Journal

2015 - Week 24 Cooking Results

Merguez Sausage Sandwiches on Spring Garlic or Spring Onion Bread (Grade A Gardens / Wild Yeast Bakery)

So I'm not quite sure what these are supposed to taste like.  I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to serve it, but it was pretty good, but not distinctive enough.  Even after soaking a little bit of the extruded fat / spice mixture into the bread, it still didn't stand out.  The bread was good though.

Chorizo Tacos (Cilantro!)

This turned into a taco salad.  i may have forgotten to buy tortillas, not that the Windsor Heights Hy-vee didn't move / hide the fresh tortillas and stopped carrying brand we'd buy (made in Des Moines), I just didn't have it on my list.  So when it came to make it I modified it to what would be easy to acquire on my way home.  So I did, and it worked out pretty well.  The thing about the salad is that it adds quite a bit of the, well, greens part.  So we made a big dent in the farmers market bought greens mixes.

Dill Chicken Salad

I'm not going to deny that I wanted to add all the dill that I picked, but I knew if I did so, that I would get the thumbs down from Shannon.  So I took a gentle hand.  I ended up with a mild dill background flavor, that wasn't overpowering.  And I passed!  good things.

Pork and Sugar Snap Pea Stir Fry

I've made this before, I'm pretty sure, but probably not with fresh snap peas as often.  Shannon helped me clean the snap peas, which was nice, cause it cut down on the time it would've taken for me to do them by myself.  Good stuffs.

Pork Burgers

Good, as always, especially since I can take out some Wild Yeast Bakery buns from the freezer and just toast 'em up and boom, way better then other options.

Pizza, going to try the Ssam Sauce plus also a new sauce recipie

Sauce was too runny, it ran over crust to the pan, and the crust didn't always get that crunch that one expects.  Anyways, the taste of the sauce was pretty good, but I was still upset by the occasionally soggy crust.  I forgot to try the Ssam Sauce, so we'll have to do this again.