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BS: Recipes - what are we eating?

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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Nov 24 - 12:34 PM

it is caused by uric acid, some protein foods have a lot of it


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Nov 24 - 12:16 PM

Gout? What's that about. Painful crystals that form from certain proteins? I dislike borscht more than I can say. Its worse than gefilte fish.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Nov 24 - 04:00 AM

I Made Russian style Borscht, beetroot caraway seeds. served with hard boiled eggs and yogurt, instead of sorrel or spinach[ as they give me gout]I used cider vinegar and lemon juice Delicious


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Nov 24 - 01:01 PM

My daughter has a few chickens at her rural property and gives me a dozen when she has extras - they have wonderfully rich very bright yokes. They are varying sized eggs, mostly medium to large. I recently retrieved some pumpkins from a friend (her Halloween decor) so my daughter can cut them open and give big chunks to the hens. They're not just good food, it's an interesting enrichment activity for the birds. (She first gave them one of the acorn squash I grew here last summer, first cutting three or four small round holes to give them a starting point. Apparently the birds started slow but once they realized what they had, four hens finished the squash in two days. (The hens may tire of pumpkin after just one of them - there are cattle that graze on the pasture at the front of her property and she will ask the nextdoor neighbor whose cattle they are if she may break any extras and leave for them. It seems all sorts of grazing animals like squash in various forms.

I'm cooking most things on my cast iron skillets these days. I always use a small 8" one, but had been using a Cuisinart GreenGourmet "non-stick" skillet and have concluded that while the surface is durable it isn't particularly non-stick. Rarely does it perform the way I wish. It's safe and will get used for things that it doesn't matter if they stick, and I'm back to olive oil on my cast iron for fried eggs, etc. Why do we want non-stick? Because of the misguided health suggestions that fats aren't healthy and things can be cooked on lab-formulated surfaces without oil. Now we have Teflon loose around the world in our water and particulates in our bodies and know that the oil is better for you.

Trying to eat healthy foods cooked in healthy ways.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 24 - 07:55 AM

I have found heirloom free range eggs that are called blue and brown eggs.
The shells are actually light green in color and the yolks are not yellow but an intense orange. They taste decisively more rich.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Thompson
Date: 17 Nov 24 - 04:08 AM

By the way, Mrrzy, can you make your fish dish in an ordinary oven? Under the grill?


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Thompson
Date: 17 Nov 24 - 01:49 AM

Mrrzy, that's pure porn! What do you mean by "for the oil to bloom the paprika"?
I've been making a sauce for sea bass from the juice of a lemon, a good squdge of miso, a couple of spoons of coconut milk and a good splosh of crème fraiche.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Nov 24 - 11:42 AM

It sounds delicious. What about a larger piece of red snapper? If you want to break the bank, try halibut (but that fish is so perfect as it is I don't do much to it but bake it with onion, dill, and sour cream.) These have different flavors on their own, but might take on the sauce nicely (don't bake as long, they're more tender.)


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 13 Nov 24 - 09:03 PM

I've had a swordfish steak. I think it was at Flippers. I haven't had any since I read of the decline of wild stocks.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Charmion
Date: 13 Nov 24 - 10:23 AM

I’ve never eaten swordfish, Mrrzy, not even in a restaurant. I’m too far inland, I think.

Do you think that recipe would work on a piece of boneless chicken breast?


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Nov 24 - 01:42 PM

I was sure we had a more recent general Recipes thread, but I am not seeing one. This could go under Fish or Soup but I thought general would be better, and I'll be shocked, *shocked* if it's really been this long since I posted or sought any recipes here. I really *have* been depressed. Or couldn't find the Part II thread, more possible.

Anyway, (rereading) I have learned to love the broiler. I may have burned things but nothing has yet caught fire, hah, dear dead mom, I do this better than you!

But I digress, to quote Tom Lehrer. And just like that, it's a music thread!

Anyway, here is what I made for lunch today:

Had a generous slab o'swordfish and a bunch of cherry tomatoes, and all the online recipes seemed to want capers, but I went a different way.

I took all the non-red cherry tomatoes from one of those 1.5 lb containers, sliced'm all in half and put the halves in a big coffee mug; they pretty much filled it. Mashed and chopped a generous amount of garlic, put that in.

Added generous salt, fresh pepper, hot paprika and oregano, some onion powder, then a little vinegar and a generous couple of glugs of olive oil.

Nuked it for a minute for the oil to bloom the paprika. Put a medium dab of Dijon mustard on a serving fork and mashed that all about every 10-15 seconds during the nuking.

Then, turned on the toaster oven to 350. Let that sit while it preheated.

Once the oven was ready, fished all the tomatoes out of the soup mug and put them on the bottom of the large square of tin foil I'd put over the toaster oven tray. I buttered the fish on one side, put it butter side down on the tomatoes, buttered the top, then made a dish out of the tin foil that was not too snug against the fish but smaller than the tray, and about 2" deep.

Carefully poured the soupy sauce with its lovely garlic bits all over the fish. It came close to the top of my improvised dish, so I crossed my fingers and set a timer for 30 mn, intending to check it at 20. I forgot to.

When the timer dinged, the top of the fish was lightly browned, the sauce was bibbling near the top of the tin foil which had not leaked, yay, and the fish was perfect to my fork test, still very firm but cooked through.

To serve, used the serving fork to fish the fish out into a big soup bowl, then carefully carefully picked up the tin foil container and poured all the lovely sauce and everything into the bowl.

If that last step wouldn't have worked I'd have used a spoon to scoop put all the tomatoes, then the sauce itself wouldn't have been too heavy any more and could have been poured over the lot.

It was absolutely delicious. I do love my own cooking.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Jos
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 12:47 PM

From a BBC news item, "How to run your car on chip oil":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7047128.stm


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 12:21 PM

When I was a lad/before repatriating from Aus. to England, there was an advert where a chap said in a Godfather-type voice "oils ain't oils" - which was referring to the motoring kind but could also be applied to culinary matters, I guess. (Not sure where deep-frying oils can be reused as a biofuel..?)

As I say, the only one that really stands out from the others I've tried is olive oil.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 11:02 AM

Groundnut oil = peanut oil?

I now like olive oil.

New stove! Recommend a recipe for one, using multiple burners and, maybe, the oven? I remain afraid of broilers. Mom *always* set something on fire using hers.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 06:18 PM

As I say, last time I got sunflower oil from Tesco; and, the time before, what I think was the very same olive oil you mention, Steve; and I may give groundnut oil a go next time..?


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 06:17 PM

That would be neonicotinoid!


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 06:16 PM

As for neonictoinoid insecticides, I'd be glad to see them banned from the planet. I have a very strong feeling that the government and the vandalistic farming industry connive in playing down the hazards. As neonics are systemic, they get into the nectar and pollen and poison pollinating insects. In turn, insect-eating birds are poisoned. We already have a near-catastrophic collapse in insect and songbird populations and I have no doubt as to what the main culprit is. If you see your spray label listing acetamiprid as an ingredient (you'll need your magnifying glass - don't know why...), don't use it unless you really hate bees...


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 06:03 PM

Well finding the right olive oil is a minefield, I'm the first to admit. The first thing I'd say is that only extra virgin oil will do for me. Other, cheaper olive oil is highly refined. This is never what I want. Secondly, it's a myth that you can't cook with extra virgin olive oil. You just have to avoid overheating it, that's all. A lot of my Italian dishes start with gently sautéeing sliced garlic and chilli in olive oil, gently being the operative word, no colouring up, no smoke. As soon as you add the next ingredient, tomatoes for example, the overheating potential is nullified. Same with a soffritto. I've been using a Tesco Sicilian extra-virgin oil for cooking as my go-to for a long time. It's about six quid for 500ml, but bejaysus a bottle lasts ages. I also have a superior oil for making pesto, for salad dressing, for sprinkling on a pizza or for dressing any finished pasta dish. I might spend ten to twelve quid (M&S Tuscan in the square bottle is lovely, £10, or I may go for the Sicilian or Tuscan Waitrose 1 ones, at £12-odd.). That sounds extravagant, but each bottle lasts me for months.

The only non-olive oil I use is bog-standard groundnut oil. That does for my oven chips or for frying a steak or anything else that needs real heat. Most fish in our house is fried in butter!


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 02:15 PM

I just looked it up: "the ban of neonicotinoids has meant growers can no longer control cabbage stem flea beetle populations, which are decimating the OSR crop across the country" (Farming UK)
.

I used to have food-miles in mind when I chose rapeseed oil - taste-wise, I didn't find much difference (apart from olive oil which, of course, has a very distinctive taste, that I enjoy occasionally, as I do olives).


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 01:59 PM

Those "lovely" fields of endless bright yellow are a monoculture, usually sprayed with insecticide. One year I walked across 3/4 mile of oilseed rape (on a public footpath) on a sunny May afternoon and didn't see or hear a single insect or bird. A bright yellow desert. The rapeseed oil is very controversial apropos of health risks and is subsequently being superseded by canola oil, which is highly processed and which is generally a GM crop. Fine if you're happy with that. Not for me, thanks.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 01:08 PM

Locally grown rapeseed oil had become so common here in England that bottles of it were usually labelled "vegetable oil"; however, due to some farming regulation mentioned on CountryFile a few months ago, we will no longer see lots of yellow fields in our countryside; and, indeed, on my last visit to Tesco, I had to go for sunflower oil.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 12:28 PM

My five-minute mini-research into the own-brand green pesto of three supermarkets and one "big brand" revealed the following additives that are not allowed anywhere near my home-made pesto:

Waitrose: salt

Tesco: Yoghurt, sugar, milk, bamboo fibre, cashew, salt

Sainsbury's: Rapeseed oil, salt, potato flakes, vegetable fibre, egg lysozyme, grana padano

Big brand (Sacla): cashew, salt, grana padano, glucose, lactic acid, potato flakes, flavourings


Rapeseed oil is ultra-cheap compared with extra virgin olive oil. Just wrong for pesto. Grana padano is a cheap Parmesan substitute which is banned from our house. Why anyone would need to add extra salt to something with a sufficiency of Parmesan just defeats me. The percentage of pine nuts, where stated, was one percent or less. Hardly any, in other words. I suppose cashews are much cheaper. One cashew nut per pot, d'you suppose? :-). As for some of the other additives, well I'm scratching my head...

The other thing is that, with home-made, you have full control over the QUALITY of the cheese, the oil and the basil.

I'm really glad you prompted my research project!


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 09:06 AM

Oddly enough, Wegman's, a US mass-grocery chain, has the only good store-boughten [a local term] pesto I've ever tried. Who'd'a thunk it. Otherwise, yeah, homemade is best.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 08:03 PM

Should have said I'll post the recipe after I've done it.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 05:34 PM

I won't buy shop pesto. It never tastes right, and is never anywhere near as appetising as home-made. I suspect economies in their choice of oil and cheese. Unless you can grow your own basil, awkward in the Cornish climate, you have to buy the potted growing stuff, which isn't too bad if it's glossy and fresh-looking. I don't bother if all I can get is a bunch of limp leaves in a plastic bag. The pine nuts are a bit pricey too. So it isn't the cheapest, but I agree, it has to be home-made, even with a pot of fresh shop basil if that's all you can get. The one thing I think can be overdone if you're not too careful is the garlic...

I bought a huge pot of basil last weekend for a pasta recipe that calls for a basil sauce, which is just basil, a touch of garlic and quite a lot of extra virgin olive oil, all whizzed up. Then I suddenly got ill and didn't do the recipe. I think I'm OK now and the basil still looks good. So it could be Friday night with a good glug of the ould Italian red...


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 04:06 PM

The closest thing I've had to that, Helen, is Manakish Zaatar in the wonderful Museum of Islamic Art, on a Doha stopover between Manchester and Sydney to visit my family in 2017.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Helen
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 03:12 PM

We made lahm bi ajeen last night. It's a recipe in the Claudia Roden Book of Middle Eastern Food which I first bought in the '90's but had to upgrade to a newer edition because the first book was falling apart from overuse.

new edition

Lahm bi ajeen is a soft doughy pizza or pide style pastry with a lamb or beef and tomato and onion filling which is delicately spiced and topped with some lightly toasted pine nuts.

Quicker and less complicated than a home made pizza, but it's a bit like basil pesto for me because as soon as the thought of lahm bi ajeen enters my head I feel compelled to make some. Yummo!!

Darnit! I just thought of basil pesto. I love it. So now I'll have to make some. The store-bought jars are nowhere near as addictive as home made pesto.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 02:38 PM

I had two packages of beef and one of pollock in the freezer that was frosty when the power finally came on, so I cooked it. I made a batch of a nacho filling (I use it in tacos, burritos, nachos, etc.) and much of that is in the freezer now. I made a small pot roast the next night, and on Sunday night I made whiting stew (celery, carrots, potatoes, onions). It made a lot of the soup/stew, so I've shared it with a friend. I have leftovers for the rest of the week now.

My big upright freezer is only a couple of years old and was a real champ - after three days my next door neighbor with a generator realized they had extra capacity they could send my way so we ran an electric cord and the freezer was plugged in. When I finally opened it I was glad to see that it held up well. I have lots of frozen berries in there and none of them had melted into blobs - they're all still frozen hard and individual berries. I bought this to replace a 50-year-old mid-century modern harvest gold freezer that has in the past been less good about keeping things frozen solid in power outages.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 01:18 PM

Got that, Leeneia - sometimes I use the excess vinegar from a jar of pickled onions or gherkins.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: leeneia
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 12:44 PM

Good question, Walkie. The vinegar is already in the marinade that the artichokes are bottled in.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 08:55 PM

Beautifully browned. Served with dollop of sour cream.

Hungarian curry? No paprika, but cabbage bacon grease sour cream...


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 01:00 PM

The curry was excellent. Making stuffed cabbage with the leftovers:
Carefully take outer leaves off head of cabbage, as intact as possible. Nuke 2 mn to soften. Separated veg from sauce of curry. Put veg into cabbage leaf, roll, tuck, put in dih for oven as crowded as possible but in 1 layer. I made 3. Meanwhile I fried up some Irish-style bacon, ate the big meaty parts, and stuck the fatty ends among my cabbage rolls. Deglazed bacon pan with liquid from curry, poured over cabbage. Whole thing now in oven for 45 mn.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 05:04 AM

Sounds good, Leeneia, but no vinegar/something acidic as is usually added with vegetable oil..? Maybe enough from the mayonnaise..?


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 11:33 PM

I made a new kind of salad tonight, and I think it's good enough to impress company once the quarantine is over.

I made a conventional tossed salad - lettuce, tomato, green onion, red onion. Then I opened a small jar of artichokes in a brine that includes oil. I mixed some of that liquid with mayonnaise along with some dried basil (thyme would be good too) and black pepper. Then I put all the artichokes in the salad. What luxury! The salad was delicious.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 02:23 PM

Tricolore is the three colors of the French flag, too. Or any 3 colors.

Got some overcooked broccoli as a side with my support-your-local lunch delivery today, set it aside to make yummy soup with. Curry style, I think - found all *kinds* of things cleaning out my spice cabinet!


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Charmion
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 09:26 AM

Thompson, how are you cooking celeriac now?

I’m no fan of mushy food so I don’t mash anything, including spuds. I like celery root diced quite large and braised with cabbage and lamb in the Norwegian style, or in a dish of roast veg with carrots, parsnips and crushed garlic.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 07:22 AM

...add a chowpatty & you have pretty-much the staple diet of millions of Indians (& mine on my visit there: dahl and rice; "China and India in 1988"


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Thompson
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 06:35 AM

Can anyone tell me how to get celeriac right? I always seem to decide it's ready too early; the resulting stuff is nice, but it's not the texture of mash.
Keboroxu, if your brown rice is chewy, you're not cooking it long enough, and maybe not adding enough water. There's a nice dish where you use rice (I use short-grain brown rice) and lentils, adding them to caramelised fried onions, with a sprinkle of salt. If you squeeze a bit of lemon over the top it's heavenly.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 04:13 PM

thanks for the tip about the stalk of the avocado, Steve. I'll try that.

Last night's dinner took two gadgets. I used the spiralizer to turn zucchini into mock-pasta. The sauce had Italian sausage in it.

Recently the DH bought escarole. I sliced it up crossways and sauteed it in olive oil. I used the second gadget, which you might call a shredder, to shred a carrot lengthways and add to the escarole. After a while I added chopped red onion. It turned out well.

The shredder is a souvenir from a trip to Florida, specifically to a big outdoor flea market. I can feel the warm and sunny skies now.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 01:51 PM

I've been known to halve two avocados and just eat them both out of the skin with a spoon for my lunch. Getting them in perfect eating condition isn't always the easiest thing. You see people in the shop picking them up and giving them a squeeze. That's no guide. If the avo yields a bit when you press your thumb into the stalk end, and there are no soft spots, you've got a good 'un. If it's rock-solid all over, it won't ripen properly and it'll go all stringy with black bits inside.

A really good thing to do with them, especially in summer, is to make a tricolore salad (tricolore, the three colours of the Italian flag). You need for two, at least 11/2 avocados, if not two, thinly sliced lengthways, a 250 g lump of drained mozzarella (Galbani good), cut into coin-sized slices, and half a pound of the best cherry toms you can get your hands on, each one cut in half. You can just chuck the whole lot together and mix it up, or you can get all arty-farty and arrange it all nicely in a big salad bowl. Sprinkle a small amount of salt and a generous grinding of black pepper over, drizzle your finest extra virgin olive oil over the whole lot and tear some fresh baby basil leaves on top. You absolutely must have the best avocados and tomatoes you can find. On a hot summer's evening, it can be a main course in itself.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 12:58 PM

As I may have mentioned above, for an avocado sweet, I've done similar to Mrrzy with golden syrup.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 12:37 PM

Ok I looked up Parkin.

Made a surprisingly good soup with leeks, zucch, onion celery green pepper, garlic, sauerkraut, some of its brine, and some chicken stock. Oregano marjoram hot pepper. Really good reheated.

My Instacart person found me an avocado that is *perfect* today. Already ate half with vinaigrette in the hole. Gonna put crab and horseradish in the other half's hole for afternoon snack.

As I am no longer eating pork chops with my usual apple sauce, I have started putting more things on the pork chops. Yesterday it was a generous rock salting pressed with onion and garlic powders and smoked paprika, fried in my garlic-infused goose grease. Followed someone's instructions to flip every minute instead of really searing one side before flipping, and basted with the grease. The chops were juicier than usual this way, I recommend it. Quick sauté of market spinach with hot pepper in the pan for a side.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Raggytash
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 12:21 PM

Made Parkin today, haven't had any for years. I made one for us and one for my son. Just need to leave for 3 or 4 days to mature before eating.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 12:04 PM

I, too, like chips, Dave, but have never cooked them.

Rather, yesterday, I got some new potatoes and, today, prepared them this one-pot way:

Boiled and drained before adding a mug of instant veg soup; then, after stewing a while, baked beans, chopped iceberg lettuce & portobello mushrooms, some sauce and spices, plus fresh mint leaves - the plant I grow in my flat needed a hair cut!

Photos (including a mashed option) added here "One-Pot Cooking"


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 03:26 AM

Today I be mostly eating chips.

Dave H


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:35 PM

Brown rice: I can see the point of spicing it up,
as brown rice is kind of hard work, chewing-wise.
A bit of a penance eating it and getting it down.
Of course my digestion is happy to get the fiber,
but brown rice does not make my mouth water.


The red beans and rice dish from the other evening
was in fact mouth-watering good.
The rice was NOT brown.
It was some sort of long-grain hybrid ,
similar to basmati but probably not exactly basmati rice,
and it was a pale color.
I don't know what it had been cooked with, but
it darned near melted in your mouth.

The sort of dish that gives the illusion of being light and fluffy
and before you know it,
you have gobbled up two big servings of the stuff.

No,actually, I didn't eat two servings,
which would have meant going back to the dining hall kitchen.
Although it was so tasty that I wished I had done so.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 02:19 PM

Apart from the red peppers, Charmion, that sounds tasty to me.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Charmion
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 09:49 AM

I like red beans with brown rice, cooked with a Louisiana-style mirepoix of onion, celery and sweet red pepper, and well spiced. It really does need hot sauce to be worth eating.


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Feb 21 - 06:53 PM

Well if there's one thing I will never be doing, it's fretting about what combination of amino acids I'm getting or about whether the carbohydrates I'm eating are complex ones, etc. I just like good grub. I do understand that some people have to wrestle with these things...


By the way, I'm thinking of becoming gluten-intolerant... (google it - you'll get the funniest YouTube ever...)


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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Feb 21 - 06:46 PM

I enjoyed frijoles y arroz/refried beans and rice when I visited Mexico.


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