Of course the days leading up to the shutdown, and the shutdown days have been a bit of an emotional roller coaster. So I did what I always do to get my mind off of things- I cooked. A lot.
A friend suggested I start a blog with recipes of my meals. And while I don't think I'd be dedicated enough to do an independent blog, I thought this might be a nice additional feature to this blog.
Enter: Shutdown Foodie.
Disclaimer: I am not a professionally trained cook by any means. A lot of my recipes are mixes of family/friend recipes, online recipes, and some of my favorite recipe websites/books/magazines. Whenever possible I will cite when a recipe is from somewhere (or someone) else. I am also not a super foodie- I don't have some amazing taste palette, nor do I make everything from scratch.
So I'll try and do a weekly installment of recipes. I have quite the backlog of recipes from the Shutdown so this may take a while. Whenever possible, I have Jay take a picture of the end product so I'll post those but I rarely take pictures of the process. If you ever have any questions text/call/email/FB me. I'm always happy to help!
Below are the meals we've had thus far:
Saturday before the Shutdown began:
Cajun Sausage and Shrimp Rice
Sunday before the Shutdown began:
Chicken Pot Pie
Apple Galette
Day 1:
Biscotti
Chicken Soup
Day 3:
Oatmeal French Toast
Drunken Noodles
Chocolate Pudding
Day 4:
Pork Vindaloo
Shrimp Byrani
Day 5:
Tacos
Day 6:
Meatballs
Garlic Bread
Day 7:
Eggplant, Mushroom and Onion Bake
Pesto Cannellini
Day 8:
Hummus
Whole wheat pita chips
Kabobs
Day 10:
Beef stew
Day 11:
Fried rice
Chicken and Broccoli
Day 12:
Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls
Italian Sausage Soup
Italian Sausage Soup
Meyer Lemon Bars
Day 13:
Kielbasa Sausage and Brussel Sprouts
Day 14:
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Day 15:
Moroccan Turkey Puff Pastry Pockets
Day 16:
Ghagari Jhinga (Shrimp curry which tastes like a shrimp mahkani kind of)
Sem Aur Khumbi (Masala green beans and mushrooms)
Let's get started!
