On the Menu This Week

I typically make two savory dishes and a dessert per week.  It's generally enough to get my husband and I through the week.  And yes, I go grocery shopping every week.  How about you?  I find that the food I purchase usually goes bad if I buy for two weeks.

Savory meal #1:
Pumpkin Black Bean Soup.  This sounds sooooo yummy!  You can find the recipe at my sister's blog: venetianblond.blogspot.com.

Savory meal #2:

Homemade Calzones & Garlic Parmesan Pull-Apart Bread.  

I LOVE pizza.  Very much.  The Chew (I'll admit it, I love this show!) just did an episode about last meals and I decided that mine would be pizza.  I thought, "Really Nicole??  Pizza?"  And YES.  Pizza.  :)  Aside: I say '...just did an episode...' but that's 'just' to me since I'm catching my episodes on Hulu.  Another aside: I've made Carla's Eggs in Heaven (from The Chew) two weekends in a row...love it!!  Except by the time the whites are done the yolks are overcooked--haven't quite figured out how to solve that problem.  Any suggestions?

AT ANY RATE...back to what I was saying.   

Dessert:

Cranberry Upside Down Cake.  

I bought a huge bag of cranberries a while back and I need to make room in our freezer, so I figured this recipe would be a great one to try.  For the life of me, I cannot remember why I even bought them in the first place.  It's not like I was going to make cranberry sauce or anything.  Oh, I remember...it was for an ice ring for a punch I made.

I bet it'll be a good week.  Happy MLK day everyone!