Not To Be Trusted With Knives

NaBloPoMo – Day 16 – A Random Assortment of Other New Foods That I’ve Made This Year

November 16, 2020 by Beth

I don’t have time to blog about my sourdough journey today, as I have a giant pile of assignments to mark ((Well, it’s a virtual “pile” as my students haven’t handed in assignments on paper for about a decade. But it’s still weighing heavily on me!)), so I’m going to skip over a few of the foods I made as part of said journey and tell you about a bunch of other random foods that I made.

First up, Moroccan Braised Chicken, Lentils, Smoked Paprika & Tomato. I saw this recipe over on Dan’s blog. Like me, Dan has been cooking and baking up a storm throughout this pandemic – I mean, what else are we going to do to pass time time, right? Unlike me, Dan actually blogs promptly about his kitchen adventures, instead of waiting eleventy billion months go get around to blogging.

This dish has actually become one of our go-to meals. It’s super delicious, healthy, and relatively easy to make.

Next up is a recipe that came courtesy of my Aunt Wendy. She was following along with my sourdough journey online (which I was chronicling on Facebook and Instagram) and she mailed me this recipe card for Coq Au Sherry, which she suggested would go good with sourdough bread. And was she ever right!

This recipe required me to buy two things: a Dutch oven and sherry, neither of which I had ever purchased before.

I wanted to buy a Dutch oven anyway, as it is used in a lot of sourdough bread recipes, so this was a good excuse. And Scott was excited to buy sherry, as he had been watching a lot of Frasier re-runs ((Again, early pandemic days – what else were we supposed to do?)) and Frasier and Niles always drink sherry. Fortunately, liquor stores had been deemed an essential service and were open when many other stores were shut down, and I was able to find a Dutch oven on sale at Superstore while grocery shopping.

Of course, buying a bottle of sherry meant that I needed to find more recipes that use sherry ((A lot of my cooking involves Googling recipes for ways to use up ingredients that I have extra of))! So I found two: sherry potatoes and sesame chicken ((I’m not entirely sure if that’s the correct link to the sesame chicken recipe, as I foolishly forgot to save the link when I made it. But it looks pretty close to what I recall making)).

Both of them were freaking delicious!

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