About a month ago, I decided we were in a food rut, always preparing and eating the same old things at home. In addition to increased diversity, I thought we could be a little healthier. Less junk food and more salads. Also, we have a couple of cookbooks that we hadn’t used much at all.
I’m not sure we’ve achieved healthy eating per se, but we’ve had a lot of diversity and it’s been delicious! And finally we’ve gotten good use out of our cookbooks. I’ve had Brodacious roast a couple of small chickens over the past month, and we’ve had great, tender roast chicken on hand for a variety of uses. Tonight we had the best Mole poblano chicken casserole with black beans and queso fresco (alright, no queso fresco to be found in London, so we substituted goats cheese, which seemed to work). We’ve had Tarragon chicken salad with avocado and bacon over arugula, which I’ve loved despite the mayonnaise. Also we had Black bean enchiladas topped with walnuts, Lamb chops with pomegranate molasses, and then yesterday we made Sandwiches with homemade avocado dressing, hearts of romaine, ham and pickled jalapeno peppers. Very nice, indeed.
Granted, so far the new mix seems to include a lot of chicken, black beans and avocados…and tons of fresh tarragon and cilantro. Hopefully we’ll have the motivation to continue to test out more new recipes. To date, I’ve been intimidated by our Simon Hopkinson cookbook, which supposedly is a favorite cookbook of Brits. Not really sure about cooking tripe…brains…kidneys…etc. We’ll dig around and find some more appealing things to test out. And one of the great things is that I’ve gotten Brodacious to assist in these cooking adventures, so it really has been a joint effort.
P.S. There has been one failure along the way: Frittata with shrimp and dried chilies. Part of the problem may have been that I didn’t have all the necessary ingredients and so improvised, and added way too many chilies. Topped it off with too much tabasco sauce and practically killed myself when I tried to eat it.
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