Pinterest Week

I had a pinterest kind of week.  Well at least the first half.  I think I went a little recipe happy, and was exhausted and frustrated by Wednseday!  It doesn't help I can't remember things right now.  While cooking lately, I often ask myself, "Did I just add two cups of flour or three?"  This can quickly lead to disaster.  Or forgetting ingredients is another one of the things  I did this week, which resulted in multiple trips to HEB. I did do pretty good this week though about buying all my groceries Saturday and actually going through them all in all of my carefully planned recipes!

Since I have been starving lately, I tried to find some recipes that would keep well for lunches the next day.  So Sunday, I tried this recipe from Pinterest for lunch, Warm Zucchini, Corn, & Black Bean Salad.  Pretty yummy!  And very simple besides cutting up some veggies.  I added some tortillas chips, sour cream, and cheese.  Ryan and I both had it for lunch the next day with some rice.  That was lunch.  A couple hours later, I made something new from one of my favorite cookbooks, CookingLight, Spiced Tilapia with Roasted Pepper-Tomatillo Sauce.  It was good.  Ryan liked it better than I did.  It's not spicy at all, for anyone scared of trying spicy things.

Monday, I made some coasters for our coffee table.  I had made a bunch of these for Christmas presents last year.  Also another Pinterest idea.   The original link I had pinned has been removed now, but they're so easy to make!  I found another one with pretty similar instructions if anyone is interested here.

Since I was already at it, I made some coasters for Christmas & Halloween.

Everyday coasters.

Halloween coasters.

Monday I made this delicious Vietnamese Chicken Salad, again from CookingLight.  There was a ton of chopping of vegetables, but it was worth it in the end. It was really, really good!

Tuesday, I tried to make way too many things!  I started off with some pretty easy peanut butter dog treats I found on Pinterest.  Easy, but messy from rolling out dough, etc.  But Blanca seems to like them!  

Yes, I used Christmas cookie cutters.

Then for lunch I made another Pinterest lunch idea.  Bean and Rice Salad.  Also good and very filling.  I added a little feta cheese and it really boosted the flavor!  By this time it was late afternoon, so I started on some homemade pesto sauce for dinner with a recipe I've already tried in the past.  I was in the kitchen all day it seemed like! 

Wednesday I made another Pinterest recipe, PB chocolate chip oatmeal bars, which I think was my favorite thing I've made all week!  For dinner, I made a recipe that I've made a dozen times, but tried to make homemade pita bread.  Fortunately I had the foresight to ask Ryan to pick up some premade stuff from the store on his way home.  This was a good thing, because I failed to realize that the pita dough had to rise for 90 minutes, and I started after 5pm.  Then I had a pregnant moment and thought my bag of quinoa was couscous...they cook very differently just to let everyone know.  I ended up making it work, but I think this was kind of my breaking point of the week.  Too much cooking new recipes!

After we ate dinner, I finished the pita bread.  And it turned out pretty good.  Some of them even puffed like they were supposed to!    

pita bread

So four new meals and three baked goods, including six Pinterest things in four days.  I think I might spread my new recipes through the week from now on.