Catching up on some recent meals to post.
An easy recipe for a classic way to prepare chicken. One of the many adaptations of coq au vin. I won’t post the recipe as there are so many variations. Basically a braised chicken with wine.
Posts Tagged ‘bacon
01
Feb
21
Chicken with wine
A popular dish in many forms and interpretations with different types of pasta. The basic ingredient bacon (or pork belly) with eggs. AKA spaghetti carbonara, ETC.
Simple Ingredients let the pictures tell the story…….
TOASTED BREAD, BREADCRUMBS
ADD BEATEN EGG
CHEESE
ADD THE BREADCRUMBS
SIDE OF TOMATO
PARM
SOME DISHES TO DO …. AND STUFF TO PUT AWAY…
15
May
19
beef stew pizza and ….
left over beef stew ! No problem !
sorta like stew with dumplings.
beef, potato, onion, cheese
Diane’s chicken BBQ pizza w/ onion
25
Apr
19
grille time 2019
Ahh… the warm weather approaches, and after some yard work it’s time to light up the grille under the shadow of an umbrella.. actually the second time I’ve started the charcoal this season.
Some dough that’s been fermenting, this batch with some dark spent grain barley adorns the all purpose flour. a very wet mixture, some corn flour made it more manageable. simply pressed into rounds, then off loaded to a wooden cutting board. decided to throw on a cast iron grille over the glowing hot embers. slightly at a tilt allowing one end to be hotter than the other for some temperature differential.
Hmmm….. some roasted grilled veggies would go good on the flatbread, mainly a bunch of broccoli, with the usual onion and garlic, green onion and celery. a spot of ginger, grated turmeric, salt and freshly ground quad blend of peppercorns. drizzle on some oil, toss and ready for the grille pan.
After the flatbread is grilled with the requisite char on some pieces, the perforated grill pan is placed on the hot cast iron surface.
Flatbread was thick and soft but with a flavor similaer to a pumpernickel bread.
ready to go with the veggies, start off with some bacon pieces to fat render for non stickiness.
raw veggie bowl ready for the grille pan.
once a slight char is attained, drizzled on some chicken broth and cover about ten minutes depending how limp you like the veggies.
Toss from time to time… MMMMM bacon bits !
Now your cover becomes a warm bowl to serve the veggies.
served over the flatbread with a porter style brew…. good close for the labor of yard work.
22
Mar
19
STIR FRY FOR YOU !
Two stir frys , one chicken and bacon and one spicy sausage.
15
Feb
19
Happy 💓 Day
Chicken barbecue bacon 😼
08
Jun
18
Grille/pizza night
Light the grille ! both propane and charcoal, pizza was the goal, I ended up also making flatbread, and spinach pies, my daughter manned the propane grille for her pizza, I’m the charcoal guy, if you don’t mind the char.
It’s also in the news today a report of a famous foodie that took his life, we must always be reminded that no matter what industry, it may take it’s toll, we don’t know or may never know the details and respect the privacy of persons involved. Some social media postings are too quick to judge , slander and defame someone who is unable to defend themselves.
17
Apr
18
Sausage stuffing
A small recipe, ingredients and quantities by eye.
Course diced pork
Bacon
Bacon fat
Seasonings of choice
green onion
Garlic
Combine the above in a food processor and with plastic wrap, roll and tie into sausages. Refrigerate at least overnight.
Diced bread crumbs
Diced celery and onion
Seasonings, Bell’s or other
Salt and pepper
Stock or water
Prepare the traditional stuffing recipe, saute the onion and celery with butter, the bread cubes were placed in an oven beforehand to dry out somewhat.
Mix and add enough stock to dampen the mixture. Add the sausage meat.
Place in a buttered pan and bake at about 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
Good as a side dish or small meal with salad.
Traditional Warm German Potato Salad
From…. https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=163339
One of the starts of a day, potato salad for breakfast? Well now that I am at the age of expansion (not by size 😌) of blogging and cooking skills, more time to plan the start of the day since this day does not require to work for the clock, so to speak. Sit in the yard outside in the cool morning. Breezing through the WordPress reader with the trusty cup of coffee and Diane also came to sit outside for some time and enjoy the late summer morning air. A reliance on social media and connectivity for inspiration, catching up on the news both local and global, Hmmm… this recipe look like something that would give me some first day nourishment. With the ingredients on hand, it was an easy, savory dish !
- Scrubbing potatoes…
- Prep ingredients…..
- Start the cooking……
- Sweat the onions and celery….
scrubbing potatoes
ingredients ready
cooking…
sweating onions and celery
starting the dressing
dicing potatoes
cooking the dressing
finishing the dressing
NOTE: I added a bit more sugar to the dressing, the apple cider vinegar used was of the home-made variety so it was a bit more pungent.
Finish by mixing in the dressing…. serve warm.
NOTE: if mobile device is below 20 % battery, then photostream won’t sync, once on charger though it works.
14
Jun
16
Shrimp and squid soup
A scaled down inspiration recipe from http://goanwiki.com/2016/06/10/sopa-de-camarao-recieta-shrimp-soup-recipe/ With a bit of a changeup.
You figure that being a New Englander born and raised that clam chowder would be a staple on the table. Quahogs are the large clams farmed from certain areas close to the beach or from the water with a bull rake. Shucking quahogs and preparing chowder and clam cakes were a part of my childhood, enough to where it has satisfied me to taste both only about once or twice a year. Those in the area will reminisce about Rocky Point , so I won’t carry on. Not too fussy about the clam cakes, but a good bowl of watery chowder swimming with quahogs and potatoes is a good tasting.
This recipe seems to get away from the clams and focus on my favorite sea foods (or as the joke goes “I eat all the food I see” (see food)).
What I had on hand was some shrimp and calamari, grape tomatoes and bacon with rendered fat. The Mrs. had made a salad and made bacon for garnish leaving me rendered fat and a piece for reserve.
Scaled down and with a couple of substitutions , it was done.
Chicken broth was substituted for the water from chicken that the wife cooks. Also the water that the shrimp and calamari defrosted in was utilized. Butter was augmented with the rendered bacon fat. The milk was replaced with a slight amount of heavy cream. I hesitated on adding hot pepper flakes but the cracked black pepper we use is spicy in itself. Some scallions were added for color. Bacon was crumbled for garnish.
The recipe process was largely unchanged so the photos tell the story.
MMMMMMMM…. Delicious, I skipped the bread , with an effort on weight maintenance, but your right , it would go good with oyster crackers. Another good meal to get fish in the diet.
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