In an effort to branch out and reach a little out of my cooking comfort zone (aka rut), I am determined to make a minimum of one new recipe each week. This is for cooking. Baking doesn’t count. 🙂 I frequently try new baking recipes, so that’s nothing new. But cooking is different. I get stuck and revert to habits instead of jumping off a cliff into something new and creative.
So here we go. 🙂
If anyone has any awesome recipe you’d like to share, I would love to have it!!!
Otherwise I will be perusing Fix-It And Forget-It, Hot Providence, Smitten Kitchen, Food Network, and random google searches quite a bit in the near future. 🙂
fix it and forget it is a great cook book! I like the Hearty Italian Stew. I add more ingredients, like fresh basil, but even the way its written in the book is yummy!
I’m afraid I won’t be much help since I’ve been in a cooking rut forever. Every time I get excited about something I’m cooking, it turns out to be a big disappointment. Bleh…but I do LOVE Smitten Kitchen. I was looking at her recipe for potato pancakes today and trying to think of an excuse to make them…maybe next time I roast a chicken. That is something I do pretty frequently (roasting a chicken), since it provides a few decent meals (sliced the first night, a few sandwiches, chicken stock and matzo ball soup)…But seriously, I am in a huge rut too…good luck. It’s no fun. 🙂
I shall have to share a recipe with you then 😉 You have given us so many good ones over the years… in fact, we just had your Roasted Lemon Chicken with Potatoes last week! 🙂
Here’s one of our new favorites; a great winter time soup (it’s a kind of, sort of copy from Olive Garden)
1 lb. spicy Italian sausage, crumbled
1/2 lb. smoked bacon, browned
4 cups water
3 1/2 -4 cups chicken broth
2 large russet potatoes, scrubbed clean and cubed
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
1 med. onion peeled, chopped
2 cups chopped kale or Swiss chard
1 cup heavy whipping cream
salt and pepper to taste
In a skillet over medium heat, brown sausage, breaking into small pieces as you fry it; drain, set aside. Do the same with the bacon. Place water, broth, potatoes, garlic, and onion in a pot; simmer over medium heat until potatoes are tender. Add sausage and bacon to pot; simmer for 10 minutes. Add kale and cream to pot; season with salt and pepper.
Italian sausage:
Ground turkey
Spices:
2 tsp. finely ground sage
1/2 tsp. steak seasoning
1/2 tsp. oregano or marjoram
Salt and pepper
Yummm! Thank you, Samantha! 🙂
And Laura, you’ve gotta give yourself a little goal to get out of the rut – I’m finding that I’m in love with my little goal! Probably because it’s so doable. 🙂
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about ice cream makers.
Regards
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