We've got some fantastic food for you to check out this month so let's get started.
First off we have Meeta from What's For Lunch Honey. I can't believe that Meeta didn't know how to cook when she moved out of her parents home! Times have changed. Check out her delicious looking Spicy Beef and Potato Curry. This one not only looks heavenly, it sounds pretty easy for amateurs of Indian cuisine like me.
Next up is Mary from The Sour Dough. Mary is from Boston Massachusetts, home of Boston Clam Chowder. Feast your eyes on her Thick and Creamy Boston Clam Chowder made with Cape Cod Quahog Clams and Anadama Bread. Mary used her bread maker for the bread, which is made from cornmeal and molasses (among other things of course). Yum.
Say hi to one of my favorite Canadians - Ruth from Once Upon A Feast. Ruth based her feast on her visit to Nova Scotia to see family. It looks like they all had a super time. Check out this menu! Atlantic Canada Dinner: Smoked Cod Chowder, Baked Salmon with Horseradish Jelly, Sliced Just Picked Tomatoes with Basil and Potato and Pear Rosti AND Grandma Dolly's Apple Crisp. Go Ruth!
Here's Chrispy from Washington State and her blog Experimentation of Taste. Not only does Chrispy has some excellent sounding recipes (I can't wait to try the Parsnip and Carrot Croquettes), she also has the cutest dog I've ever seen. Here's her Perfect Oven Broiled Salmon with Blackberry Butter Sauce. This could almost make me a salmon convert. Almost.
Cook's Hideout is the name of Pavani's blog from New Jersey. Now just an aside here - I LOVE Indian food, but have never made it before. The one Indian cookbook I own is so intimidating, and I don't even know what half the ingredients are. But Pavani's blog, which is new to me, is chock full of delicious sounding and straighforward recipes. I see lots of Indian food in my future, including this Egg and Lentil Curry.
Here's my old WCC buddy Ulrike and her site Kuchenlatein all the way from Germany. She shares a recipe from her region of Germany - Dithmarschen. My husband Scott drooled over this picture of her Vintager Hotpot.
Here comes Haalo with her always gorgeous blog Cook Almost Anything At Least Once. Haalo chose to use Wattle Seeds that were harvested in the wilds of Australia by aboriginal communities. She turned to Australian Donna Hay for inspiration and came up with these luscious Wattle Seed and White Chocolate Cakes.
Michelle from Je Mange La Ville picked 2 ingredients she calls "very Oregonish" - salmon and hazelnuts. I am starting to get jealous of all you lucky people near water while I am stuck here in landlocked Alberta. Served with sauteed green beans tomatoes and garlic, this Grilled Salmon with Hazelnut Lime Butter is mighty fancy.
Avert your eyes! I am put to shame with my sad picture of my ugly yet delicious Peppered Steak Flamed with Brandy made with Alberta Beef. It's obvious I need to work on my camera skills.
And we have some special guests! First up is Mags, who does not have a blog of her own. She was just surfin' on the net and found the WCC. She asked me if she could join the WCC even without a blog. Of course! We welcome everyone here with open arms. Here is her Tomato Gratin by Jacques Pepin.
Tomatoe Gratin
adapted from Jacques Pepin
Serves 4-6
2 Lbs Roma Tomatoes
3 slices sandwich bread, toasted
1/2 Cup minced green onions
1 Tsp basil
1 Tb olive oil
4 Tb butter
Salt and Pepper to taste
Peel the tomatoes and chop finely.
Break the bread into pieces and grind in a food processor. Add the basil and onions and process until smooth. With the processor on, pour in the oil and process another 10 seconds.
Melt 2 Tb of butter in a large pan over medium high heat. Add the tomatoes and cook 5 minutes until tomatoes are soft and hot. Season with salt and pepper and add the other 2 Tb of butter. Cook only until the butter is melted. Pour the tomatoes into a shallow baking dish. Cover with the crumbs. Broil until the top is lightly browned. Serve right away.
How delicious does that sound? This would be super with homegrown tomatos - like Mags says she made it with.
The lovely Lis from La Mia Cucina bakes up a totally amazing batch of Apple Brownies. Have you ever heard of such a thing? Me neither, but I'm glad I do now. How incredibly wonderful does that look?
Our other special guest is Val who read about the Weekend Cookbook Challenge in the Florida Herald Tribune and forwarded this recipe for us bloggers to try.
Val says:
"This is a very tasty dish and pretty simple to make. It's a good side dish as an alternative to potatoes or rice, but could also make a nice light meal just by itself. You could substitute some mushroom or vegetable broth for the chicken broth and this would be a good vegetarian dish. As a side dish, this would serve 4 people."
1 tb olive oil
1 small onion chopped
1 cup sliced mushrooms
21/2 cups chicken broth
1 cup orzo pasta
salt and pepper
Heat the oil over medium heat and saute the onions and mushrooms for about 10 minutes until the mushrooms are nice and soft and the onions are golden. Add the broth and pasta and reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring a couple of times, until the pasta is done. Season lightly with salt and pepper and serve.
Doesn't that sound good? Thanks Val, I'm going to be trying that very very soon.
A big thanks to all of you who joined us this month for WCC. I appreciate every single one of you taking the time out of your busy lives to join me each month.
We've got another co-host for Weekend Cookbook Challenge #10! Mary from The Sour Dough has graciously offered to host for next month. The theme Mary picked is super - Neglected Gadgets: Cook a recipe using an appliance or gadget you never use (i.e. fondue pot, waffle maker, that micro-microplane you HAD to have). I think this is going to be great - unfortunately I have a TON of neglected gadgets - which one will I pick?
Email a link to your post to Mary at maryATbreadchickDOTcom by November 3. Mary will post the roundup shortly after on her site.
We encourage you to find a recipe to try in a cookbook from your shelves that you haven't used or perhaps not used in a long time. But if you'd prefer to use a recipe from a website, magazine or out of your own head, it's all good!
As always, if anyone would like to co-host, or has an idea for an upcoming WCC, drop me a line at iliketocookATshawDOTca.
See you next month, have a great October.
Cheers!
First off we have Meeta from What's For Lunch Honey. I can't believe that Meeta didn't know how to cook when she moved out of her parents home! Times have changed. Check out her delicious looking Spicy Beef and Potato Curry. This one not only looks heavenly, it sounds pretty easy for amateurs of Indian cuisine like me.
Next up is Mary from The Sour Dough. Mary is from Boston Massachusetts, home of Boston Clam Chowder. Feast your eyes on her Thick and Creamy Boston Clam Chowder made with Cape Cod Quahog Clams and Anadama Bread. Mary used her bread maker for the bread, which is made from cornmeal and molasses (among other things of course). Yum.
Say hi to one of my favorite Canadians - Ruth from Once Upon A Feast. Ruth based her feast on her visit to Nova Scotia to see family. It looks like they all had a super time. Check out this menu! Atlantic Canada Dinner: Smoked Cod Chowder, Baked Salmon with Horseradish Jelly, Sliced Just Picked Tomatoes with Basil and Potato and Pear Rosti AND Grandma Dolly's Apple Crisp. Go Ruth!
Here's Chrispy from Washington State and her blog Experimentation of Taste. Not only does Chrispy has some excellent sounding recipes (I can't wait to try the Parsnip and Carrot Croquettes), she also has the cutest dog I've ever seen. Here's her Perfect Oven Broiled Salmon with Blackberry Butter Sauce. This could almost make me a salmon convert. Almost.
Cook's Hideout is the name of Pavani's blog from New Jersey. Now just an aside here - I LOVE Indian food, but have never made it before. The one Indian cookbook I own is so intimidating, and I don't even know what half the ingredients are. But Pavani's blog, which is new to me, is chock full of delicious sounding and straighforward recipes. I see lots of Indian food in my future, including this Egg and Lentil Curry.
Here's my old WCC buddy Ulrike and her site Kuchenlatein all the way from Germany. She shares a recipe from her region of Germany - Dithmarschen. My husband Scott drooled over this picture of her Vintager Hotpot.
Here comes Haalo with her always gorgeous blog Cook Almost Anything At Least Once. Haalo chose to use Wattle Seeds that were harvested in the wilds of Australia by aboriginal communities. She turned to Australian Donna Hay for inspiration and came up with these luscious Wattle Seed and White Chocolate Cakes.
Michelle from Je Mange La Ville picked 2 ingredients she calls "very Oregonish" - salmon and hazelnuts. I am starting to get jealous of all you lucky people near water while I am stuck here in landlocked Alberta. Served with sauteed green beans tomatoes and garlic, this Grilled Salmon with Hazelnut Lime Butter is mighty fancy.
Avert your eyes! I am put to shame with my sad picture of my ugly yet delicious Peppered Steak Flamed with Brandy made with Alberta Beef. It's obvious I need to work on my camera skills.
And we have some special guests! First up is Mags, who does not have a blog of her own. She was just surfin' on the net and found the WCC. She asked me if she could join the WCC even without a blog. Of course! We welcome everyone here with open arms. Here is her Tomato Gratin by Jacques Pepin.
Tomatoe Gratin
adapted from Jacques Pepin
Serves 4-6
2 Lbs Roma Tomatoes
3 slices sandwich bread, toasted
1/2 Cup minced green onions
1 Tsp basil
1 Tb olive oil
4 Tb butter
Salt and Pepper to taste
Peel the tomatoes and chop finely.
Break the bread into pieces and grind in a food processor. Add the basil and onions and process until smooth. With the processor on, pour in the oil and process another 10 seconds.
Melt 2 Tb of butter in a large pan over medium high heat. Add the tomatoes and cook 5 minutes until tomatoes are soft and hot. Season with salt and pepper and add the other 2 Tb of butter. Cook only until the butter is melted. Pour the tomatoes into a shallow baking dish. Cover with the crumbs. Broil until the top is lightly browned. Serve right away.
How delicious does that sound? This would be super with homegrown tomatos - like Mags says she made it with.
The lovely Lis from La Mia Cucina bakes up a totally amazing batch of Apple Brownies. Have you ever heard of such a thing? Me neither, but I'm glad I do now. How incredibly wonderful does that look?
Our other special guest is Val who read about the Weekend Cookbook Challenge in the Florida Herald Tribune and forwarded this recipe for us bloggers to try.
Val says:
"This is a very tasty dish and pretty simple to make. It's a good side dish as an alternative to potatoes or rice, but could also make a nice light meal just by itself. You could substitute some mushroom or vegetable broth for the chicken broth and this would be a good vegetarian dish. As a side dish, this would serve 4 people."
1 tb olive oil
1 small onion chopped
1 cup sliced mushrooms
21/2 cups chicken broth
1 cup orzo pasta
salt and pepper
Heat the oil over medium heat and saute the onions and mushrooms for about 10 minutes until the mushrooms are nice and soft and the onions are golden. Add the broth and pasta and reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring a couple of times, until the pasta is done. Season lightly with salt and pepper and serve.
Doesn't that sound good? Thanks Val, I'm going to be trying that very very soon.
A big thanks to all of you who joined us this month for WCC. I appreciate every single one of you taking the time out of your busy lives to join me each month.
We've got another co-host for Weekend Cookbook Challenge #10! Mary from The Sour Dough has graciously offered to host for next month. The theme Mary picked is super - Neglected Gadgets: Cook a recipe using an appliance or gadget you never use (i.e. fondue pot, waffle maker, that micro-microplane you HAD to have). I think this is going to be great - unfortunately I have a TON of neglected gadgets - which one will I pick?
Email a link to your post to Mary at maryATbreadchickDOTcom by November 3. Mary will post the roundup shortly after on her site.
We encourage you to find a recipe to try in a cookbook from your shelves that you haven't used or perhaps not used in a long time. But if you'd prefer to use a recipe from a website, magazine or out of your own head, it's all good!
As always, if anyone would like to co-host, or has an idea for an upcoming WCC, drop me a line at iliketocookATshawDOTca.
See you next month, have a great October.
Cheers!
8 comments:
Once again, a wonderful round-up and lots of yummy looking food. Can't wait to try a few of these lovely recipes. Thanks for hosting again Sara, you have big shoes to fill next month...
Great round up Sara. I can think of lots of places to move to based on food. And seriously, what could be better than your peppered steak from the beef capital of Canada.
Thanks for coming up with WCC. It's always a blast. Now which gadget will I choose?
Great round up Sara. Thanks for hosting.
Cheers
Thank you for including me. Great roundup and lots of good recipes to try soon.
It all looks wonderful!
Bravo to you all :)
j
Wow! Now that's a great turnout!
Oh my.. these dishes are all so very drool worthy! I am so impressed with everyone's submissions.. well done everyone! Well done! A special thank you to Sara for presenting such a lovely round up! It looks fantastic! :D
I've already got my gadget picked out for the next WCC! I look forward to it =))
Thanks again, Sara!
Thanks to all of you!!!!!
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