I am finally back with another edition of Cookbook Sundays! There have been a lot of Sundays lately when I haven't cooked anything, and others when I have but just never got around to blogging about it. But here I am again. Just to refresh your memory, I make on dessert and one non-dessert item on Sundays. These are almost always new recipes that I get from my ever-growing collection of cookbooks.
My non-dessert item was Baked Beans Quintent, from the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook (2002, pg. 86). Actually, the recipe calls for garbanzo beans, which after some bad experiences with them the semester I spent in Spain, I will never eat again if I can help it. So I guess I actually make a bean quartet. The recipe can be baked in the oven, but I chose to use a slow cooker. I was very happy with the result, and would make them again if I was having a cookout or something like that.
My dessert was not so successful. It was Carrot Almond Torte, which is a recipe I printed off the Food Network website when I was in law school. I have a stack about two inches high of recipe printouts. You used to be able to go to the website and click on "random recipe" and get whatever came up. If it sounded interesting, I'd print it. Last I checked a couple of years ago they no longer have that feature, so all my printouts are about 10 years old. It looked good coming out of the oven, but when I cut it it was obviously a disaster. I can't really say what happened, but it was just a gloppy mess inside. Te recipe called for grated carrots and grated almonds, and I think what I used wasn't fine enough because I used shredded carrots and slivered almonds. Whatever the reason, the whole thing ended up in the trash along with the recipe itself. I don't care to try again. Thankfully, this wasn't a recipe that called for any expensive ingredients, so the loss wasn't too great. I had Ben and Jerry's Red Velvet Cake ice cream in the freezer, and that was a great dessert.
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