[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]

How To Make the Best Caesar Dressing

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.