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KitchenKatalog: Blog 282
Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 04:30 PM
I had a lot of zucchini and I needed to do something with it before it went bad. My original plan was to make a filling and "cupcake" it but I decided to just eat the filling. I julienned 3 zucchinis and sautéd it with half an onion, finely chopped mushrooms and seasonings. I then added a can of black beans and finally, two laughing cow wedges. It was okay though I got kind if sick if eating zucchini by the end (made two meals)
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6427, 2013-07-31_163048
Monday, July 29, 2013, 08:21 PM
I wasn't overly hungry and I had had a bit of a snack at work before I left so I wanted something light and low points. I made sautéd curry cauliflower. I didn't want to make the normal oven cauliflower things since they take a 450 degree oven for a while and I didn't want to heat the apartment. So instead, I cut a head up into pieces, tossed it with some canola oil, added curry powder, salt, pepper, and garlic powder, and cooked it on a hot cast iron pan. I had the pan at level 7/10 and I kept tossing the cauliflower for a bit then letting it sit to get some brown spots. It took more than 20 minutes but it came out pretty well. Not quite as good as the oven roasted but a lot faster and less residual heat.
I also heated a thing of Trader Joes frozen soup
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6352, 2013-07-29_202159
Sunday, July 28, 2013, 08:20 PM
I was originally going to grill but the chimney starter didn't take. so I tried to mix using the cast iron grill pan and the broiler. I started by heating the grill pan while the broiler was heating. I put the yellow squash right into the broiler and I put the hamburgers on the grill pan and then the whole thing in the oven. While that was going, I cooked the zucchini right on the cast iron pan.
The beef did okay like this, though definitely overcooked. The zucchini cooked okay but the squash just wasn't getting there so I moved them to the regular cast iron pan.
So overall, it was all cooked but I wouldn't really call it successful but it was okay.
I did the burgers with salt, pepper, garlic powder and some sriracha. I did the veggies with salt and pepper. I put some ketchup and pepper relish / hoagie spread on the squash between the burger.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6350, 2013-07-28_202049
Friday, July 26, 2013, 10:32 AM
I again made pumpkin bars. They were inspired by last time but I made a few changes, etc. I discovered a tip on doing the nuts. I had them in the dry pan and when they started to get a bit toasty, I took the pan off the heat and tossed the nuts around. The residual heat kept cooking them and I could control how much they browned.
I skipped all of the dried fruit but I added a bit more nuts.
Adding some baking powder and oil helped make this a bit more fluffy. They still had a bit of a goupy texture, but not too bad.
(This is now in my Recipe Book)
Item
x
Cal
Fat
Carbs
protein
fiber
per
Total
Oatmeal (1/2c)
4
150
2.50
28.00
5.00
4.00
3.82
15.28
Pumpkin
3.5
50
0.00
10.00
1.00
4.00
0.86
3.00
Almonds (1oz)
2
160
14.00
6.00
6.00
3.00
4.56
9.12
Total
1095.00
38.00
159.00
35.50
36.00
27.40
Per Serving
4
273.75
9.50
39.75
8.88
9.00
6.85
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6347, 2013-07-26_103232
Thursday, July 25, 2013, 08:20 PM
I made something along the lines of broccoli chicken. I used the normal broccoli beef recipe but skipped marinading. I then just added a can of chicken (12 points plus). I didn't get a chance to buy beef so this was my best option.
It worked out okay. I did mess up the sauce a little bit and the chicken was a bit strange with being shredded and all. Still, it was pretty good.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6344, 2013-07-25_202040
Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 08:16 PM
I kind of-sort of-made falafel. What was special about this is that I actually made the dough on Sunday, vacuum sealed it and froze it. I then did a rapid defrost in hot water and was able to make them. It worked really, really well. The biggest and only real problem was that it got messy getting the defrosted dough out of the bag. To fix that, next time I will just cut a slit in the bag and either squeeze it all into a bowl or directly onto the pan.
For the dough, I followed the falafel recipe except doubled. I used a very big thing of parsley and as much cilantro as I could cut off.
It is nice to know that I can keep a few things of frozen falafel dough in the freezer and very quickly defrost for this.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6342, 2013-07-23_201630
Monday, July 22, 2013, 08:09 PM
I made chicken hash basically using the recipe below with a few changes (some on purpose, some by accident). Instead of 22oz of potatoes, I used a mix of 6 1/8 oz Daikon Radish, 7 5/8 oz celery and 8 oz yukon gold potato. I let the celery root cook longer in the water than the rest of the things. Instead of 1 lbs on chicken, I used 1/2 lbs chicken breast and a tiny chicken thigh (~0.15 lbs).
I also forgot to use paprika and turmeric. I just used the za'atar, salt and pepper for the spices. However, where I really messed up is I added the chicken, broth and everything when I added the potatoes so they didn't get the extra time to brown under a drier heat. Instead they cooked with everything. That basically meant that it was a bit mushy with less crisp bits, etc. I also cooked the eggs entirely sans oil.
Overall, I liked it a lot. The only thing I really didn't like was that the celery root was still very stringy and often fibrous. I ended up spitting a lot of those chunks out. The potato and the daikon radish sere largely indistinguishable! I would definitely do it again and I'd look into additional potato alternatives. The harissa added some spice, though less than I expected when I tasted it alone.
This recipe (with minor changes and notes) is now included in my recipe book
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6337, 2013-07-22_200942
Sunday, July 21, 2013, 08:45 PM
I tried to make something like I did on 2013-07-09 but without the chick peas. I also (attempted) to use poached eggs. I messed up with the eggs and I overcooked them so they weren't very good. I also made the stuff and it was fine that night. However, the next day for lunch, it was actually pretty bad. I ended up not eating it. Maybe I'll do this again but I would be more careful with the flavors and letting all of the liquid out.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6333, 2013-07-21_204533