What's cookin', good lookin'?

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I admire your fridge oddities, Seela!

 

[JulieRichUK]

Lamb steaks with dauphinoise potato and medley of roast veg. Bit heavy with the garlic, feeling a bit podged.

 

[seela]

I admire your fridge oddities, Seela!

You want the cloudberry liqueur candy too, don't you?

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

You want the cloudberry liqueur candy too, don't you?

Yes please!
Want my address?

 

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[seela]

Parsnip has been giving beets a good run for their money in my kitchen lately.

Parsnip pasta. Looks horrific because it's all white, but tastes so incredibly good and is so incredibly unhealthy.

Boil parsnips, blitz them into a sauce with pasta water, butter and cream. Salt, pepper, parmesan, a little bit of finely grated garlic (a little!!). A squeeze of lemon, a sprinkle of parsley. Enjoy. If you feel like it, some bacon probably goes well with the parsnip sauce, too.

It's such a sweet, earthy flavor. Heavy winter pasta at its finest. For even deeper flavors you can roast the parsnips, but it's mighty yummy even without roasting.

 

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[seela]

This makes me want to make and show beet risotto, which I think is one of the prettiest dishes I make. . More root veg winter goodness. Maybe next weekend?

Oh beet risotto is so, so good and very pretty! If you make it and post it, share the recipe too, it's always nice to compare.

 

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[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I have been into making this cinnamon raisin bread lately for my friend. I added nuts in addition to raisins, substituted coffee instead of plain water and soaked the raisins in coffee before I added them. It came out extra delicious this time

And yes, my friend gets her loaf of bread with a few slices missing

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[IrisAlthea]

I tried a new recipe monday, with salmon covered with cream cheese and chives and seved with aspargus.
Tuesday we had a great chicken salad with artichoke hearts, tomato, red bellpepper and lettuce.
Wednesday mussels and eggs on iceberg lettuce with toast.
Thursday was canned tuna mixed with boiled eggs, cucumber, sourcream, lemon and mayonnaise and served with lettuce and toast.
Friday was just a sandwich after having a beer with old friends but today was a crustless quiche with spinach, feta, red onion and tomatoes.

Tomorrow is going to be pasta au gratin with a tomato sauce, a creamy bechamel spiced with parmesan, mozarella and prosciutto crudo.

Food heaven week!

 

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[MeekMe]

I found some kimchi today at the market so I made kimchi soup. Just rice with gomashio on the side. It's perfect because today was a kind of cold I just can't handle.

 

[Vixandra]

I have made many cookies in my time and these were spec-fuckin-tacular! Peanutbutter Sugar Cookies

I made the dough using real butter, tossed it in the fridge while I ran out to fetch foodstuffs for the week, then baked it in a mini-muffin tin with miniature peanut butter cups in them. Let them cool until the whole cookie will spin in the niche then cool on a wire rack.

 

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[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I had something similar!

An Alsatian sausage with sauteed peppers and onions over grits with butter and cream.
Have I mentioned how much I am enjoying the cold weather and its effect on my dinners yet?

 

[seela]

I made lamb köfte with kisir and yogurt sauce yesterday. Turned out really yummy!

Today it'll be shahi paneer. I already made the paneer yesterday too.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Today it'll be shahi paneer. I already made the paneer yesterday too.

I need to look this up unless you will post a recipe?

I love paneer, but haven't been able to stomach the "sag" since that spinach episode some years ago which resulted in much retching and horror on my part

Glad your lamb turned out yummy. It's hard to go wrong with lamb

 

[seela]

I need to look this up unless you will post a recipe?

I love paneer, but haven't been able to stomach the "sag" since that spinach episode some years ago which resulted in much retching and horror on my part

Glad your lamb turned out yummy. It's hard to go wrong with lamb

I've gone horribly wrong with lamb when I cooked J for Jordan. It took me a long time to want to cook with lamb again after that. I should get on with my ABC cooking again, I think I'm still stuck at S for Slovenia.

Shahi paneer is paneer in a tomato cashew/melon seed curry. Sometimes I've seen dried fruit used in it too, but I don't like those much, so I make it without. I don't use any set recipe, so I can't give you one, but the method is the typical one for all curries.

What you need is sauteed onion, ginger, garlic and chili blitzed into a puree, thinly sliced onion, cubed tomatoes or tomato puree, a dollop of yogurt, cashew/melon seed puree (if you use whole cashews/melon seeds, soak them for a while first and then they're easy to blitz), cardamom, fenugreek, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, coriander seeds, fresh cilantro and of course paneer.

Start off by making the purees, then fry your spices and sautee onions, add purees, then tomato and paneer. If you you think it needs a bit creamier texture, you can add a small amount of yogurt or I suppose cream would work too, but I think the nut paste is often enough to make the curry creamy. Salt and pepper as needed. Garnish with fresh cilantro.

Be sure to sautee your onions well so that you get that needed bit of sweetness and fry your spices so that the flavor develops. If you're worried about burning the spices you can add a little water to them and make them into a paste too. That takes heat a bit better.

 

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[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Thanks seela! I will have to look for melon seed if I make this. I think I have seen this at my International Market, but I have never used it. I have not used fenugreek, either, but that I know I have seen there.

And yes, Elle, I got bit by the spinach event Honestly, I feel queasy just looking at the stuff sometimes. It took me a long time to be able to eat it again, and I can only eat it sparingly now.

 

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[seela]

Thanks seela! I will have to look for melon seed if I make this. I think I have seen this at my International Market, but I have never used it. I have not used fenugreek, either, but that I know I have seen there.

I always use cashews, because they're easy to come by. I've been meaning to buy melon seeds many times, but always seem to forget.

I love fenugreek. Good earthy stuff.