Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
20150525 Soup Bones Beef Stew (cross cut beef shank) http://ieatmostlymeat.com/beef-soup-bone-stew/ Solid, easy slow cooker recipe for stew. Preparation You can prepare this in no time and let it cook all day in the slow cooker. This is a very simple paleo slow cooker recipe. Optional brown the soup bone on all sides. Place the soup […]
20150429 baked salmon made baked salmon largely following this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/video/159/how-to-cook-salmon/detail.aspx basically: take salmon out to rest for ~20 min – (let warm up) preheat oven to 475 F – yes, very hot! prepare herbs of choice, I used dried parsley and fresh sliced garlic. Press onto flesh side prepare pan with butter (I used […]
20150416 Made chocolate chip cookies following the recipe at the bottom. As usual, letting it rest for at least 24 hours lends towards a deeper flavored cookie. Learned something today when I tried to bake with different pans. The large aluminum pans took longer to heat up, and took around 14-16 minutes to cook. The […]
Made beef pot roast, largely following the allrecipes recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-beef-pot-roast/ Only used 2.5 lb beef roast, USDA choice from wal-mart. I’m glad I did, any bigger, and it wouldn’t have fit! I did brown and cook vegetables beforehand, I did think it increased the umami and depth of savoriness. But I need to add more […]
I want to try to make beef stew according to this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-beef-stew-i/ “This easy, comforting beef stew is cooked in a slow cooker with potatoes in a hearty broth. Garlic, Worcestershire sauce, and paprika add flair!” INGREDIENTS: 2 pounds beef stew meat, cut into 1 inch cubes 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt […]
slow cooked mashed potatoes made slow cooked mashed potatoes largely following the recipe at the bottom: Didn’t add sour cream because I didn’t have any, but I like the fact that it made good potatoes, that weren’t too wet. I think I added too much garlic, 4 tablespoons. It was too garlic-ey. I added […]
Made pork butt largely following this recipe: http://www.chow.com/recipes/30356-easy-slow-cooker-pulled-pork Good rub. Browing, as stated, doesn’t seem to add much to the dish. Might add more salt next time, but salting less is probably better during cooking because sauce can be added later. Cooked on high for about 5 hours. Seemed to work fine. Ingredients 2 medium yellow onions, […]
Tried to make wide rice noodle. It was decent, but next time I need to add less oil, and more black bean sauce. I had no black bean sauce, so it didn’t have that much flavor. I also didn’t have bean sprouts or gai-lan, which would have lightened the dish. Made it loosely following […]
Made this savory chickpea salad with grilled chicken when I had overcooked some chickpeas. I didn’t have time/energy to make full out masala, so I just made the onions with all the masala ingredients (chipotle pepper, masala spices, no tumeric, chopped dried serrano), and then combined it with the chickpeas. The result still tastes […]
Chicken and Onion stir fry Continuing to learn how to stir fry. This time, made it with a chinese marinade, and used the wok – INDOORS! It worked! You heat the wok until it just wisps a little smoke. Then you add oil, “hot wok, cold oil”, and then stir fry. Spread out the […]