I dream of . . . UPDATE
by Sarah W. Caron • May 15, 2007 • Uncategorized • 4 Comments
On April 6, 2006, I wrote a post titled “I dream of” that listed several items I wanted to successfully make. Over the past year, I have made some of the items, rejected making others and pondered the difficulties of still others. I thought it might be time to revisit the list, see what I have done and revise.
So check it out, this is the original list (the ones in bold have been accomplished) with my notes:
- - Chocolate croissants – I have thought about making this several times and even gathered the ingredients. I did make some with puff pastry that were good. But from scratch is still very daunting.
- - Napoleons – Mmm. Need to sit down and do this.
- - Black and whites – See above.
- - A delicious and super creamy strawberry milkshake – Tried and failed, so far.
- - Tortillas (soft) – Check out my method for this here.
- - Red clam sauce - The recipe for this isn’t on the website yet, but geez who knew a weird throw together concoction could be the best red clam sauce I have ever had? It was.
- - Brown basmati rice that is cooked all the way through (it’s a big problem for me with this type of rice) – I don’t even like brown rice.
- - Palek Paneer – This one is really ambitious, since I will have to make the cheese too. And I don’t think I am ready for that.
- - Garlic knots (NY pizzeria style) -I tried this, but haven’t perfected it yet.
- - Flan – Not sure why this was on here. I am not really a big flan fan.
Now, to revise the list, I am pulling out the ones that have been accomplished as well as the ones I changed my mind about (brown rice, palek paneer, flan) and adding some new ones to the mix. Hopefully this year I will have a better success rate.
Here it goes:
- - anything from Julia Child’s French Chef Cookbook
- - sandwich bread
- - Chocolate croissants
- - Napoleons
- - Black and whites
- - A delicious and super creamy strawberry milkshake
- - strawberry jam/preserves
- - canning
- - a good, light and fluffy homemade pancake
- - Garlic knots (NY pizzeria style)
- - panna cotta
Oh you can totally make paneer! Especially if I can do it. It’s actually not that hard. Saag/Palak Paneer is MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE dish. Let me know if you want me to send you a recipe.
I need to revisit my “resolutions” for the kitchen as well. I know a couple that I have either completed or kept up with. I have a good pancake recipe on my site under breakfast if you want to check it out.
Alton Brown’s pancake recipe is really good, slightly involved, but you can do much of it ahead.
What?! No more flan? I finally made it last week and really liked it. Now to begin experimenting.