At the beginning of the year I set out to try one new recipe every week. 52 total. I may have been a bit over ambitious. We moved a few weeks after the beginning of the year, combined with Jenna being our hardest baby ever. However....I have tried WAY more recipes this year than if I wouldn't have set that goal for myself.
Here's everything that I tried this year:
1. homemade sausage from ground pork! I can't find the link for the recipe that I used, but I definitely would recommend trying to make your own sausage if you never have.
2. Chicken pot pie. I've made chicken pot pie before, but this was a new recipe.
3. Twice baked potatoes
4. Sour cream noodle bake
5. Oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies
6. Grilled chicken and roasted red pepper panini
7. Breakfast Sandwiches
8. White Cheddar chicken pasta
9. Chinese Honey Chicken
10. Spaghetti hotdish
11. Homemade peppermint syrup
12. Strawberry Jam
13. Applebutter (I think I used the recipe from pickyourown.org, but I don't remember for sure)
14. Iced coffee
15. Onion Strings
16. Mozzarella sticks
17. Biscuits & Gravy
18. Cinnamon Rolls (I could technically count this as 3 new recipes since I made the regular ones, orange marmelade and carmel apple ones)
19. Marlboro Man Sandwich
20. PW Lasagna
21. oven baked fries
22. Chicken cheddar roll ups (I don't have a link for this one...but I'll try to post it sometime)
I may try a couple more new recipes this week, but we'll see! (and it's possible there are more recipes that I'm forgetting)
So 22 new recipes in 2011...not too shabby if you ask me!!! 30 shy of my goal, but I am seriously proud of myself on this accomplishment! 2012 may end up being more about the budget and saving so we'll see how many new recipes I end up trying. I'll keep you posted!
9 months ago