Apologies on the late post. I had a wicked migraine again yesterday and looking at screens made me nauseous. 🙁 I think I figured out what’s been causing them though and will not do that anymore.
The Husband knows the way to my heart. 🙂 We washed all the new knives and they are in the knife block waiting for glorious recipes! And also for me to accidentally stab, slice, or cut myself with… New knives are sharp!
Here they are in all their shiny newness.
They are Zwilling/JA Henckels, the twins. We don’t buy the International version, as they have some bad reviews and don’t seem to be as good. The Husband found a screaming deal online and snapped them up. I’ve used the chef’s knife and the paring knife so far. They are so nice to use.
We had three new recipes this week. I made a souffle! We bought a big souffle dish and I think I’ll get a matching ramekin set so I can make mini ones. I have 7 small ramekins, but they are different sizes, so it’s hard to figure out how many I need for a recipe.
1- Cheese and Mushroom Souffle from The Souffle Cookbook by Myra Waldo. Section: Cheese Souffles
My souffle dish is a 2 quart and was a tiny bit too big, but it was still very raised and fluffy.
We didn’t like the taste of it. We’re thinking the sweet souffles might be the way to go. It used undiluted canned cream of mushroom soup, so that’s probably why. We ended up throwing the rest out. I’m going to try a plain cheese one to see if we like that instead. I did feel very accomplished though!
2- French Vanilla Ice Cream from the Kitchenaid Attachment book.
This was good, but I had run out of cream and had to sub milk, which made it come out a little icy. It tastes good though and it made so much that it overflowed the bowl. I think I should have churned it in two batches, but didn’t have time before work.
3- Soul Warming French Onion Pot Roast by Little Spice Jar. http://littlespicejar.com/french-onion-pot-roast/
This was amazing! An hour and a half in, I wanted to lick the crockpot. I restrained myself, since we had guests coming. 8 hours later, I could hardly stand it.
I have no pictures because we fell on it like ravenous beasts and a 2.5 lb roast was gone in about five minutes. It fell apart so easily and I will definitely be making this again.
I’ve started my 25 days of cookies and have made three cookie recipes.
One of them is the macaroons from last week and the other two are from the December Food Network.
So far I’ve made Chocolate Shortbread Cutouts, and Hibiscus Ginger cookies. My hands are still burning from hand squeezing ginger juice from freshly grated ginger…
I’ll post pictures and reviews of those recipes tomorrow when I review for the month. Have a good night!
