50 new recipes: #1 and #2

[ninevirtues]

Sunday: Tea at 4 PM in Berkeley, with a potentially... diverse... crowd. What do you take to that? Why, ginger pumpkin bread, of course.

Martha's recipe included 1.5 cups butter, an entire can of pureed pumpkin, and three eggs for two small loaves. That probably should have clued me in, because the resulting loaves did. not. bake. Despite an extra twenty (!) minutes in the oven.

It was good (even if it did have a barely-baked crumb and a puddinglike consistency).

(Theory: I bought bleached all-purpose flour, and should have used cake flour, which soaks up more liquid. Will try again.)

Recipe 2: Pasta with a cream-cheese-smoked-salmon sauce... Martha again. I made it; I tasted it; it was okay; and then, the epiphany. (Hello, there is nothing nutritionally valuable in here. Yeah, it tastes good, but really? Suppose I make a pasta recipe that includes, are you ready for this, lean meat and fresh vegetables. You know, those things I ought to be eating.)

Comments

[fighter-chick.livejournal.com]

Try broiled salmon instead of the smoked--lots of yummy nutrients there, and you end up with a similar dish. (With the veggies, of course.) I do a pasta w/ chicken breast strips and broccoli myself.

Good theory on the pumpkin bread. Also, the recipe may just suck. I could tell you some stories about the lack of proper testing...:p

[rstapleton.livejournal.com]

pasta... and meat? I got some meat-less balls from WF the other day. Pretty good hot... not sure cold. But anyways, made with Soy protein.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

Salmon has good stuff in it. If you use whole wheat pasta, you'd have two. Cream cheese has calcium. There. Three good things. ;)