Recipes I will be making again
May. 7th, 2026 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lucymonsterA million years ago, fiachairecht blogged about having made gochujang cookies and I declared that I HAD to follow suit immediately!!! And then I...um, didn't, first because I was tired, then because I had no gochujang and the Asian grocer is such an inconvenient extra trip from my usual supermarket run, then finally because I figured the kids probably wouldn't like them and baking just isn't as fun when you can't share the goodies with your loved ones. But yesterday evening in a fit of sweet-toothed greed I at long last whipped up a batch just for myself, and you guys omg these are delicious! The texture is divinely crisp-chewy and the flavour of gochujang works better as a sweet than I would ever have predicted! I think I'll omit the cinnamon next time, or at least halve the quantity, because even in such a small amount it was more assertive than I wanted it to be. But that is a minor complaint which the perfectly balanced salt-sweet-spiciness more than makes up for.
On a very different note, this evening I left my dinner planning unreasonably late and ended up trying this stovetop mac and cheese recipe out of sheer desperation to get something on the table. RecipeTin Eats has never let me down in all the years I've been going there for recipes, and while it didn't come out quite as good as the baked version I usually make, it did take quite literally only a third of the time and generate a lot less washing up, and was still perfectly cromulent mac and cheese.
fiachairecht blogged about having made gochujang cookies and I declared that I HAD to follow suit immediately!!! And then I...um, didn't, first because I was tired, then because I had no gochujang and the Asian grocer is such an inconvenient extra trip from my usual supermarket run, then finally because I figured the kids probably wouldn't like them and baking just isn't as fun when you can't share the goodies with your loved ones. But yesterday evening in a fit of sweet-toothed greed I at long last whipped up a batch just for myself, and you guys omg these are delicious! The texture is divinely crisp-chewy and the flavour of gochujang works better as a sweet than I would ever have predicted! I think I'll omit the cinnamon next time, or at least halve the quantity, because even in such a small amount it was more assertive than I wanted it to be. But that is a minor complaint which the perfectly balanced salt-sweet-spiciness more than makes up for.On a very different note, this evening I left my dinner planning unreasonably late and ended up trying this stovetop mac and cheese recipe out of sheer desperation to get something on the table. RecipeTin Eats has never let me down in all the years I've been going there for recipes, and while it didn't come out quite as good as the baked version I usually make, it did take quite literally only a third of the time and generate a lot less washing up, and was still perfectly cromulent mac and cheese.
