Future Attempts

This is a cooking/food magazine I subscribe to. I think I got started reading it because the cover at a grocery store listed a recipe for Asian Short Ribs. Also, the magazine is thin. Any magazine that is too thick is too much for me to enjoy. The funny thing is that Wifey had a gift subscription to "Simple Living" for a few years. But "Simple" was too thick. Every time I saw that magazine sitting on the dining table I would smirk to myself, "If something is simple, why do you need 1 inch of magazine to talk about it?"

As with all new recipes, we can not try seafood. Thus, it may be months and many issues of Fine Cooking before I find something I can try out. As you know, Wifey detests seafood. I think it's a mental bias introduced by her staunchly anti-seafood raised-in-the-midWest mother (I've got her phone number if you want to call her up and give her a piece of your seafood loving mind).

Anyhoo.

This month's magazine had some interesting things I'm going to try next week. I'm being aggressive, and I've identified 4 new recipes to try. This probably means I'll end up making 3 of them. This first one I've seen on various TV shows (c'mon many of these recipes are just slight twists of very basic concepts). But now I've got it down on paper, we're going to give it a shot. As Wifey said, "Basically, you're going to hand-make your own fajitas."

Yup!
And then of course, pork rules in our house since Wifey grew up in hog country.

And then how can you fail with meatballs? Well, yeah you can if it turns out nasty. Won't know until we try!

And I'd hope that I can make something decent out of this. The current recipe I have for Tandoori chicken is sorta blah. Nothing that makes me think I'm back at an India buffet line. This one seems to have more spices then the recipe I've been using (and by the way, the old recipe is too blah for me even create a blog entry).

We'll see what we'll see.