Weekend Cooking: What I Baked in my Kitchen in February

Welcome to the first Saturday of the month where I usually share everything I have made over the previous month. Here's what I made in February.

A while ago now I tried to make New York Cookies using a video recipe from Brooke Bellamy. In the instructions it talks about putting the cookie dough balls in the fridge so that they don't spread too much. Well, that wasn't a problem as they didn't spread at all and I ended up with giant balls of cookiee dough which had a bit of a crispy shell and then uncooked dough in the middle. 

I got the book Bake with Brooki for Christmas and noticed that the recipe was different and so I decided to try and make them again! They turned out exactly right! The day I made these we had brunch at a cafe we love and they had some of these cookies for sale for $8. Given how big they are, I do get how they are that expensive but still. They are delicious but they are too big, so when I make them again I will need to make the cookies half the size, and maybe half the batch.

We had been talking about having scones for a couple of weeks, and we took the opportunity to make them when my sister and her husband came around for afternoon tea. I made a half batch of lemonade scones but they just didn't work, so then I grabbed an older cook book that I have had on my shelf for years called Merle's Kitchen and made the more traditional recipe and they turned out nicely!

When my sister and her husband visited they bought us a heap of lemons, so then I had to come up with something to use them. We had some people coming for dinner on Sunday night and so I made Lemon Angel Food Cake using this recipe. One of the things I like about this recipe is that you use all the egg yolks to make curd, and there is lots of curd left over, so this weekend I am thinking of some ways to use yet more lemons and some of the curd.

Outside of the kitchen, we went for a lovely lunch at a winery which I posted about here.

I did go and here Australian historical fiction author Mary-Lou Stephens talk about her new book The Jam Maker. I started reading it this week so hopefully I will have a review of it at some point during March!

52 Recipes Challenge

We only tried a couple of new recipes this month.

Hunters Chicken (Chicken Cacciatore) - Gennaro Contaldo's book Slow was the Jamie Oliver  cookbook of the month for January. Whilst we didn't want to buy the book I did try this which was one of the taster recipes. It was tasty. 

One Pot Cajun Chicken and rice - This is a Nagi Maehashi recipe. I think I had gone out this night and my husband and son ate it.

Weekend Cooking posts from the last month

What I Ate in One Week (Stanley Tucci style)

Spell the Month in Books - February 

Two Japanese Foodie Novel Reviews

Baked Tuscan Chicken (Adam Liaw)

What I Baked in My Kitchen in January

Weekly Meals

Saturday - Out for dinner
Sunday - Baked Tuscan Chicken and Rice
Monday - Beef and Broccoli Noodles
Tuesday - Normandy pork and mash
Wednesday - Take away
Thursday - Swedish meatballs, mash and broccoli
Friday - Out for dinner

I am sharing this post with In My Kitchen hosted at Sherry's Pickings.

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