've read and it seems that what the grocery store calls yams are actually sweet potatoes.  Whatever they are, below is they type I like the best.

Belgian Endive and Walnut Salad

The last time I bought endive, it went bad.  I made sure I used it this time and it all came together in about 15 minutes.  This was as easy as can be.  I made a smaller amount than the recipe and what I used is below:

Skillet Ground Turkey, Quinoa Macaroni & Cheese

I've never seen this at Costco before but when I did last week, I had to buy it to try it.  I've tried pasta made from chickpeas (my fave), quinoa with brown rice (my 2nd fave), 100% whole wheat (good), ancient grains (good), black beans (meh) and red lentils (not a favorite).  Time to try macaroni quinoa with some organic white rice flour and two quinoa flours. I have a feeling I'll prefer the brown rice one I tried from Trader Joe's - though it is fusilli and I wanted macaroni today...