Entries tagged as ‘cooking’
Marin Sun Farms gave us brisket two shipments in a row. Mister made a version of beef Bourgogne while we were up in Truckee.
I loved it. It was full of winey mushrooms and carrots that my picky nephews ate (sort of). He pulled out Arthur Schwartz’s Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited
for me while I browsed one of my slow cooker books.
In the end, I went with his recipe but used the timing from one of the slow cooker recipes. It was incredibly easy though the slicing of four onions was hell on Lentil and me.
Slow cooker on for 7.5 hours (I added another 45 minutes or so because the brisket was too big to evenly fit in the cooker and had to be flipped). Yum. Yum. Yum. Tender, flavorful meat. Yum. Yum. Yum. It wasn’t stringy, it wasn’t tough. The simple recipe let the brisket be brisket, taking in the onion flavor mixed with the fat of the meat.
It might not be proper, but I might toss in more carrots next time (Schwartz’s recipe does not include carrots but I added a couple).
Categories: What we made for dinner
Tagged: brisket, cooking, dinner
Mister and I instituted a new budget that includes food purchases. Then we got sick. Today, six days in, is the first in three that I’m not running a fever and don’t feel like hell. Still, my snot is chartreuse and I’m coughing with vigor so all is not perfect, just on the mend.
Our house is damn cold owing to one heater vent in the living room and no insulation anywhere. I’d left the portable electric heater on all day yesterday in our bedroom but the room was still frosty (imagine if the heater had been off). Mister proposed sleeping in the living room so we set up camp with me on the couch hacking away, Lentil in her Amby floating in space, and Mister on the aerobed on the floor. After five nights in the living room (or was it six?) I moved us up to Lentil’s room because she has the awesome sofabed. Not that the aerobed wasn’t comfortable, but I like not being in the draft of the living room floor.
During my time on teh couch, I surfed around looking for new recipes to work on our weekly menus. I found a recipe that was fantastic looking, so fantastic that Bon Appetitit included it in its best of blog list. Now I have no idea where I started, but I made this big pancake, also known as a Dutch baby, yesterday. I’d like to make these herb canneloni but Mister is the pasta maker. Sassy Radish has this snappy looking pepita brittle, but what she also posted … dark chocolate cherry muffins. Muffins? Really? Let’s call them what they are: cupcakes of love.
Also on my list of mmmmmmyummy from the blogs?
Go forth and cook!
Categories: Shelf Life · Trunk Life · What we made for dinner
Tagged: cooking, food, recipes
I was pleased with myself the other night as I slipped two cups of red lentils into a pot of boiling water to make curry lentils. The rice cooker was doing its thing as I stirred the lentils from red into creamy yellow. A protein- and fiber-rich lunch!
Alas, it was also flavorless as I did not put in enough salt so eating my lentils and rice while hosting knitting club this week wasn’t much fun and now the lentils are in the fridge waiting to be fixed. I’ve been too lazy to address the lentil issue let alone make anything else. (Seven boiled eggs still waiting to become egg salad.)
Cooking has become laborious, not adventurous around here. What caused the shift? Too many dishes to clean? (Even one dish is too many.) The couch and my knitting calls me more than the kitchen. Maybe I need to burn some sage in there to rejigger the mojo.
Categories: What we had for dinner · What we made for dinner
Tagged: cooking
