A few recipes snuck into Mark Bittman Week that didn’t originate with him, making for one great success and two moderately good do-overs.
- Oatmeal Scotchies, another stellar recipe from The Amateur Gourmet, turned out the best of the bunch. My only problem? I didn’t realize that the recipe produced 4 dozen cookies. Luckily, Deja and Reg were willing to ruin their diet to help alleviate the surplus.
- Perfectly Creamy Homemade Banana Ice Cream, from Chowhound, lived up to its name, perhaps too well. The texture was amazing and it is easy to see why people rave about homemade ice cream. The taste? Well, the Banana flavor was too much, overpowering all the other delicious ingredients: macadamia nuts, chocolate, and rum. Lisa’s theory is that I didn’t wait for the bananas to ripen enough, which is a good enough sounding excuse to make me try again.
- Picatta di Pollo (Chicken cutlets with lemon and capers), another Chowhound recipe, jumped off the page when Lisa saw it and she’s been hounding me to make it ever since. I wasn’t really leaping at the opportunity to cook it, seeing as lemons and capers are at the bottom of my list as far as foods I want to consume, so Lisa took the initiative and made it herself. The end result was actually quite delicious. The chicken was a bit overdone thanks to the still-unraveling mystery that is our new oven, but it was certainly a dish we’ll be trying again.
