Birthday cake for Nora

​King Arthur carrot cake with pecans 

Chicken & wild rice soup recipes

​recipe 1 

recipe 2 from AllRecipes

How to keep rice from getting mushy in soup

Recipe: baked apples — right up my alley

I gotta make this apple dessert

Recipes: British flapjacks

I want to try making flapjacks, from UK.

basic British flapjacks

I love oat cookies. This might be fun.

Earl Grey Flapjack with lemon from GBBO

Copycat Levain cookie recipe

Levain chocolate chip walnut

Levain chocolate peanut butter chip

Meal planning & Small Joy #2

Still eating down the fridge. I’m still in mode to use up what we have.

1. chicken parm,
2. spaghetti & meatballs,
3. chicken & wild rice soup,
4. chicken pesto lasagna
5. Swedish meatballs

Moving, hurricane season, using up food

Small Joy

Day 195

random #2

find a new limoncello recipe

plus also must use up frozen strawberries: how about strawberry limoncello frose?

Recipes — cleaning out freezer

So we aren’t moving 100% out of the house. But it’s still good to eat down what’s in the freezer, use up old stuff, eat what we’ve already paid for, make space to refill it.

Making bacon & yellow squash quiche and a ham quiche this weekend.

Made banana/strawberry/other smoothies this morning.

Cooking salmon steaks this weekend.

Making chicken parm for dinner on Sunday.

And chicken pesto lasagna — think of the lunch leftovers! Yum!

Recipes

Cake mix cookies

Recipes for game day and for lunches

Mexican sweet corn salad

Greek Party Squares

Dump chicken & rice casserole

Recipe — foccacia

I’ve found 3 recipes in books I already own. One involves potato flour. It’s probably fantastic but i don’t want to start with one that has a special ingredient.

I was trying not to google.. but my rain said: walnut & blue cheese? And, yes, that’s a thing. Gorgonzola & walnut foccacia

And I need to try this cheat foccacia: frozen rolls in a crockpot!

THEN I found this: Pasta with Gorgonzola apple & walnuts

Recipe goals

Listened to a podcast suggesting to pick a recipe for the year to improve and make as a go to dish.

Being overly ambitious as ever, I’ve chosen two recipes of the year.

1. Greek Party Squares, which I’ve made before. I’m just going to do it more this year. Improve in it. Memorize it.
2. Foccacia bread. I’ve been saying for years I want to make bread. So let’s pick one and get good at it. It’s supposed to be easy and has lots of flexibility.

This weekend, I will make the squares for craft day and I’ll find a foccacia recipe.

LOOKED UP: food and drink of Regency Era

 Guess who is thinking of hosting a Regency style birthday party for Jane Austen?

Me of course.

Here is a recipe for shrub, which is pretty much rum and oj! And then a bunch of other stuff too.

And an easy custard as per Cassandra Austen. Hmmm!

"Good Apple Pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness." -- Jane to Cassandra 17 October, 1815 Baked Apple Pudding

LOOKED UP: bacon wrapped dates as a dip

Goat cheese, date and bacon dip recipe

Small Joys — Apple a day

Day 73

Random number: 93

Eat an apple

I usually go for Granny Smiths, but here’s a Honey Crisp, or what’s left of it, along with Fluffy Peanut Butter dip. Fantastic snack! Definitely a joy to eat.

the dip recipe from Pampered Chef

LOOKED UP: recipe fluffy peanut butter dip for fruit

Learned this fluffy peanut butter dip at first Pampered Chef party I ever went to. Still love it.

Recipe to try

Pumpkin bread

Small Joys — Japanese sweet potatoes

Day 42

random number: 81

Look up how to make Candied Japanese potatoes. Satsumaimo.

recipe

buy at Whole Foods or Asian market

Kamas told me that the potatoes her husband made years ago is Daigaku. Can’t wait to try this.