Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
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 […]
botched saltines to biscuits So, once per day, in three consecutive days starting on Thursday 20140130, I made saltines-turned-bland-biscuits, nutty biscuits, and sweet biscuits. Following the success with the cheesy crackers, I wanted to turn my attention to non-cheesy crackers, starting with the humble saltine. I thought I was starting to get the hang of […]
baked cheese Botched a cheese cracker recipe (added too little flour?) and make baked cheese instead! Based on this recipe for cheesy crackers: http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2013/10/cheesy-crackers-simple-joy-of-homemade.html Ingredients for about 36 crackers: (Note: This is a half recipe, you should double to make enough for a party) Based on this recipe from Joy the Baker 2 tablespoons room […]
Chorizo and potato burritos Learned more about making tortillas: Tortillas, doubled the foodwishes tortillas recipe: 16 ounces all-purpose flour (about 3.5 cup), more as needed 1.5 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 1 cup hot water (about 105 degrees F.) roll out into long snake, and divide equally into eight parts […]
pork fried rice – 20131112 Westwood pork: 200-300 grams slice thin marinade in salt and soy sauce stir fry in nonstick pan with a bit of oil on high heat for 4 ~minutes (meat initially smells like mommy’s soy sauce eggs, but tastes pretty good later) remove and save for later microwave rice (~1.5 cups, […]
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 […]