Beer bread!

Tried making beer bread, one of my grandma's old recipes, for the first time!

Extremely simple: self-rising flour, a little sugar, cheap beer, and some melted butter on top before baking.  It smells so good!

I made one in a loaf pan and one in a cast-iron skillet!

I don't drink personally, and I usually dislike the taste of any beer, but I loved it when my grandma made it... so I decided to make it as an entry in a bake-off at work!  I will see how people like it (and I will get to taste it) tomorrow!

Trying new things: Quinoa garlic "bread"

Using the leftover quinoa, I made a garlic "bread"!  I had found the recipe on Pinterest months prior, and finally got to try it.

This was one of my less successful newly tried recipes, probably because I have never used quinoa before this week.

I mixed leftover cooked quinoa with eggs, garlic, basil, oregano, olive oil, baking powder, and some shredded cheese... and then baked it with some garlic butter and parmesan on top. It wasn't bad, but I definitely like real bread better, haha. Yay for trying new things!

Trying new things: Quinoa with roasted vegetables!

Quinoa cooked in vegetable broth with tomatoes, green peppers, and zucchini roasted with herbs and olive oil, all stir-fried in the cast-iron with fresh green beans!

This was my first time cooking quinoa, and the texture was perfect! I used a 1.3:1 ratio of liquid to quinoa, and 8 definitely recommend it!