What's cooking? part 4

delish!!!

got the makings for tampeh reubens. inspired by that vegan cookbook and also from taking the pastrami off a reuben that was on the menu at work the other day. thousand island slathered on the bread interior, grilled marinated tempeh, sauerkraut, sliced pickle and some nice French reaclette, buttered outside bread and then grilled.....it's gonna be gooooood

The Kitchenaid mixer is a bit of a pain (hell, it's a huge pain) to rassle around the kitchen, so I've gone back to the high-moisture, long-rise, low-yeast, no-knead bread recipe that I imagine everybody knows about by now, via Lahey or Bittman or whoever. Got a loaf coming out momentarily, and it looked really good when I took the lid off the dutch oven for the last few minutes of baking.

yum!

I've got jambalaya workin in the slow cooker. 3 more hours and we'll be eating the good stuff

Cooking bread in the Dutch oven! That never occurred to me; will have to investigate.

i made a vegan ground-beef version of nachos tonight - added onion, can of muir glen tomato sauce and a package of gardein fake ground beef - also incredibly delish!!

Jambalaya turned out pretty good! Chicken was a little...mushy? I think I'll pre-brown it and the sausage before cooking, it might help the texture.

brb moving to just1n3's housr

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i also made reallly super extravagant vegan french toast for ytth recently (FT is not my thing at all) - it was ripoff of the real food daily's FT (ytth's favourite LA restaurant) which i found with a little googling.

i also bought 30 ball jars in different sizes, threw out all my recycled marinara jars and non-airtight containers, so now i have a beautiful 'rustic' kitchen

standing in front of my open kitchen shelves is now a mesmerizing experience (and i still need about 20 more jars!!)

An ex-colleague is leaving work at the weekend, so I got roped into making sausages for the barbecue.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8451/7937085770_288b848338_z.jpg

Old standards are pork, apple and cider and the Caribbean one I've done before with rum, pineapple and chili flakes. New experiment is to try and get an all-in-one hot dog - tomato chunks, mustard, and crispy onions, and I've upped the rusk and dextrose to try and get more of a snap to them.

For dinner yesterday J. made: Seared tuna steak with your choice of pear, cilantro, ginger and serrano chutney or an avocado, wasabi sauce. It was served with really fresh and perfect tasting green beans and basmati rice. It made my top five dinners of 2012 and top 10 dinners of all time!

Are you two still traveling for J's work a bit? You're more than welcome to stop by and use my kitchen if you're in the neighborhood.

(that sounds absolutely delicious)

Aldo those look amazing (cannot imagine pineapple in a sausage but I be provincial)!

fake chicken, pan fried with garlic and sake, threw in some v finely julienned zucchini at the end for a minute, served over roasted beets with a sauce of fake butter, rice flour, fake chicken broth, dijon and fresh tarragon

pretty good!

should have taken a photo, it looked really pretty

That sounds very yummy, would you like to visit Toronto? :D

What can I make with chicken broth, meatballs, and dried macaroni? Besides ital wedding soup?

Can of tomatoes and some veg and you could make a kind of one pot casserole/pasta bake kind of deal

Yeah, totes! Only boil the pasta 2/3rds of the way and finish it in the pan where you have browned up onions + garlic + meatballs, then added tomato and some chicken broth for liquid. Sort of a makeshift bolognese.

*hi five*

Dollop of jarred pesto will do wonders whisked into that pan sauce btw. From experience.

I have no tomatoes or vegs :-( I am just cooking the Mac in the broth and adding the meatballs and some cannelini beans and edamame. We'll see how this turns out.

White beans are a great addition! Hope it works, stevie!

Omg this is just like a pot of weird foods w a tiny bit of broth filling in the cracks and it totally does not taste cohesive. Luckily it's not all that bad.

fresh whole-wheat fettucine
garlic, prosciutto, crushed red, spinach
white wine, lemon zest, a little light cream

yes

I'll be over for dinner :)

steamed buns, pulled pork, oi kimchi, mustard

I opened a bottle of Healthy Boy soy sauce that had been buried in the back of the pantry -- I'd forgotten it for at least a couple of years. Thick as motor oil! Really good flavor too, but I was amazed at how thick it was. Used it for a teriyaki marinade, going to grill some chicken later today.

Thanks again to everyone on ilx who repped for the zojirushi rice makers. Just started mine up again and it played a happy little tune.

Made chicken stock yesterday - now using it for homemade tomato & basil soup :D

i want a hi-tech little rice cooker but my circa. 1991 National refueses to die.

i make a chocolate pie with a ground hazelnut crust - looks so pretty, doesn't taste v good :(

the crust tastes like play-dough

Just finished making lentil soup with roasted garlic. And tabouleh. Made a gooey butter cake a couple days ago. I'm new to this board, by the way.

is gooey butter cake a paula deen recipe?

She does do it, but I used a recipe from this book, The Cake Mix Doctor. A variation on the original - added to the yellow cake mix crust chopped pecans and coconut. Fantastic.

Forgot to add that it's a regional cake. St. Louis.

i make a chocolate pie with a ground hazelnut crust - looks so pretty, doesn't taste v good :(

the crust tastes like play-dough

― just1n3, Sunday, September 9, 2012 3:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

don't understand how this can be possible tbqh

which part? the existence of the pie or the gross play dough flavour?

the crust recipe was
3/4 c ap flour
1/4 c whole wheat flour
1 c hazelnut flour
1/4 shortening
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 c sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
water

making vegan ossobuco + risotto milanese, because i don't know, this is probably a terrible idea

that a chocolate pie w/ hazelnut crust could taste bad! xp

How do you make a vegan osso buco? No bone to pick with you.

^^^liking this new poster already

Aw shucks.

doyyyy

xps i thought so too!!! i was super disappointed :/ the chocolate filling part is just ok - it's basically coconut milk (should have used full fat, not lite) and a mix of 51% and 72% chocolate, agave (should have used golden syrup) and peanut butter. it's lacking any depth of flavour.

aw, where'd you get the recipe?

i. make vegan bone marrow
ii. make fake bones out of potato rings
iii. combine fake bones, fake bone marrow, tofu cutlets
iv. think about what an idiotic turn your life has taken
v. gremolata

xp

jesus christ thomp, that sounds complicated

dayo: http://www.rosewaterandthyme.com/2012/02/chocolate-tart-with-a-hazelnut-crust/