I thought I would share a few of my latest kitchen endeavors with you. Last night for dinner I made root-veggie chocolate chili with honey cornbread on the side.
The chili recipe is from the February/March 2010 issue of BUST Magazine. They started a new cooking column a few months ago called Nickeled and Dimed touting the virtues of cheap and tasty meals. By their calculations, this chili recipe serves six people at $1.87 a serving AND it's vegetarian. I dig it.
The verdict from Mr. G+N?
It got the dreaded "It's okay."
What about the cornbread (which has a zillion fivestar ratings on All Recipes and melts in your mouth!)?
"It's a little...umm, bland."
Cue frowning Sarah. Someone needs to clue my husband in that sometimes honesty is not the best policy!!! I thought it was scrumptious. Oh well, I guess it's chili for lunch for me!
Tonight's dinner fared much better with the Mr.
Those ain't no Hot Pockets!
SIDEBAR: Are you all familiar with Jim Gaffigan's riff on Hot Pockets?
These are spinach feta pocket pies from Lucinda Scala Quinn's Mad Hungry, one of my new favorite cookbooks. This was a surprise hit with Matt, since he claims to not like feta. It only called for 1/4 cup of feta to fill ten pocket pies...so I prayed that he didn't notice, and he didn't! These little babies were time consuming, but delicious!
The great thing is that I have leftovers for another day!
5 comments:
wow!I am most impressed with those pocket sandwiches.Looks yummy
ahahahah that hot pocket skit is CLASSIC! loves it. and i might have eaten one today. but yours look delicious.
and yes, all significant others should know that whenever their significant other cooks, it should always be the best thing they've ever tasted.
The dreaded response from my sweetie is " it's interesting".
He tries to be kind but interesting means not so great! I am looking for that eyes rolling back in his heasd response that tell me what he is eating is wonderful!
I actually appreciate the honesty and have come to rely on that. After all - I might serve it to guests sometime! Better to know whether it is tasty or not!
The pockets sound soooooo good! All my favorite "stuff" inside! Thank you for sharing the link. I will be giving these a try soon.
Sarah!!
Been having a rough bit of days... thanks for posting that skit. Cracks me up every time and well I finally laughed.... Thank you thank you!! Evelynne
Ooh! I made the same recipe from BUST a couple of weeks ago. I did it with red beets, but the taste was too strong and it didn't taste as I expected it. Bleh.
This week, I will try it with colored carrots and parsnip. It should be much better! :-p
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