This morning, I spent forever planning out a long menu with at least 4 new recipes per day. That's obviously not going to happen, but I can at least try, right? We also went grocery shopping for today's, and some of tomorrow's, ingredients. Also, pretty much all of the recipes are from my two Our Best Bites cookbooks.
I tried out 3 new recipes today. For dinner, I made:
Fresh-Squeezed Lemonade
Creamy Roasted Garlic and Asparagus Soup
and Grilled Summer Vegetable Sandwiches
There were mixed opinions on the food. I loved the lemonade and it wasn't really difficult to make either. The soup and sandwich took a lot of work, but I didn't really love them. I think part of that may be that they are different flavors than I am used to eating; I'm more of a PBJ or steak kind of girl. I didn't weigh the asparagus when we bought it, so I might not have had enough, which made the garlic flavor of the soup kind of overpowering. Mitchell liked it, though, so it might just be me. The sandwich was pretty good, too, but I think I tried putting too many vegetables on, so it kept falling apart. And I've been realizing that I'm not a big fan of eggplant, so that was a problem for me, too. Mitchell liked the sandwich, too. His only problem was he felt the meal needed something else to be complete. I took half of the soup and sandwich to a sick friend's house, and she loved the meal. She said everything was like eating at a cafe. So I guess, it turned out better than I thought myself. Oh, and the kids only like the lemonade and the bread, nothing else.
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