Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
So, it’s summer. And anyone living in the South knows it’s smokin’ hot around these parts. Time for a perfect chilled soup: Vichyssoise! Actually, what happened is that I got lost on my way to a bakery on a search for tiramisu (Tiramisu: found! MUST TRY CUPCAKE!) and ended up at my new favorite grocery […]
So, I was wandering the web looking for delicious polenta recipes and stumbled across a video for spaghetti carbonara. You can see the video here. It involves bacon. Needless to say, my polenta plans were a little derailed, but they will be back on track soon! In the meantime, allrecipes provided the following delicious dinner for myself […]
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/quick-and-easy-chicken Had chicken thighs. Was hungry. Searched for fast chicken recipe, cooked the first one I saw. I like it. It’s like sweet and sour chicken. I used bone-in thighs instead, and added some more stuff to the sauce. Otherwise, it’s pretty good as is. The next major modification I would recommend is […]
I guess this would be my first original creation that I’m proud of, and that Gracie and Mommy requested more of. Ingredients: 2 lb small red potatoes, quartered 1 lb ground beef 1 ear of corn, kernels removed 1 can kidney beans 2 tbsp flour 1/2 can tomato paste 2 cans beef broth salt, black […]
Tried to make chana masala for the first time according to the directions on the back of the spice box. It was edible, but definitely will do it differently next time. Added way too much seasoning, and too much tomato paste — only need to add 1/2 a can at best. most likely, just […]
20120407 Made progress in fried rice. To cook eggs, cook over low heat and lots of oil. Add MSG and salt to the eggs. To refluff rice, add a little water and cover and steam for a minute. And you need lots of sauce in fried rice — it’s not supposed to be dry. Added […]
Made general tsao’s chicken again: It turned out better, I made the batter in the proper order of eggs, chicken, then cornstarch; not eggs, cornstarch, chicken. It is noteworthy that frying it twice helps make the chicken less overcooked. Also, if there is too much egg in the egg:cornstarch breading, that the breading will be […]
Made general tsao’s chicken following this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/general-tsaos-chicken-ii/detail.aspx I messed up lots, but it still tasted decent. Gracie made the sauce. I added way too much cornstarch and egg, and even though it didn’t look like I coated the chicken well, there is still a thick film of breading on the outside. […]
Another catchup image dump. Made sausage stuffed eggplant following this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/sausage-stuffed-eggplant/ Grace complained that it was too meaty. Otherwise, it was a good dish, just took a little longer to bake. Wanted to document this frying fact: The ratio of hot oil to food put in really makes a difference. The brown falafel was […]
attempted to make a quick chicken and broccoli stir fry mainly following this video: http://www.foodnetwork.com/chicken-and-broccoli-stir-fry/video/index.html Don’t have camera, but wanted to save the above link, it was pretty informative. -Isaac