Recipe Report #3a
Again, all ratings are out of 5. This post is only the reviews from last week; we haven't decided what we're trying this coming week yet.
Pizza Pasta -- J: 4.5 B: 4.5
Comments: the title of this one is a bit deceiving, since it's more like a baked spaghetti with pizza toppings (including veggies). It's still really good, though a bit less pasta would work well.
Shepherd's Pie -- J: 4.0 B: 4.0
Comments: The spinach definitely needed to be chopped up more finely than what we had, but overall, this had really nice flavour. It was a bit of a pain to bake in the toaster oven, and draining the fat off of the meat was a bit tricky, but the leaner the meat, the better the result. I also found the amount of meat to be a bit on the high side, but then again, I'm not really a meat eater.
Blueberry Pancakes -- J: 5.0 B: 5.0
Comments: Woot! Awesome pancakes, with a really nice banana creme sauce to boot. Secret ingredient in this one was cottage cheese in the batter, which helped keep it light. But really, blueberry buttermilk pancakes? Who can complain!
Guest Reviewer: Kevin: 4.0/5.0 -- 'only reason for it being a 4 is that it was really, really filling'. J and I agreed that it was filling, but thought that the banana creme sauce helped with that.
Orange-Lime Rice Salad: J: 4.5/5.0 B: 2.5/5.0
Comments: This one constitutes the first recipe that I really didn't like. The flavours just weren't working for me. The rice is a pain in the you-know-what, since it's long grain brown rice, and we couldn't find any quick cooking stuff. Dumb stuff. J liked the flavours, but didn't like the rice cooking time. The salmon that we had with it was really nice, though.
I'll post part b of this week's report once we've figured out what we're gonna have!
Pizza Pasta -- J: 4.5 B: 4.5
Comments: the title of this one is a bit deceiving, since it's more like a baked spaghetti with pizza toppings (including veggies). It's still really good, though a bit less pasta would work well.
Shepherd's Pie -- J: 4.0 B: 4.0
Comments: The spinach definitely needed to be chopped up more finely than what we had, but overall, this had really nice flavour. It was a bit of a pain to bake in the toaster oven, and draining the fat off of the meat was a bit tricky, but the leaner the meat, the better the result. I also found the amount of meat to be a bit on the high side, but then again, I'm not really a meat eater.
Blueberry Pancakes -- J: 5.0 B: 5.0
Comments: Woot! Awesome pancakes, with a really nice banana creme sauce to boot. Secret ingredient in this one was cottage cheese in the batter, which helped keep it light. But really, blueberry buttermilk pancakes? Who can complain!
Guest Reviewer: Kevin: 4.0/5.0 -- 'only reason for it being a 4 is that it was really, really filling'. J and I agreed that it was filling, but thought that the banana creme sauce helped with that.
Orange-Lime Rice Salad: J: 4.5/5.0 B: 2.5/5.0
Comments: This one constitutes the first recipe that I really didn't like. The flavours just weren't working for me. The rice is a pain in the you-know-what, since it's long grain brown rice, and we couldn't find any quick cooking stuff. Dumb stuff. J liked the flavours, but didn't like the rice cooking time. The salmon that we had with it was really nice, though.
I'll post part b of this week's report once we've figured out what we're gonna have!
