food S.I.P./Quarantine Cooking
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two kinds of pie cherries ( North star, and the dark ones are Carmine Jewel )
Rhubarb has been divided and transplanted several times throughout the family.
Think Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp meets Cherry Cobbler, minus the strawberries
oh man, that looks good !sinensis said:oh shit. that looks so good. one thing i haven't been having lately is good dessert.
wild rice salad:
texas blues said:
Be a lot cooler if you did.
salsalady said:
Who said it was?
we all know what TB likes for dinner.salsalady said:
the scary thing is....
we don`t know what he likes for dessert!?!?!?
salsalady
eXtreme Business
Thanks for all the posts, inspirational and .....Yea, been there.....
Here's a little ketchup of the last couple days cooking (no pun intended as no catsup was involved in any of this cooking)
Couple days ago, TACOS....WooHoo!!!! O- Kay Not so woohooo. It's just tacos....
Yesterday-
T-Bones, (old) asparagus, and roasted taters
I've kept the asparagus going for at least a week. Trim the ends and keep in FRESH water. When I finally cooked it, I snapped off about half of the stalk and only used the top part.
1/2 and 1/2 olive oil and butter, onions (just a bit of a large onion), followed by garlic, black pepper (sorry geeme), saute until Happy!
Steaks on the Grill
Oven roasted red potatoes- at the grocery store, my shopping list included 'fresh thyme, rosemary, sage' so I went to the fresh herbs display, which was pretty well wiped out. I was ready to pounce on the desired items, but the guy 6 feet in front of me grabbed the last fresh rosemary! AAARRRGGG!!!
Oh, WAIT!!! Not To worry, they still had several 'Roasting Blend" packets. Bingo!
Toss the wedged red potatoes with olive oil, fresh herbs, fresh garlic, fresh onion (about half of the one used today, safe the rest for later...), seasoned salt (i've used Johnnys seasoning salt or Mrs Dash seasoning blend plus salt. Plus a few other blends...,.just use whatever you have that sounds good!)
Bake at 375F for 45 minutes. Toss a couple times to help get the crusty brown all around.
This morning, John was feeling like a southwest black bean and corn soup. Pretty sure we had all the components, so he started the cook around 8:30 this morning.
Well, we didn't have Black beans, so Kidney Beans it was!
2 cans red kidney beans
1 can whole kernel corn
1 can diced tomatoes
1/2 medium onion diced ( the part saved from yesterday)
1/4 cup chili powder
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cumin
Simmer it all up with 3 cups of water to get it all happy.
Toss in-
3/4 c rice
1/4 c diced hatch chiles
1 andouille sausage sliced
MMMmmmmm... looking and tasting goood~~~
Ger ready with the 10 schrimps
Aw, crap.... I grabbed a bag of 16-10 shrimp out of the Hanks freezer, didn't' realize they were NOT shelled and de-veined.....(sigh)...
Alright Moving On! Tossed the schrimps into the soup-ish stuff on the stove. LUNCH!
We started this around 8:30 AM, it finished and we had lunch around 11:30, and had leftovers for dinner!
Other exciting news of the day...The Cat is OK!!!!
Last week I felt a lump on her stomach, took her to the vet (who is considered an essential service!) and they scheduled her for surgery today.
Turns out it was an abscess wound. Pretty deep, but they cleaned it and put in drains. "Poor little Princess, having her long beautiful hair shaved". Oh Well! Suck It Up Princess!!!! She should be good to go with the antibiotics and with keeping her inside for a few days.
Here's a little ketchup of the last couple days cooking (no pun intended as no catsup was involved in any of this cooking
)Couple days ago, TACOS....WooHoo!!!! O- Kay Not so woohooo. It's just tacos....
Yesterday-
T-Bones, (old) asparagus, and roasted taters
I've kept the asparagus going for at least a week. Trim the ends and keep in FRESH water. When I finally cooked it, I snapped off about half of the stalk and only used the top part.
1/2 and 1/2 olive oil and butter, onions (just a bit of a large onion), followed by garlic, black pepper (sorry geeme), saute until Happy!
Steaks on the Grill
Oven roasted red potatoes- at the grocery store, my shopping list included 'fresh thyme, rosemary, sage' so I went to the fresh herbs display, which was pretty well wiped out. I was ready to pounce on the desired items, but the guy 6 feet in front of me grabbed the last fresh rosemary! AAARRRGGG!!!
Oh, WAIT!!! Not To worry, they still had several 'Roasting Blend" packets. Bingo!
Toss the wedged red potatoes with olive oil, fresh herbs, fresh garlic, fresh onion (about half of the one used today, safe the rest for later...), seasoned salt (i've used Johnnys seasoning salt or Mrs Dash seasoning blend plus salt. Plus a few other blends...,.just use whatever you have that sounds good!)
Bake at 375F for 45 minutes. Toss a couple times to help get the crusty brown all around.
This morning, John was feeling like a southwest black bean and corn soup. Pretty sure we had all the components, so he started the cook around 8:30 this morning.
Well, we didn't have Black beans, so Kidney Beans it was!
2 cans red kidney beans
1 can whole kernel corn
1 can diced tomatoes
1/2 medium onion diced ( the part saved from yesterday)
1/4 cup chili powder
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cumin
Simmer it all up with 3 cups of water to get it all happy.
Toss in-
3/4 c rice
1/4 c diced hatch chiles
1 andouille sausage sliced
MMMmmmmm... looking and tasting goood~~~
Ger ready with the 10 schrimps
Aw, crap.... I grabbed a bag of 16-10 shrimp out of the Hanks freezer, didn't' realize they were NOT shelled and de-veined.....(sigh)...
Alright Moving On! Tossed the schrimps into the soup-ish stuff on the stove. LUNCH!
We started this around 8:30 AM, it finished and we had lunch around 11:30, and had leftovers for dinner!
Other exciting news of the day...The Cat is OK!!!!
Last week I felt a lump on her stomach, took her to the vet (who is considered an essential service!) and they scheduled her for surgery today.
Turns out it was an abscess wound. Pretty deep, but they cleaned it and put in drains. "Poor little Princess, having her long beautiful hair shaved". Oh Well! Suck It Up Princess!!!! She should be good to go with the antibiotics and with keeping her inside for a few days.
lol'd at the re-wine penalty
glad your cat's ok. fur will re-grow in no time.
also, very nice call on that palo alto sauce. that's easily one of my fav sauces for mex food. especially tacos and burritos. to me, it is basically an upscale version of taco bell's sauces, and i mean that as a compliment i guess to both t-bell and palo alto. i think it reminds me so much of taco bell because of the cumin, but it's much more complex. it's a sauce i keep buying over and over.
actually, that would be an interesting thread topic: sauces you keep buying (at least 3 re-ups) or pantry staple sauces. anyone know if such a thread exists?
dinner tonight was carbonara alla sinensis:
glad your cat's ok. fur will re-grow in no time.
also, very nice call on that palo alto sauce. that's easily one of my fav sauces for mex food. especially tacos and burritos. to me, it is basically an upscale version of taco bell's sauces, and i mean that as a compliment i guess to both t-bell and palo alto. i think it reminds me so much of taco bell because of the cumin, but it's much more complex. it's a sauce i keep buying over and over.
actually, that would be an interesting thread topic: sauces you keep buying (at least 3 re-ups) or pantry staple sauces. anyone know if such a thread exists?
dinner tonight was carbonara alla sinensis:
salsalady
eXtreme Business
Thanks sinensis. I got the Palo Alto in a Secret Santa box and it's almost empty. I got some of their original milder version years ago at the LA Hot Sauce Expo. (pretty sure it was there~~)
A couple I've bought repeatedly is-
SeaFire Gourmet Sweet Spicy Girl (been buying that by the case for 10 years)
Secret Aardvark (Portland OR)
El Fuego (Bellingham WA)
That carbonara looks, good. Been thinking of similar the last couple days as I have some LO angel hair pasta and some LO cooked bacon.
A couple I've bought repeatedly is-
SeaFire Gourmet Sweet Spicy Girl (been buying that by the case for 10 years)
Secret Aardvark (Portland OR)
El Fuego (Bellingham WA)
That carbonara looks, good. Been thinking of similar the last couple days as I have some LO angel hair pasta and some LO cooked bacon.
