Last week, I created a poll so that you could vote on which meals from my meal plan would not end up being eaten. First of all, I love a poll so I hope you enjoy it. Secondly, I can only see the results of the poll by submitting another vote, which is a) stupid; I am the poll creator and should be able to see the results and b) misleading, because I can either click on a random item or use my knowledge as The Person Making the Meals to choose how to vote, but either way, I’m skewing the results. There has to be a way for me to see the results without voting, right? This is totally user error.

Anyway, these are the (slightly skewed by me) results of the poll:

Clearly you don’t know me AT ALL. The Japanese curry was the only meal I ended up making from that list!

What did I eat instead? Mainly chipotle chicken tortilla soup, which lasted the entire week, despite my eating it sometimes twice a day. I may… be a teeny bit sick of it.

One night, I ate a Red Baron pizza-for-one. One night, I ate panang curry from the local Thai place. And then this weekend, I made honey chipotle chicken in the crockpot and used it for enchiladas. (Jenny mentioned enchiladas recently, and it got to me.) Which means delicious enchilada leftovers for at least another day. YUM.

But what else should we eat???

Dinners for the Week of November 9-15

• Coconut Curry Chickpeas with Pumpkin and Lime: This is not my favorite meal, but my husband requested it and my philosophy is to make something if my husband requests it because that’s one less meal I have to come up with. Bonus: This is one of the few vegetarian meals my husband likes.
• Quinoa Salad with Apples and Sweet Potatoes: This is one of those times when having a blog turns out to be AWESOME. I have no recollection of eating this before, or even having heard of such a meal before. But it turns out – at least, according to my blog – that we have eaten this before and loved it. In my notes, I said this: “I lost my nerve/energy to make the hummus dressing, so we stuck with the boring old oil and vinegar. I think the salad would have been better with more interesting dressing. Aside from that, this salad was AWESOME. I included goat cheese and chopped walnuts as toppings, and the salad was very hearty and satisfying. PLUS it produced enough leftovers for at least two more meals. So good! Definitely a keeper.”
• Szechuan Stir Fry: I am putting stir fry back on the list because I am so very in the mood for stir fry. The bell pepper situation at my grocery store hasn’t been super lately, though – and bell peppers are essential, in my mind, to a good stir fry – so we’ll see how things turn out.

I’m also in a baking mood, although a mood does not always translate to action. I really want to make another batch of pumpkin cream cheese muffins but this ginger cake sounds amazing.

Let’s do a poll again, just because I find them delightful. You know what? Let’s go crazy and do TWO polls, one for dinners and one for baked goods.