Daily Recipe Round-up for May 3, 2012

If anyone makes one of these recipes, I’d love for you to let me know, give me your thoughts and even take a picture or two.  I’d LOVE to start posting updates from other cooks, such as myself.  Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect.  That’s the point of this blog.

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Food Network

Baja Style Fish Tacos

Video!!!

Total Time: 50 min

Prep: 20 min

Inactive: 15 min

Cook: 15 min

Yield: 6 to 8 servings

Level: Easy

Marcela’s Salsa Borracha

Video!!!

Total Time: 15 min

Prep: 10 min

Cook: 5 min

Yield: 1 cup (about 4 servings)

Level: Easy

Crackling Fish Tacos with Chipotle Tartar Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 2 min

Prep: 35 min

Inactive: 20 min

Cook: 7 min

Yield: 8 tacos

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for May 2, 2012

If anyone makes one of these recipes, I’d love for you to let me know, give me your thoughts and even take a picture or two.  I’d LOVE to start posting updates from other cooks, such as myself.  Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect.  That’s the point of this blog.

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Food Network

Chipotle Shrimp Taco with Avocado Salsa Verde

Total Time: 40 min

Prep: 30 min

Cook: 10 min

Yield: 4 servings

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for May 1, 2012

If anyone makes one of these recipes, I’d love for you to let me know, give me your thoughts and even take a picture or two.  I’d LOVE to start posting updates from other cooks, such as myself.  Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect.  That’s the point of this blog.

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Food Network

Tyler’s Easy Chicken Burritos

Total Time: 25 min

Prep: 20 min

Cook: 5 min

Yield: 8 servings

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for April 30, 2012

If anyone makes one of these recipes, I’d love for you to let me know, give me your thoughts and even take a picture or two.  I’d LOVE to start posting updates from other cooks, such as myself.  Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect.  That’s the point of this blog.

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Food Network

Rachael’s Super Nachos

Video!!!

Total Time: 30 min

Prep: 15 min

Cook: 15 min

Yield: 4 entrée servings

Level: Easy

Rachael’s Calzone Rolls

Total Time: 17 min

Prep: 5 min

Cook: 12 min

Yield: 4 servings

Level: Easy

Lemon Chicken Soup with Salad

Recipe modified by You Want Me to Cook? – April 25, 2011

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Lemon Chicken Soup with Salad recipe originally published by Food Network Magazine – April 2012.

I really love a soup/salad or soup/sandwich combo, but my husband does not.  No matter what kind of soup I make, he never eats it.  Still I’m searching for a soup that he’s going to, at a minimum, eat a bowl.  I happen to love chicken and rice soup so when I saw this combination “lightened up” version of the soup with a refreshing salad, I decided to make it.

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Lemon Chicken Soup and Salad

The soup was nice and creamy without being heavy.  In fact, there’s no cream or milk in it!  I’m terrible at the meat-to-soup ratio.  I always end up with more broth.  Still, it looks comforting and delicious.

Gum Paste and Fondant – Class #4: The Final Class

Tonight was our last class and you know what that means: FINAL PROJECTS!  We still had a couple of things to cover, but the majority of the class was doing our final design.

But first… here is what we covered this night from the class lesson plan for this course:

• Gum Paste and Fondant 101
• Bow Loops
• Mum Base, Rose Base
• Carnation Base
• Assembling a Bow
• Tinting Gum Paste and Fondant
• Basic Principles of Floral Cake Design
• Calla Lily
• Rosebud and Rose
• Carnation
• Calyxes and Leaves
• Assembling the Calla Lily
• Daisy
• Mum
• Covering a Cake Board with Fondant
• Elements of Fondant Cake Design
• Creating Geometric Designs Using Cut-Outs, Overlays, and Inlays
• Eyelet, Ruffle, and Ball Borders

We had to cover our cakes with fondant and Maria taught us a couple of techniques on how to do it.  I managed to get my cake covered with only a couple of dimples… not bad for my first try.  I did have some boo-boos at the bottom, but that’s the beauty of using a border.  Hides all boo-boos quite well, thank you very much.

I practiced the different borders and decided my ruffle border looked the best.  It didn’t take me too long to get my border completed and placed on the cake, so I moved on to the design.

After a long decision making process – which included me whining a lot – I decided on a version of Wilton’s Creative Calla Lilies Cake and their Small Cake, Big Ideas Cake.  I wanted the small cluster so I could write a “Happy Birthday” message on it.  However, the small cluster on “Small Cake, Big Ideas” was too small, so I wanted to pile them the Creative Calla Lilies cake.

I also had not practiced applying small decorations to the side or cutting out and assembling letters.  I worked slow and steady and this was my end result…

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Weekend Recipe Round-up for April 28 to April 29, 2012

If anyone makes one of these recipes, I’d love for you to let me know, give me your thoughts and even take a picture or two.  I’d LOVE to start posting updates from other Cooks, such as myself.  Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect.  That’s the point of this blog.

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Food Network

Sandra’s S’Mores Tart

Total Time: 55 min

Prep: 15 min

Inactive: 30 min

Cook: 10 min

Yield: 4 servings

Level: Easy