Saturday, July 4, 2015

Cook-it-up: Monday to Friday Pasta

Back in April I said I was going to keep going with the cook-it-up project. I have continued to make stuff from the cookbook I chose for that month, but the posting the first Saturday of each month and changing books monthly didn't happen.
I am going to try to get back on track with this (because I did find it a good way to use more recipes).
Since April I have been making things from Monday to Friday Pasta by Michele Urvater. I love this book! Since the beginning of April I have made about a dozen different recipes and I have made a couple of them more than once. Among the highlights:

  • Garlicky Mushroom Sauce (p. 46) was great over cheese ravioli
  • Dijon butter sauce (p. 38) was so good (over tortellini with chopped asparagus added) that we also made the horsradish variation
  •  Sweet and spicy beef with egg noodles (p. 132) was delicious and spicy--I made the sour cream variation, next time I will try the feta
The only dud was the Pecan Noodle pudding with ricotta cheese. It was too dry and not pudding-y enough for my tastes. I have marked lots of additional recipes in this book to try (including a couscous that is on tonight's menu). 

Up next is Martha Hall Foose's Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook. I may stick with this book for the summer as it has a lot of excellent-sounding warm weather dishes in it that I want to try. When I am ready to move on to another book I will post a report on this one and my next pick. 
I'm linking this post with Weekend Cooking.






7 comments:

  1. I'll be looking out for this one! Thanks! Cheers from Carole's Chatter!

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  2. I love how you are trying recipes! Good for you!

    http://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2015/07/eight-hundred-grapeswith-giveaway.html

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  3. Southern cooking for summer sounds like an excellent plan!

    Joy's Book Blog

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    1. Southern cooking always sounds good to me, but hot weather (if we ever get any in New England!) makes it even more appealing.

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  4. I love hearing about your adventures cooking through your books. Sounds like this was mostly a winner and good idea to use a Southern book to get you through the heat of summer.

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  5. I like the Monday to Friday cookbooks. I cooked a lot of recipes from them a few years ago. Will have to go back and find more to try.

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  6. I didn't get to visit the Weekend Cooking posters this weekend, so I'm late coming around! We don't have pasta much anymore, but I used to cook a lot of it!

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