GCC: Menu 1 - Baked BBQ Wings and Potato Skins with Cheddar and Bacon

October 03, 2010 by Monica in Chicken, Cookbooks, Cooking Club, Entertaining, Gutsy Cooks Club, Main Courses

And the inaugural post for Gutsy Cooks Club has finally arrived!

A couple of months back I decided that I needed a kick in the butt with my savory cooking. I was finding myself baking more and more, but my savory cooking was taking a back seat. I needed an incentive, and thus the Gutsy Cooks Club was born. As of today, we have a total of nine Gutsy Cooks and that talent pool is awesome, I can not wait to see what we cook up.

Some have been blogging for a bit, some started their blog when they joined us, but all of us have the same goal, to cook, learn and to share our experiences. You can too, by going here and seeing the roll call and visiting each of their blogs.

The month of October menu was decided by yours truly, and I got to come clean.With over 1,000 recipes in The Illustrated Kitchen Bible Cookbook to choose from, it was HARD, very, very hard to narrow them down. So I did the next best thing. I simply closed my eyes, open a random page and picked by placing my finger in the page. Where ever it landed, that was the recipe of the week.

Leftover Chicken Quesadillas with Cool Cilantro dipping crema

September 23, 2010 by Monica in Appletizers & Snacks, Chicken, Dinner, Latin, Quick Meal, Savory

I make quesadillas when I have tons of left over in the refrigerator that I need to get rid off. Those are the best quesadillas. The ones made with the leftovers. Trust me.

I have no idea why it works, it just does.

But these ones came out so yummy, I had to share. You could go out and get the ingredients that I used, but again, you can also be adventurous and take some of what I did and make it your own with your own leftovers tonight.

Chicken Paprikash

June 03, 2010 by Monica in Chicken, Dinner, Main Courses, Quick Meal

I have tons of cookbooks. I love cookbooks and I’m also very prejudice about them. While I have many that are just words – no pictures, I love the ones that have pictures, because, news flash, there is no denying it, we eat with our eyes first.

In most cases, if it looks good, your instinct is to automatically think that it will taste good. (refer to picture above)

And we dive in.

So for those cookbook authors out there… make PICTURES your friend.

This unfairness towards cookbooks with pictures has gotten out of control over the years because when I say I have tons of cookbooks, I mean it, I must have over 150, if not more.

What can I say, cookbooks, like eating a whole jar of Nutella in one sitting, are my guilty pleasures.