Spinach feta cake

I started with the recipe for spinach balls but I didn’t feel like actually making balls, so I made a spinach disc instead. It was good.

Peanut butter stew

I used chicken thighs and pork chops for the meat. Pork chops get pretty dry in a stew so another cut would have been better. The other ingredients include natural peanut butter, tomato puree, onions, ginger, and coriander.

Ricotta dumplings

I thought it would be interesting to make gnocchi dough but, instead of cutting it into actual gnocchi, to coil it into a spiral and bake it. Unfortunately, I chose to follow NYT Cooking’s ricotta gnocchi recipe, which produces a wet batter instead. I baked it anyway and got what looked like biscuits but were really more like cheesy dumplings.

Chicken curry with kidney beans

I got the idea of using kidney beans from rajma.

Ingredients: chicken thighs, onion, garlic, kidney beans, Maya Kaimal Madras Curry Indian Simmer Sauce, raisins.

  1. In a stainless steel skillet, bake the chicken thighs at a high temperature until browned. A better cook would have used the stove and possibly a brick, but I don’t like cleaning up oil spatter.
  2. Saute onions and garlic in the chicken fat. Try to remember not to grab the hot skillet handle with your bare hands. Deglaze the fond whenever it threatens to burn.
  3. Add the curry sauce, chicken, and kidney beans. Bake at a lower temperature until the chicken is tender and falls apart easily.
  4. Sprinkle with raisins.