Recipes

Since I don't do a separate "recipe blog," but still love to cook good food, I thought I would do a little recipe blog entry.  This will be easy since we get all of our recipes online so I can just post the links to them instead of typing them all up.

Our newest recipe that has been added to our favorites is this roast chicken.  The is such a delicious meal.  You stuff the chicken with rosemary, thyme, a  lemon, garlic, and an onion and then wrap the whole chicken in bacon (how could anything not be delicious wrapped in bacon?).  You throw a bunch of mushrooms in the pan to make a yummy sauce.  Its even delicious if you pick the mushrooms out like I usually do!  Its actually really easy to make and fantastic with yukon gold potatoes.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_34517,00.html

Now for those of us with a major sweet tooth and weakness for all things chocolate...Brownies!  This is Barefoot Contessa's recipe and these are the richest brownies you will ever eat.  They are especially good if you cut them up and put them in the fridge and eat them the next day.  I usually don't care for recipes with coffee in them, but this was outstanding!  (PS...I don't add the nuts...I can't stand brownies with nuts!...well, not so much that I won't eat them...I just pick the nuts out).

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_23629,00.html

Here's an appetizer that we made for the MSA wine and cheese party and it was a big hit.  They are little mini tacos you make in muffin tins with wonton wrappers.  Just lay the wrappers in the tin like little bowls and brown them up in  the oven and load in the taco fillings.  This was a great way to use up all our extra wonton wrappers from when we made delicious pot stickers...recipe to follow.

http://www.recipezaar.com/74301

Pot stickers--we leave out the water chestnuts because Rob doesn't like them.  We usually make a big batch and then freeze most of them.  Its great to just pull a couple out of the freezer and cook them up as an easy appetizer.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pot-Stickers-Traditional/Detail.aspx

And here's the sesame chicken we usually eat it with.  This is just like the kind from the restaurants!  We have received many compliments when we make this for friends.

http://www.recipezaar.com/129598

All of this is making me hungry now, so I'm going to go get some dinner started!  Let me know if you like these recipes.  I think I'll post some every now and then if anyone actually uses them!