Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
For fruit smoothies, the ratio is: 1.25-1.5 cup liquid 8 oz fruit (preferably frozen) This fills one of my dean foods mug. This just under 2 cups or 16 fl ounces. For liquid, I do not prefer cheap orange juice — I think it is too distinct and coarse a flavor. Better water/honey or […]
20160214 After finding copycat recipes of barbacoa using butt roasts, which I’m sure are good, but are not what I’m going for: http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-to-feed-a-crowd-slow-cooker-barbacoa-beef-165301 This is a rather inauthentic recipe.^^ I finally found out how to make the “real” tex-mex barbacoa that are often found at restaurants the secret is BEEF CHEEKS! or Cacheta de rez: […]
Sampling the grains that grace got me. Eating them mostly plain (salt, oil) to evaluate the base differences. 20160116 quinoa – very wet – like water sacs tastes slightly floral — would do well in light and acidic dishes. Cooks very fast and easily – around 10 min after boiling. farro: like a mix between […]
20160106 chicken noodle soup made chicken noodle soup largely following the recipe below from the back of a soup can. I adjusted the recipe by 1.5-2x. I used one entire 50 ounce can of chicken noodle soup (6 cups), added two stalks celery, 1 carrot (all I had), 1 cup egg noodles, 2 breasts of […]
Made meat pie (ground beef and potatoes) pie largely following this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/76296/meat-pie/ Ingredients 1 medium potato, peeled and cubed 1/2 pound ground beef 1/2 pound ground pork 1/3 clove garlic, chopped 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup water 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon salt […]
puff pastry tart – looks pretty, tastes greasy, in mini-muffin tin. homemade crust tart in muffin tin – tastes good. Made egg custard largely following this recipe: http://thewoksoflife.com/2014/07/hong-kong-egg-tarts/ Hong Kong Egg Tarts Prep Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes Cook Time: 25 minutes Total Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Yield: 20-24 tarts Ingredients 200g all purpose flour […]
Made raspberry scones largely following this recipe: Raspberry Scone: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in middle of oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, bakingpowder, baking soda and salt. Cut the butter into small pieces and blend into the […]
20151109 I bought that 10 lb bag of (11) chicken quarters for $0.29/lb, total cost $2.90. And I was trying to figure out what to do with it. Thanks to google and tammysrecipes.com, I had an exact answer! (By the way, I like this lady’s style of cooking – pragmatic, and efficient, homestyle) I did […]
This is my new favorite beans recipe. So simple — pretty much throw everything into the slow cooker, and walk away. No presoaking, no watching/stirring, etc. But so full of flavor! I precooked half the bacon, but then decided to go ahead and throw the rest of the bacon in, uncooked. So, yes, a full […]
Made some pretty good tex-mex chili the other day. Used 2 lbs of dry pinto beans, almost 3 lb of 73/27% ground beef. Made the beans the day before. Browned the beef the day before with salt, pepper, garlic, onion. Reheated the ground beef in pot while sweating 1.5 onions and two large jalapenos (diced, […]