try a new recipe once a month

Putting things off to the last minute again.

Rice, olive oil, garlic, onion, chicken broth, sun dried tomato, mushrooms, and zucchini, finally some Parmesan cheese. I didn’t have any wine handy. It turned out pretty well.

I found out recently that I have a gluten intolerance, so no more wheat, rye, or barley (or anything that might be cross contaminated) for me. I do want to jump in to learning this new way of baking/cooking, but the supplies are crazy expensive, and I’m having to slowly acquire all new spices, so it may be a bit until I get in a cooking groove again.

I just made it up as I went. I had some fresh and dried mushrooms. Made a cream and Parmesan sauce. Turned out pretty good. But I think it needed a little more something. But a good starting place.

I suppose; new salad:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Seafood-Pasta-Salad/Detail.aspx

Hope it tastes good. :]

I’m finally making good biscuits. I haven’t tried it with a traditional recipe yet, but whipping cream biscuits (2c flour, 1.5T baking powder, a bit of salt, and 1c heavy whipping cream), pressed down to one inch, and cut into 9 squares, but not separated at 450F for 15 minutes = very tall, fluffy, and yummy. Yay!

Besides the baked cheese sticks last month (which I made several times because they were stupidly good), I also played with wonton wraps. Those were overbaked a bit, but still alright. I mostly did garlic cream cheese, but put nutella in a few others. Next to try ravioli with them.

I’m not sure what to work on this month. Maybe homemade mac & cheese? I still, sadly, use a box, because I can’t seem to get it not-greasy without using American.

OK. Not much of a recipe, but I’d never had them before and I was running out of time this month. My oven is kind of goofy so they ended up a bit more done than I normally would have preferred. But not too bad. But given the touchiness of cooking eggs in the oven I think I’ll stick to the stove top where I can keep an eye on them.

sweet vegetable soup with ginger http://thecookedandtheraw.com/2008/03/27/sweet-vegetable-soup-with-ginger/
delicious.

Biscuits still flat. Made really yummy baked mozzarella sticks, though.

I’m going to try rolling the biscuits to 1 inch next time. Something’s gotta work eventually… right?

1.Gnocchi cone le noci

2.Penne Affumicate

3.Grean Bean Pesto http://cookinginrome.blogspot.com/2008/04/green-bean-pesto-pesto-di-fagiolini.html

I’m glad I found the sunflower seeds

I still haven’t perfected the biscuits. They may be my downfall.

In March I made two pies: one a Tollhouse Pie recipe from a friend, and one just off the cuff—homemade chocolate pudding minus some of the liquid, homemade whipped cream, and some nuts on top in a pie shell. So you could say March was pie month. I may have another pie month, saaay… around November? ;D

I’m going to try the biscuits some more (I collected a ton of recipes from a group I’m in), but what I really want to get to this month is gnocchi. I’ve never had it but I want to try it. And soon—pasta from scratch. I thought about trying it with lasagna first, but thinking now I may keep it to just some pasta and sauce for a first go. Keep it simple.

I’m thinking of trying baked or pan cooked cheese sticks this week. I’ve never done well with deep frying them and I’m not a big fan of deep fried foods anyway.