Apparently I’m two or three months behind on cooking posts.<\/p>\n
Stuff I can still remember making lately, for a generous definition of lately:<\/p>\n
* 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<\/em><\/a>, but I can’t find the recipe at their site yet.)<\/p>\n * 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<\/em><\/a>, also not on their site yet.)<\/p>\n * Corned beef, steamed cabbage, and soda bread<\/a>. (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.<\/p>\n * Tuna noodle casserole. Not very exciting, but it’s easy to double and it freezes well.<\/p>\n * Tamale pie. Basically used the recipe from the Joy of Cooking<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n * Chicken soup with dumplings. I love dumplings.<\/p>\n * Black bean tortilla bake. From Skinny One-Pot Meals<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading