Heavy Winter Meal at Kymberly's

 Two appetizers: 

Cherry and Black Pepper Smoked Cream Cheese Recipe - Traeger Grills traeger.com

Brie and Cranberry Pull Apart Bread Recipe | Traeger Grills traeger.com

Sides:

Carrot Puree with Ginger foodfolksandfun.net

Roasted Beets and Parsnips beetsandbones.com

Instant Pot Wild Rice Pilaf with Mushrooms sweetpeasandsaffron.com

Roasted Brussel Sprouts:

Wash and cut out stem of sprouts, halve them. Toss with a shallot and diced garlic, olive oil and sea salt. Drizzle with balsamic glaze. Roast at 400 degrees until browned. (Not blackened 😜)

Roasted fingerling potatoes or potatoes at gratin go really well with this meal.

Main: Beef Wellington

This recipe requires an expensive cut of meat, center cut of the beef tenderloin (filet mignon) or you can use the front cut of beef tenderloin (chateaubriand).

I would improve this recipe by ensuring you process the mushrooms in batches to obtain the fine chop, otherwise it turns into a paste. If you sear the meat well enough it shouldn’t leak out into your pastry. 

The Ultimate Beef Wellington foodnetwork.com

King Cake with Caramel Crunch foodandwine.com

Cinnamon Crunch Ice Cream sugarhero.com

Michelle T and Nora's Couples night

 Michelle's recipes:

Walnut & Cinnamon Biscotti - Once Upon a Chef

Almond - anise biscotti: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/almond-anise-biscotti.html

Cranberry orange biscotti: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/231047/cranberry-orange-biscotti/

(I needed 3 oranges for 1 tablespoon of orange zest and added 8-10oz of cranberries vs the 6oz on the recipe)

Coconut Curry:  https://jessicainthekitchen.com/coconut-chickpea-curry-recipe/

Roasted Butternut Squash, Romaine and Goat Cheese Salad

Champagne Vinaigrette

Sarah's "last meals"

 

Fried Chicken

Ingredients

Chicken Thighs

Chicken Drumsticks

Flour

Salt 

Pepper

Vegetable Oil

Directions

1. Skin chicken drums and thighs. 

2. Place chicken in a brown paper bag with 1/4 cup of flour. Preheat skillet to 425 degrees.

3. In pre-heated skillet, place about 1/4 cup vegetable oil in pan. Place floured chicken in skillet. Salt and pepper.

4. Cook for 15 min or until brown uncovered. Flip chicken to the other side. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Cook for 15 min or until brown uncovered. 

5. Turn down skillet temp to 325-350 degrees. Flip chicken and cook for 15 min. Cover chicken with a lide slightly askew so the steam can escape. 

6. Flip chicken once more. Cook for 15 min with lid slightly askew.

Lindsay's viral recipe night

Simple Sourdough E-book

Whipped Feta Dip

-served with sourdough bread (photo included above) 

Green Goddess Salad with tortilla chips

Jennifer Aniston Salad

Tik-Tok Feta Pasta

Lemon Pasta

Ingredients: 

• 16 oz shellbow pasta or pasta shells

• 4 cups low sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth

• 4 cloves minced garlic

• 1 cup heavy cream

• 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

• 1/2 cup parmesan cheese shavings

• 1/2 cup chopped Italian parsely

• 3 cups fresh baby spinach

• 1 tsp salt (more or less to taste)

• 1 tsp fresh ground black pepper (more or less to taste)

• Lemon zest from 1 lemon

• juice of 1/2 lemon

Pour the pasta into a deep pot or dutch oven.

• Sprinkle in salt and chopped garlic, followed by broth. Heat up the pot on the stovetop and bring it up to a boil. Cover and cook the pasta for 10-12 minutes or until pasta is al-dente

• When cooked, squeeze in the juice from one lemon, zest and give it a quick mix.

Pour in heavy cream, spinach and chopped parsley. Give everything a mix and allow the spinach to wilt from the heat of the pasta.

• Sprinkle on shredded parmesan and mix it one more time.

• Serve with a lemon wedge, fresh parsley and a sprinkle of parm!

Browned Butter sourdough chocolate chip cookies 

Staci &Brittany's Couples Night- Low Country Boil

 

Kymberly's "Eat a Rainbow" night

The potato wedges use about 8 yellow or gold potatoes, washed and wedged. Par boil the wedges for 8 mins, then toss in the oil and spice mixture as listed in the picture above. Once coated lay them skin side down on a parchment covered baking sheet and give them a shake of salt. Bake at 425 degrees for about 45-55 mins. Make a dipping sauce out of mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, honey, garlic powder, salt and parsley. 

For the flank steak pinwheels you can either use a meat tenderizer and pound the raw steak flatter, or use a filet knife and cut it thinner so it will produce a nice pinwheel when rolled. Generously salt the steak, add minced or crushed fresh garlic, sprinkle it with shredded mozzarella cheese and shredded Parmesan. Drizzle it with olive oil, salt and pepper it and lay down a large bundle of spinach down. Starting at the short side tightly roll the steak tucking all the ingredients in. Tie it off with string to hold the shape and cut into slices. Cook on a hot pan or griddle coated with olive oil. 

Appetizers:

https://www.everylastbite.com/chicken-avocado-and-mango-rolls/

https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/fried-feta-rolls/

https://www.howsweeteats.com/2022/05/pickled-blueberry-burrata/

https://www.walderwellness.com/whipped-feta-with-strawberries/

https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/fruit-salad/

PASTA:

https://ourbestbites.com/teriyaki-chicken-alfredo/

DESSERTS:

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/tiktok-crinkle-cake/

https://freshaprilflours.com/blueberry-lemon-pie-bars/

https://www.thefedupfoodie.com/haupia-pie-with-macadamia-crust/

Amy's Italian night

Whipped Feta and Roasted Olives 

Pizza Chenna or Pizza Rustica I only cooked this for 1.5 hrs, cooled for 30min (you could then eat it immediately but the bread is a little crusty/tuff.  Putting it in the fridge for a day seems to help that problem.  I just microwave each slice for a bit to warm it up before eating).  For the meat, I just ask the deli to slice it thick (like 1") because I am going to cube it.

Arrabbiata sauce  I puree this in a blender at the end so that it has a smooth consistency.  If eating it with pasta I like to add capers and some crumbled goat cheese on top.

Creamy Garlic Mushrooms. When I added the cream cheese and parmesan, it was really thick and didn't need an additional 5 min of cooking.  I just added a little bit of water and stirred it and it was good to go!

Pioneer Woman Raspberry crisp. (1 recipe makes just a pie plate or 8x8 so I doubled this recipe).  You may need to broil it at the end for just a minute or two to brown the topping a bit.

Oatmeal Cake (I cooked a 9x13 pan for 35min)