Recipe 50: Spring Roll Dipping Sauce

Back in July I made a spring roll dipping sauce to go with some rolls I had bought frozen. I followed this recipe I found online, although I do not think I put the corn starch in it. It was simple and easy, although the corn starch would be good for a not so runny sauce I ended up with, but that did not bother me.

Recipe 49: 4th of July Cookies

For the 4th of July I tried some different cookie decorating techniques. I used some stencils to make designs with sprinkles. I also used spray bottle style icing. Note that some of the cookies in the photos were actually my bro's designs, but they are kind of obvious being the more messier looking ones related to being his first experience with icing and having a more abstract art style anyways.

Recipe 48: Omelette

Another basic thing that I made for the first time on my own back in July. Pretty simple, but I still am not much of an egg person and not likely to make omelettes very often. I would rather just do simple scrambled eggs in the microwave (hate cleaning the frying pan).

Recipe 47: Grilled Cheese with Dijon Mustard

I made my first grilled cheese the end of June. I made them with dijon mustard. Since then it has become almost a weekly thing I make including one of the things I made for the 4th of July.

Recipe 46: Scrambled Eggs

Okay, so this is kind of stretching it, but really I never had made scrambled eggs in an actual pan until late June 2010. Sure I had made them in the microwave before, but that is not for real. Also, did not take a pic, but I still am counting it as a first attempt at a new thing to help me try to get 100 new to me recipes this year.

Recipe 45: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Back in June I made Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies using a recipe in the Joy of Vegan Baking cookbook. They ended up very delicious. I had never thought of putting chocolate chips in peanut butter cookies before and they really do go together nicely. I was pleased with these ending up nice and soft and chewy, which is how I like my cookies.

Recipe 44: Lemon Hard Candy

Back in mid June I attempted to make hard candy. I used a recipe from the back of the murder mystery book, Candy Apple Dead by Sammi Carter. The result of my attempt was flexible hard candy. It just did not end up hardening. I think it is because my candy thermometer is off and I did not boil the mixture quite long enough. It still tasted good, but it was kind of hard to make into pieces and really enjoy, so it mostly ended up in the trash.