Welcome to February! Last month we asked you what recipes were on your must-try-list, and then last week we followed up and asked you which of those made it into your kitchen after all. I got to one or two things on my list last month; take a look at what's on it this month!
I still want to find some time to make those delicious-looking root vegetable dumplings that I was determined to make last month. I will definitely be making more scallion pancakes, too! (Look for a How To coming up later today.)
I also have some new recipes in my sights. I want to make bread more often this month, and try some new recipes for home-baked bread. I also want to try these:
• Delicious winter salad - From Jamie Oliver. This amazing-looking salad has a creamy dressing made with milk; it's based on an Italian bagna cauda. It just looks amazing!
• Lemon Snow Pudding - From Gourmet. I'm just craving lemon and this fluffy, unusual pudding looks like a fun new thing to try!
What about you? What new recipes and projects would you like to attempt this month?
Related: What New Recipes Did You Get to Try This Month? January 2010
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Pot au Feu. Trying to find a good recipe (that doesn't make vast quantities)
Carrot Pudding from the Moosewood Desserts cookbook, the cookbook in my collection I have used the least (next to circa 1980 Chinese Cookery Masterclass).
That lemon pudding sounds like a lemon-flavoured Floating Islands, but with gelatin... Floating Islands are very popular in this neck of the woods, and it is on my "to cook" list too!
Crockpot recipes as we just got one, plus I want to find a good recipe for white chicken chile.
More cakes too :-)
i'm having a baby in april so my task for this month is to test a few different casseroles to feed myself and my birth team (midwives, husband, etc.) before, during and after my labor.
i'm looking for light, healthful recipes that can be made ahead, frozen and reheated without much effort.
so far this white lasagna from whipped is at the top of my list - http://whippedtheblog.com/2010/01/25/white-vegetarian-lasagna/
I plan to make a couple of recipes from Julia's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1. The classic Beef Bourguignon and the Reine de Saba; with no variations or shortcuts. I'm really looking forward to them!
My new thing this year is bread. Right now I have good recipes for toast/sandwiches and foccacia. I'd love to be able to make a good baguette! Biscuits/dinner rolls would be nice, too. (Probably one this month and one next.)
That milk-braised chicken recipe that was posted here recently. Also butterscotch pot de creme.
On the list for Feb.
1. Short Ribs--perhaps using recipe in Sunday Suppers at Lucques Cookbook or maybe the Chez Panisse Cookbook
2. Roasted Potato and Fennel Soup from the Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
3. Molly Wizenberg's recipe for Sweet Potato Biscuits
4. Black Bean Chili from the Greens Cookbook
5. Chicken Piccata
6. A quiche recipe from Mastering the Fine Art of French Cooking
Vegan Chocolat Chaud
http://blog.shak-shuka.com/shakshuka/2009/12/guest-chef-au-chocolat.html
Advocado wasabi salad mmm
http://veganyumyum.com/2010/01/avocado-wasabi-salad/
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I'm making braised short ribs. And those lovely pink goat cheese rolls from Sparkling Ink. And I swear this is going to be the month I bake a cookie that isn't a disaster (I'm a notoriously awful baker).
i've been trying to perfect my pizza-tossing technique, so i am going to try to do more of that (and use up some of our canned tomatoes from this summer).
Oy vey! What DON'T I have on my list of recipes to try this month should be the question.
While sitting in the office I am constantly finding new and amazing recipes that I want to try and they just get piled onto the ones that I already have, waiting patiently at home.
This is what is on the menu this week:
Pumpkin Tortilla Soup with Mini-Tostadas
Glazed Salmon with Sauteed Broccoli on a bed of Jasmine Rice
Shrimp & Corn Chowder
Ginger Shrimp Potstickers with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce
Vegetarian Sushi (for my lunches!)
Check out the adventure at http://www.abbeycatchat.com
pasta and bread. I'm trying to carbo load, apparently.
a sweet pork shoulder, short ribs, scallion pancakes (posted today), pasta, soup, soup, soup. Anything in the new crock pot.....
roasted vegetables, potato leek soup, honey whole wheat bread, white chocolate chunk brownies, roasted butternut squash and red pepper panzanella, white hot chocolate.
I want to make a pork butt so badly. My boyfriend wants me to make one, too, so maybe it's a good candidate for Valentine's Day even though pork butt doesn't sound terribly romantic.
Milk-braised pork (Marcella Hazan's recipe), octopus salad in both Japanese and Italian styles with the 5 massive tentacles I have in my freezer, chicken paillards with sour ume plum paste and shiso, and something with the 1lb of salmon 'wings' I recently scored at the fish markets.
Carnitas, pavlova, lemon possets, and something with water spinach..these round out the things my food-obsessed mind has been pondering lately.
On my list are:
- Homemade Pretzels (I've been living in Germany for 15 years, so it's a real challenge to live up to German pretzels :)
-Filo-Hot milk pie that was featured here some months ago
-Red beets pasta with poppy seeds
-Scallion pancakes from this side
-Reuben-style bread from http://www.thekneadforbread.com/2009/04/03/rustic-reuben-bread/
@ amiebarber8 - Oh, and the veg sushi for lunch sounds fun, too!
@queenforoneday: Homemade pretzels are sooo yummy. The hardest part is so achieve the pretzel look, but "Laugenbrötchen" are tasty, too and don't involve pretzel shaping.
I want to do the all-apple breakfast muffins someone posted here at AT. They are w/o sugar, white flour and fat.
The other thing I want to do is a veganized option of Jamie Olivers clementine jelly. I love clementines and I have to do it this month, because otherwise I have to wait for the next clementine season.