Cookbook Sunday!

It's time for the first edition of Cookbook Sunday, where I detail my Sunday dinners made from my cookbooks.  To review, I make one dessert and one thing that isn't a dessert, and they each come from a different cookbook.  I try to ensure my meals have the following components:  a main dish, a starch (rice, potatoes, pasta), a bread, and a fruit or vegetable.  Here is what was on this week's menu.

My non-dessert cookbook item was mini honey-mustard meatloaves, from the March 2008 issue of the "Everyday Food" magazine (pg. 68).  I served it with sour cream and chive mashed potatoes, buttermilk biscuits and mandarin orange slices, along with a glass of Riesling.  Overall, the meatloaf was just OK.  It was cheesy, which I liked, but didn't have much flavor beyond that.  My usual meatloaf has sage and some other spices in it, which I like a lot, so if I made this again, I would maybe add that.

My dessert was oatmeal drop cookies, from the cookbook "Best Recipes From the Backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Jars" (1982, pg. 567).  These cookies used wheat flour and brown sugar instead of the usual white flour and white sugar.  Therefore, the cookies had a much heartier feel than the usual oatmeal cookie.  I like them, but would add more raisins if I made them again.


Overall, this was a fairly successful meal.  I have one more mini-meatloaf to eat tomorrow, and a couple dozen cookies to eat over the rest of the week.

Next week's menu includes a pork tenderloin and chocolate cake.  I'm looking forward to it already!  Hopefully while I'm eating it I'll be celebrating the Packers' win over the Bears in the NFC Championship game!