Weekend Cooking: What I Baked In My Kitchen in May

The first Saturday of the month is when I share all the things that I baked in the previous month. I might need to rethink after my recent hospital stay. I need to be more mindful of what I make. This doesn't mean that I can't make anything but I definitely can't make something sweet every week. Baking is something that I enjoy, so I don't want to give it up completely.

An example of how I have had to think differently is I wanted to make something for my husband's birthday. Normally I would have made a full cake and we would have eaten it for a few days, but instead I tried a new Chocolate Mug Cake which we then shared. You might not quite be able to notice that it is in a Mr Perfect mug!

I did decide that I wanted to try making something tasty for Sunday night dinner, so I decided to try making this Apple and Berry Crumble. This was a bit of a conconction really. The topping in the actual recipe was using muesli cluster cereal which I didn't have so I kind of adapted a different topping.

I acquired two new cookbooks this month

The first was Norteña by Karla Zazueta which features the food of Northern Mexico. We tried one new recipe out of the book, and I think we will try another one tomorrow. I have a number of other recipes picked out to try at some point too.

The second is Easy Wins by Anna Jones. This book was actually chosen in both of the cookbook clubs I am a member of, and yet, I haven't yet made anything out of it. Maybe this week.

New recipes

A few months ago I decided that I was going to share all the new recipes that we try each month, and then we proceeded to not try very many new recipes at all. This month, we tried a couple of new recipes

Singhoalese Chicken - comes from the book Norteña by Karla Zazueta. It was notable because I had to spatchcock my own chicken We will make the marinade again, but probably just do it on chicken pieces going forward.

Apple Berry Crumble - the recipe said use blackberries and currants. I used raspberries and sultanas. Still good!

Chocolate Mug Cake - This is a dangerous recipe to know. All done in 5 minutes and it was very tasty!

Chicken Saag - Wasn't sure what to expect from this recipe but it was good!

Boeuf Bourgignon - I posted about trying this Julia Child recipe here

Chicken and Vegetable stir fry - It's not like we've never had a chicken stir fry before, but this was the first time we made it using Nagi Maehashi's Charlie sauce. We have some sauce left over so I suspect we might see this on next week's menu too.

My Weekend Cooking posts over the last month:

What I Baked in my Kitchen in April

Around the World

Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

Bonnie Garmus

Weekly meals

Saturday -Meatballs
Sunday - Bacon Vegetable and Risoni Soup
Monday -Chicken stir fry and rice
Tuesday - Creamy mustard pork, mash and steamed vegies
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Friday -

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