What's cookin', good lookin'? Part II

[seela]

~$6/doz where I live.

There was an article in the newspaper about the egg prizes there. I hadn’t really considered the social and cultural significance of the egg there. Interesting.

Hella scary too, considering the anti-vaccine Kennedy and the US leaving the WHO.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Hi everyone!

It's been so cold here that I made split pea soup served with buttered sourdough bread. No pics, it went fast...sorry, not sorry.

We moved last year from FL to TN but I didn't give up my flip flops until November. Snow is still a novelty, LOL!

Good to see you aroud Gracie!

We had fish soup with mussels, saffron, shrimp, lots of veggies and dill yesterday and beef Stroganoff saturday.
Making the most of the soup and stew season, before spring.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Yeah, roughly the same that I paid for mine today. Mine were free range organic, 50 cents per egg for regular would be steep here.

(then again, I think milk products, meat, fish and eggs are all painfully cheap here, when you take into account how the animals live their short lives )

4.24$ for a dozen large free range here. Organic and large would get closer to 6$.

There was an article in the newspaper about the egg prizes there. I hadn’t really considered the social and cultural significance of the egg there. Interesting.

Hella scary too, considering the anti-vaccine Kennedy and the US leaving the WHO.

Now I’m curious?

 

[seela]

Good to see you aroud Gracie!

We had fish soup with mussels, saffron, shrimp, lots of veggies and dill yesterday and beef Stroganoff saturday.
Making the most of the soup and stew season, before spring.

Tasty!

I’m working with the soup and stew category this week as well.

Planned for this week:

-Beet and red lentil stew
-Lemony chicken meatball soup
-Sweet potato and black bean patties
-Burbot soup

 

[sullivag2]

~$6/doz where I live.

@$9/doz here for the cheaper places with some being $12 or just over for non organic. MIL is really pushing for chickens again but we are hoping to talk her out of them so that we don't have run over all the time to take care of them.

 

[BiBunny]

Eggs are approximately $6 a dozen here, for regular old no-name eggs from Walmart.

I don't really eat them by themselves, but I do use them in frying and baking some. My mother buys 18 a week (about $9 now). I don't think I could do that!

 

[Boat1]

Tasty!

I’m working with the soup and stew category this week as well.

Planned for this week:

-Beet and red lentil stew
-Lemony chicken meatball soup
-Sweet potato and black bean patties
-Burbot soup

That ALL sounds great, but the Sweet Potato/ Black Bean Patties REALLY pique my curiosity... if you could post or DM a recipe, I'd greatly appreciate it!

 

[seela]

That ALL sounds great, but the Sweet Potato/ Black Bean Patties REALLY pique my curiosity... if you could post or DM a recipe, I'd greatly appreciate it!

I don’t have a recipe, it’s just something I’ve come up with at some point of my life.

-cooked black beans
-shredded sweet potato (I use the largest side of my box grater)
-diced onion and garlic
-ground coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, salt, black pepper
-lemon juice
-egg (optional)

Cook the onion and garlic on a pan, add spices and let the spices cook as well, add shredded sweet potato and keep cooking until the sweet potato wilts a little.

Dump everything into a bowl, add the beans and knead the mixture with your hands, mushing up the beans. Add egg to help the mixture become easier to handle. (If you don’t want to use egg, you can puree some of the beans and use that as a binding agent.) Add lemon juice. Mush mush mush.

Form patties, cook on a pan or in the oven.

I eat the patties with a yogurt based sauce. Meaning: Greek yogurt with garlic, lemon, herbs, salt, pepper.

You can skip cooking the shredded sweet potato on the pan and increase the cooking time of the patties, but I find the mixture is easier to handle when the sweet potato is softer. You can also puree some of the mixture to make it even easier to stick together, but I like my patties chunky, so I just squeeze everything with my hands.

You can add herbs or whatever other veggies you’re into in the mixture as well.

 

[Boat1]

I don’t have a recipe, it’s just something I’ve come up with at some point of my life.

-cooked black beans
-shredded sweet potato (I use the largest side of my box grater)
-diced onion and garlic
-ground coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, salt, black pepper
-lemon juice
-egg (optional)

Cook the onion and garlic on a pan, add spices and let the spices cook as well, add shredded sweet potato and keep cooking until the sweet potato wilts a little.

Dump everything into a bowl, add the beans and knead the mixture with your hands, mushing up the beans. Add egg to help the mixture become easier to handle. (If you don’t want to use egg, you can puree some of the beans and use that as a binding agent.) Add lemon juice. Mush mush mush.

Form patties, cook on a pan or in the oven.

I eat the patties with a yogurt based sauce. Meaning: Greek yogurt with garlic, lemon, herbs, salt, pepper.

You can skip cooking the shredded sweet potato on the pan and increase the cooking time of the patties, but I find the mixture is easier to handle when the sweet potato is softer. You can also puree some of the mixture to make it even easier to stick together, but I like my patties chunky, so I just squeeze everything with my hands.

You can add herbs or whatever other veggies you’re into in the mixture as well.

YUMMY!!!
Thank you so much!... I can't wait to try my hand at that, as I LOVE both, sweet potatoes and black beans... This sounds like something I would enjoy eating on a regular basis!

 

[IrisAlthea]

We made lasagna yesterday and when assembling it, I realized one of the pasta sheets was going to be left over, as it didn’t fit the pan.
There was leftover bechamel too and we had smoked salmon in the fridge, so I made a salmon lasagna and brought it for lunch today.
I will be choosing the too small pan from now on and encourage Mr Althea to keep making absurd amounts of bechamel.

 

[seela]

We made lasagna yesterday and when assembling it, I realized one of the pasta sheets was going to be left over, as it didn’t fit the pan.
There was leftover bechamel too and we had smoked salmon in the fridge, so I made a salmon lasagna and brought it for lunch today.
I will be choosing the too small pan from now on and encourage Mr Althea to keep making absurd amounts of bechamel.

Always nice when things work out like that!

I made chicken meatball soup and J baked a bread.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Shredded chicken salsa with tortillas and mango salsa. The visiting vegetarian got to substitute the chicken with fried halloumi.

 

[Boat1]

Shredded chicken salsa with tortillas and mango salsa. The visiting vegetarian got to substitute the chicken with fried halloumi.

Now you've made me hungry!!!

 

[seela]

I made some mokkapalat, a mocha tray bake, for the Gloomhaven session we have today.

Mokkapalat is a part of basically every school bake sale and such here. It’s such a childhood thing, I don’t think I’ve made or had them in decades.

I checked for an English recipe to link here, but they all seemed to be wrong, so no recipe. (They all started by beating butter and sugar, which I get because that’s how the Anglo world tends to bake. Here the method is to beat the eggs and sugar into to a foam. It’s not supposed to be dense like a brownie.)

Anyways, I’m excited to soon have a taste of childhood!

 

[gracie920101]

Breakfast today was a faux quiche.
Place a large tortilla in a tarte pan - a pie pan works great!
Add 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese
Add 3 eggs and gently mix into the cottage cheese salt and pepper to taste
Add veggies of choice. Today I had cherry tomatoes and onion on hand but missed the bell pepper
Top with fresh spinach
Sprinkle cheese over the top of all I used grated Swiss and gruyere
Bake for 17-18 min in a 350 oven

 

[IrisAlthea]

I made some mokkapalat, a mocha tray bake, for the Gloomhaven session we have today.

Mokkapalat is a part of basically every school bake sale and such here. It’s such a childhood thing, I don’t think I’ve made or had them in decades.

I checked for an English recipe to link here, but they all seemed to be wrong, so no recipe. (They all started by beating butter and sugar, which I get because that’s how the Anglo world tends to bake. Here the method is to beat the eggs and sugar into to a foam. It’s not supposed to be dense like a brownie.)

Anyways, I’m excited to soon have a taste of childhood!

Is it like kärleksmums?

 

[seela]

Is it like kärleksmums?

Yep, same thing.

 

[seela]

Tomato feta quiche and salad. Perfect for leftover lunch.

 

[Boat1]

Tomato feta quiche and salad. Perfect for leftover lunch.

I love me some Quiche!
It's such a "versatile" food!

 

[IrisAlthea]

Yep, same thing.

Classic!

Youngest Miss Althea was going to bake kärleksmums for a tradition she has with some friends a couple of years ago and had asked me to make some coffee and put in the fridge for the icing.
I did and then when she was going to make the icing, she was talking to her friend and didn’t pay attention, so she somehow thought I had measured the correct amount of coffee already.
It turned into icing soup and we experimented with freezing it and can totally recommend, if someone likes buttercream/coffee flavoured ice cream.

A new batch of icing was made for the kärleksmums.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Today:


Yesterday’s Dutch Baby

 

[seela]

Yesterday J made pulled pork dogs (as in pulled pork in a hot dog bun) with leftover bits and bops for lunch and I made masala egg fry with zucchini for dinner.

Leftover eggs were lunch today. Dinner was tofu, bok choy, carrot and rice.

Lunch tomorrow will be beef and cabbage pierogis. I gotta make some room in the freezer for the new batch of pierogi I’m hoping to make next weekend. Dinner will be fish soup.

 

[BiBunny]

Fried potatoes with Polish sausage and soul food seasoning, broccoli and cheese, and more boiled squash (told y'all I was predictable). All that's missing is a few slices of good, ripe tomato, but it's the wrong time of year for that.

 

[CuriousRick]

Fried pork chops, home made biscuits and gravy

 

[IrisAlthea]

A bit of an asian theme this weekend:
Pork chops with hoisin based sauce, fennel and cucumber salad and garlic bread.

Sticky orange chicken with lemon rice and iceberg lettuce.