Possibly the most exciting this I did this weekend was attempt to make my own pickles using this recipe. I say "attempt" because they won't be ready to eat until tomorrow night so I don't know how they turned out, but I will have to take a photo of them because they look so authentically pickley in their jars. I used two of the three cucumbers we received this week, which were massive, and my friend gave me some dill from her garden. I looove pickles, so I am very exited.
For dinner I made kale chips with last week's red russian kale (so weird how it has little leaves growing off of its leaves...), some baked chicken with barbecue sauce, and roasted turnips. I vaguely remember having turnips for the first time at someone's house in college and thinking they were delicious, but for some reason it has taken me until now to figure this out on my own. I love turnips. I just washed them, cut them up, drizzled olive oil and sprinkles a little sale, and cooked them at 425 for about 30 min or so and they were spectacular.
Another exciting thing about dinner last night is that I used zero recipes. The chicken was just chicken tenders in a baking dish with Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet 'n Spicy barbecue sauce cooked in the oven (delicious sauce, by the way). I've made the kale chips so many times that I haven't looked at the recipe in months, and roasting the turnips only required my previous knowledge of how to roast root vegetables. It is very satisfying to see tangible progress like this in my cooking education.
Now, how else will I distract myself until the pickles are ready to eat...
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