Usually I cook something a little more fancy for Valentine’s Day. Maybe fish, or a steak type thing like last year. But this year, Aya requested burgers. Huh? I thought she meant one of my fancy burgers I’ve made before. Like the turkey burger with cantaloupe, or the bourbon burger with caramelized onions and Gruyere cheese. But no. She just wanted a regular plain burger with potato wedges. I didn’t really care because I was more concerned about dessert.
RECIPES:
Plain burgers. Nothing special.
Sometimes Betty Crocker knows best. It’d be hard to mess this up. I doubled the amount of basil and oregano. Simple, meaty, saucy, GOOD.
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Slow Cooker Spaghetti Meat Sauce
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first picked this, but Aya likes greens so I thought I’d give it a go. The cakes turned out great. They had a really good flavor and texture (for a meatless patty). They were a little on the dry side, but I could see this being a good patty for a veggie burger with a honey mustard sauce. However, the turnip greens were so awful we didn’t eat them. This was the first thing I’ve cooked that I found to be completely inedible. I know, I know, “turnip greens” should have been my first clue. I’ve had beet greens, collard greens, and mustard greens before and didn’t mind them so I figured turnip greens couldn’t be much different. Maybe it was the way they were cooked with the beer, but ugh, so nasty.
RECIPES:
Tomato apple soup and turkey sandwiches. This was inspired by watching Ellie “cook” in her play kitchen. She takes the apple and puts it in a pot, and then she pours in a can of tomato soup and stirs it up. At first it seemed gross, but then I figured it was probably a real thing. So I Googled it and sure enough, there were tons of recipes. I’m not big on tomato soup, but this was awesome! The apple added just a hint of sweetness to take an edge off the tomato-ness I usually don’t care for. This would be great with grilled cheese and I will make this again for sure.
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Apple Tomato Soup (Tomapple Soup)
Wow, this was really good. I picked it because I had all the ingredients on hand but I never heard of avgolemono before. But after my first bite I realized that it’s lemon rice soup. This was simple and really good. It would have been nice to garnish with fresh herbs instead of dried, but I was being thrifty.
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