Weekend Cooking Adventures

There has been a lot of time spent in the kitchen this weekend.  I forgot to take a lot of pictures but here are the highlights.

Saturday:

Granola- same recipe I used last week.  Delicious and quick!

Mayonnaise- Tried to make this by hand and failed miserably.  It never thickened and just stayed as a soupy egg mixture.  L  I was definitely not mixing fast enough.  My neighbor saved the day though and brought over her kitchen aid and food processor for me to use!

Bread- I made a honey wheat bread in our new bread maker.  It was super easy.  Only issue is that it was weirdly shaped.  It was kind of pinched in the middle so it wasn't a nice pretty loaf of bread.  It does taste good though.  Very dense, but good.  Going to try again later this week when we run out.

Sunday:

Lemon garlic hummus- Good, but not great.  I messed up my math and doubled the recipe but forgot that I had one cup less chick peas then I needed to double it so there is more tahini then there should be.  I think that’s making it taste a little more bland because the tahini is over powering and you can’t taste the lemon and garlic.  Will buy more chick peas tomorrow and try to fix this! 

Mayonnaise- It worked!  YAY for a kitchen aid mixer.  I don’t really like mayo as a condiment but I plan to make chicken salad and egg salad tomorrow so I need it for that.

Oatmeal raisin cookies-  I substituted honey for sugar… unsuccessfully.  I read a thing online yesterday about how to substitute honey for sugar (lower oven temp, add extra teaspoon baking powder, add more flour).  I forgot to do all of those things!!!!!!!  Woops.  

They taste ok but they are very thin.  I only cooked 12 cookies so I may add more baking powder and flour and try again.

Update: Added more flour and baking soda to the rest of the cookie mix today and baked them.  They actually look and take like cookies now!!!!  I think I'm going to crumble the first batch and add it to my granola.

Also added more chick peas to the hummus and re blended it.  It tastes better.  Still a little bland.  Will experiment with other add ins next time.

This afternoon/ evening I’m going to make some egg salad and chicken salad.  I feel like halfway through the week last week we ran out of things to eat that didn't require a lot of effort.  I got home late from work on Thursday and was not in the mood to cook… thus the picnic dinner.  Hopefully having egg salad and chicken salad on hand will help with nights like this!