Sunday Dinner

1. TJ's Stilton cheese w/dried apricots on crackers, 2. Ingredients for pasta salad, 3. caramelized onions w/ turkey sausage, 4. Penne pasta salad, 5. Kimchi jigae

Usually on Sunday nights Tim and I cook dinner and prepare meals for the week. This past Sunday we cooked up a big batch of pasta salad that we could take to school and work. It's easy to make, healthy to eat and tastes delicious. Earlier in the day I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe's and I overheard another customer ranting and raving about a certain cheese they have. It turned out to be the Stilton with bits of dried apricots. Curious as to why she thought it was so great, we picked one up and tried it as appetizers. She's right, it's gooood. I love sweet and salty combination's in food and this cheese has that combo all in one bite. The pasta salad we made consists of penne pasta, basil, cucumbers, tomato, green onions, green bell pepper, caramelized onions, turkey sausage, garlic, Parmesan cheese, balsamic vinegar and olive oil- lots of ingredients. I'll be eating this almost every day for lunch this week. For dinner we made kimchi jigae with really ripe kimchi. The more fermented the kimchi the better kimchi jigae you get. It's better to add slices of pork belly, but since we didn't have any on hand we added the next best thing...SPAM. I think another key ingredient besides really good fermented kimchi is to use broth instead of water. You can use chicken broth or beef broth, just know that if you use beef broth use only half and substitute the other half with water (it gets too salty if you use a whole can of beef broth).