Review

I bought these in honor of our pretzel challenge this month! They're pretty good...but you can't really go wrong with pretzels and chocolate.

Ditto

We made ours with pretzels, oats, chocolate chips, cinnamon chips, coconut, marshmallows and craisins.

Compost Cookies

These cookies have everything in them, which is the point, to include: peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, oatmeal, coffee, potato chips and PRETZELS. A little strange, but there's enough sugar in there to keep you eating them...

Pretzels!

I told Mom I would post this month's ingredient for her and she chose (with some help from Owen I think) pretzels!

Fancy Grilled Cheese

I searched for recipes and found a bunch of tasty looking ones but I decided to go easy on myself and throw together a tasty sandwich instead (maybe I'll still do one of those recipes before the month is over though!). This is a grilled cheese made with fake bacon, american cheese, tomato and basil. It was actually super fantastic and would have been even better on that white italian bread...yum...anyway, I've never actually used basil as anything other than a dried seasoning so this was pretty new for me!

Ravioli with Herbs

So we're back. This time we made the Ravioli with Herbs recipe found in the cookbook (pictured) that Jamie got Lisa for her birthday. There's fresh torn basil in it that's been wilted in a quick butter sauce. Seemed a shoo-in.




The verdict: tasty, mild, light. We'd have it again.

Basil Bread!

So we finally bought a KitchenAid stand mixer, and we christened it by making the "Basic White Bread" recipe in the cookbook that came with it. The only alterations were that we used soy milk instead of the lowfat milk the recipe called for, and we added about an eighth of a cup of chopped fresh basil to the dough. The bread is really good, and, in spite of the fact that it smells a lot like basil, it doesn't taste much like it. Still good though.