Baking and Cooking

I'm thankful I know how to bake and cook. Sometimes the things I bake and cook are simple, sometimes they're more complex.

I'm also thankful for food bloggers and cookbook creators and for the recipes they produce.

French bread rolls from Mel's Kitchen Cafe are my go to rolls for making sliders.

 

I love A Season of Family Meal Plans (all four volumes) by Jordan Page where I got the recipe for Cheesy Chicken Sliders (in volume 4- Fall).

I'm thankful I've gotten better at learning substitutions in cooking or learning I can just leave things out. Only one pan of the sliders had cheese (based on family preference) and that's okay.

I'm also thankful I don't always have to follow a recipe when throwing dinner together. Spaghetti, garlic bread, and salad is something everybody in my family will eat.

I made sure to use the garlic and onion spaghetti sauce since November 8 was Bram Stoker's Birthday and Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day. It's tradition to cook with garlic that day. 

Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day

Since Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day and Bram Stoker's Birthday are on the same day, November 8, I often cook something with garlic on that day. This year, however, I made Indian food. I'm trying to do more shelf cooking and I actually inventoried our pantry in October and found some items that I had forgotten about. One of those was a tikka masala simmer sauce so I started with that. I used an Easy Homemade Naan recipe from the Summer volume of A Season of Family Meal Plans. I didn't make it in the Summer so I wanted to try it with this. I made the naan the day before which helped. I also made chana and rice to go with the meal. Yumm. I love the smell of Indian food.

Since I still wanted to celebrate Bram Stoker's Birthday, the kids had Count Chocula cereal. Woohoo. Celebrated!