Notes about Recipes in this book

• Falafel poppers with lemon sesame schug

  • krobbins426 on January 27, 2014

    This was absolutely delicious. I will make this again. I made these as patties, rather than poppers. I don't know if it was the increased size or my oil not being quite hot enough, but I did have some of them fall apart a little bit. I'd consider baking them next time. I doubled the recipe, thinking an appetizer recipe wouldn't be enough for a family of 4. A single recipe would have been enough. For the schug, I edited a bit because my kids hate spicy stuff. I used 1 red pepper instead of 1/2 bell and the jalapenos. I added a bit of smoked paprika for some interest. Still a nice sauce. Made way more than necessary to eat with the falafel.

• Salt and pepper chicken wings

  • chawkins on April 11, 2014

    Basically just baked seasoned wings. Real easy, as I was able to make this even when I was down with a nasty virus. Make sure you blot the oil off the wings once baked, otherwise, they'll be too greasy.

• Tilapia tacos with apple cabbage slaw

  • chawkins on November 09, 2015

    I made quite a few changes: I like my slaw creamy and I don't like my avocado in liquid form, so I did not puree the avocado into the sauce and I used the sauce as a dressing for the slaw and served the avocado as a topping for the taco. I made a whole recipe for the slaw, but only 1/2 recipe for the sauce. I only used a quarter of the cayenne called for in the rub for the fish and it was spicy enough.

• Pumpkin spice ravioli with brown butter

  • chawkins on September 29, 2014

    Very easy and very good. Next time I'll get the ravioli out of the pasta water and into the brown butter one at a time instead of en-masse to ensure that they don't stick together. They did not break, but it did take some time to untangle them gently and make the presentation better.

• Baked pumpkin penne

  • chawkins on October 03, 2014

    This is the dressed down version of the pumpkin spiced ravioli with brown butter. It is okay, not as good as the ravioli, but a lot simpler to make.

• Butternut squash mac 'n' cheese

  • chawkins on November 02, 2014

    I made pumpkin mac 'n' cheese and it was good. I subbed 2/3 of the cheddar with a mix of cheddar and monterey jack, used comte instead of gruyere and doubled the amount of hot sauce.