New Recipes

Recently, I started cooking again and while I haven't been great about writing about it on the Brooklyn Forager (or tracking it here), I'm hoping to make sure everything gets logged appropriately more frequently.

For now, I've tried a couple of new recipes that are fitting the bill for this challenge:

• Curry Roast Chicken with Tomato Leek Gravy
• Pear Ginger Muffins
• Butternut Squash, Apple and Leek Casserole

I only wrote about the chicken so far, but the other two recipes will be going up on the blog as soon as I can get all the pictures in order and the recipes together.

More Non-fiction and More Food Blogging

I've read a couple of additional books this month, slowly adding to my total.  I read Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr which inspired a diet cleanse and more blogging over at Seeking White Space (yes, I probably have too many blogs...but they're all different!). I'm excited to have a new challenge and I hope to use it to get inspired in the kitchen and for blog posts across all of my various writing locations.

I also read:

• Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism by Paul Collins
• Super Freakonomics by Stephen D. Leavitt and Stevin J. Dubner

Trying to get in as much non-fiction as I can, I guess! I suppose I've been drawn in this direction these days, and it doesn't hurt that I get double credit!

Brooklyn Forager Round-Up

It has been a ridiculously long time since I checked in with my Brooklyn Forager posts.  The point was, of course, to track this more regularly, but, alas, this is an easy one to let slip for me.  Here's what has been cooking:

• Harvest Season in the Brooklyn Forager Garden
• Walnut Rosemary Oven-Fried Chicken
• October Daring Cooks Challenge: Stuffed Grape Leaves (This is also my first one back after some time off! I need to get back on my challenges.)
• Late Summer BLT Salad
• Changing Seasons: Swiss Chard and Bacon Risotto
• Summer Weeknight Supper: Zucchini, Tomato and Ricotta Tart
• Bento Lunch Special: Sesame Balsamic Chicken, Pineapple Fried Rice and Roasted Broccoli 

This round-up also highlights the need to get posting! I have a couple of posts lined up, so that's great.  I also need to really figure out how and when to write.  I seem to write in fits and starts and can generally get 3-4 posts up a month, but I'd really like to be blogging (whether here, Brooklyn Forager or my other blogs) every day.  

Brooklyn Forager: Rainbow Swiss Chard with Anchovies, Pine Nuts and Cranberries over Polenta

I'm not sure where I left off with blog posts over at the Brooklyn Forager, but I do know that it's been awhile since I posted anything.  As I'm getting my energy back, I'm trying to get a bunch written so I can automate my posts more during the week and I won't fall quite so far behind.

On that note, I just posted about a really tasty Rainbow Swiss Chard with Anchovies, Pine Nuts and Cranberries over Polenta.  It was a new recipe to me as well! I can definitely see this one coming up again since we both enjoyed it and you can't deny that it is nice and healthy.

Brooklyn Forager Post Round Up

The goal is to be more on top of getting things listed over here.  I think I'm up to date on the list for number of blog posts written (give or take a couple), but I haven't been listing or linking here for awhile.  Here are the ones that I missed:

• Scallion update!
• Ginger Scallion Noodles with a Twist
• Vermont Special: Earl's Eggs with Chinese Chives
• Sundays in Brooklyn: The Pizza Edition
• Roasted Chicken with Balsamic Rosemary Vinaigrette
• Meatless Monday: Spicy Garbanzo Burritos with Cucumber Yogurt Sauce

Everything's Coming up Pickles!

I posted another blog post over at the Brooklyn Forager about two different pickle recipes that we've been enjoying lately.  Yum! I haven't been very good at my weekly posts, but I've gotten three posts in the last couple of weeks, so hopefully I'm averaging out over time.

When life gives you lemons...and oranges...

I have been given the gift of more free time these days which makes achieving some of these tasks a whole lot easier (and of course some a lot harder).  This week, I made my first solo attempt at jam - a Meyer lemon and Cara Cara orange marmalade for my canning project.  It almost feels like cheating because this task fulfills another blog post, a new recipe, the first of 12 canning challenges, jams from scratch (this fueled the fire so much that I'll be making a Raspberry Lime jam soon which will more completely fulfill "jams" and of course more jams to come in the canning project), and now I've blogged about it and am putting the cash in my special fund.  That's a whole lot of mileage out of one task, but it actually felt so great to set my mind to it and get it done.  So I'm going to just appreciate that I was successful and will go on to try more canning recipes. 

Of course, I never really liked marmalade, so the next challenge will be using it up, but I think it'll have a lot of good uses and I'll learn to like it!

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1. Write a food blog post once a week.

Another food blog post up.  This one is about the Daring Cooks Challenge for January - making satay and peanut sauce. Both are new recipes for me, but I'm going to count it as one since it was sort of a two-part deal.  So that's my third new recipe for the month! 

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