White Chicken and Spinach Lasagna

I made this for dinner tonight. I wanted to make a freezer meal to get ready for the upcoming new baby (but this is probably the only one I'll make - I don't make dinner every night, so why do I need a freezer full of freezer meals?), and when I saw this recipe on Facebook it looked good. I used my regular 8*8 glass pan and bought a disposal aluminum pan (that ended up being a little shallow but will probably be fine since the spinach does cook down quite a bit and the foil stays on for the first part of the baking). Instead of using 3 lasagna pieces I used two for each. And I didn't measure the spinach; I bought a big carton of it and tore it (tearing is like coarse chopping, right?) over the lasagna until it looked like there was a thick layer. Also I used Costco canned chicken (cooking chicken seemed like an extra step I didn't have time for) - 2 cans total.

I really liked the recipe. I like white sauce lasagnas, and overall it was tasty. I like that I can have it ready in the freezer, and I imagine it will make good leftovers.

Mel's Kitchen Cafe White Chicken and Spinach Lasagna

Balsamic Chicken Noodle Bowl

Eric's sister made this a couple of weeks ago for family dinner and I really really really liked it. I love balsamic vinegar, and it was just really tasty. I made it a few days later and liked that it was mostly easy. I used Costco tenderloins for the chicken (I can't remember how many) and cooked the chicken before cooking the peppers. I left out the feta (just because I think Eric's sister had left out feta) and probably used more mozzarella (I used the entire ball thing I had gotten at the store), and I think I had less basil (I used fresh basil, but the little package I bought probably wasn't a half cup). When I made it the cheese got kind of melty, but it was still really good. Next time I might try adding some tomatoes.

It also made pretty good leftovers, and I hate leftovers.

Mel's Kitchen Cafe Balsamic Chicken Noodle Bowl

Hoisin Rice Noodles with Chicken

This was a recipe that Eric thought was good (or not bad) and I didn't like at all. I felt like it *could* have been good - kind of a Thai-peanut-noodle dish - but it wasn't very flavorful to me.

Mel's Kitchen Cafe Hoisin Rice Noodles

Pioneer Woman's Butternut Squash and Kale Quesadillas

This is the only recipe currently under Pioneer Woman's "vegetarian" category, so I decided to try it for dinner tonight. But I had a couple of bad quesadillas in a row (I won't say what restaurant, but I will say that I don't want to go there ever again), so I took the "over pasta" option in the recipe description.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2013/01/butternut-squash-kale-quesadillas/

It was my first time buying/cooking/eating kale (remember when I asked the person in the store where it was and I was standing right by it?), and I didn't hate it. It's not my favorite green, though - it was a little bit tougher than I would have liked. I thought the meal (the squash and kale over shell pasta topped with shaved parmesan) was just okay, but my brother (who we invite over because we like him and also because he helps us have less food leftover) said it was one of his favorite things we've made.

I'm shocked that the meatloaf wasn't on his "top 3" list. It's really really good meatloaf.

He and Eric also said I should take pictures of what I make. I don't really want to get into that - I feel like typing up the recipes takes enough time as it is, and there are way prettier pictures than I would take on the sites I'm linking to. But here's a picture.