New Recipe Project Update

Here's the update on the new recipe project.

The goal is to make at least two brand new recipes a year (either something I've never eaten before, or a recipe I've had somewhere else, but never made on my own.)

For April, the new recipes were as follows (unfortunately, I don't have photographic proof of these ones at the moment... need to check my camera at home, maybe there are photos there!):

1. Chocolate-Coconut Macaroons
2. Hot-Crossed Buns
3. Blackberry Cobbler

Last night I made the first new recipe for the month of May:

This is Tomato-Beef Chowder.  L and I used to cook it all the time, but she always made it.  It was her recipe.  We were both surprised when I actually liked this soup.  First, because I don't tend to like soup.  Second, because it has ground beef and is tomato based, and I don't love either of those things either.  But I really like it, and now that L. has moved to the UK for a while, I wrote her asking for the soup recipe.  When she sent it, I immediately set out to make it as soon as possible.  That was last on Wednesday.  And it was so tasty!

Daily 5 - Day 265

Today's Daily 5:

1. Miss Vickie's Sweet Chili & Sour Cream potato chips
2. Pomegranate green tea
3. Cooked my first new recipe for the month of May tonight at Mom and Dad's house
4. A hug from my mom
5. a quiet evening with my parents, cooking, visiting, and just generally feeling the reassurance that family offers in a way other people don't.

New Recipe Project: March #2

The second new recipe for March was Mediteranean Beef Pitas.

All the fixings, lettuce, parsley, lemon, hummus, tzatziki, feta, the beef, and pitas.

The beef.

My assembled pita.

Daily 5 - Day 227

Today's Daily 5:

1. 2921 posts here over the last nearly 5 years
2. Reading Renee's Lenten Daily Grateful 5 lists on facebook each day.
3. Discovering that there are only about 80 pages left to read in a book I'm slogging through for the purposes of writing a review
4. Made the second new recipe for March tonight: Mediterranean Beef Pitas
5. Went to Palm Sunday mass
6. had a frank conversation with my parents regarding some stuff that affects my living situation.  Was grateful that they were open in answering my questions.
7. A hug from mom
8. Actually getting a bit of sleep last night
9. Slow, lazy morning, but also quite productive
10. Grandma being out of the house all day... so much less tense for me, and I got most of my usual Sunday tasks done, meaning that I think I can probably go to the zoo tomorrow.  It's been too long since I've visited "my" gorillas, and I still haven't seen the newest baby giraffe.
11. The "I am a rockstar" reminder I posted earlier, from Kelle's blog post tonight.