The Good Housewife

Even though Jeff has been working full-time freelancing this week (woohoo for money and the universe working in mysterious ways!) and doing his crazy workouts with Greyson and Danny, he's still finding time to make me delicious food. It usually doesn't happen until about 7 at night, but it's still delicious.

Jeff has become obsessed with the Pioneer Woman blog ever since he made that AMAZING meatloaf (he also loves the amount of pictures they take, which he then insists I do as well). So both of these recipes come from there.

Deliciousness #1: Corn/Cheese/Pepper Chowder

This was good. It was really good the next day. It was also pretty easy. Per our the-less-ingredients-the-better MO, this recipe was pretty simple, but really good. The hardest part was watching Jeff cut an onion while trying to talk on the phone at the same time.

Also, check out our awesome grown-up plates and bowls! (Grown-up is code for more than 3 that match that aren't made out of plastic)

Recipe here. Our tweeks: Jeff forgot to mention we needed bacon when we went to the store, so it didn't have any. Also, we added a lot of pepper. And extra cheese, because that's how we roll. And even though bread bowls are delicious, we just went with a fresh loaf from the local store.

 

Deliciousness #2: Pasta a la Vodka

This is a great way to get slightly buzzed by dinner, especially when you're impatient like I was and didn't let the booze part of the booze fully cook off (btw, the 42 degree below vodka mentioned here: excellent. very smooth and dangerous). And made lunch the next day awesome.

This recipe also had about 7 ingredients. There was a long discussion over whether we could get away with using half&half instead of heavy cream because the half&half cost 99 cents and the heavy cream was like 3 bucks, which was finally resolved with a call to Nani, who said for this circumstance, it was fine. The Pioneer Woman mentioned that it might be too thick at one point, but since we didn't actually use cream, it was fine. And even though it says quite boldly not to do this substitution, I thought it was delicious and we saved 2 bucks.

Recipe here. Our tweeks: we used half&half instead of cream. Added a little more tomato paste than the recipe said to.  And then we thought it was a little bland, so we adding some oregano. And as always, we added about twice as much cheese as it told us to.