Friday, February 8, 2008

Testing

With all the craziness going on lately I've only had a chance to try two of the recipes others have submitted. I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the limited availability of food items in this area. I tried the olive crusted veal. I used chicken because I couldn't find veal. And I had to leave out the rosemary because I couldn't find it either. It was still a very good dish. I'm sure I will make it again soon.

More recently I tried Doug's Enchiladas - sort of. With very limited time I made some shortcuts that turned out to be a bad idea. I wanted to try the meat, so I thought I would skip the enchiladas and shoot for soft tacos. I was a bit overwhelmed in the meat aisle since I know very little about it. I would have had to buy 8 lbs of the pork when I only needed 1.5 so I opted for some cubes of pork from unknown body parts. Bad idea. It was dry and had little taste. So, nothing negative about the recipe. I will try it again when I have more time to devote to it. Sometimes shortcuts just don't pan out. I was also thinking of trying it with chicken. I'll let you know how the next round goes. To be honest I'm out of my comfort zone when cooking and buying meat.

1 comment:

Angie said...

A curry party! I'm very jealous. Let us know how it goes. I can't seem to generate much interest in this area with things like that. Thanks for the warning about the chicken. I will definately give this another shot. I feel certain that it was human error and not the recipe.