Mid-week recipe review

 

All I did Monday was cook.  I've got to get the time in the kitchen thing figured out.  Any suggestions??

I know we're only half way through the week, but I'm going to do a recipe review of what we've eaten so far.

Meatball Subs - big fat zero.  It's not the meatballs or the sauce.  It's the buns.  Somehow they manage to make cauliflower taste nasty, which is hard to do.  They are crumbly, wet and smell like rotten cabbage.  So now I have a giant pot of marinara sauce, that I'll probably just freeze.

So I'm still on the hunt for a decent bun.  We'd like to have veggie burgers and mushroom burgers and real burgers.  Any bun suggestions ladies??

Slow Chicken Curry (from the book) - Amazing!!!!  I'm eating leftovers right now and I hope I have at least one more day of them.  So so so good.  Best curry I've ever had.  The spice blend is perfect!  Wow.

We had 3 extra girls at our house yesterday so I thought they'd have fun making their own ice cream in two ziplock bags.  Yeah.  Not so much.  It really is cold to do it that way.  Anyway, I made two batches, one for them and the Strawberry Ice Cream from the book for us.  I had a bite of theirs for comparison.  The coconut one tasted better to me anyway.  But now I want this so we can make ice cream more often.

I made a batch of MAYONNAISE!!  I was intimidated by the instructions I was following:

Coconut Mayonnaise

But it turned out really good.  My Olive oil is fairly strong and that is definitely the predominate flavor.  I think I'm going to look at Walnut oil or Avocado oil as I've heard those are lighter tasting and good for mayonnaise.  Suggestions??

So far I've just used the mayo for chicken salad that we ate on a bed of greens with Shumway's toasted pecans.  So good!