15 New Food Items That I Made This Year
As previously mentioned, I’ve already completed my goal to Make 15 new food or drink items that I’ve never made before in 2015 – in fact, I’ve actually surpassed my goal by making *16* new items. I got myself a nice head start by having a birthday party where I made 6 new items that I’d never tried before. Then I racked up a few more items by having made a batch of home-brewed beer that ended up suboptimally carbonated, but since I didn’t want it to go to waste, I looked up recipes that involved beer – those, plus making dog biscuits from the spent grains of another batch of beer totalled another 5 items, which meant I only needed to make 4 other things to hit my goal of 15!
So, for the record, the new things I made so far this year that I’d never made before were:
| 15 Food Items Made | Date | Comments | |
| 1 | Chocolate buttercream frosting (for Daniel’s birthday cake) | 1-Jan-2015 | I got a lot of compliments on this! |
| 2 | sweet and spicy pecans and cashews | 12-Jan-2015 | Very tasty! |
| 3 | caramelized onion, mushroom, apple and Gruyère puff pastry bites | 12-Jan-2015 | These were a HUGE hit! |
| 4 | cucumbers with salmon whip and dill whip | 12-Jan-2015 | No one seemed all that into these |
| 5 | slow cooker gingered chickpea and tomato stew | 12-Jan-2015 | Pretty good! |
| 6 | cheese puffs | 12-Jan-2015 | Got this recipe from my niece. They were amazing! |
| 7 | homemade sour mix | 12-Jan-2015 | Needed this for a drink I wanted to make, but couldn’t find it in any store |
| 8 | Swiss cheese beer bread | 4-Feb-2015 | Really easy and super tasty! |
| 9 | potato, cheddar & beer soup | 4-Feb-2015 | This was OK (though I’m not a huge soup fan, so YMMV) |
| 10 | beer marinated pork chops | 4-Feb-2015 | Pretty good! |
| 11 | brown ale potato galette | 12-Mar-2015 | Pretty good! |
| 12 | black bean & mushroom tortilla casserole | 12-Mar-2015 | I quite liked this |
| 13 | spent grain dog biscuits | 28-Mar-2015 | made these from spent grains from home brewing. My brewing buddy’s dog loved them! |
| 14 | rice pilaf | 29-Mar-2015 | I didn’t really like this. |
| 15 | BBQ short ribs | 14-Jun-2015 | These were amazing! |
| 16 | grilled potato skins | 4-Jul-2015 | I’d make these again! |
I’ll continue to keep track of any other new things I make for the second half of 2015 and see how high a number I can hit!
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