New Foods I Made in 2014
Another item from my goals for 2014 list that I figured deserved its own posting was make 14 new food items that I’ve never made before1. And this goal I not only achieved, but I actually surpassed!
This year, I made:
- Vegetables Wellington2
- honey mustard salad dressing
- tofu lasagna3
- lamb ribs
- mascarpone mashed potatoes
- salad rolls
- coconut apricot squares4
- homemade pasta
- baked veggie burritos
- barbecued chicken
- barbecued pork tenderloin
- barbecued corn on the cob
- grilled zucchini
- cilantro-lime salad dressing5
- steak and mushroom pie
- roast beef
- cream cheese brownies
- chocolate peanut clusters
- biscotti
I also made guacamole devilled eggs a couple of times this year and I think the first time I made them was in 2014, but I’m not 100% sure I didn’t make them the previous year, so I’m not going to count them just in case. As well, I made *5* new drinks that I’d never made before – The Suffering Bastard, The Leveraged Synergy, and the Value Added Leveraged Synergy (all at my “I’m finished my MBA” party!) and the Mortgage Margarita and strawberry lemonade (for my housewarming party) – but I’m not counting those since the goal stated “food items”, but not beverages. But I don’t need to since, as you can see from the list, I actually made *19* food items this year! Hopefully I won’t regret using up extra new ideas this year when it comes time to try to come up with 15 new food and/or drink items to make in 2015!
- I see now that I look at the goals that I said that all the items “must be blogged about”. And while I didn’t blog about them all at the time I did them, I did keep track and now I’m blogging about them, so that totally counts! [↩]
- This one has a back story. I was having a bunch of friends over for dinner and decided that I would try my hand at Baked Alaska. When I told Kalev, he got upset, saying “What are the vegetarians supposed to eat??” And I was confused and said, “What’s not vegetarian about ice cream and meringue?” It turned out, he was thinking of Beef Wellington, not Baked Alaska! So another time when he was coming over for dinner, I decided to make a vegetarian version of Beef Wellington, which turned out to be quite delicious! [↩]
- I’ve made lasagna before, but not with tofu in place of ricotta cheese. It actually was quite tasty! [↩]
- I wasn’t too big a fan of these myself. [↩]
- I had a bunch of limes leftover from margarita making, so I tried this recipe, but it turned out that I much prefer the honey mustard dressing that I first tried making earlier and which is now my staple. [↩]
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