I think I need another hobby. My life seems to revolve around either cooking or books 
Last week I checked out the King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking book. I was familiar with the King Arthur Flour company since they are the only company I’ve seen that carries white whole wheat flour (lovely stuff, whole wheat nutrition without all the whole wheat taste).
Friday it took me 1 ½ hrs to get home due to an accident. Jaeger had called me and I told him he could find leftovers in the fridge. For some reason, when I’m tired, I start craving waffles with lots of peanut butter and fake maple syrup on top (no, I don’t like the real stuff, I don’t know why). When I got home, I decided to try channeling this unhealthy craving into something a smidgen more healthy. I flipped through the King Arthur cookbook and found an interesting recipe called “Peanut-ButterChocolate Chip Waffles with Banana Cream” (p. 17). I made the waffles but forgot to add the chocolate chips at the appropriate time. So, I melted the chocolate chips down and added them to the Banana Cream recipe instead. The waffles were decent. The resulting Chocolate Banana Cream recipe was quite good. I’m not exactly sure what I can use it with in the future. Maybe scones. Scones with Chocolate Banana Cream sounds good
The other recipe I’ve tried in the King Arthur cookbook was “Granola Bread” (p. 199). In my first attempt, I tried making it by hand. However, I couldn’t get consistency right, it was too wet. I added quite a bit more flour than it said and the results were okay. I tried the same recipe again the next day except this time instead of making it by hand, I put it in my bread machine and tried not worrying about how wet/dry the dough was going to turn out. This time the results were much better. I’m hoping I’ll be able to replicate my success again because it’s the perfect bread for the toasted peanut butter jelly sandwiches I’ve been taking to work recently.
Midweek, I decided that Jaeger and I weren’t eating enough vegetables. So, I checked out several vegetable cookbooks to try. My favorite so far is The Roasted Vegetable by Andrea Chesman. Last night I tried the “Glazed Carrot Coins” (p. 19) which was pretty good. The other recipes that look interesting include “Zucchini Chips with Feta and Herbs,” “Spicy Sweet Potato Wedges,” “Stacked Roasted Vegetabl Enchiladas,” and “Artichoke and Leek Stuffed Pizza.”
My new goal is to serve at least 2 vegetables every night. It’ll be interesting to see how quickly I give up on this goal I’m also going to start posting my menus each week so I can remember what I’ve tried and liked/disliked.