{"id":7097,"date":"2013-05-03T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T02:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2013-05-04T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T14:11:36","slug":"week-night-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/week-night-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Week night dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday I made panini &#8211; pesto and roasted peppers from the freezer, smoked Gouda from Farmer John via the co-op, and Tillamook cheddar &amp; a loaf of bread from Costco.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7093\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7093\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7093\" alt=\"Panini\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/panini-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/panini-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/panini.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panini<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7091\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7091\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7091\" alt=\"panini\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/paninimore-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/paninimore-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/paninimore.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">panini<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, Spicy beef &amp; peppers, although my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justhungry.com\/handbook\/cooking-courses\/japanese-cooking-101-lesson-2-great-japanese-rice\">perfect Japanese rice<\/a> was not perfect &#8211; it stuck to the bottom of the pan. I had a heavy-bottomed sauce pan, but not <a href=\"http:\/\/justhungry.com\/files\/images\/jc101-ricecook3.jpg\">cast iron<\/a> like the recipe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7098\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7098\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7098\" alt=\"Spicy Beef &amp; Peppers\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/beefandpeppers-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/beefandpeppers-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/beefandpeppers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/beefandpeppers.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/Spicy-Beef-with-Peppers-231180\">Spicy Beef &amp; Peppers<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday I made pasta pesto and rosemary focaccia &#8211; and never took pictures til the leftovers phase. I melted goat cheese into the pesto, and added a little half &amp; half and some pasta cooking water to make it saucy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7099\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7099\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7099\" alt=\"Leftover pasta pesto\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/leftoverpastapesto-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/leftoverpastapesto-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/leftoverpastapesto.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leftover pasta pesto<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7100\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7100\" alt=\"Focaccia in bad light\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/badlightcocaccia-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/badlightcocaccia-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/badlightcocaccia.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Focaccia in bad light<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And chocolate peanut butter balls &#8211; to use up the all-natural peanut butter I bought to make banana bread &amp; peanut butter sandwiches for the vegans last Saturday, that mysteriously got all hard when I added some honey &amp; salt. I added butter and powdered sugar, and it became perfect peanut butter ball filling, and there&#8217;s only a bit left. And chocolate and fondant covered cherries, that I&#8217;d been wanting to make since I made <a title=\"Homemade Cadbury Creme Eggs\" href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2013\/03\/30\/homemade-cadbury-creme-eggs\/\">the creme eggs<\/a>. But I&#8217;m going to wait till morning to take pictures of the candies. The sink&#8217;s full of dishes and I have my hanging up to dry laundry to hang up, and I&#8217;m already tired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<br \/>\nGot a second wind and got everything cleaned up &#8211; so I had that nice feeling of a tidy kitchen before I went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>The peanut butter balls have a very thin coat of chocolate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7107\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7107\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7107\" alt=\"Chocolate covered peanut butter balls\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chocpeanut-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chocpeanut-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chocpeanut.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate covered peanut butter balls<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I mixed a little unsweetened chocolate in with the semisweet for the cherries&#8217; coating &#8211; so they&#8217;re darker, and the coating is thicker. I like how the cut-open ones look like googly eyes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7108\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7108\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7108\" alt=\"Chocolate covered cherries\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/choccherries2-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/choccherries2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/choccherries2.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate covered cherries<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7109\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7109\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7109\" alt=\"Chocolate covered cherries\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/choccherries-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/choccherries-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/choccherries.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate covered cherries<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday I made panini &#8211; pesto and roasted peppers from the freezer, smoked Gouda from Farmer John via the co-op, and Tillamook cheddar &amp; a loaf of bread from Costco. On Thursday, Spicy beef &amp; peppers, although my perfect Japanese rice was not perfect &#8211; it stuck to the bottom of the pan. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[189,24,182],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chocolate","tag-dinner","tag-washing-the-dishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7111,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/7111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}