White Bread

Our friend B. posted a picture of her bread dough rising on fb.  This inspired J. to try to make bread...from scratch.  We were short on time, so opted so the shortest and simpliest recipe we could find.  It came from our Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook (so 50s housewife!):

Here's how the result looked:

It was edible, but not amazing.  Conclusion: let's leave bread making to the professionals.

Lentils w/Spinach and Artichokes

A long time ago N. got a copy of 'Help my Apartment Has a Dinning Room' cookbook, designed for those aspiring to host their first dinner parties.  Now, we finally got around to cooking something from it, as part of our cook-one-thing-from-each-cookbook-we-own initiative.

Ways we deviated from the recipe:
- skipped the onion, of course
- did 1.5x lentils and 2x spicies
- put in the juice of a whole lemon
- added chopped artichoke hearts from a TJ's can

Remade on:
06-16-2014 with sausage:

09-05-2014, also with sausage

Bittersweet Decadence Cookies

We somehow ended up with a copy of The Wall Street Journal.  In their lifestyle section, they had a piece on fancy chocolate.  J. was inspired to make these cookies:

We used two different varieties of Scharfenberger baking chocolate bars.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304431104579551731399758384

The result was pretty amazing.