The Eating Experiments of A girl With a Book: April 2010

So I have been a serious slacker as of late, and I am so sure that it is driving the lot of you crazy! I have been cooking, a lot. And I thought I had lost my card reader, and thought this correctly. But with the help of a friend, a replacement card reader was located and I am all set. By now though, I am not quite certain that I am going to remember what everything I ate was, but hopefully I will muddle through, starting with today. What I am certain of is, that, this blog will most likely be stricken with comma splices as I am still just getting a grasp of them. So good luck getting through this frustration free to all of you English Majors, Teachers, and Obsessors. I think from this point forward I will attempt to have my brave but oh-so-willing taste testers rate my creations on a 1 to 10 scale so that you will get a better and less biased view of delicious, or not-ness.
Sunday April 11th, my first pot roast!
I personally think it was quite good, very fally-aparty which was fantastic, and the 12 baby carrots were indeed delicious.

Friday April 9th, Brocoli Cheddar Soup
SO I am terrible at pre-reading recipes which led to not buying all neccessary ingredients, which led to improvisation, which led to some pretty good soup, if not perfectly textured.

Wednesday April 7th, Big Sandwiches, need I say more?

Tuesday April 6th Ricotta Ravioli, Fun but WORK!!! Totally worth it.

Pasta of some sort... this was supposed to be my first real recipe I totally wrote myself! Small batch:Totally perfect! Larger Scale Reproduction: Tasted fine, but I was quite ready to cry.

I am now beginning to forget the dates... Meat Ravioli, Pretty good as well, made using Alton Brown's Meatloaf Recipe, sounds crazy, tastes good. Pasta was a little to thick for me this time, but a lot easier to work with, without fear of breaking.

Stir Fry, TOTAL CHEATER DAY, used the bagged stirfry mix for sure, all i did was cook some chicken and rice, easy cheesey, but still good.

Rachel Ray's only pizza you will ever want to eat again, or something like that... super delicious, but I think I will use a different recipe next time. It looks super healthy because it has broccoli on it! If it is not healthy then, who am i to judge?

Grilled Flank Steak with Habanero Mojo, with pasta and salad. It definitely had a nice kick, but it could have been spicier... although without gloves the habanero juice made my hangnails want to cry... this recipe came from the cooking new american cookbook.

Easy Enchiladas? Yeah... I don't think so... it turned into casserole but didn't taste half bad...

Rocky Road Brownies, I prefer to think of them as cake, because in my opinion boxed brownies are the only brownies... but as cake this was way good!

Baked Macaroni! Amazing, Amazing, Amazing, Amazing.

Chicken Cordon Bleu Burgers! Also Very good, thank you Rachel Ray!!! All though the mini size was my idea. I also ground my own chicken, kind of crazy... and made the bread we used for buns, it was SO GOOD!!! Thank you to my cousin Sarah!

Pasta Making with Sarah!!! THis was like my favorite thing ever, I made pasta until almost 3 in the morning... I am psycho, I know.

AMAZING roast chicken, thank you Tyler and your ultimates! And a flourless cake!

Dinner Party!!! Now, this was totally fun, I cooked from like 10 in the morning until nearly 7 when everyone arrived but it was worth it! Everyone performed for me and everything, Que Bueno!