try a new recipe every week

I made a seriously fantastic egg salad this week from Martha Stewart!! AND it used no mayonnaise. It was actually a pretty healthy recipe. Yum!

My husband and I made an Italian Style Lentil Soup last Sunday. Oh my god was it good. Basically it was just normal lentil soup with canned tomatoes, risotto rice, and parmesan on top. SO SO good!!

So easy, so healthy, and SO GOOD. Yum!!! My husband and I made them last night and had the leftovers for lunch. They are fantastic.

I felt like baking last night and didn’t have time to go to the grocery store…so I looked at the recipe on the back of the ghiradelli chocolate chips I had in my pantry and ended up having all of the ingredients. It was a very simple recipe, but so so good!!

I made the best brownies for the superbowl yesterday. They were from the Barefoot Contessa cookbook and wow were they delicious. There is a pound of butter in them and so much good chocolate! It was like chewy chocolate fudge. Yum! I brought them to work this morning and they were a hit!

I made an artichoke dip for the superbowl yesterday. I used a Dip cookbook that I bought a couple years ago. It wasn’t awesome. I think it would’ve been better with more artichokes in it. I think the cookbook I have been using is kinda bad…I am going to give it away.

My husband actually made this recipe from Deborah Madison’s cookbook this weekend. It had some unusual ingredients like Dijon mustard and red wine vinegar. We have never used those in soup before. It turned out fantastic. Very fresh and savory. We will definitely make this recipe again!

I have been using a new cookbook that a friend gave me and made the chickpea curry last night. It looked like it was going to be good, but I really didn’t like it. The spices were not right and it ended tasting very one-dimensional.

I think I am going to retire the cookbook for a while, I have been very unimpressed with the two recipes I have cooked from it.

I haven’t been posting any recipes lately, but we have been cooking at lot this year. A couple nights ago I made a red lentil dal from the Deborah Madison cookbook (one of my favorites!) and a potato and pea indian dish. The dal was amazing and so simple. All the ingredients were so fresh and tasty (ginger, garlic, coconut cream, cilantro, etc). The potato and pea curry dish was not as great. I think I may have made it wrong.

This weekend I tried two recipes! For the superbowl I made queso dip and then I made vegetarian chili.

The queso dip turned out to be not so good…it tasted yummy, but the texture wasn’t right. The chili was really great. Even my non-veggie friends loved it! Fun times!