Comfort Food
Last night for dinner I made meatloaf, and some potato-asparagus hash as a side dish. The best part? Leftovers make great sandwiches:
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Sweet Potato Casserole
Massively unhealthy side dish, or slightly unhealthy dessert?* Start with some healthy, nutritious sweet potatoes. Cook them. Mash them. Mix in: butter, milk, sugar, egg. Put mixture into a casserole dish. THEN, as if that is not enough, top the casserole with a mixture of pecans/flour/brown sugar/butter(yes, really, more butter).
And another picture, just to prove that there really are sweet potatoes under there:
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Beef Stew with Root Vegetables
Last night, I made a batch of stew, based on this recipe. Except the grocery store didn’t have rutabaga, so I substituted turnip. Also I forgot to get barley, so I substituted steel cut oats (and cut down on the flour, since the oats have plenty of starch to thicken the stew). Oh, and I tossed in a potato, since I had one. And some thyme. And I didn’t have beef broth handy, so I used half chicken broth and half water with dissolved beef …
More Mango
I think mangoes look kind of neat sliced up this way (and it really is the most convenient way to get diced mango for mango salsa) so I took some pictures.
More Pictures of Food
I’m always looking for an excuse to cook tasty food, so for V-day dinner, Peter and I had steak with wild mushroom risotto. And, for dessert, raspberry-lemon cake (i.e. lemon cake, with whipped cream, raspberries, and raspberry sauce).
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Cooking with Blood Oranges
So here’s what I came up with, while playing around with the blood oranges: mixed baby green salad with vinaigrette dressing, thin-sliced shallots, and blood orange segments. I also made salmon with shallot-citrus-butter sauce, but it got eaten before I had a chance to photograph it :)
Today’s secret ingredient is…
Blood oranges! I saw these at the grocery store today, and decided to try them out. They taste just about identical to regular oranges, but are a nifty crimson color. (The one in the photograph is an orange section with the skin removed, which is the way I wanted to prep them to go with tonight’s dinner — had I been thinking more photographically, I probably would have cut some cross-sections. Oh well.)
Mango Salsa
One of my Clarion classmates came over for dinner today (yay!!), so I whipped up some jerk chicken (spicy marinated Jamaican-style chicken) with mango salsa (mango, red pepper, red onion, cilantro & lime juice). Then, after dinner, vanilla ice cream and the cookies from my last post. Yum!
Ginger Molasses Cookies
I don’t do a lot of baking, but tinaconnolly and I made these as a team the last time we got together, so I thought I could pull it off. For some reason, last time they were puffier, whereas this time they are flat and crinkly. I’m puzzled as to what made them come out so different, but at least they still taste good!
