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What I've been cooking & baking
Dec. 18th, 2007 02:31 pmLast night, I was feeling super domestic and I made homemade part-whole-wheat pizza crust (in the bread machine), homemade sauce (well, I used canned tomato paste but seasoned it myself), and made soy sausage and pepper pizza. I also chopped a whole clove of garlic up and sprinkled that over the crust and tomato sauce before adding the other toppings, and that gave it some great flavor.
I also baked some Ghirardelli double chocolate brownies. They got a little over-done, and while the middle was chewy, the corners were kind of like crisp chocolatey cookies. Still good, though.
I've been eating potatoes a fair amount lately, too. Sometime last week, I made baked potatoes and then topped them with broccoli in cheese sauce. The broc & cheese was pre-packaged from Green Giant and it was OK, but I think next time I'll just put shredded cheddar and broccoli on the potatoes and we'll skip the fake-o cheese sauce.
I've also been making my own garlic & onion oven-baked potatoes. There's some brand you can get in the freezer section that's good, but I think my homemade ones are just as good, if not better. I toss potato chunks (about an inch and a half cubed) with canola oil, a little salt, a little black pepper, and LOTs and LOTs of garlic powder and onion powder and bake them at 450 in the oven for about 8-12 minutes (less if you microwave them and soften them up for a few minutes ahead of time). They come out crunchy on the outside and soft and hot on the inside and taste delicious, if I do say so myself. Now that we've got fresh garlic in the house, that may have to go in there as well.
Other things I've cooked lately have included:
-A curried chick pea and veggie soup (just something I threw together without a recipe when I was hungry, but it was so good I may have to try to re-create it)
-Soy sausage and cheese omelets in a whole wheat tortilla with sour cream and green salsa
-Bean & rice enchiladas with homemade sauce (J. says he prefers my homemade sauce because it's more flavorful and less salty than store-bought)
-Teriaki salmon filets with peppers and mixed veggies
I also baked some Ghirardelli double chocolate brownies. They got a little over-done, and while the middle was chewy, the corners were kind of like crisp chocolatey cookies. Still good, though.
I've been eating potatoes a fair amount lately, too. Sometime last week, I made baked potatoes and then topped them with broccoli in cheese sauce. The broc & cheese was pre-packaged from Green Giant and it was OK, but I think next time I'll just put shredded cheddar and broccoli on the potatoes and we'll skip the fake-o cheese sauce.
I've also been making my own garlic & onion oven-baked potatoes. There's some brand you can get in the freezer section that's good, but I think my homemade ones are just as good, if not better. I toss potato chunks (about an inch and a half cubed) with canola oil, a little salt, a little black pepper, and LOTs and LOTs of garlic powder and onion powder and bake them at 450 in the oven for about 8-12 minutes (less if you microwave them and soften them up for a few minutes ahead of time). They come out crunchy on the outside and soft and hot on the inside and taste delicious, if I do say so myself. Now that we've got fresh garlic in the house, that may have to go in there as well.
Other things I've cooked lately have included:
-A curried chick pea and veggie soup (just something I threw together without a recipe when I was hungry, but it was so good I may have to try to re-create it)
-Soy sausage and cheese omelets in a whole wheat tortilla with sour cream and green salsa
-Bean & rice enchiladas with homemade sauce (J. says he prefers my homemade sauce because it's more flavorful and less salty than store-bought)
-Teriaki salmon filets with peppers and mixed veggies
