Around the end of February she put out a call for Recipe Testers to help her out with her second cookbook. She was looking for around 20 people. I quickly sent an email volunteering my services, but considering she has 22,000 Facebook fans, and who knows how many thousands follow her blog, my chances were most likely slim to none. Well guess what...I was chosen!
My name is Tracy and I'm a recipe tester.
Once I received my email with instructions and links to the recipes, I hit Whole Foods, then got busy cooking. Tonight I made three of her recipes:
1. Chicken & Mango Lettuce Wraps
2. Crispy Rice Patties
3. Sriracha Sauce (to top the lettuce wraps)
I wish I was a better food photographer, because I'd love to share some gorgeous photos that would show off how tasty the dishes came out. The lettuce wraps were incredibly tasty, and definitely "fast, fresh and simple". My husband and I loved them, my picky girl ate the chicken from the mix, and my youngest ate everything in the mix. The rice patties were a disaster to look at (except the one, and only one, that I snapped a picture of), but they were very tasty to eat. Again, us grownups loved them. My youngest thought it was super fun to eat rice with her hands, and my oldest daughter (the picky one) wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole. And the sriracha sauce, while not what you think of as the stuff in the rooster bottle, was a fun twist on a hot pepper relish. Definitely something I will make again...especially when we start picking our own homegrown peppers.
Dishes next on my list to try...chilled soba noodles, tofu and mushroom miso soup, a salmon dish, a seafood curry, an asparagus side dish, and broiled mango dessert. Plus anything else I can squeeze in. My 'Steamy Kitchen' is going to be busy these next 2 weeks.
That sounds fun! I'm a little jealous.
ReplyDeleteDitto to Becky's comment. I was thinking the same thing. :) Have fun!!
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