Cooking in May

Open-faced pie, quesadillas, turkey burgers, salmon, and more! Plenty to see, and plenty of good food.

Cooking in May

Open-faced pie, quesadillas, turkey burgers, salmon, and more! Plenty to see, and plenty of good food.

Our adventure this month begins with enchiladas:

Cooking the enchilada filling
Filling and wrapping up!
First one placed!
Fresh out of the oven
Delicious enchiladas!

Prepping veggies
Cooking in progress
Stir-fry with radishes and peas
Leftovers; note how the radishes have their colour spread out when you leave them in vinegar

Chopping radishes
Making meatballs
Cooking them in cast-iron
Browned meatballs!
With veggies mixed in
Meatballs and rice and radishes and veggies

Pot stickers and rice

Slow-cooker pork and split peas and bok choy
Split pea soup!

Oven-roasted cauliflower
Cauliflower and veggies
Pouring a sauce over the cauliflower
Adding radishes. Lots of radishes this month, eh?
Garnished with diced almonds

Salmon steaks!
Potato slices
Served with green beans and red bell peppers, and a radish sauce

Leftover cauliflower and rice and green beans

Ginger slices in a pot of water! What could it be?
Whole bunch of spices – it's chai, of course!
Add in the black tea leaves
Whoops, I let it steep for 20 minutes instead of 5. Milk to the rescue!

Shredded zucchini
Ingredients for the dish – cheese, green onions, limes
Mixing the zucchini
It's quesadillas!
Zucchini quesadillas with golden raisins and sour cream sauce
Just look at the golden raisins in there!

Mushroom and veggies
Gnocchi is ready!
We had grandma T over for lunch!
Cheesy mushroom gnocchi with breadcrumbs

Turkey burgers
Turkey burgers that are browned
Leftover BBQ marinade as a sauce
Building the tower of burger
Finished burger!

Cheesy potatoes

Iced smoothies!

Lots of mushrooms!
Huge pot of veggies
Diced mushroom paste
Pasta, veggie sauce, and sauted mushrooms
All mixed together
Served up mushroom ragu

Crackers and salami and cheese

Veggies prepped
Note John working the dough in the background
Open-faced pie! With baby arugula, feta, mushrooms, and onion
Served up open faced pie half
Second helping, with whole grain wheat dough
Cherry tomatoes and feta and baby arugula

Crackers with the leftover pie makings

More quesadillas
Mushroom quesadilla with cheesy veggies
Inside of the quesadilla

Black bean soft shell flour tacos with fried zucchini

We hosted our friends and decided to trot out our prosciutto gnocchi dish again:

Chopping zucchini
Big ole bowl of prosciutto
Pan-searing the zucchini
Big bowl of asparagus
Mixing all the ingredients together
Prosciutto gnocchi!
Our guests brought over these Belgian crepes, which were deliciously sweet for a dessert

Turkey burger
Leftover black beans and radishes for the burgers