Where Have I Been?

While I can't honestly say I've made a new recipe lately, I can say I have been making easy meals and old recipes at home more than we have been eating out. Again, this is a huge plus for me and I must consider it a success in itself.

Also, another success is that I had a completely stress free, although hurried, trip to the grocery store on Sunday that resulted lunches for the week and fixings for four dinners.

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this and need to get back to the 1 new recipe per week challenge!

I may start with a recipe just sent to me by a friend. Sounds easy and yummy, by Better Homes and Garden - Hummus-Crusted Chicken.

King's Hawaiian Cinnamon Nutmeg French Toast

This stuff is the bomb! Milk, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, and King's Hawaiian sweet bread. Chill the bread in the fridge overnight so it doesn't break apart when you slice it. YUM!!!




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Snow Day Super-Simple Beef Stew

Threw this in the crockpot this morning. Gotta love a work-at-home snow day that will end in Super-Simple Beef Stew!

12 ounces small red potatoes, quartered (about 2 cups)
4 medium carrots, cut into 1/2 inch pieces (2 cups)
1 small red onion, cut into wedges (1/2 cup)
1 pound beef stew meat
1 10 3/4-ounce can condensed cream of mushroom or cream of celery soup
1 cup beef broth
1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram or thyme, crushed
1 9-ounce package frozen cut green beans, thawed

1. In a 3 1/2 to 4 quart slow cooker, place potatoes, carrots, onion, meat, condensed soup, broth, and marjoram or thyme. Stir to combine.
2. Cover; cook on low-heat setting for 8 to 9 hours or on high-heat setting for 4 to 4 1/2 hours. If using low-heat setting, turn to high-heat setting. Stir in thawed green beans. Cover and cook for 10 to 15 minutes more.

This is from a crockpot cookbook I cannot seem to locate. I had copied the page out and thought it sounded perfect for Snowpocalyse 2011!

Slow Cooker Chicken Tikki Masala

Saw this via Borders Kitchen Blog Cookbook of the Week: "The Indian Slow Cooker" by Anupy Singla. The recipe is in the blog post so follow the link.

Sounds like a lot of work for a slow cooker recipe. However, I'm told this particular Indian dish is yummy and being able to make it at home in my beloved crock pot is intriguing. I'd have to dedicate most of the weekend to this, though, so it should count as at least two new recipes.

Mexican Crock Pot Chicken

FYI - If you accidentally put the crock pot on high and your husband notices it is boiling before it burns, dinner will be done in 4 hours instead of 7. :-)


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Actually Cooking

Upon giving some more thought to this challenge, and my apparent inability to rise to it, I have decided I must work on actually cooking before I worry about one new recipe per week. I barely cook and hate the grocery store, so the pressure of having to find one new recipe a week, find all the ingredients, and follow through with making it seems a bit much.

We ate out every night this week that we were together. This is a problem.

So, this morning we went to the grocery store and meat market and food for dinners for the week plus breakfast and lunch staples. Dinner choices include:

1. Mexican crock pot chicken (meat base for any of your mexican favorites)
2. Boboli pizza (premade crust) and caesar salad (in a bag)
3. Beef tortellini (frozen) and marinara (jar)
4. Pork tenderloin with the sage cornbread crust

Not new recipes or all from scratch but four more dinners than we made last week, so I need to consider this a success.

I will think of a new goal structure and post soon.

Nothing New

Since I used the kitchen three times last week and was flustered by the chowder recipe, I've decided to take a week off. That's my excuse, anyway!

Today for dinner I will be making the posticker salad again and serving with hawaiian sweetbread rolls and fortune cookies.

Next week I have book club, so I will choose a new party food recipe for that and then do a new dinner recipe on Sunday.

Happy New Year!