After the successful Chicken Taco Soup, which was based on a Rachael Ray recipe, I decided to try out a few more of her recipes that caught my eye. Things did not go well!

My first trial was this delicious looking Soba Noodle Bowl I've been drooling over. I don't know who wrote this recipe down, but there is no way the thing is accurate. I halved all of the recipe except for the broth, added 4 more cups, and there was still hardly any liquid.

At this point I have 6 large tupperwares (about 1.5-2 servings each I would say), for *half* of a 4-serving recipe. Are you following this math? After all of that, it wasn't very good, and most of it will probably be thrown out. :(




Next we tried out Thai Shrimp with Coconut Rice. This one actually turned out very tasty, but we used 1/4 of the shrimp, added in broccoli, and split the recipe. It worked out really well. If we had followed the recipe, we would have had twice the amount of shrimp (too much!), but at least the recipe's picture looks pretty accurate.




And some jambalaya ~ not from Rachael, but a good use for the rest of the shrimp. (And there were no problems with this recipe ~ coincidence?) This recipe that had been sitting in my "try sometime" notebook for a long time now, and was so good it will be replacing the one we've used before.

The colors were so pretty in progress, but dulled by the end with the addition of rice ~