cook something new every week

Cooked a nice prawn curry, as well as aromatic rice and onion bhaji s. Nobody died so I consider that a success

I have been doing this for a month now and have made the following dishes -
Chocolate chip cookies
Zucchini and salmon Fritters
Sausage bake
Vanilla pie.

So far no huge culinary disasters.

so in an effort to start cooking more and being creative when I cook, I found Taste.com.au. This website ROCKS! There are pictures and ratings for everything. It has to be my new favorite site. I just printed off a bunch of recipes that I am going to try!!!!

I’m giving up but only in the sense that this goal is morphing into one of my BYY 08 goals but I’m going to aim for just 2 dishes a month

Chicken and Dumplings AND Bolognese Lasagne!

Lemon Meringue Pie and Fifteen Bean Soup! :-)

I am probably going to change this goal or create a new one as I can’t seem to make something new each week!

This receipe was taken from Delia’s Chicken Cook Book and involved, chicken breast, brocolli, cashews, shitake mushrooms, garlic, ginger, 5 spice, soy sauce and onions.

It involved ALOT! of chopping and slicing but I have to say the result was worth it, it was amazingly delicious (this is coming from someone who is a useless cook!)

To prove it was pretty great Mr Cate scored it an 8.67 (whoo hoo!) for comparison purposes my Fish Cakes (circa 2003) scored 3.25

I made Sausage Risotto on a whim: yummy!!!! :-)

I made these at the weekend and although it sounds odd but it’s like using Carrots in Carrot Cake.

Anyway they were delicious and a success!

I saw Jamie making them a week or so ago and the receipe is available here until the 27th November if anyone is interested.

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/J/jamie-at-home/butternut-squash-muffins-recipe.html

p.s I didn’t bother with the lavender or flower petals!

I felt very Delia doing this last night it was a complete experiment but surprisingly edible. The biggest test is if M finishes his plate (which he did, but may be due to him being on the brink of starvation)

I made a concoction of

Honey
Olive Oil
Ginger (picked, due to the world shortage of fresh root)
Garlic Crushed
Paprika
Salt & Pepper

Marinated the chicken for short while before griddle panning it (I haven’t this pan for a while so thought I’d carry on with the experiment.)

Kept turning and basting. Served on plain rice. Surprisingly the chicken was still moist but might have been nicer if there was a bit more juice for the rice!

Ah well, it’s something new and at least it was edible!