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I had a near-disaster this afternoon while making Coq au Vin from "Cook-Ahead Cookery." I was dividing the recipe in half. But I measured out the full amount of flour, salt & liquid. I didn't notice I had too much flour when I dumped it into the skillet with the green onion and garlic. As I stirred it, I realized I had goofed. By that time, I had the full amount of wine mixed together with the full amount of broth.
I had to throw away the flour-green onion-garlic mixture. I pulled out a clean skillet. Thankfully, I had another green onion. I quickly sliced it and minced the garlic while the skillet was heating. I threw away the broth/wine mixture and remeasured using the half proportions.
All's well that ends well, and this ended well even though I'm more tired that need be. Since this is a cook-ahead meal, it's in the fridge waiting to be cooked tomorrow. Smells delicious, though.
On Tuesday, I made Turkey (well, Chicken) Wild Rice Soup. The recipe came from one of those Pillsbury cooking booklets, Holiday Classics II, #34. I delete the salt, and I lighten it up by using 2 cups of 1% milk rather than half and half, and I use a stick of unsalted butter instead of margarine. I also increased the wild rice by half. It is perfect comfort food for a day with blowing dust, and now I have lunch for the week.
I made pancakes for dinner yesterday in honor of National Pancake Day. I made plain, strawberry, and chocolate chip. Thinking about it now I should have mixed the chocolate chips with the strawberries! Oh well… Next time.
Tomorrow will be some kind of stir fry. I’m going to see if I can get my kids to eat spinach if I mix it with oil and at meat high hea
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AARON:
I enjoy making my Mothers's recipe for "SPINACH LENTIL" soup. Try that for your children to eat in their diet. My eye DR. says eat a lot of spinach to preserve & maintain the eye health.In any event Aaron I always employ OLIVE OIL, garlic & onions where Spinach is used.
Enjoy the day.
~KIDPIZZA.
I just wanted to say that even though I haven't been posting, I've been reading and it's exciting to see so many posts.
I haven't been making anything new lately. Just sticking to our tried and true crockpot and sheet pan dinners.
EDIT: And here's what I get for posting quickly early in the morning before work. I actually made 2 things in the past week - one a disaster and the other almost perfect.
I have been looking for low carb snacks and saw a recipe for roasted chickpeas which I think were supposed to be sort of like nuts. They were awful! Some burned, some were mushy on the inside and I tossed them all out.
The other recipe was for cheesy cauliflower breadsticks or pizza crust. As I said, they were almost perfect. The recipe I tried had too much egg in it, so they were flat and tasted too eggy (duh), but they were still highly edible. I've found another version (or 2) I'm going to try and will report back. That's how much promise the breadsticks have.
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