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KitchenKatalog: Blog 170
Monday, November 13, 2017, 08:34 PM
Pretty standard one (I need to make a page for it!) but on Meredith's suggestion, I used ground turkey. She doesn't always like the texture of the shredded and this was much easier. I also had a huge amount of home-grown zucchini. And I further bulked it with mushrooms.
It was pretty good. Maybe a bit less flavorful but not bad.
I also made a tiny one since I had so much leftover stuff.
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 08:16 PM
I made sous vide steak using the Serious Eats method/times and more roasted brussel sprouts. I remembered to put roasted chestnuts in as well!
Also had extra gougères
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 07:35 PM
Tonight I completed the second and third day of The Kitchn's Baking School, which entailed making Pâte à Choux and pastry cream. I decided to split the dough and make half cheese gougères and half cream puffs. I followed the directions very closely for the dough, and ended up using all 4 eggs. It still seemed really thick, but I went with it. Then I divided it, put half into the piping gun and piped the shells for the cream puffs. It was a bit tricky getting the dough into the gun. After that, I folded about 3oz of grated gruyere and a scant tablespoon of chopped fresh rosemary to the remaining half and piped that. From there, I just followed the timing in the recipe, keeping to the lower range of the baking times. They came out really well! The gougères are really light and airy, reminding me of cheese straws, but we haven't tried the cream puffs just yet. I would definitely make the gougères again, maybe with Parmesan and a different herb.
For the pastry cream, I followed the recipe pretty much to the letter. I felt like I probably could have skipped straining it, as there didn't seem to be any lumps. After about 2-3 minutes, it started to thicken, and it was pretty quick from that point on. It’s a very quick and easy recipe. Next I piped the cream in into the puff shells by poking a small hole into the shells and filling. They were also really good, though I probably overfilled them based on how much pastry cream I went through.
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 06:40 PM
I made Japanese Curry. As I have done before, it was just:
I also used a different type of curry this time as pictured below. We actually found this in OKC, though I've heard of it before (not sure if they sell it in ABQ). I also took thai chili peppers that Meredith grew (though they had dried out nicely). I ground them up and put that in which gave them a strong heat.
I also let it simmer for good while to help cook all of the potatoes.
On mine, I served it with brown rice leftover from a year ago. I liked it with that!
By the way, I used 3/4 of a package (6 of 8 blocks or 6.75 if 9 servings). It was looking like a lot of veggies so I used extra.
Wednesday, November 08, 2017, 07:43 PM
I made the pretty standard taco stew. I did it with French lentils following the same instructions for brown lentils. Other than that, I stayed really true to the recipe.
The only thing of note is that I put a ton of zucchini in, but it all came from one crazy-sized home-grown zucchini (below)
Monday, November 06, 2017, 06:28 AM
Meredith made a Smokey Egg Salad for lunch based on her favorite Deviled Eggs Recipe. She used that recipe except also added the egg whites chopped up.
The biggest change was that instead of making the frizzled shallots, we bought canned onions. Make it a lot easier!
Sunday, November 05, 2017, 07:14 PM
We had a Meredith Meal of sorts. She made Romesco Sauce and I roasted some vegetables. It was about a pound of brussel sprouts and a large head of cauliflower. I tossed the cauliflower with some oil, salt, smoked paprika, and garlic powder. The brussel sprouts were just tossed with oil and salt. They were small which I think tend to be better.
It was a really good! Lots of food but just veggies and romesco. We also had some ciabatta rolls (par-baked kind from Trader Joes).
Saturday, November 04, 2017, 03:59 PM
We had a doggie date so I made some dog treats (and human treats but more on that later).
I made the doggie treats somewhat based on All Recipes (LOCAL). Except I didn't really follow it well. I replaced 1 cup of the flour with oatmeal and I forgot the peanut butter. It was also hard to shape it but some time in the freezer worked fine. And the dogs seemed to like it so that's good. (the humans thought it was fine...)
I also made cake balls. I followed The Kitchn (LOCAL) for making cake balls. I used the extra half of the cake from last week. I was unsure about whether I should adjust the amount of frosting since it was only half a cake. Well, the Kitchn's recipe uses 1-3/4 cups flour and the cake we made used 3 cups. I thought it would be fine, but I missed the large amount of everything else. Basically, there was way too much frosting.
It was kind of a mess, but I was able to eventually get it into balls. Because they were so soft, I froze them for a while before doing the chocolate. (real white chocolate chips and then some old-but-fine dark chocolate, both mixed with a bit of coconut oil). They again were disintegrating in the chocolate, but I eventually got them most to work. I put them back in the freezer and...
...I forgot to serve them!!!!
We ate some later. They were ok, though I thought the frosting was a bit overpowering as was the chocolate. Still, pretty good!