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.

Recipe 43: Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

This recipe ended up a disaster and hence kind of ended my muffin making streak in June. They tasted okay, but after a day they were very rancid tasting. Only odd thing I used was using flax to replace the eggs as the container said. It might have been the bananas were already too ripe, but I kind of doubt that. Even if it was the flax that messed up the muffins I do not think they would have been all that great when the peanut butter was too minimal flavor compared to the awesome Peanut Butter muffins, which still could use a little more peanut butter flavor.

Recipe 42: Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

The Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins were the second in my little groove of muffin making in June. They were not as good as the Peanut Butter muffins, but they were still pretty tasty. I used a recipe in the Joy of Vegan Baking cookbook for these and was quite happy with the results. I do not know if I will make these again, though, as bananas in our household rarely last long enough to be good for baking and the peanut butter muffins are my favorite to make instead.