try at least one new recipe every month

I’ve been experimenting with different ingredients for salads. This coleslaw was made with craisins (dried cranberries) and topped with grape tomatoes. It was delicious.

A different version of crab, cream cheese and onion wontons.

Cinnamon-sugar wontons

I forgot about a recipe I tried for the first time last weekend. My daughter hosted a candle party (at my house) with an Asian food theme. I made two kinds of Fried Wontons 1) Cheese and crab, and 2) Pork.

Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas

I finally feel like I’m accomplishing this goal. It’s only the 2nd of the month and already we’re trying out a new recipe!

Tonight it’s pumpkin soup – a simple recipe but sometimes those can be the best.

Also I forgot to mention that last month I made cheese ravioli. Not entirely a new recipe as I’ve helped make it a dozen times (actually probably a lot more), but it was the first time I made it by myself (with only a few phone calls to nonna for assistance…!).

And we almost tried a new recipe the other day. P cooked one of our favourite veggie stir-frys for dinner and as he was serving it up he stated that the recipe didn’t seem to make much. When I looked into the wok I had to keep a straight face when I asked him “where are the noodles???”. It seemed to make enough when those were added….!!

I made prawn pad thai last night for dinner, but I’ll be honest – I don’t think it was that good! P assured me he liked it, but personally I’m in no rush to make it again. It was definately missing something… I don’t think it had enough veggies actually, and the lemon juice really overpowered the whole dish. Maybe I need to experiment more….

At least I tried another recipe though! That’s July covered.

I went over to P’s brothers place last night for a family dinner and brought along dessert. I made a triple chocolate cheesecake and I must say it looked remarkably like the one in the picture!

Everyone said they liked it – they were either being very poilte, or actually did like it. I hope it was the latter!

Additionally, I tried making scones again, but I used a different recipe so technically it counts as a whole new recipe! They were more successful than the last attempt (P ate about a million which is always a good indicator), so I think I’ll stick with that one for the moment.

So I’m now ahead of the game… I might have a chance of ticking this goal off this year!

Just as I posted my last entry, I remembered I made scones the other morning (which amazingly enough I have never done before). So that can be back dated to March…. which means I’ve tried 5 new recipes this year and it’s the 5th month… It’s not quite one a month, but I’m making progress at least!

failed horribly with this goal so far this year! However I made some ground by trying two new recipes this month. The first was a Caramel Slice for P, and the second was a hokkien noodle and pork stir-fry. I could almost claim the latter as two recipes seeing as how I made one batch with pork and the other with vegetarian stir fry strips, but essentially it was the same!

So that is my one for this month and last month… I think I still need to catch up for March and then I’ll be up to date for the year again.