2011 - Week 14 Cooking Results
Turkey Burgers
Stuffed them with some jalapeno peppers a bit of cheese and put them in the pan. They turned out with a nice color and taste. It made for a pretty sandwich. I had a couple of these long rolls left and used them. Turkey burgers with swish cheese works pretty well.
Bratwurst
The frustrating thing about this meal was that I was all looking forward to having a little spicy pasta salad from Gateway, for my last meal, but it had tomatoes in it. And since I had to expect that there may be a seed or two in the tomato part, and I wasn't able to eat seeds....during that time period. It made me sigh a bit, and then pick up their potato salad, which is also quite ok.
Stovetop Mac and Cheese with Cheese Crisps (p76 April 2011 Food & Wine)
Sometimes I wonder why we as a country allow for such mediocre cheese to be cheese to be a standard. Maybe it is just prices that are driving us into such mediocrity. I knew I should have gone out of my way to get a better quality of cheese, but I didn't. Oh well. This turned out pretty well, the cheese flavor was kind of bland, but I guess that's to be expected from Kraft's normal line of products. The Cheese Crisps turned out pretty well and the mac and cheese it self was pretty ok. Other then my complaints about the cheese flavor. Oh well what can you expect. I try to reduce my food budget and then have to expect something to fall in quality. It still looked good.
The New American Grilled Cheese (p78 April 2011 Food & Wine)
This was stunningly good and I don't say that lightly either. It also gives me a new thought at a better method to make grilled cheese sandwiches. The issue I had with my ingredients. First and foremost, even thought the bread I bought was labeled sourdough, it was more of a loaf with garlic cloves in it. Unless it was on purpose and if it was then the sourdough taste wasn't really there. But even so, the sandwiches turned out very well.
Spaghetti with Anchovy Carbonara (p86 April 2011 Food & Wine)
It was Saturday afternoon, a nice warm spring day. I spent the second half of the day trimming the hedges and lopping some of the low hanging branches from our tree. After doing that, the idea of cooking let alone eating this, struck me as not the grandest idea. I'll make it next week.