A Whole Lotta Food

Mom making buffalo chicken pizza.

Whoops, forgot to get back to this blogging thing. Well, I have a lot to blog about because I've cooked A LOT of food this week.

Let's start with the grilled veggie turkey burgers. They turned out okay. The veggies were wonderful. I used turkey because it was on sale. However, I wanted the veggies to be the star of the show so I didn't want to over season the meat. Not a great idea because the turkey was rather bland. I grilled red onions, baby bellas, red peppers, and zucchini. The mushrooms were amazing. I mixed them in with the burgers. I did some experimentation and in some burgers I only rough chopped the veggies. In other burgers I finely chopped them. The finely chopped ones were more "burger-ish" but the rough chopped ones were amazing when you bit into a mushroom. I would try this again but probably with beef.

Last weekend I went and visisted Mom & Larry. We made buffalo chicken croissant pizza, which is one of our regular recipes. We rolled out a can of crescent rolls and spread a mixture of Frank's buffalo sauce & blue cheese dressing (not Marie's... bummer). Then we tossed the already cooked chicken in some more Frank's with some salt, pepper, & paprika. Spread that on the pizza. Lastly cover the pizza with provolone cheese and bake.

Then on Monday I made a Good House Keeping recipe of toasted walnut pesto pasta. This was a pesto of toasted walnuts (duh), parmeasean, parsley, garlic, salt, pepper, & water. No oil because it was from a collection of heart healthy recipes - same collection I got the walnut crusted chicken from. This recipe called for chicken also but I was going vegetarian. Anyway, the pasta was whole grain penne and there was also red pepper, asperagus, & mushrooms mixed it. It was pretty good. At first I thought it was too "nutty" but then it grew on me.

Lastly... I made a seafood pizza (finally!). I was going to mix my left over cream cheese & goat cheese for my base... but alas, I waited too long. The goat cheese was a goner. So then I was bummed because I didn't have enough cream cheese to put on my crust (this was originally going to be another crescent roll pizza) so I decied instead of making a big pizza I would make 2 small pizza with whole wheat tortillas. So I mixed the cream cheese with some mayo, parm, mustard, garlic, pepper, & Old Bay and baked it for 15 min at 350. Meanwhile I rough chopped some parsley, imitation crab meat, and thawed my mini frozen shrimps. I also cooked up the remaining Baby Bellas. After I baked the cheese mixture, I spread it on the tortillas, then spread a layer of parsley, a layer of mozzarella, a layer of shrimp, crab, mushrooms, & capers, and a last, thin layer of mozzarella and a dash of Old Bay. Baked for 5 more minutes. Turned out pretty good. I was impressed at how the tortillas stood up to being in the oven and I was even able to pick up my slices and eat them. I overcooked the mushrooms, but they were still good.

I don't know what I'm going to be making next... but I have leftover asperagus, baby shrimps, parsley, & salad fixin's in the fridge so who knows what might come out of there this weekend... or maybe I'll order out.