Sunday, 2/5/17

It was very satisfying to cook a dinner that everyone really liked! I can't take credit for the loaf of bread from Jason, though. We also had flounder, simply broiled with some garlic butter, and quick zucchini fritters. These may have overtaken zucchini gratin as my favorite use for zucchini. As a bonus, even Carter loved them (the accompanying sour cream/garlic sauce helped). The fritters and garlic butter recipe were from a book called "Small Victories" that I had heard raves about. I am glad I finally tried a few things and I am looking forward to more.

Saturday, 2/4/17

Dinner with Jennie and David. Jason's bread was a little flat but wonderful nonetheless. I made some cookies that I saw in a local magazine, Edible Pioneer Valley: lemon-rosemary with a little glaze. I subbed in some tangerine zest and juice, and they were quite nice, The small amount of cornmeal in the dough adds a pleasant and unexpected crunch. I also wanted to make a coconut flan, and perused the web for quite a while looking at different recipes. Finally realized that I had a perfectly good flan recipe, so I used that, adding coconut milk instead of water and throwing in a shot of rum. It went over extremely well and may be my new standard.

Friday, 2/3/17

I was very intrigued by a Lucky Peach recipe for Korean Spicy Monkey bread, and I had most of the ingredients on hand, so...
This was an odd pick. You saute hamburger with ginger, garlic, scallions, soy and brown sugar (this frankly was the best part), toss it with balls of canned biscuit dough, asian pears and gochujang, top with shredded cheddar and bake. It was so lowbrow that I was sure it would be amazing but I was underwhelmed. What would be better is the beef mixture just served over toasted biscuits, I think (like a Korean biscuits and gravy which I am surprised no one has thought of).The gochujang was also overpowering.Served it with (store bought) kimchi and sauteed chard (a nice complement to the richness). Don't think I would bother with it again as written.

Thursday, 2/2/17

Bruegger's was giving away free bagels today, and so we had 9 fresh bagels kicking around that became dinner. Carter and I had ours pizza style and it was surprisingly tasty. Didn't help with the leftover situation but did make a quick and fun dinner.

Wednesday, 2/1/17

There were so many leftovers, so that is what we had for dinner. Didn't even make a dent.

Tuesday, 1/31/17

On Sunday morning I was in a cooking frenzy, making things for the whole week. Among them was a green chile and chicken pozole. The recipe is from Serious Eats and was good (I just love hominy, what can I say) but once again Carter didn't like it. When did he get so fussy?? I threw broccoli in mine for extra vegetable-ness and I also fried up some leftover corn tortillas to go along with it. Not sure if I would bother to make it again.

Monday, 1/30/17

I made what I thought was a delicious pot of chili. Carter tells me he doesn't like chili anymore, but I don't care. With it we had the rest of yesterday's loaf of bread (and I ate a couple more of the unwanted green beans).