Apparently I’m two or three months behind on cooking posts.
Stuff I can still remember making lately, for a generous definition of lately:
* Mexican tomato soup with cornmeal dumplings: Kind of interesting. If I make it again – and I may not – I would use a less strongly flavored oil for the dumplings than olive oil. (From Cooking Light, but I can’t find the recipe at their site yet.)
* Black bean cakes: beans, pepper jack cheese, onion, coated with cornmeal. They were really good (and also made a tasty breakfast). (Also from Cooking Light, also not on their site yet.)
* Corned beef, steamed cabbage, and soda bread. (No points for guessing what day this is from.) The bread, alas, did not bake all the way through, despite sounding deceptively hollow when thumped. A second attempt with an extra 10 minutes of baking time fared much better.
* Tuna noodle casserole. Not very exciting, but it’s easy to double and it freezes well.
* Tamale pie. Basically used the recipe from the Joy of Cooking, but replaced a third of the ground beef with either zuchinni (yummy) or broccoli (good but weird). And replaced much of the salsa with canned tomatoes + various herbs, spices + aromatic veggies. And left out the cheese the second time. I guess I pretty much used their dough recipe and made up my own filling. Also easy to double and freeze.
* Chicken soup with dumplings. I love dumplings.
* Black bean tortilla bake. From Skinny One-Pot Meals. With a lot less cheese than it calls for, because it wanted a lot of cheese. And the second time we didn’t have any nonfat ricotta anyway.