Dinners That Were OK

Gremolata shrimp with spiced butter via the October 2013 Food & Wine:

Not bad, but the flavors were actually a little too strong for me.

Chicken with herb-roasted tomato pan sauce from Epicurious:

 

I actually liked this one (I changed the recipe a bit, giving the tomatoes

a swirl in the blender to turn them into a saucier sauce and using basil

instead of parsley because Weis was out of parsley...and what grocery

store runs out of parsley?). Dixon liked it, too. But Cooper thought

it was just kind of whatever.

I've had a third recent blah dinner: Bon Appetit's October eggplant parmesan 

recipe that roasts the eggplant instead of pan-frying. I thought it sounded

easier than the way I usually roll. It was easier. But it was also way, way, 

way, way, way less good.

So there it is: recent not-quite-successes but not all-out disasters in my kitchen.

Business as usual.