Adventures in cooking
Since Chicago was hit with 6 inches of pain this weekend, (heh) I stayed in and cooked in the new dutch oven and then baked some pumpkin muffins. The pumpkin muffins were inspired by Panera Bread having run out of muffins when I got there. They still had the sign near the mass of muffins making me think there were some pumpkin ones in there, but like I could tell which were which? Alas, earlier this week my need of pumpkin muffins was not fulfilled. So I made some today. Luckily I had all the necessary ingredients.
My dutch oven cooking needed some revisions to the recipe. I decided to make One Pot Tuna and Noodles. The recipe called for Lipton Onion Soup Mix, which did not have, so I had to fudge that (beef bullion cube, onion powder, garlic powder,celery salt and a clove of garlic in the garlic press did the trick. If I had minced onion I’d have used that too.) The recipe also called for green beans, which I didn’t have either. So I used some canned asparagus. They said to use Pennsylvania Dutch egg noodles. I had Barilla Campanelle. It also wanted shredded American cheese. I only had cheddar and mozzerella. The recipe came out kinda watery, so I crushed up a handful of flavored triscuits (fire roasted tomato & olive oil flavor) and threw in some plain bread crumbs too. MUCH BETTER! It was good, but not very photogenic, hence no pictures of that.
