My Time Trying Thai

Recipes on deck for tomorrow night - Thai coconut shrimp soup with spinach and Pad Thai (Mark Bittman). I am finding myself very fond of Mark Bittman's recipes.  He is able to make so many recipes accessible and non-intimidating to home cooks.  I would love a few pictures in his cookbooks but that really is my only negative feedback.  Hopefully I will remember to take some pictures. 

Pizza - mushroom, spinach, bacon, sundried tomato

Ok, today I spent the majority of the day preparing the ingredients for what was supposed to be an awesome-to-die-for pizza.  It was okay but not at all worth the amount of effort that was put into it.  It started at 10 o'clock a.m. - I put together the mostly whole wheat pizza crust recipe from Mark Bittman's Food Matters cookbook.  Next I needed to roast some garlic and precook the bacon.  I also sauteed mushrooms and had to reconstitute the dried tomatoes.  I made a version of Emeril Lagasse's white sauce for pizza minus the cayenne pepper adding the roasted garlic to the sauce.  The sauce seemed a little bland and the pizza dough should have been much thinner. I will try a different version!

The salad was a mixed greens salad with defrosted blueberries, granny smith apples, crumbled bacon, feta cheese with a blueberry dressing found at this website.  I also made Cinnamon Roasted Almonds to put on the salad and these were the best thing I made today. 

I also decided to cook a pot of brown rice to use for the rest of the week. 

Tomorrow I am planning on making Thai food and hope that it was worth the cost of the condiments.