Food and Recipes Galore

I'm going to report on my For Just One Week early this time because I actually accomplished it early! I had all of these recipes printed out into my two inch thick pile, but I found some of them online so it would be easier to just link instead of type out the recipes. I originally had a goal of making more dinners (instead of just one of them), but what the hey! Desserts are good too!

I made these lemon blueberry muffins (which are from scratch, which I have never done before). They were really good. I would add lemon juice to the actual muffins next time, instead of just on top afterward, because I like a little more lemon flavor.

I made these butter flavored Crisco chocolate chip cookies. They were yummy. Too yummy. I ate way more than my share.

I made fry bread, using a recipe I got from a friend when I lived in Orem. We made Navajo tacos with half of them (using taco meat, cheese, refried beans, spinach, ranch dressing, salsa, etc), and then we made honey butter and had dessert with the other half. Yummy! Here's the recipe:

1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
4 tsp baking powder
1 cup hot water
2 1/2 cups flour

Mix together and knead well. Take a little piece of dough and thin it out until about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Then fry in 365 degree oil for about 15-30 seconds on each side or until light brown. Then put on paper towels to drain excess oil.

And the last thing I made (I know! My goal was to do three recipes and I made four!) was Rachael Ray's "make this and get proposed to" Spaghetti Carbonara. While it was good, it wasn't as delicious as I had anticipated. I mean, I followed the recipe exactly, besides using garlic from a jar (instead of fresh), 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes instead of 1 tsp, apple juice instead of white wine, and parmesan instead of romano. I just don't get why it didn't taste as good as I had hoped??

So anyway, it was a really good week at our house food-wise. I will definitely have to do this more often.

I haven't decided what I am going to do this week. Actually, maybe I will make the goal to clean out the kids' playroom - because we are going to turn it into the nursery. So the kids' toys will be in their bedroom and I need to clean the playroom walls, etc. Good goal, Erin!

Come back Monday to check out my speaking-too-softly-feeling-a-little-self-conscious vlog!