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2010 - Week 24 Cooking Results

Chicken Salad (from the leftover roast chicken last week)

I just kind of threw this together, some Dijon mustard, some mayo, some hoagie relish...and it came out good.  Certainly a good use of the extra chicken that came off the the wonderful roast chicken.

Hawaiian Wahoo (Ono)

I read up a bit about cooking the fish and sort of based the idea of it on a recipe online that called to coat it in smoked paprika (of which I have already), sear it, then bake it to finish.  It turned out pretty well.  Flakey  and good tasting.  I have another two servings, that I'll probably even simplify it a bit more and maybe just go w/ lemon on lime and salt and pepper.

Eden Farms Berkshire Pork Chops with a cherry onion glaze

Some tart cherries, a small white onion, a bit of olive oil to cook it in to soften it up, and it went pretty well with the pork chops.  The pork was good on it's own, and with the cherry onion glaze it added a bit of a nice extra flavor to it.

Ragù alla Bolognese

You know, I should have learned my lesson by now and actually read the whole recipe, especially the part where it says "cook the sauce at a bare simmer for 2 hours".  So I suspect it didn't taste the same, because I cooked it at a simmer for probably another 30 minutes or so.  Anyways, it still tasted pretty good none the less.

Pimento Cheeseburgers (p21 June/July 2010 Cook's Country) with Amish Potato Salad (p11 June/July 2010 Cook's Country) (Movie Night)

I thought this would be harder to make then it actually turned out to be.  I made the potato salad the night before and did a bit of prep work on the pimento mixture that went inside the burgers.  The salad was simple, and as I tasted it I thought of all the things I would do to make it more like something that I would like more, but it was still good in this simple format.  I also liked the pimento burgers.  I think I could've sealed the burgers together more (one of them broke open and had the melted sauce leak out of the center, but even so this meal over all was pretty good.  I am generally happy with how the week turned out.