Usually when I tell people I'm craving Peanut Butter Soup, they look at me as though I'm crazy. First, I don't even like Peanut Butter. Second, "Peanut butter as the basis for soup?!" they exclaim. Peanut Butter Soup seems perfectly natural to me. It (aka: Peanut Soup) is fairly common in West Africa, and seeing as both my parents are from ( Read more... )

Slow Cooker Chicken & Dumplings. It seemed easy and tasty enough. The reviews said, "better than my grandmother's homemade recipe." 2,676 reviews and an average allrecipes.com rating of 4.5 of 5 stars. I was disappointed in the finished product.

To be honest, I halved the amount of chicken and biscuits called for, and used a can of cream of ( Read more... )

Last week I had my first dinner party with my new friends.  I selected a recipe I had made once before, and enjoyed.  The was somewhat simple and somewhat sophisticated, making it ideal for a dinner party.  Interestingly, the recipe's author wrote her post just before summer, hoping for the weather to get warmer; I made this dish at what is ( Read more... )

 In preparation for the start of classes, I'm trying to define new requirements for recipes

1. Relatively quick and easy to make, 
2. No expensive ingredients of which I'll only use a small portion
3. Stores well in the fridge or freezer.

(I should also make a resolution to spend less on cookbooks and to stop bookmarking so many internet recipes, but really?  I ( Read more... )

Alright, everyone.  I have a new goal.  It's to review an average of one recipe a week for the next three months.  Depending on how that goes, I may try to keep it up through the end of the year.  On that note, here's my review of a tasty dish I made last week.

A couple of years ago, a friend gave me the book Low Fat Low Cholesterol edited by Anne ( Read more... )

I know, I know.  You've missed me terribly during my unannounced and unacceptable posting hiatus.  I have no good reason as to why I did not post a review of *anything* I've made in the mast two months.  Please accept my apologies.

That said, here's a very quick review of a dish I made not-so-recently.  I made the Slow Cooker Chicken and Sausage ( Read more... )

So, I own this delightful cookbook, Cooking for Two.  The other day, I began thumbing through it to see what struck my fancy.  During this search, I discovered a tempting chicken cordon bleu for two recipe, complete with a wine-based cordon bleu sauce.  Unfortunately, after a Saturday of sitting around on my butt, I didn't have the energy.  I then ( Read more... )