cjhsa,
I set the smoke alarm off every week or so. I like to use an iron skillet to sear things. Does it every time.
roast pork shoulder that had been marinated in lemon juice and Garden Cocktail (a cousin of V-8), then set into a casserole with cooked pancetta/onion/garlic/celery and more Garden Cocktail - nice slow-cooking - great tender, flavourful meat resulted
broccoli with cheese sauce
taters
I should have insisted on salad with it, but I really just wanted more of the onions that had been caramelized in the bottom of the casserole
Last night - chuck roast with potatoes and carrots, rice with gravy and corn.
Tonight - baked chicken, linguini with butter/garlic sauce and green peas.
damn! we gotta be puttin on a little poundage...
Kara wrote:cjhsa,
I set the smoke alarm off every week or so. I like to use an iron skillet to sear things. Does it every time.
had a roomate who used the smoke alarm as a timer....
Quote:had a roomate who used the smoke alarm as a timer....
Your signature, Panzade. Is that yours or (should it be) attributed....?
I'm just thankful we all have food to prepare.
And, I'm thankful that we have a president with the forthought for pre-emptive war so that democracy can be spread to other people around the world that also want to eat.
President Bush has worked hard. He has developed a strategy for helping Iraqi's get the food and crops they need through the assistance of the USDA and $18 million. The road to victory is paved with democracy and corn.
corn you say? well good, at least now they can make whisky and ethanol. They need ethanol, right?
Dinner: buckwheat soba with soy ginger sauce, seasoned seitan and canned (erp) asparagus. Not bad, actually.
dyslexia wrote:corn you say? well good, at least now they can make whisky and ethanol. They need ethanol, right?
Not as much as they need the whiskey, I'm sure.
littlek wrote:Dinner: buckwheat soba with soy ginger sauce, seasoned seitan and canned (erp) asparagus. Not bad, actually.
Why are you eating canned asparagus when it is in season in the U.S. and running about $1.50/lb for fresh?
Rissoles (garlicky, spicey ones!) with
lots of steamed green beans, broccoli & new potatoes. The incredible craving for green vegetables continues ... I'm not
remotely interested in orange, yellow, red, or any other colour. I figure I have some sort of deficiency?
I had a NY Strip steak and a big green salad, then some dark dark dark chocolate for dessert. Low carb doesn't have to suck.
One of the best steaks I ever had was at an excellent Italian restaurant. They had marinated it in a good Italian dressing. I now do that whenever I have steak (like last Sunday night!). Mmmmm!
Tonight I had a butterflied pork chop and sauteed summer squash with onions and garlic. Best part of it was the 18 year old oh so cute asian girl who carried my groceries to my car.... I gotta shop at that store more often...
I did a play on a chicken recipe I read in the Wall Street Journal today (a new source of cooking advice...LOL.)
I bought some bone-in chicken breasts with skin on and boned them. After marination in olive oil, lemon juice, herbs, and lemon slices, I browned them for about 3 min., skin side down, then put into 450 oven, uncovered, for ten minutes, pulled out and tented with foil. After prepping the sides, I sliced the chicken, made a sauce in the pan with some butter and more lemon juice.
I roasted fat stalks of asparagus, tossed in olive oil and coarse salt, in a 425 oven for 6 minutes, then topped them with chopped pistchio nuts mixed with parmy and bread crumbs and a bit of olive oil.
Did a side salad of new greens with pumpkin oil, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds, tossed with olive oil and white balsamic, and some pieces of avocado.
As we watched a film, I brought out some totally sinful balls of preserved ginger covered with dark chocolate. Got them from the company that distributes Sharffen Berger chocs in the SF Bay area. The balls are not as good as their slices of preserved ginger, half covered with dark choc, which are to die for. I wish I had not discovered their website and found these delights so easy (and inexpensive) to order.
Dinner last night: tired out from hours of stomping from one art gallery to another all afternoon, my friend A & I shared an early dinner in a famous Greek eatery (Melbourne is a HUGE Greek city!
) in the city: a variety of dips, tender octopus, vine rolls, salad & lots of bread & some very nice Greek red wine. Mmmmm!
Tonight: risotto with chicken & green beans. Nice, at first ... but then (it being very cold tonight!) I had too much of the damn stuff! OK, no more risotto for about 6 months! I'm all risotto-ed out! <burp!>
Pumpkin soup- home style
I grew the butternut pumpkin, picked it yesterday, prepped and cooked it today. Pumpkin, chicken stock, potatoe, onion, leek, broccoli, broccoflower (cross between broccoli and cauliflower) all blended up.
Served with cheesy puff pastry.
Extra large portobella mushroom caps filled with marinara sauce, topped with parmasean and baked until tender - yum! I also made the turkey&bean soup I posted on ehbeth's grocery list thread.
