Entree: Creamy Dijon Chicken. This was a creamy chicken dish that you can easily make for a weeknight dinner. It was a perfectly fine dish, I felt like you could probably jazz it up a bit with some more spices.

Side Dish: Roasted Broccoli with Smoked Paprika Vinaigrette. It called for almonds but they were omitted because she didn’t really feel like it brought anything new to the dish. This is a good dish if you are looking for a new way to serve broccoli.

Dessert: Lemon Bars. I was disappointed with the way the lemon bars came out. I baked them according to the time and they did not firm up. I had to take them out of the oven or else the crust was going to burn. I did use regular sugar (blended in the food processor) instead of baker’s sugar so that could have been my downfall or it could be that my oven temperature is not right and I need to get an oven thermometer.

Entree: Pasta Amatriciana. A wonderful, easy pasta dish that has such great flavor for such simple recipe. You can make it as spicy as you would like. Bob was a huge fan of this one, I’m thinking it’s because of the pancetta and spiciness.

Side Dish: I went with bagged Caesar salad. It was a long week and I was out of sorts, sue me.

Dessert: Apple and Blue Cheese Turnovers. This was a good dessert if you’re looking for something that wasn’t overly sweet. Maybe I was and so I thought it was a bit lacking. I actually think that having some sort of sugar glaze over the turnover would have satisfied my sweet tooth.

Appetizer: Pizza Pinwheels. A tasty and simple to make appetizer that is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Who doesn’t like pizza?

Entree: Oven Baked Mixed Seafood. An excellent, guilt-free “fried” seafood feast. And this would be perfect as an appetizer dish as well. Well done.

Side Dish: Broccoli and Blue Cheese Soup. Don’t be turned off by the green look of the soup, it tastes way better than it looks. If you love broccoli-cheese soup, it’s just a slight twist on it. Lovely. We also had a side of wilted spinach, you have to eat your greens!

Dessert: A trip to FroYo. We had to celebrate Kate’s new job! Congrats!

Appetizer: Spinach, Roasted Garlic and Goat Cheese Dip. A wonderful spinach dip that uses goat cheese, giving it a bit of a tart flavor and enhanced by the garlic. We polished that off before we were able to take a picture.

Entree: Penne with Sausage, Eggplant and Feta. If you are not a huge fan of saucy pastas, then this is a dish for you. It was very light and flavorful. I enjoyed the chunks of eggplant incorporated in the dish.

Side Dish: Mixed Citrus Green Salad. It was a refreshing salad that really cheered up a gloomy January evening. The dressing added to the salad but you don’t have to add it either.

Dessert: Chocolate Chocolate Zucchini Cake. I am now a big fan of zucchini cake. I loved how it was sweet and moist, a great-tasting cake without the caloric guilt. You didn’t even know that you were eating zucchini.