What was the last meal you cooked?
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Keto breakfast casserole: eggs, cheddar cheese, sausage, spinach, and spices.2
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755 calorie bowl of oatmeal featuring, but not limited to: peanut butter, Nutella, buttermilk syrup from a local restaurant, banana, and homemade pecan granola.
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Today I made a Mexicali Casserole before I left for work at 1:00 pm. My husband will have that for dinner and we will finish it up tomorrow. Probably add a salad, too.
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Vietnamese garlic noodles are an unlikely recipe containing butter, garlic, sugar, fish sauce, oyster sauce, parmesan. Really good though.
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Dinner was Rib eye steak, Spinach salad and Onion rings per request of my son.2
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French lentil chard soup with cherry tomatoes & polenta 😋4
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Does heating up leftover pasta alla vodka the hubby made for breakfast count as cooking?
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I'm in the process of doing Alistair Little's salade Nicoise for tonight.
https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/keep99080c01s001ss005r009/salade-nicoise
Made the dressing last night. Blanched beans in the microwave for 3minutes. Boiled the potatoes put them in the dressing while still warm. Have put in the tomato and olives. Prior to serving need to sear some tuna steaks and rest and slice them. Slice the hard boiled eggs sitting in the fridge. Toss with the green salad in the dressing.2 -
Indian vegetarian food based in tofu and vegetables--it was great, eaten with some coconut oil in there for healthy fats.1
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Banana brownies no sugar no flour but satisfies chocolate sweet craving. Half with gluten free semisweet chocolate chips and half with dark chocolate sunflower cups
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I made this cornbread recipe (well, kinda. I changed the ratios and used some buckwheat). Not mad at it and will make again.1
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snowflake954 wrote: »Today I made my husbands favorite--Pasta with butter. I used penne pasta cooked al dente, after I drained it I put it back in the pan and put cutup slices of butter on to melt, stir, then I sprinkled freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano on top, stirred again and added a little of the cooking water (that I saved in a cup), stir again and serve. More cheese can be sprinkled on top at the table. The trick is to use a very good quality semolino pasta. This is very simple and anyone can do it.
this is what alfredo started out as...
toss in some garlic & fresh herbs and it is even better.
Last thing I cooked...2 hrs ago...sweet potato & black bean burritos (Moosewood recipe) with spanish(ish) rice.2 -
4oz Hanger steak, small baked potato with yogurt & chives, wilted Kale with shaved Parmesan and 4oz of Pinot Noir...
Very excited to say 543 calories 🤩✌️3 -
oven baked chicken fajitas (I skipped the tortillas, I would rather have the filling anyway)
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melaniedscott wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Today I made my husbands favorite--Pasta with butter. I used penne pasta cooked al dente, after I drained it I put it back in the pan and put cutup slices of butter on to melt, stir, then I sprinkled freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano on top, stirred again and added a little of the cooking water (that I saved in a cup), stir again and serve. More cheese can be sprinkled on top at the table. The trick is to use a very good quality semolino pasta. This is very simple and anyone can do it.
this is what alfredo started out as...
toss in some garlic & fresh herbs and it is even better.
Last thing I cooked...2 hrs ago...sweet potato & black bean burritos (Moosewood recipe) with spanish(ish) rice.
I know--we have the original restaurant here in Rome where it was "invented". The owner, Alfredo, made it for his pregnant wife who had no appetite. She loved it and "Pasta Alfredo" was born.
Cacio and Peppe--usually a thick spaghetti (boughten or handmade) that is mixed with a creamy pecorino cheese sauce and freshly ground pepper. This is also a famous Roman dish.2 -
Cacio e Pepe is great and one of the lighter ways to eat pasta with cheese. Only 40 g pecorino per person plus starchy pasta water. Though less likely to split if you add a little butter or oil.2
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Cacio e Pepe is great and one of the lighter ways to eat pasta with cheese. Only 40 g pecorino per person plus starchy pasta water. Though less likely to split if you add a little butter or oil.
Cacio e Pepe is one of the most difficult pasta dishes to make. It's simple but you need to know your stuff. It can become a lump (glue) in a minute. I love it when it's done right.2 -
snowflake954 wrote: »Cacio e Pepe is great and one of the lighter ways to eat pasta with cheese. Only 40 g pecorino per person plus starchy pasta water. Though less likely to split if you add a little butter or oil.
Cacio e Pepe is one of the most difficult pasta dishes to make. It's simple but you need to know your stuff. It can become a lump (glue) in a minute. I love it when it's done right.
I am finding Cacio e Pepe works best for me if I do it in a room temperature bowl. The hubby is fanatic about very hot pasta and whenever he asks me to try to do it in the hot pan the pasta boiled in, it splits into cheese flavoured wine gums and salty water. I will make one last attempt in the hot pan, adding a little cold butter first. If that doesn't work will go back to my normal method in the cold bowl where I manage with just starchy water and the finely grated cheese.
I don't know how restaurants manage to serve this piping hot.1 -
snowflake954 wrote: »Cacio e Pepe is great and one of the lighter ways to eat pasta with cheese. Only 40 g pecorino per person plus starchy pasta water. Though less likely to split if you add a little butter or oil.
Cacio e Pepe is one of the most difficult pasta dishes to make. It's simple but you need to know your stuff. It can become a lump (glue) in a minute. I love it when it's done right.
I am finding Cacio e Pepe works best for me if I do it in a room temperature bowl. The hubby is fanatic about very hot pasta and whenever he asks me to try to do it in the hot pan the pasta boiled in, it splits into cheese flavoured wine gums and salty water. I will make one last attempt in the hot pan, adding a little cold butter first. If that doesn't work will go back to my normal method in the cold bowl where I manage with just starchy water and the finely grated cheese.
I don't know how restaurants manage to serve this piping hot.
I've watched numerous chefs here do it. I think the trick is to cook the pasta al dente or a little less, put in some hot water from cooking it, and then let it rest a minute or two, but before the pasta gets sticky, and quickly mix in the grated cheese. When we order it in restaurants, it's wonderfully creamy. I've also had it mixed in the hollowed out pecorino cheese round at the table.1 -
Pasta w clams, a few chopped oblong tomatoes, garlic, red pepper, black pepper, white wine and EVOO.
A note for Tomak--I'm taking pictures of what I'm cooking, just have to figure out how to post. The APP is in Italian and won't give me access to the English boards, I can only post to my news-feed. To get photos from phone to computer is complicated because my phone is a Sansung S8 and my computer a MacBook Air. My son is working on it. When I figure it out--watch out. You will have created a monster. I love to shoot photos.1 -
just_Tomek wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Cacio e Pepe is great and one of the lighter ways to eat pasta with cheese. Only 40 g pecorino per person plus starchy pasta water. Though less likely to split if you add a little butter or oil.
Cacio e Pepe is one of the most difficult pasta dishes to make. It's simple but you need to know your stuff. It can become a lump (glue) in a minute. I love it when it's done right.
I am finding Cacio e Pepe works best for me if I do it in a room temperature bowl. The hubby is fanatic about very hot pasta and whenever he asks me to try to do it in the hot pan the pasta boiled in, it splits into cheese flavoured wine gums and salty water. I will make one last attempt in the hot pan, adding a little cold butter first. If that doesn't work will go back to my normal method in the cold bowl where I manage with just starchy water and the finely grated cheese.
I don't know how restaurants manage to serve this piping hot.
I've watched numerous chefs here do it. I think the trick is to cook the pasta al dente or a little less, put in some hot water from cooking it, and then let it rest a minute or two, but before the pasta gets sticky, and quickly mix in the grated cheese. When we order it in restaurants, it's wonderfully creamy. I've also had it mixed in the hollowed out pecorino cheese round at the table.
I just saw Jamie Oliver do this. He was adding pasta water and constantly tossing until it all became runny. Took a while but the result this way was amazing. He was saying you cannot let it rest even for a bit or it will set solid.... which might not be a bad thing if you have a knife handy
You know, I love this dish and am determined to get it. I've had it in restaurants and it's fantastic, especially with tonnerelli pasta. Tonnerelli is a fresh pasta that looks like thick spaghetti.
Another that I've almost got is a Naples staple--Pasta alla Scarpariello. Same thing trying to get a creamy cheese mixture, only with smoked cheese and tomato sauce.1 -
snowflake954 wrote: »just_Tomek wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Cacio e Pepe is great and one of the lighter ways to eat pasta with cheese. Only 40 g pecorino per person plus starchy pasta water. Though less likely to split if you add a little butter or oil.
Cacio e Pepe is one of the most difficult pasta dishes to make. It's simple but you need to know your stuff. It can become a lump (glue) in a minute. I love it when it's done right.
I am finding Cacio e Pepe works best for me if I do it in a room temperature bowl. The hubby is fanatic about very hot pasta and whenever he asks me to try to do it in the hot pan the pasta boiled in, it splits into cheese flavoured wine gums and salty water. I will make one last attempt in the hot pan, adding a little cold butter first. If that doesn't work will go back to my normal method in the cold bowl where I manage with just starchy water and the finely grated cheese.
I don't know how restaurants manage to serve this piping hot.
I've watched numerous chefs here do it. I think the trick is to cook the pasta al dente or a little less, put in some hot water from cooking it, and then let it rest a minute or two, but before the pasta gets sticky, and quickly mix in the grated cheese. When we order it in restaurants, it's wonderfully creamy. I've also had it mixed in the hollowed out pecorino cheese round at the table.
I just saw Jamie Oliver do this. He was adding pasta water and constantly tossing until it all became runny. Took a while but the result this way was amazing. He was saying you cannot let it rest even for a bit or it will set solid.... which might not be a bad thing if you have a knife handy
You know, I love this dish and am determined to get it. I've had it in restaurants and it's fantastic, especially with tonnerelli pasta. Tonnerelli is a fresh pasta that looks like thick spaghetti.
Another that I've almost got is a Naples staple--Pasta alla Scarpariello. Same thing trying to get a creamy cheese mixture, only with smoked cheese and tomato sauce.
This is not the official way to do it, but I get consistent results using the technique here. Mix the cheese and pasta water in a room temperature bowl until a bechamel consistency and then toss the pasta in it. Only hubby complains it is not piping hot.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2016/nov/03/how-to-make-the-perfect-cacio-e-pepe
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Last night’s dinner was just a giant bowl of stir fried (low oil) broccoli and bell peppers. No rice necessary. I used a tbs of teriyaki sauce, 2 tbs soy sauce, a half tbs of oyster sauce and some sriracha. A literal drop of corn starch and water went into the sauce to thicken then I poured it over my veggies. Topped with a sprinkle of sesame seeds. Ez dinner.4
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Friday was salmon and broccoli.
Saturday was Air fried chicken wings and salad. I also baked a banana bread. I added on top of the 2 bananas, 1 super ripe pear and held the sugar. Turned out moist and sweet
Sunday was Crockpot Chicken thighs with cabbage and salsa.
Made cilantro lemon sauce too.1 -
Cauliflower hot wings - vegan heaven recipe. The flavors were a knock out, but I’m gonna play with the recipe to try to get them a bit more crisp2
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Pasta w pesto
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Pasta w clams (yesterday)7 -
just_Tomek wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »
Pasta w clams (yesterday)
Beauty. You got the pics 😉
Yessssssss!!1 -
Glad you got the pics working @snowflake954.
BTW I made linguine cacio e pepe yesterday using this technique.
https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/02/spaghetti-cacio-e-pepe-recipe.html
The cheese didn't melt entirely into the past water but I was afraid to apply heat and get that gummy mess. I do like my cacio e pepe a little on the dry side.
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