[Contrary Housewife]

How many new recipes will you try in 2022? Expand your cooking skills! Experience new flavors! Cook healthy at home!

Share recipes or links and let us know how it worked out.

 

[Contrary Housewife]

Lemon and Garlic Baked Chicken Thighs

Easy and delicious, this baked chicken thigh recipe is perfect for a last-minute weeknight meal. Combined with lemon and garlic, it is flavorful and easy.

www.foodandwine.com

My first new recipe of the year. Was very easy to put together. Chicken came out very moist and tender. Lemon gravy was a failure, just too bitter from the cooked lemon peels. I did not blend the lemon rind, but enough of it leaked into the meat juices to make it taste bad. I would use the method again, but save the lemon for the end.

 

[KimB]

Grandma's Oatmeal Cake

Grandma's Oatmeal Cake is an old-fashioned cake made with rolled oats and topped with a coconut and slivered almond frosting.

tastesbetterfromscratch.com

I have a problem of not following recipes exactly, but this one I did for the cake. I had the ingredients for the topping but DH likes it with whipped topping. I have some in fridge to use up so that is what we did. We both really like it.

 

[MaggieTru]

I don't know how many recipes I will try in 2022...but I am currently trying to use up almond flour, coconut flour and vital wheat gluten from a brief experiment with Keto diet...I can do the low carb but NOT the high fat. So I can eat this stuff up anyway.
Last night I tried a bannock/skillet type bread with 2T of each of those and 2 big eggs, and a bit of baking soda and vinegar for extra leavening, a bit of strawberry powder (from my sister...gotta use it up!). It was bread like but dry as DUST by this morning. Coconut flour is a blackhole for moisture! Still, dipped in a thick lentil stew it was good enough. I will keep trying. I think if I make it runnier it could work as pancakes.

 

[Contrary Housewife]

@MaggieTru, if you have eggs then the coconut is good for pancakes: https://www.bobsredmill.com/recipes/how-to-make/coconut-flour-pancakes/

With the almond flour and some monkfruit sweetener I made these for DH: Almond Crescent Cookies left off the powdered sugar, but it is very little if you want to use it

 

[Spirit Deer]

'Tis the season (for diets and cold weather!)

Lower Sugar Hot Cocoa Mix
1⅓ c. Splenda
1 c. powdered milk
1 c. powdered coffee creamer
¾ c. unsweetened cocoa powder
Stir to blend. Store in tightly covered jar. Add ¼ cup mix to 1 cup hot water, or to taste. Makes about 4 cups mix.

For Spiced Cocoa Mix, add 2 tsp ground cinnamon, ½ tsp ground cloves, and ½ tsp ground nutmeg to entire mix. Increase Splenda to 1½ cups.

Based on the recipe from Make Your Own Groceries cookbook. Replace Splenda with sugar for original, or make a hybrid version using half sugar and half Splenda.

 

[MaggieTru]

Thanks CH!!

SD: I was making myself little mochas (with powdered coconut milk since I'm non-dairy) yesterday. Will do hot chocolate next.

 

[rujerro]

I'd like to try this chicken recipe. It uses mushrooms, balsamic, garlic, herbs, chicken stock....Cheese on top if desired.

Poulet de Provencal Recipe | Allrecipes

 

[KimB]

Honey Garlic Butter Roasted Carrots - Cafe Delites
These were so yummy.

 

[Contrary Housewife]

Caesar Salad Dressing Is So Easy You Should Always Make It at Home

It's also wildly delicious.

www.thekitchn.com

Pretty easy, put it in a glass measuring cup and hit it with the stick blender. I made half a recipe with 1 egg. Go light on the mustard and use good oil. More than enough for several salads with half the recipe.

 

[MaggieTru]

I am going to try the carrots! I have almost all the ingredients and think my good olive oil will work instead of butter.

 

[hikr00]

I tried two new recipes this week. First was chicken Parmesan lasagna. Layer your sauce on the bottom of the pan then place uncooked lasagna noodles on top. Next up is another layer of sauce then frozen chicken nuggets or strips and cheese. From there keep building in that order until you get to the top of pan. Bake at 350 for roughly an hour - it’s cold when you can put a knife through the noodle. Sprinkle a bit more cheese on top then back in oven till that melts and it’s done.

You can obviously use your own sauce recipe, make your own chicken nuggets etc if you want to avoid the heavily processed foods. I try to keep our consumption of those down as it’s better for our blood pressure.

 

[hikr00]

The second recipe was Sweet Hawaiian crockpot chicken. 2 lbs of chicken, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/3 cup soy sauce and one cup of pineapple juice. Cook on low. Recip said eight hours but I had boneless skinless chicken breasts and they were done after an hour and a half.

Dh said the sauce was good and I dribbled it over rice for a side. The chicken didn’t seem to pick up the taste of the sauce very much. The sauce is watery so I think for the leftovers I will thicken up the sauce a bit so it clings more to the chicken.

 

[MaggieTru]

That sounds really good.

 

[hikr00]

Tried crock pot round steak tonight. 2lbs if round steak, two cans (or homemade) cream of whatever you pick soup, one soup can of water, one packet brown gravy, one packet ranch seasoning and one stick of butter. Cook on low. It smelled wonderful! The steak was so tender and the flavoring was really good.

 

[Spirit Deer]

I finally tried out a recipe clone for Spike seasoning I've been meaning to try for years. Before I did, I took a peek at the ingredient list of the store version. There were some tasty sounding ingredients not included in the clone, so I pre-tweaked the clone and added some. I ended up using 26 different seasonings, 13 less than the original. It turned out good! We both liked it in soup tonight and it will be tasty for lots of other things, too.

 

[Spirit Deer]

I've been trying new mix recipes lately. Yesterday I tried an alleged clone (I'm always skeptical) of Zaitaran's jambalaya mix. It turned out good, so I'll be giving the next batch only minor tweaks.

I also mixed up a very simple popcorn seasoning, just three ingredients, no added salt.

Jalapeño Cheddar Popcorn Seasoning

1/4 c. Cheese powder
1/4 tsp. Jalapeño powder
1/4 tsp. Dry mustard
Mix and store in shaker bottle with tight lid.

I will double the jalapeño powder and mustard powder next time.

A packet of cheese powder from a mac and cheese box may be subbed for cheese powder.

If you don't have jalapeňo powder, you can use white pepper and/or cayenne instead.

Black or white pepper may be added to taste, as well as popcorn salt.

I don't use oil when making popcorn, so I spray popped corn with a fake butter spray to help popcorn seasoning stick.

 

[dlrcpa]

I have been making pumpkin tapioca for a while but today I subbed brown sugar for the maple syrup and used 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp rum flavoring. Easier to make than pumpkin pie....

Pumpkin Tapioca Pudding

Pumpkin Tapioca is a healthy and quick alternative to pumpkin pie. It has a spicy, warm flavor and a solid texture that is completely different from regular tapioca pudding. This is a great low-fat treat for after the holidays!

tastykitchen.com

 

[MaggieTru]

I had 'the Sioux chef' cookbook from the library and cedar braised beans were on there. Basically add a bit if cedar 'leaves' to the pot in when you boil up dry beans. It is amazing.

 

[hikr00]

Trying this one tonight!

Cheesy Bacon and Beer Sloppy Joes | Recipe | Beef recipes easy, Recipes, Beef recipes for dinner

Dec 23, 2019 - Say hello to the most over-the-top sloppy joe of all time. We're talking gooey cheese and smoky bacon in every crevice. Oh, and did we mention there's beer? It all comes together for a decadent dinner that's just crazy enough to work.

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