Kristin's Cookbook Project

It's after all soup season, so why not make soup? Recently, I made the vegetable soup that's a nod to Waverly Hills Sanatorium from the cookbook Food To Die For by Amy Bruni. It's one of those recipes that's almost stupidly easy to make - just chopping a few veggies, measure a couple of things, and let it simmer on the stove for an hour. I think even a teenager could make it, perhaps with some supervision from a parent depending on the teen's skills. It's that easy. As it takes an hour on the stove, I can't say it's a quick weeknight dinner, but it's still an easy dish to make. It's tasty too, especially if it's a chilly night where you need to warm up a bit.

As I was craving something with a little bit of a kick to it, I decided to make chicken enchiladas with tomato and chili salsa for dinner recently. I found the recipe in the Norwegian cookbook called Trines Mat by Trine Sandberg, and I think it was fairly easy to make. Okay, so we might need to focus a little bit once the tortillas are filled up and needed to be "transported" into the baking dish so it (the tortilla) doesn't fall apart, but that's not a big issue really. I did find the enchiladas both tasty and filling, which is a good thing, and I think the chicken enchiladas could easily be made for Taco Tuesday, or for that matter, the Norwegian "tradition" of Taco Friday.

As it's autumn, I wanted to try something from one of my more autumnal cookbooks, so I recently made BBQ beef sandwiches from the cookbook called Slow-Cooker Fall Favorites, published by Gooseberry Patch. One of the good things about using a slowcooker is that it does the work for you. Fair enough, the beef turned so tender it was easy to pull apart and all that, but for me, these BBQ beef sandwiches was a bit too boring/bland for me, even as I added some lettuce and used some no-knead ciabatta rolls. So for me, it wasn't really worth it, but I'm sure someone else might enjoy them more than what I did.