Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Olive Bread


I can count the number of times that I've baked bread on one hand. I'm looking forward to baking new and exciting breads with my new Christmas present (a bread machine). Recently, as photographed, I baked a bread that was half white and half brown (I ran out of white flour) with olive oil and pimento-stuffed olives. I added some thyme to it as well. It was great with extra olive oil and some balsamic vinegar.
 




Monday, December 30, 2013

Quick Chicken Soup


Sometimes after roasting chicken you're left with a sauce in the roasting pan that you can use to make a gravy with. Otherwise, you can use it as a stock to make a soup. Add some chopped potatoes, a carrot, parsley, cream, pepper and maybe a touch of tomato. All the other seasoning from your chicken roast will be in the stock so you won't even have to add salt. Boil it for a few minutes and serve with fresh bread.

Monday, December 2, 2013

Butternut Fritters

I tried to make pumpkin fritters with roasted butternut. It was a taste fail, but they still look kind of good, right? 





If you've got a good pumpkin fritter recipe to share with me, please leave it in the comments below.