Recipe Challenge in 2011

Okay kids...here's the deal. I love to cook and bake. I love to feed it to other people because well face it, I don't need to eat the whole batch of cookies I make (even if I halve the recipe.)

I have a lot of cookbooks and recipes that I have gathered through the years and well, I rarely use them or just make the same stuff all the time. When you are cooking for one, who wants to make a big dish. I like leftovers but not all week. :)

My mom made me a cookbook when I got my first apartment of all the dishes she knew I liked and that she made through the years. So sweet of her. I've only ever cooked a few things out of this which consisted of probably 40-50 recipes.




So I decided to challenge myself and cook everything out of it this next year. Then I looked at the recipe book I kind of made for myself. It is just a big photo book with cut out recipes from magazines or computer print outs from friends and such over the years.




Between both cookbooks I have 100 recipes that I'm going to cook and blog this coming year. If I like this challenge, I may just take my other "bought' cookbooks and make all the recipes out of them the following years to come. We'll see though. This won't turn into a food blog but it will take up most of my posts this year.

For the new year I'm going to share with you our dumpling recipe. My mom would make pork, saurkraut and dumplings every year for new years. We would have family over. There would also be corn and mash potatosas well. Oh so good. I didn't have potatoes in the house but everything else was yummy. Just as good as when my mom would make it. You make the port and saurkraut in the over and then when it has about 30-45 minutes of cooking time left you add in the dumplings (already made) to get that taste of the pork and saurkraut. I didn't make the whole batch because it makes a ton. I only did a fourth of the recipe. It was easy for the eggs as I had some egg beaters egg substitute and used that. Easy to measure out eggs that way.



Dumplings:
2 eggs
1 cup milk
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt

Mix and drop by teaspoon into boiling water. Cook 10 minutes, covered. Will float to top of water.

You can use these was a dumpling recipe for soups and stews I'm sure but we've only ever had them this way. Yummy.