creamy chicken soup

Today's recipes:

• Eating leftover creamy chicken soup for lunch. Saute carrots, celery, bacon, chicken, onion, and garlic. Sprinkle flour on top & stir.
• Add broth to cover, simmer gently. Add broken angel hair. Stir in cream.

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Today's recipes:

• Last night, made jambalaya for dinner. Started by chopping onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, chili, cooked turkey sausage, garlic, and chicken.
• Sauté onion & chicken. Add rice, bell pepper, chile, 1 tsp. thyme & 1 (or more) tsp. paprika. Cook until rice translucent.
• Add chicken stock, sausage, & tomatoes. Simmer until rice is cooked through. Add peeled shrimp and/or peas a couple minutes before serving.

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back from vacation

I should've mentioned I was going. Took a nice long summer vacation with the family. Recipes should recommence this week.

Today's recipes:

• As promised last weekend, polenta for dinner tonight.
• Combine 1 qt water, 1 cup coarse polenta, 2 Tbsp butter or oil, fresh ground pepper in oven-proof pan. Bake at 350 F for 40 minutes.
• Stir in 1-2 oz. shredded cheese (Asiago, Parmesan, Romano, Provolone -- your favorite). Bake 5 more minutes.

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Today's recipes:

• Time now to go make couscous salsa to take to the solstice party tonight. Adapted from Mark Miller's Great Salsa Cookbook.
• Toast 3/4 tsp each ground cayenne & coriander, & 1-1/2 tsp. cumin. Add to 1 c couscous & 1 c boiling water. Let sit covered 5 minutes.
• Add roasted, peeled & diced: tomato, 2 bell peppers & 1 to 2 poblano peppers. Add salt, pepper, & chopped cilantro to taste. Serve w/ chips.
• I like Tostitos multigrain tortilla chips, both with this & just to snack on.
• Time to go roast . . .
• Salsa made. Realized looking at twitter-recipes.blogspot.com blog that I do lots of couscous. This next week, I'll have to do easy polenta.

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Pork chops with couscous stuffing

Today's recipes:

• Couscous stuffing: Mix together 1 c. couscous, 1 c. milk, diced onion, diced red bell pepper, minced garlic, 1 Tbsp(ish) paprika
• Stuffed pork chop: cut pocket in side of chops, fill with stuffing of choice. Add 1/4" liquid to bottom of pan. Bake at 350 1 to 1-1/4 hrs.
• Diced celery is good in the stuffing, too.

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chicken not-carbonara

Today's recipes:

• Chicken not-carbonara tonight: saute cubed chicken and finely diced bacon. Sprinkle w/grated cheese (Parmesan, Romano, or asiago).
• Add in chopped tomatoes, and frozen green beans. Stir in sour cream (or heavy cream, if you prefer.) Serve warm.

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Potato-leek soup

Today's recipes:

• Contemplating dinner tonight: potato-leek soup. Slice three leeks thinly, chop one onion, chop garlic. Saute in butter until translucent.
• Add diced potatoes; saute briefly, then add chicken broth to cover. Simmer 20-30 minutes, until potatoes cooked.
• For slightly heavier soup, stir in one can condensed cream of chicken soup at end and heat through.
• Tip for cleaning leeks: remove tops, slice in half lengthwise, rinse under running water to remove dirt between leaves.

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Salsa verde

Today's recipes:

• The problem with Romance languages: salsa verde means very different things in Mexican and Italian cooking.
• Last week, I made some Mexican salsa verde: cover bottom of pot with water, add tomatillos and simmer until dark green.
• Puree with onion and garlic cloves. (Add roasted green chile, too, for more flavor! I used 2 Anaheims; New Mexico chiles weren't available.)
• Simmer again, about 30 minutes. Great for dipping, enchiladas, or simmering chicken in.
• For an easy entree, put 4 frozen burritos in a slow cooker, top with boneless skinless chicken breasts & salsa verde. Cook 4-6 hours.

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Fudge brownies

Today's recipes:

• Last night, realized we're supposed to bring dessert to the Scout banquet tonight. Hello, fudge brownies! Old recipe, Better Homes & Gardens
• With some adaptation -- like, whole wheat flour and doubling. I mean 8x8 pan? Yeah, right.
• Cream: 1 c. butter, 2 c. sugar, 1 Tbsp. vanilla. Beat in 4 eggs. Add 4 oz. melted baking chocolate, then 1 c. flour, 6 oz. choc. chips.
• Bake at 325 for 30-36 minutes. Toothpick will not be clean, but should not be gooey. (Check ~2 in. from edge of pan.)

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Chicken paprikash

Tomorrow night, chicken paprikash adapted from Valerie Comer. (Recipe originally tweeted Dec 3, but it didn't post for some reason.)

• Layer chopped onion, garlic, bell peppers, potatoes, and chicken in crock-pot. Drizzle w/olive oil, add salt, pepper, 1-2 Tbsp paprika.



• Repeat layers. Add extra paprika (hot, rather than sweet) if desired. Top with chopped tomatoes. Turn on, cook all day.



• If you like less of a stew consistency, add water to pot before turning it on. Serve with bread.



• Oh, totally forgot to add "stir in sour cream before serving." Delicious!

Noodles and clams

Today's recipes:

• Noodles with clams tonight. Saute chopped garlic in olive oil. Add flour & stir to make roux. Add canned minced clams (2 * 6.5 oz.).
• Stir until clams heated through & sauce is smooth. Serve over pasta. (Pepper and parsley are optional additions.)

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Pumpkin butter

Today's recipes:

• Made pumpkin butter this morning: 1 c each butter & pumpkin puree, 1/4 c brown sugar, tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg & allspice, pinch cloves.

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stroganoff

Today's recipes:

• I've realized that I have yet to mention my yummy stroganoff! (Dinner tonight & last night)
• Saute 1 chopped onion in 4 Tbsp butter. Add 1 lb beef; brown. Stir in 1.5 Tbsp flour, ground pepper. Add 1 lb sliced mushrooms, cover 5 min.
• Stir in 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup (I use Campbell's Healthy Request) & cook 10 minutes. Add 1 cup sour cream & heat through.
• Serve over pasta or rice. Leftovers are very good.
• Notes: Use more or less flour depending on how thick you want it. Reduced fat sour cream tends to produce more liquidy end result.
• We've used both stew meat and ground beef. Try ground turkey or TVP (or chicken--not fish, though)

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jambalaya risotto

Today's recipes:

• 'jambalaya risotto' tonight for dinner
• saute pepper flakes, saffron, celery, carrots, onion, red bell pepper, and garlic. Add 1 c rice, stir until opaque. Add broth 1 c @ a time
• Simmer until liquid evaporates, add more. Add sliced sausage (I used chicken/red pepper) and peeled raw shrimp. Cook till rice moist & done.
• I added 1 Tbsp butter to the risotto at the last minute for more flavor.

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pumpkin pancakes

Today's recipes:

• pumpkin pancakes: 3-4 c pancake batter, 3/4 c pumpkin puree, 1 Tbsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/4 tsp ground cloves, cream to thin batter.
• Freshly ground nutmeg works best.

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This recipe adapted from New York Times Magazine.

Baked Beans

Today's recipes:

• baked beans: 2 c cooked beans, 2 Tbsp ea molasses & ketchup, 1/4 chopped onion, tsp ea dry mustard & Worcestershire sauce. Bake at 250F 3 hr
• bean addenda: curry powder and brown sugar also good. Top with bacon strips before baking! And 3 hours is a rough time--can go all day.
• I forgot to mention that the beans are with broth. Otherwise, you'll wind up with shoe leather at best and a smoke-filled house else.

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breakfast and dinner . . . easy!

Today's recipes:

• easy coffeecake: 2 c. Bisquick, 1 egg, 2/3 c. milk, 2 Tbsp. sugar, 1/2 Tbsp. cinnamon. Mix together, bake in greased pan at 375F for 20'.
• streusel topping: 1/3 c ea flour & packed brown sugar, 1 Tbsp cinnamon, 1-2 tsp nutmeg, 2-3 Tbsp butter. Mix till crumbly.
• (Put streusel on coffeecake *before* baking!)


• polenta: Mix 1 c dry polenta (coarse corn meal), 1 qt water, 2 Tbsp butter. Bake at 350F 40'. Stir; add 2 oz grated Romano. Bake 10' more.
• quick shrimp: Simmer olive oil,slivered garlic, cayenne, paprika, saffron, & 1 can tomatoes. Cook down. Add lb peeled shrimp. Cook to pink.

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Couscous Risotto

Today's recipes:

• couscous risotto: chop chicken breasts, bell pepper, onion, cilantro. Cook meat, veggies, can of tomatoes, water, 1 c couscous. Simmer 5'.

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Setting up the Site

No recipes posted today; too busy working and dealing with life to cook. We ate leftovers.

I did spend a little time on the site, starting a blog roll of other food-related blogs and signing up for AdSense, though it'll take that a while to show up here.

If you can recommend some more blogs for me to check out for the blog roll, I'd really appreciate it.