Gnocchi and Spinach Bake

I apologize for not posting reguarly. To say life has been busy is an understatement.

Lately, I've cooked very little and well, when I do it's nothing to write home about. Job #1 and Job#2 are both insane. And my to-do list is almost three pages. To make matters worse, I'm taking off for a business trip on December 3. Conference food and room service. I can hardly wait.

So, I'll do my best to be better. Next week I have a couple of things planned. I'm hoping to have time to follow through.

In the meantime, here's the Gnocchi and Spinach Bake I made a few weeks ago for the boyfriend and I. It's hard to make an actual assessment of the recipe. I didn't make the gnocchi out of ricotta. I used frozen potato gnocchi instead. Oh, and I forgot to season it. Oops. The boyfriend still like it, though.

Bacon Rice Bowl

In my attempts to eat Core (it lasted only two weeks by the way), I found this recipe for a Bacon Rice Bowl. It sounded decent enough, in theory. And it was Core if you cut back on the oil and used brown rice. But it was a lot like a half-cooked tabbouleh. Not my favorite thing ever. The tomatoes and bacon were good, though. I left out the lentils, but I doubt they would have helped.

Corn Cakes with Apples and Sausage

A few weekends ago, I tried to make my own sausage. Healthier sausage. I used Penzey's sausage spice, but added it into ground turkey. The sausage tasted like sausage, but note to the wise: Extra lean ground turkey breast does not a good sausage make. I knew this much, of course. Fat=tasty. In just about every instance I can think of. But fat does not look so great when I'm wearing it. And I was attempting to do Core, and sausage is not Core.

The Corn Cakes with Apples came out to 11 points, so I was looking to lighten the point load by making my own bulk sausage using Core ingredients. I later learned that regular lean ground turkey is also Core, which would have made a much better sausage, although maybe still not a good sausage.

The actually corn cakes were good. The apples were just, eh. If you wanted to make the corn cakes core, you could just fry up some polenta in canola oil. Tasted just about the same, actually. But I think I'd just spend the points on the pancake variety, truthfully.

A decent enough breakfast, but not my best.