I cooked up a storm on Monday night. I tried three new recipes, and they all turned out great. It was a miracle, and something that doesn't happen often. It seems that the more I cook the more disasters I have. Lentil Sloppy Joes, Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Bread, Black Bean Brownies to name a few. Yet, each one teaches me something new that I didn't know before. I can't complain about the failures, because they are my teacher. But when I am successful I am not ashamed to celebrate my victory :)!
For dinner I made a Thai Red Curry Pumpkin Soup that I found over at The Whole Kitchen blog. I found her blog recently, and I adopted her this month for Adopt A Gluten Free Blogger. I couldn't find just one recipe, because they all looked so delicious. So you will be seeing more recipes from her blog that I will be trying in the next week. I was definitely impressed with this soup. I followed it exactly except I didn't have a bell pepper, I used chicken instead of turkey, and I added some collard greens. Gotta use 'em up!
Chris had wild rice with his soup that I had cooked separately, and I ate mine without the rice. It works out nicely for us because my favorite part of the soup is the broth, and for Chris he likes his more like stew. I got lots of yummy broth, and his bowl was piled high with meat, vegetables, and rice. Also, one of my favorite touches was the cilantro on top. It added such a great flavor to the soup that I would go so far as to say it wouldn't be as good without it. I will definitely be making this again and again.
Then for dessert I made Chris Homemade Oreos with Peanut Butter Filling. This is not healthy in any way. But, since I have been making Chris eat so much weird stuff lately, I thought I would be nice and make him a dessert with lots of butter and sugar :). I didn't try them, but he said they were good, and since he ate 4 or 5 of them I guess it is a good indicator that he liked them.
I am not going to lie. I am really proud if this picture. :)
I wanted dessert too, something not filled with sugar and butter, and since the kitchen was a mess already I decided to make myself a pumpkin custard. For how few ingredients there are, this tastes really good. However, I want to make it one more time before I post the recipe. My pumpkin puree that I used was really watery and it kept the custard from setting up as well as I wanted it to. I will try to cook some of the water out before I mix it in the other ingredients. When I make it again I will post the recipe.
Noelle - it cracks me up that you and Chris have the same problem with soups that we have in our house - my husband really wants lots of STUFF in his bowl, where I also prefer a more brothy bowl...which is why I always cook up wild rice or brown rice separately, so he can have them in his soup. I love that we came to the same conclusion! And those Oreos are *amazing* - I don't bake many cookies, but Hubs is begging for these again, and PB oreos sound amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks again for adopting my blog this month and happy eating!