Tuesday Morning

After last week's craziness, coupled with being on my deathbed all weekend, I'm quite thrilled to have a fairly quiet week ahead of me.  But for the love of GOD, can it please warm up to at least 50 degrees for longer than one day at a time?  I'm so sick of wearing a winter coat.  It's March 25th, for crying out loud.

When I was coming up with my weekly meal plan on Sunday, I decided to check my Pinterest boards for inspiration.  I found this little gem on my Food From the Homeland board.  I'm allowed to call it that because I have an Asian husband.  The recipe has since been relocated to my NAILED IT. board, because, well, I totally did.

General Tso's Chicken - better than takeout.

It was seriously SO good.  Marinating, then coating, then frying the chicken was kind of a pain in the ass, but definitely worth it.  You could also complete those steps, and then add whatever sauce you wanted to it - or possibly paint thinner, because the chicken was that good.

Tonight I'm making pork chops in the cast iron skillet, and some kind of sauce/seasoning...it's probably going to be one of those nights where I use all 8761345 bottles of condiments in our fridge.  That number is only slightly off; I would estimate that 2/3 of the refrigerator space is occupied by some kind of salad dressing, sauce, or pickled item.

I'm also going to join the cauliflower craze that appears to be sweeping the Pinterest world, since I scored two heads of it for about $3 at Weis.  I have a few recipes in mind, but I'm a little skeptical on any recipe that uses a vegetable for its main ingredient, and claims, "Tastes EXACTLY like buffalo wings!!!"  Um, kay.  I'll be the judge of that.