We made some serious progress this past week with my "dedicated to dinner" resolution. Hooray! All photos posted below are taken from the internet as we have no windows in our kitchen and truly horrible lighting, to boot. I dream of having a bright and airy kitchen one day.
First up? Pasta Fagioli Soup from the blog Tina's Chic Corner. As a perfect example of comfort food at its finest, I seriously fell in love with this soup. Vegetarian friends, I think it would be just as delicious without the ground beef -- and swap beef broth for veggie.
My mom bought me a copy of America's Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Revolution for Christmas and we recently used some of the cash back bonus from our credit card to buy a new crock pot. Our old one was 12 years old, very small, and somewhat unreliable. Do you have any favorite crock pot recipes? Please share! We used ours twice this past week and I love how it simplified our evenings, especially on nights when I was teaching late.
First, we made Beer Braised Chicken from the blog Half Baked Harvest. America's Test Kitchen said you should always cook chicken slow -- on low -- and following that advice, this braised chicken stayed tender and moist. We enjoyed the meal but I'm not sure it merits a recipe card in the "keeper" file.
I paired the chicken with these Beer Biscuits with Spicy Meyer Lemon Butter from the blog How Sweet It Is. The biscuits weren't quite as drool-worthy as I expected them to be, but I'm intrigued by the idea of beer bread/biscuits. I'm going to keep searching for the perfect recipe. Trader Joe's happened to have meyer lemons in stock this week so we whipped up some of the butter, too. It was good but I prefer simple butter and honey.
What have you been making in your kitchen recently? Any drool-worthy recipes to share?
First up? Pasta Fagioli Soup from the blog Tina's Chic Corner. As a perfect example of comfort food at its finest, I seriously fell in love with this soup. Vegetarian friends, I think it would be just as delicious without the ground beef -- and swap beef broth for veggie.
My mom bought me a copy of America's Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Revolution for Christmas and we recently used some of the cash back bonus from our credit card to buy a new crock pot. Our old one was 12 years old, very small, and somewhat unreliable. Do you have any favorite crock pot recipes? Please share! We used ours twice this past week and I love how it simplified our evenings, especially on nights when I was teaching late.
First, we made Beer Braised Chicken from the blog Half Baked Harvest. America's Test Kitchen said you should always cook chicken slow -- on low -- and following that advice, this braised chicken stayed tender and moist. We enjoyed the meal but I'm not sure it merits a recipe card in the "keeper" file.
I paired the chicken with these Beer Biscuits with Spicy Meyer Lemon Butter from the blog How Sweet It Is. The biscuits weren't quite as drool-worthy as I expected them to be, but I'm intrigued by the idea of beer bread/biscuits. I'm going to keep searching for the perfect recipe. Trader Joe's happened to have meyer lemons in stock this week so we whipped up some of the butter, too. It was good but I prefer simple butter and honey.
The other crock pot recipe we tried came from the Slow Cooker Revolution cookbook: Garden Vegetable Sauce with Chickpeas. (I couldn't find a link to this recipe.) I really liked the more toothsome texture of the dried chickpeas and would like to use the crock pot to cook beans more often, but overall I don't think this recipe is one we're rushing to make again anytime soon.
Finally, we made Broccoli Quinoa Casserole from the blog Damn Delicious. This recipe is pretty much the broccoli/rice/cheese casserole we all know and love, with a few modern tweaks. Unfortunately, Abby was not a fan of the texture of the quinoa.
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