Try a new recipe each week

The recipe is from Epicurious.com. It was good, paired it with jasmine rice, just not exactly what I wanted it to be. My family loved it though.

This past weekend I was trapped in my house due to snow, so I made Brownies Cockaigne (from “Joy of Cooking”), to which I added cream cheese AND extra chocolate. If you make these, I would advise taking an aspirin or two prior to consumption, the brownies are that rich. I also made Thai-Curry Seafood Stew, which was great (though I enjoy anything with the words “Thai” or “seafood”—save pad thai).

I made Pecan Crusted Tilapia for dinner tonight. It turned out well, though I think the recipe needs a little something. More hot sauce, perhaps?

I made a single serving in a little ramekin. I sort of made it up as I went along. The blueberry part turned out well, the crust was not great. i tried.

really easy. no actual recipe involved, but i’m counting it anyway. and it was sooooo amazing!

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I have made chocolate chip cookies many times before, but this was the first time I used the “Joy of Cooking” recipe. They had a great flavor… but were very flat and crispy. Not necessarily bad, just odd. I’m not quite sure what I did wrong.

I finally made gnocchi. it took forever, but it was definitely worth it (only negative… i put in too much salt by accident). I made Gnocchi a l’Alsacienne (from Thomas Keller’s Bouchon.. too lazy to link it).

A few days ago I made (#6) a fried eggplant sandwich with garlic hummus on a toasted bun. It was amazing. And last night I made a batch of (#7) Peanut Butter Blossoms, which are peanut butter cookies rolled in sugar with a hershey kiss in the center. My mother makes them all the time, but this was my first attempt. They turned out nicely, though my brother thinks I put too much peanut butter in the cookies.

Okay, so the chocolate volcano cakes were from a box, but damn, they were the best thing to ever come from a cake mix so I am counting it here. I think the brand was “delightful desserts” or something similar.