Not the most successful week culinarily (apparently that's not a word but I'm using it anyway). There were some interesting ideas with so-so results. I've had texture issues with chicken breasts lately. Sometimes I think it's my cooking skills that are the problem, but then again I've made decent chicken dinners before. So I'm thinking it might just be the "quality" (freshness?) of the meat itself, and I'm not sure I want to actually speculate as to why, but one thing is that a lot of water comes out of them when they start cooking. Does that mean I should cook them more? Less? Use a different technique?
Meanwhile, I had a big chunk of pork in the freezer but I didn't really know what cut or the best way of cooking. So I cut it into chunks and tried to have it turn into a sort of goulash. It never really got tender, though. When meat is tough I'm never sure if it's over or under-cooked. I think I probably should have given it some more time.
Monday: Chicken breasts stuffed with bacon and feta, potatoes, brussels sprouts
Tuesday: Pizza from scratch
Wednesday: Chicken-veggie-rice mix tossed with cheese and "southwestern" spices
Thursday: Same thing but with buckwheat this time!
Friday: Didn't write anything down for some reason
Saturday: Pizza (made by friends)
Sunday: Pork stewed in the oven, buckwheat
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