Busy week of cooking this week! - It started with Creme Brulee last Saturday, followed by a delicious homemade pizza (pizza dough recipe is in the Healthy Recipe Book) on Wednesday. 

 Thursday I had friends over for dinner - so I tried out one of my new recipes - Bacon-wrapped Chicken stuffed with Spinach and Ricotta.  It was very YUMMY. 
Dinner also included my Cob Loaf Dip, Roast vege salad and Brownie Bottom cheesecake (they can be found under my Favourite recipes)

Thursday night I also had time to make Cheese and Onion Monkey Bread for morning tea on Friday - check out the recipe under my favourite recipes - it's a huge hit with everyone.

Morning Tea overkill..

Yesterday Al mentioned we should do morning tea today...i went a little crazy and we had SO much food...calzones, stromboli and chocolate chip cookies :) All recipes I'd never made before too.

First ever attempt at Macaroons :)

So today I was flicking through on of my many taste magazines and found a recipe for Chocolate Macaroons so I thought I'd try them. I've never made them before (and never tried one either) but heard that they're yummy but hard to make.

So they turned out a bit flat and the icing a bit thinner than i expected - although that could have been because I didn't wait long enough for it to thicken :-) But will wait for the taste verdict - guinea pigs welcome - before i make them again...

Click on Quite Contrary Kitchen Recipes at the top of the blog for the recipe :)

2012 Cooking Challenge - 52 courses and 12 cupcakes

I've got so many different recipes and recipe books that I want to cook from, but never seems to get round to it.  So this year I'm setting myself a New Years challenge to cook something new from one of my numerous recipes every week - whether it be an appetizer, entree, soup, main or dessert, and try a new cupcake recipe once a month...Now I just need to make a list of the 52 recipes and 12 cupcake concoctions :)