April Cooking Adventures #1

If you have ever checked out National Day Calendar you will have noticed that every day celebrates at least one type of food. I gathered together some recipes last month for the food days this month.

Check out the board to see what is coming up. I've added at least two recipes for each day.

Continuing in the Pin it, make it tradition I pinned these two recipes then made them with some mixed results.

Below that is a quick look at the health qualities of the fruit (lime) and the vegetable (avocado) that I am experimenting with this month

Cooking Experiments April 1-10
The Recipe's I Tried	Nailed it or A Fail	Changes ECT
Guaca-hummus by Copycat	my version- I'm calling it a fail but it did taste good	I used greek yoghurt instead of the olive oil, lime instead of lemon and no other seasonings. I used a can chickpeas and decided to mash them rather than use the processor, that was my big error so instead of smooth it was kinda lumpy
Poached Salmon in Coconut Lime Sauce by RecipeTinEats	my version - Pale but tasty- Nailed it	I added the chili paste in the wrong spot, adding it after I had added the coconut milk which altered the outcome I think. Other than that I followed the recipe as best I could even going to a Chinese grocer to get the right ingredients
		Cooking/Lime Cooking/Avocado

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