Trying one new recipe a week

[cimorene]

I decided a little while ago to try one new recipe per week as far as I can manage.

Since then we have made:

Ina Garten's Black Bean Soup, which is basically a mirepoix+bell peppers plus a bunch of black beans, Southwestern seasoning, and vegetable broth. It's similar to a couple of our favorite soup recipes and also to just the way I make black beans for burrito filling, but it's good.

RecipeTinEats' Country Harvest Root Vegetable Soup, which is very simple: a huge quantity of root vegetable chunks (she gives weight of each and we followed this pretty closely, but this style of recipe is easy to substitute of course) and some alliums sauteed with thyme and curry powder for seasoning and then cooked in water till soft, with cream added at the end, pureed with an immersion blender. This was delicious and we will definitely be having it regularly.

RecipeTinEats' Ultra Lazy Creamy Chicken and Broccoli Pasta Bake. I love pasta casserole and want to try more recipes where you don't have to pre-cook the pasta. The pasta came out great and this was delicious, but it's a little rich for me. It's a bit like oven-baked mac and cheese with broccoli in it. The vibes are very creamy and fatty and it just feels extremely heavy as a main dish.

Trying a white bean soup recipe this week. (I like to make soup once a week at least in the fall and winter.)

Comments

[isilya]

Nagi's recipes are basically all winners! And well tested/economical/practical for home cooking too. She's an absolute star--not sure if you know that she uses any money raised by her site/book sales to fund her meals for the needy service.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

You're ahead of me, mine is 1/month. My latest was butternut squash soup. My Recipe tag is here.

[cimorene]

I didn't! But I love her recipes. We haven't tried all that many mainly because trying new ones has been a very rare occurrence for us any time we are under any stress!

[isilya]

Yeah it’s pretty rad actually, like I think she is independently well-off so decided to devote her life to making healthy delicious meals for people in need (she has a commercial kitchen) and I the recipe site/books completely fund that. An excellent use of free will.