Been Cookin'

Lately, both Katharine and I have become sick and tired of takeout. There are only so many choices in our area...Pizza, Roast Beef Place, Chinese food, Seafood...Pizza...Roast Beef Place...you get the idea. And the ONLY wing place that I knew of JUST closed about a week after I found out about it. So, we've started cooking again...yes, I said WE have started cooking again. Katharine has increased in the number of things she can cook that aren't desserts to 2 things now...lasagne, chicken cordon blue in the crockpot, and salmon with sweet potato cassarole. Wait...I count three things there. I made some American Chop Suey (at least that's what we called it growing up, but it's really just macaroni, ground turkey, onions, peppers, garlic, and sauce) and tonight I'm making minestrone soup from a recipe I found online with nice crusty Italian bread (and we'll make cookies because that's healthy).

Here is my Amercian Chop Suey:

{Hours later} Here is how the minestrone came out: