Lost Recipes

Since I'm in bed with a cold with limited coherency, (you have no idea how long it took me to type that), I decided to clean out my photo files.  We'll see if that was a good idea when I'm feeling better.

Here are some dishes from a while back that I just had to admit I'd never take the time to remember and write out.  Farewell, lost recipes.  Perhaps we'll meet again.

This was the first souffle I ever made.  It's from Savory Baking, an awesome book, and involved butternut squash.

These are some savory dill muffins, also from Savory Baking.  I still have my notes and I think I'll revisit this and tweak it to be more to my liking when my dill plants are large enough.

French green lentil seasoned with whole grain mustard and cumin, arugula sauteed with garlic, paprika shrimp.  Or something like that.

This was a 'middle-eastern risotto'.  An array of spices and chick peas influenced the risotto (I think the texture needed a bit of work, though), honey glazed spinach, and seared duck sausage.

Creamy pearl couscous with grilled zucchini and green beans.  Very simple, very satisfying.

This was just a particularly giant artichoke, (seriously, the biggest I've ever seen), that looked nifty as it steamed.

And that's all she wrote.

The Lost Recipes

I cook a lot.  Sometimes I use recipes, more often I improvise.  When I'm creating something new I try to document it.  I take pictures, I write down recipes....  but not always.  All too often I let myself think, "Oh, I'll remember.  It was so easy."  Or perhaps, "I'll write it down after dinner, or first thing tomorrow," and somehow it's five months later and the page is still blank....  ahem.  So, without further excuse, here are some of the lost recipes, may they rest in peace.

This risotto had cremini mushrooms, swiss chard (from my garden!) and...  some other stuff.

A delicious sunday brunch of bacon, pear and citrus fruit salad, and....  some kind of bread pudding.

 Lemony couscous with peppers... or tomatoes?  wilted arugula, and broiled jumbo shrimp.

This was really good.  Rice noodles with beef, onions, celery, and baby bok choy in plum sauce.  The red skin of the plums gave everything a pretty pink tinge.

 Barbeque chicken leg, homemade sauce and all, with broiled green beans.

Pizza topped with olive oil, sweet onions, garlic scapes(?), chick peas, and feta or goat cheese.

Broiled chicken(?) with kale chips and cucumber salad with yogurt dill dressing.

The moral of the story is to keep pen and paper handy when you're cooking...  or just be prepared to try to make everything all over again.  Oh, darn.