Weekend Recipes

So I like to read recipes. I read them on-line and in books and mark the ones I want to try to cook one day. Other people do this too, right??

I experiment with a lot of meals and adapt them to whatever ingredients I have on hand.

These two recipes inspired this

dish I made the other night: Pasta with Tomato-Blue Cheese Sauce and Bacon Tomato Capellini I'll call mine

Bacon and Feta Pasta

• ~10 strips of thick bacon cut into 1/2 inch pieces
• 1 medium size white onion
• 6 cloves of garlic, minced
• 3/4 cup Feta Cheese
• 1 can crushed tomatoes
• Pepper to taste
• Fresh basil
• pasta of choice cooked al dente

-Cook bacon until crispy. Drain off all but enough grease to cover bottom of pan and set bacon aside on a paper towel.

-Saute onion until translucent then add in garlic and saute

-Add the can of tomatoes, pepper and the feta and let simmer for about 10 minutes.

-Mix in the Bacon and a pieces of chopped basil.

-Serve with pasta. I used fettucini noodles.

My brother, his girlfriend and 2 of their friends stayed over Friday night. They were in town to see the John Mayer concert. Friday afternoon I made this casserole and all I had to do Saturday morning was pop it in the oven. It was very good. Didn't have a bite left over.

Breakfast Casserole

• 1lb of pork breakfast sausage. I used HOT
• 1/2 white onion
• 1 bag fresh shredded hash-browns- I find them by the eggs/biscuits at the grocery store.
• 2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese
• 6 eggs
• 1.5 cups of milk
• pepper and Tony's to taste
• 9x13 baking dish

-Cook onion and sausage

-spread sausage/onion on bottom of pan

-spread hash-browns over sausage

-mix the 6 eggs with milk, pepper and Tony's and pour over hash-browns

-top with cheese

Cook at 375 for about 30-45 minutes until milk and eggs are no longer runny.

Kristen and I used to make this all of the time in dental school and eat on it all week.

We went to our friend's lake house on Saturday and I took these to snack on:

Salmon and Pesto Bites

• 1 bag of salmon- by the tunafish at the grocery store
• ~3 Tbsp basil pesto
• ~2 Tbsp mayonaise
• 1 can of seamless crescent rolls
• ~1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

-Unroll the crescent rolls and cut them in half lengthwise.

-spread a little pesto over the crescent

-mix salmon, pepper to taste, pesto and mayo together and spread in a line down each sheet of crescent

-sprinkle with parmesan cheese

-pinch each one together to make a roll.

-Bake at 375 for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

-slice and serve.

I made this one up and I don't know the exact measurements I used so add or subtract whatever looks good on this one. I also doubled the recipe.