as I mentioned in my previous post I have some cooking stuff I wanted to write about. Last week I was just enjoying browsing and drooling over a few of my recipe books, and I decided to make a list of a load of recipes I wanted to try. As the list grew and grew and grew, I realised that it might take me a while to get through all of them. In the end I came up with 72 recipes. There's nothing special about the number 72, I just found 72 I liked out of 5 cook books and I thought if I opened anymore books then the list would get ridiculously long.
So as a few of my friends have been doing resolution type things on their blogs, I thought it might be cool if I tried to cook all 72 recipes before the end of 2012 (kind of like the book 'Julia and Julia', although I don't flatter myself that my resulting blog will be half as interesting or witty). I worked out that that would be 1 and a half recipes on average a week, which might seem like quite a lot, but to be fair some of the recipes aren't long complicated recipes, they're just cooking stuff I want to try e.g. Jamie Oliver's Jam Jar Salad Dressings.
Since I haven't gotten round to writing about this until now, I've already completed some of the recipes (the ones I've highlighted), but I'll most likely be doing a few of them a couple of times anyway, so it's no big deal I don't think.
Below is the list of recipes I want to have completed by the end of the year (sorted by book) and here's the stats as they stand:
Recipes completed: 23 Remaining recipes: 49
Weeks remaining:33
Weeks remaining:33
Cook in Boots (Ravinder Bhogal)
1. Fattoush p. 21 (see Jamie Oliver's Garlic chicken below)
2. Halloumi and sweet balsamic tomato open sandwich p. 26
4. Pasta, chorizo, and bean soup p. 52
5. Leek, potato and bacon soup p. 72
6. Roasted tomato soup with cheese soldiers p. 74
7. Cardamom biscuits p. 868. Pea, pancetta and halloumi frittata p. 117
9. Hummus p. 132
10. Falafel p. 136 (and Jamie Oliver Veg Bhajis)
11. Breakfast burritos p. 160
12. Zesty angel hair spaghetti p. 182
13. Chickpea and potato curry p. 184
14. Portabello mushroom and cheddar crumble p. 186
15. Spicy Sausage Ragu Bake p. 192
16. Hanoi poached chicken p. 202
17. Orecchiette with curly kale, lemon, and basil pesto p. 221
18. Butternut Squash, feta, seeds and greens salad p. 225
19. Crispy five spice duck breasts and pak choi p. 276
20. Fragrant chicken curry with star anise and lace pancakes p. 280
Rosie's Pantry: Baking
21. Carrot Cake p. 14
24. Lemon Meringue Pie p. 124
25. Pains au chocolat p. 134
26. English Muffins p. 164
Gorgeous Desserts (Annie Bell)
27. Brown bread ice cream p. 62 (haven't had this since uni, so am desperate to learn how to make it!)
28. Rhubarb Fool p. 76
29. Lemon syllabub p. 89
30. Creme Caramel p. 90
31. Cranachan trifle p. 102
32. Petits Pots au Chocolat p. 113
33. Very chocolate-y Tiramisu p. 118
34. Salty caramel chocolate sponge p. 124
35. Big apple pie p. 13036. Baked rhubarb sponge p. 142
37. Lemon surprise pudding p. 156
38. Hot Cross Bun pudding p. 184
Food Lovers: Cupcakes and Bakes
39. Redcurrant and Blueberry Muffins p. 46
40. Apple cakes p. 58
41. Berry cupcakes p. 64
42. Carrot muffins with walnuts p. 90
Jamie's Ministry of Food (Jamie Oliver)
43. Asian Chicken Noodle Broth p. 37
44. Macaroni cauliflower cheese bake p. 49
45. Chicken Chow Mein p. 60
46. Sweet and sour pork stir fry p. 65
47. Beef and black bean sauce p. 69
48. Chicken Korma p. 74
49. Lamb Rogan Josh p. 81
50. Chicken Tikka Masala p. 82
51. Thai Green Curry p. 91
53. Jam Jar Dressings p. 102
54. Sweet potato and chorizo soup p. 131
55. Cauliflower cheese soup p. 136 56. Basic stew p. 180
57. Perfect roast chicken p. 196
58. Perfect Roast Lamb p. 200
59. Yorkshire Puddings p. 209
60. Baked creamy leeks p. 219
61. Baked French Potatoes p. 22062. Crunchy Garlic Chicken p. 241
63. Parmesan chicken breast p. 242
64. Lamb chops and chunky salsa p. 244
65. Morroccan lamb and couscous p. 246
66. Griddled tuna and asparagus p. 26167. Paella p. 292
68. Granola p. 316
69. Vanilla cheesecake p. 325
70. Fruit scones p. 331
71. Quick steamed microwave puddings p. 333
72. Cookies p. 336
I'll try to post pictures of everything as I cross it off the list (I guess the easiest thing is to just keep editing this post as I go along).
Right better get cracking - that crunchy garlic chicken won't make itself!
Ta ta for now!
xx
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