I signed Darek up for cooking classes as his Christmas present. He’s a very good cook. : ) The first recipe he tried at home was shrimp bisque.
There were a lot of ingredients; pictured here are garlic, leeks, shrimp, and everything together in the blender:
The outcome:
The verdict: YUM. Soup, bread, and a glass of white wine…you just can’t go wrong.
I don’t have a link to the recipe because it’s on the sheet Darek got in class and I’m not about to start typing that out.
This one was pretty easy. Frozen broccoli, shredded cheese, pasta, and a few other basic ingredients. It turned out pretty good, nothing exceptional, but a good comfort food probably. I wasn’t crazy about the nutmeg, but Darek really liked it. It didn’t yield many pictures, but this should give you an idea:
And the outcome, after baking in the oven for awhile:
We used wheat penne instead of shells, if you’re wondering about that. : ) It made a lot of food and was good leftover, which always scores major points in my book.
Here’s the recipe: cheesy baked shells and broccoli
OK so this is a stretch as a new recipe but I like the way it looks so I’m going to share.
The strawberries & bananas were left over from our fondue party and the blackberries & blueberries were 99 cents each at Sprouts. WIN.
Strawberry with the macro lens:
Mmmmm…
The pound cake was also left over from the fondue party…and the closest thing to cool whip/whipped cream/vanilla ice cream we had was eggnog ice cream…so we used that.
Love fruit.
This is a variant of a recipe Darek learned in his cooking class. The recipe was for “Cream of vegetable puree soup” and you basically add whatever veggie you want, and anything else that sounds good. So we added broccoli and cheese to make a broccoli cheese soup.
Getting the onion and broccoli ready:
We learned about scallops:
So, the only cheese we had on hand was leftover fondue cheese….
It got a little better…
Then it all went in the blender for pureeing:
And then went in the bowl:
It was a good jumping off point, but we’ll definitely make some changes in the future. For one, we’ll have actual cheese. Also, we’ll save a few small pieces of broccoli to put in the soup so there are a few chunks. And we think it would be good to sprinkle some shredded cheese on top just before serving.
This is another very old recipe. I have no idea where I found it but ultimately it came from allrecipes.com, and I did find the recipe online: Chicken and Broccoli Pasta
Broccoli:
Diced tomatoes looked pretty gross:
It didn’t look much better as we added the broccoli:
The finished product:
It didn’t look great, and it didn’t taste much better. We bought the diced tomatoes after having our eyes dilated on Saturday, and accidentally bought the kind with green chiles. I think this was one problem. I also wasn’t crazy about the texture. The broccoli and chicken were good, but the tomatoes didn’t seem quite right in this dish.
So….that’s one less recipe that will be taking up space in our box.