In fact, I think I should have alltogether omitted them.
I find that I'm not liking raw onions in things.
Old-Fashioned Potato Salad
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Recipe #5 / Pgs 154-155 / Old-Fashioned Potato Salad
Not much to say about this, except that I put too much onion in it.
In fact, I think I should have alltogether omitted them.
I find that I'm not liking raw onions in things.
In fact, I think I should have alltogether omitted them.
I find that I'm not liking raw onions in things.
Recipe #4 / Pgs 16-17 / Meat Loaf
Okay, I've been doing that meat loaf for a good while now, since I got the book a couple of yers ago.
But, fur accuracy's sake, I decided I would still do ALL the recipes in the book, even the ones I've done before. In fact, what better opportunity to improve myself!
So here is my meat loaf. I like it knid of sweet, so I made a few changes. I covered the bottom of the pan with brown sugar, which gets caramelized when the leaf bakes. Yum! And I covered it with honey-garlic BBQ sauce instead of ketchup. And left out the onions.
The picture came out blurry though. Sorry!
But, fur accuracy's sake, I decided I would still do ALL the recipes in the book, even the ones I've done before. In fact, what better opportunity to improve myself!
So here is my meat loaf. I like it knid of sweet, so I made a few changes. I covered the bottom of the pan with brown sugar, which gets caramelized when the leaf bakes. Yum! And I covered it with honey-garlic BBQ sauce instead of ketchup. And left out the onions.
The picture came out blurry though. Sorry!
Meat Loaf
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Recipe #3 / Pgs 22-23 / Quick Lasagna
This recipe called for quick cooking lasagna. Now I thought that was WAY too lazy. I can cook some regular lasagna noodles, sheesh! Betty Crocker's a lazy old broad.
Quick Lasagna
Recipe #1 / Pgs 18-19 / Mexican Beef And Bean Casserole
My ancient computer is acting up and keeps crashing without a moment's notice. So, I'm just going to post this week's three recipes just as images and hopefully will edit coments on them later this week.
Mexican Beef And Bean Casserole
Getting rid of the back-log
Okay, before I post about the recipes I did (because I did them!) I have to catch up with a few of the things I've done beforehand.
Pita pizza: it's like pizza ... but on a pita!!!!
I had some hamburger meat that I needed to use because it was getting past due-date. So I searched the we for something easy that could be tasty, with the ingredients I had. And here it is! Hamburger soup. I modified it quite a bit, adding lots of veggies and some chili powder for taste. Pretty delicious!
And last but not least, I was craving some stuffed crepes and decided to make shrimp ones. I tried to do some crab ones a few days later, but they weren't as good.
Here's the shrimp ones, straight out of the oven. I also realized that I needed a square cooking dish.
It was truly delicious and decadent though!!! It's hard to see them, because they are smothered with sauce and cheese!!! :D
Pita pizza: it's like pizza ... but on a pita!!!!
Pita Pizza
I had some hamburger meat that I needed to use because it was getting past due-date. So I searched the we for something easy that could be tasty, with the ingredients I had. And here it is! Hamburger soup. I modified it quite a bit, adding lots of veggies and some chili powder for taste. Pretty delicious!
Hamburger Soup
And last but not least, I was craving some stuffed crepes and decided to make shrimp ones. I tried to do some crab ones a few days later, but they weren't as good.
Here's the shrimp ones, straight out of the oven. I also realized that I needed a square cooking dish.
It was truly delicious and decadent though!!! It's hard to see them, because they are smothered with sauce and cheese!!! :D
Shrimp Stuffed Crepes
Monday, May 3, 2010
A new outlook
Okay, so this blog has been stagnating and I've been in a cooking "blah" for a while.
So, I decided to kick my behind in gear and set myself some goals, since it seems that's the only thing that works.
Inspired by, but way less ambitious/impressive then the Julie/Julia project, I will be going through the heftiest cookbook I have, from cover to cover.
I will not be holding to as rigorous a regiment as doing the entire thing in a set time, but have decided that for now, I would be doing a minimum of three recipes a week, until done.
The book is actually two, an contains a variety of admittedly easy level recipies for the most part. But they give the basic of cooking techniques, and are delicious foods. :)
So the book is Betty Crocker Basics: How to Cook and Entertain With Confidence.
I won't hold to the recipes as law, being that I consider recipes guidelines more then rigorous instructions. I'll try to be as faithful as possible, but still substituting ingredients when appropriate or when unavailable.
Right now, I'm waiting for the first result to come out of the oven!
So, I decided to kick my behind in gear and set myself some goals, since it seems that's the only thing that works.
Inspired by, but way less ambitious/impressive then the Julie/Julia project, I will be going through the heftiest cookbook I have, from cover to cover.
I will not be holding to as rigorous a regiment as doing the entire thing in a set time, but have decided that for now, I would be doing a minimum of three recipes a week, until done.
The book is actually two, an contains a variety of admittedly easy level recipies for the most part. But they give the basic of cooking techniques, and are delicious foods. :)
So the book is Betty Crocker Basics: How to Cook and Entertain With Confidence.
I won't hold to the recipes as law, being that I consider recipes guidelines more then rigorous instructions. I'll try to be as faithful as possible, but still substituting ingredients when appropriate or when unavailable.
Right now, I'm waiting for the first result to come out of the oven!
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