A Cooking Weekend

This might not be of any importance to you, but I made some stuff this weekend and I thought I'd tell you about it, and maybe you'd want to make it yourself!

The first thing I made was Mulligatawny soup.  You can find more info about the book where this recipe came from on my links and books page (or click here lol).  It was really good, I heated up some frozen Naan bread for it, because the soup's origin was India and I thought I might reunite the 2.  I didn't really use the right rice (I used this lemon flavored rice) because it was the only rice we had in the house, so it tasted lemony, but still good.  Normally I use brown rice.

I also made some chocolate pudding, which was really easy, I topped it with some homemade whipped cream and chopped pecans.  I don't have a picture, I might add one later, but I forgot to take it.  I've made it a couple times before, always really good.  Click here for the recipe.

On Sunday I made bread and butter.  I've made them both before and the bread was much easier the second time.  The bread was delicious, and was granted a special trip to the grocery store for yeast and bread flour.  I would not recommend using normal flour, but you probably can, but if your going to make the bread just go all the way.  We put the two bread loaves in some old bread bags, so they look
very official. Click here for the bread recipe.
I like to toast the pieces and put some of my butter on them, the butter tastes just like the stuff you get at the store (as chef john says in the link I will give) but it's still fun to make and a little extra with the bread.  Click here for the butter recipe.


This post has taken an unusual amount of time because I've been blasting Bohemian Rhapsody.

My Birthday Was Yesterday!!!!!!!

Summary

I don't normally make posts like this, but I thought that it was fairly relevant.  So my birthday was yesterday, June 1st.  I had a fun time, I went swimming with a friend.  Sadly when I came home I was forced to chop up 2 huge boxes of strawberries for the strawberry shortcake cake that was for my birthday.  Then I opened some presents.

My Cake

My family decided that we wouldn't have a traditional cake because it was way to hot here, and it just seemed appropriate to have a strawberry shortcake cake for strawberry season.  We used a bunt cake, strawberries, blueberries, and my sister made homemade whipped cream (Click here for the recipe for simple shortcake).

Presents

I'm not going to show all of my presents, just the cooking related ones, because you probably care just a tiny bit more about those.

I was watching TV once, and they were playing some old The French Chef, with Julia Child episodes, and I really liked them.  It is always really fun to watch cooking videos in general, but when they filmed her, they just had her set everything up, and then said "Go."  She made mistakes, like once she forgot to say the ingredients, or she would spill some of the ingredients or something, I just really like watching them, because they are really interesting.  I was really happy to get these.

This was pretty similar to the last gift, but this is one of my favorite movies.  I saw this when I was really young and remember loving it, so we got it from our library recently to watch it again, and it was really good.   I can't WAIT to watch it again!

I REALLY like soup, so for my birthday I wanted to get a cookbook for soup.  This was EXACTLY what I wanted, I mean, it's called Soup, how much closer can you get?  I have another cookbook by Williams-Sonoma, which I believe is the publishing company, and I really like that one (There is a review for it on the "Links and Books" page).  You may be seeing a review soon, I'll try to update this post when I make the review.