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KitchenKatalog: Blog 212
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 09:11 PM
This seems like a big meal, but it wasn't too hard. The main part of the meal was also the smallest, the yakitori.
Meredith made yakitori quail eggs from this Ottolenghi recipe (local). Meredith followed it pretty closely except did it with fewer eggs. Also, she skewered the eggs before grilling them. Also, she just eye-balled the marinade.
We did the boiling for about 2.5 minutes but (likely because of the altitude) it was just barely soft-cooked.
The came out really good. Like a small ramen egg. Maybe a bit richer. But we need to let it go a bit longer next time. The sesame salt was also good.
Other than that, it was a mix of thing. We cooked a frozen fish thing from Trader Joes. Sadly, we didn't really read it and it was covered in olives. I was able to ate some of it but I mostly had the kabocha squash and asparagus for dinner.
Yakitori Soy grilled quail eggs with sesame salt (From Ottolenghi)
Local Copy (U: guest, P: name of my dog, lower case)
Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 08:38 PM
Quick and fast meal. A chicken burger with some vodka sauce and roasted red pepper and a salmon burger with a little bit of mayo and Diablo sauce on the bottom plus more red peppers on top.
Quick, easy, and good.
Monday, April 18, 2016, 08:32 PM
I reheated the leftover frozen jerk chicken from 2016-04-07. I put it in a small pot with a tiny bit of water to steam and defrost it (which then used it's own water to keep steaming). I also added a bit of salt which it really needed.
I did it just like last time including using Diablo sauce from Torchy's.
It actually worked pretty well to defrost it like that. I liked having something easy. We will start keeping some stuff like this in the fridge.
Sunday, April 17, 2016, 09:48 PM
We realized we hadn't had taco stew in a long time so we decided to have it. We used the regular recipe but also added some worcestershire (which worked pretty well). Not really much to it. It is a simple and easy meal.
Oh, and we used tons and tons of zucchini
Saturday, April 16, 2016, 09:31 PM
Looks gross!?!?! Yep!
We were invited to a "Mad Science" party like last year. We tried to make Foi Thong from Siam Sizzles (local). The general idea is that you pour egg yolks into bubbling simple syrup.
Rather than do it with Jasmine syrup, we steeped the simple syrup with lavender. We made a bag with cheese cloth. The flavor of the lavender was really, really evident and good.
But, I do not know if it was the lavender, the cast iron pan, or something entirely else, but half (or more) came out black and icky. I mean, really, really icky colored. The syrup was not black at the end so I am really not sure how it came out so black.
Either way, it was really not something we wanted to serve. And, despite doubling it, there really wasn't enough.
So, we pivoted and made Ramen Rice Krispie. Sure it was something we've made before but it was certainly interesting and different so we went with it. We just followed the recipe except doubled the butter as noted. They came out pretty good. I like this recipe, even if it is strange
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 05:09 PM
We had some more raw beef we had to use up (didn’t end up having time for beef jerky) and we wanted something easy. We had taco meat the other day, so decided to do something different and make kofta tacos.
We used the kofta recipe but instead of mixing it all in raw, we sautéed the onions and then added all of the other stuff.
We didn’t have cucumbers so we just made a dip with za'atar and greek yogurt.
I tried to heat the tortillas in the oven which worked ok but not as well as when you do it on a flat pan (or, say, a griddle). But it let me do more at a time.
It actually came out pretty good. The beef had a lot of flavor and it was easy enough to make. I would do this again. Though, I thought the beef was more flavorful without the other stuff.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 12:00 AM
We had to be some place so this was a fast, easy, and healthy meal. Meredith made Indian Scrambled eggs from this The Kitchn recipe (local). She stayed pretty close to the recipe except skipped the cilantro and bird's eye chili (we were out cilantro and the bird's eye went bad) and used some Sriracha in place. She also did use the tumeric.
It needed some salt (she forgot to salt it as it went). Th ginger bites were actually really, really good.
We would do this again when we want something as easy as eggs but more interesting.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 09:00 PM
It was already around 8:45 and we needed dinner. We also had some defrosted ground beef that we had to use so I made the regular huevos rancheros and then also added taco beef. It worked fine and was a good way to get some extra protein in there.