What did you cook today?

It has been so warm here i felt like doing something light and summery so i cooked boiled shrimp and roasted squash tonight and served with slived avocado and sliced cucumber

 

Dirty Rice made with Sausage, Fermented Cabbage, and Corn Muffins.

 

Chili Soup

 

chicken breasts were on sale so i bought a pack of 4 ....didnt really feel like cooking so i cut them up kind of sloppy ...chopped up the good meat and bagged it for the freezer to use for stir frys

by sloppy i mean i wasnt careful to get all the meat off....


so my supper tonight is just boiling the bones in some water with some mrs dash spice and i will just pick the meat off those like a poor little chinese lady ...(i used to work for a chinese lady that always ate the meat off chicken bones at work lol..they used to actually buy the cheap bones and use most of the picked meat for chicken fried rice)


plus added bonus cooked bones dont stink up the garbage so quick

 

Cook the bones down. Make some bone broth. Throw in some onion and celery.

 

That's a good idea. I just bought a big pack too. I'm going to make some chicken curry to freeze with some of them, but this is a good idea for the rest.

Bone broth is good stuff. Lots of minerals in the bones.

 

Pepper liver pâté on a Montreal bagel for lunch. The crushed peppercorns in the glaze gives it such good flavour.

 

Grilled cheese open-faced sandwiches for breakfast. I used Baluchon cheese, a creamy semi-firm cheese from Quebec. With tomato and fresh basil on multigrain bread with pumpkin seeds and walnuts. It was so good.

 

hurmasice

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Lucy, you eat a lot of berries!

 

italian seasoned turkey sausage on a bed of pine nut seasoned couscous.

 

inspiring it is! (pic from last Saturday) I just wish I could tolerate the seedy ones, and by tolerate I just mean enjoy them. But you know, they're the ones that are the most nutrient dense and good for ya!

oh, but i guess i finally tried some Kiwi skin. Not too bad when they're more ripened. The fruit was sweet, but the skin had the nice tartness!

 

So, got a pic today, because of this-boiled radishes. Ever try? Amazing! Especially adding to your spicy dishes, you can use less spice and still get that great flavor.

So, been experimenting with veggies in the meat dishes. Oh, and just by chance, had some lamb chops cuts in this batch of lamb, so...i mean, it needed a picture. My plating skills on the other hand...

yeah, not so much!


haha! oh yes, that's a WHOLE radish. I was too lazy this time, plus, I wanted to see them in case it didn't quite work out, we could pick them out. It was good though. But normally, I'd remove the root and separate the leaves.

 

Is this a sweet dish? *oh, hurmasice-just Googled it. ahh very nice! (I've reached my like quota for the day. ha!)

oh yeah, I was supposed to try a Persian cake today...better get on it!

 

I do! I also had blueberries that day. And an apple, melon and an orange.

You forgot the parsley! That's all you need to fancy up a dish. :-D Actually, it looks really good.

Jamie Oliver did an episode once where he threw in whole radishes with the roots and leaves into a salad. It was one of his quick meal shows, maybe the 15-minute meals show. Well no wonder it's quick if you just throw everything into a bowl as is! If I had been there when he was making it, I would have asked if he at least washed them.

 

I made broiled ribs with a cajun spice and glass noodles with a bit of sesame oil. It was SO good. With fermented cabbage on the side.

 

I had more berries today. I made another grilled cheese to go with them. And an apple. I used the applewood smoked cheddar for the sandwiches this time.



And I made more walnut bread today, 4 mini loaves. First pic is the bread in the oven with the buttermilk wash on top. I'm really loving this bread.

 

omg this sounds amazing!! glass noodles (those are the ?rice noodles? or...???) anyway, that would have gone amAZING with tonight's dinner...but I'm spent!

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no pic, but I did grilled spicy chicken with a cauliflower curry similar to this (below) with dal
http://herbivoracious.com/2011/04/gobi-masala-cauliflower-curry-recipe.html

 

and this was from yesterday Persian Almond Cake (shoulda combined these but oh well! next time)

 

No, not rice noodles. These are made from starch, usually from mung beans (which bean sprouts are made from). They look similar to rice noodles, but when you cook them they turn more translucent, hence the "glass". They're also called cellophane noodles for the same reason. Another name for them is bean thread starch noodles. That's what the ones I have are called. They're not gritty like rice noodles, chewier. Closer to wheat noodles that are cooked al dente. I love them. And so quick to make, throw them in a bowl of boiled water for 2 minutes and they're done.

That cake looks decadent! The gobi masala looks good too. I make an aloo gobi, also a curried cauliflower dish. I haven't had it for a while. I may have to whip some up soon.