4 posts tagged “cooking”
... on woody frozen Halibut steaks...
What Was I thinking?
Forgot to eat lunch... (How does a fat chick forget to eat lunch?) so it was important that food happen quickly. squant had previously thawed some frozen TJ halibut steaks, so I went to town on them.
While ~2 tablespoons of butter stuff melt on high heat in frying pan, squeeze some lemon juice, then grind some black pepper on each side of the halibut steaks. Pop em in the pan when it's smokin' hot, set timer for 7 minutes. Squeeze garlic out of the garlic press onto the uncooked side.
At 3 minutes in, decide you overestimated the cooking time and wait until 3:30, then flip the fish.
When timer goes off, put the fish on plates. Turn off flame, wait a minute for frying pan to chill out. Re-light burner, this time on low. Put one more tablespoon of butter in it, then 1/3 cup plain creamline yogurt. Mix. Add some dill, a lot of garlic powder, and some lemon pepper. Stir until sauce is lumpily consistent. (About 2 minutes).
Pour fancily (or sassily) over the fish. Plate the delicious salad squant made, serve with a saucy white wine, even though white wine always gets you too drunk. (Get saucy!)
The Verdict
"I liked the crunchy bits of the fish and the sauce was also tasty."
What Was I thinking?
I was thinking it was late, I hadn't eaten all day, and squant mentioned we had a couple of cans of black beans. Need food that basically makes itself.
Recipe
Cook in rice cooker:
- 1 1/2 c toasted quinoa
- 3 c water
- 2 tbsp corn oil
Mix together in 9 x 12 baking dish
- 1 triangle wedge of pepper jack cheese, grated
- 2 cans black beans, drained
- 1 medium sized tub salsa fresca
- Cooked quinoa from above
Serve in a bowl with corn (or in my case soy flax seed cause I like em') chips as silverware. Put 1/2 avacado on each and a few dollops of good, hot salsa.
The Verdict
squant "I was really worried when it came out of the oven that the beans and cheese and salsa would be overwhelmed by the quinoa but this is freaking delicious."
And it was. Freaking delicious. Also, cheap mccheaperson.
Otherwise known as oatmeal raisin flaxseed macadamia nut coconut cookies.
What Was I thinking?
I was thinking the counter project had just started, we had a four day weekend ahead of us, and there were a number of recipes on the interweb which alluded to the possibility of some delicious cookies.
Recipe
In one bowl mix:
- 1 c flour
- 1 c flax meal
- 1 c shredded coconut
- 1 c macadamia nuts
- 2 c oatmeal (1/2 steel cut irish style, 1/2 toasted regular flattish oats)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
In another bowl cream together
- 1 c brown suga'
- 1 c wht suga'
- 1 c vegan buttery spread stuff
Then beat into the sugar mix:
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
Mix the two bowls together and add:
- 1/2 c raisins
Drop the cookies (about 2 tbsp worth) about 1 inch apart on oiled cookie sheets. Try not to eat too much of th raw dough. It's good, but it's better cooked. Cook about 10 minutes. Check, then cook for another 15 minutes. Man, those suckers smell good. Notice Squant staking around the kitchen. Squant wants cookies.
Take the cookies out of the oven. They are HOT. Try not to burn fingers or tongue attempting to eat cookies before they have cooled.Wait five minutes. Use a very stiff spatula to scrape the suckers off the sheet. They're stuck. But oh, so freaking delicious. Stop at 4 with a congratulations to yourself that you've done well. Feed the same number to squant.
The Verdict
He likes them.
These cookies will not last nearly as long as 24 giant cookies should last two people. At my house, we had one with each meal. Sometimes after dinner we'd have two.
The good news is they are full of fiber.
They could probably stand to have the butter spread stuff halved, or even quartered. Flax meal adds a lot of oil, so they were slightly more greasy than necessary.
In which gribblet and squant resolve to be completionists. They clean out the cupboards and place everything on the counter that hasn't been touched in 6 months.
The rule is: each meal must include something off the counter until the counter is clean.
What's on the counter:
- 2 c Yellow And Green split peas (Woulda been more but some got away)
- 3 c Shredded unsweetened coconut
- 2 c macadamia nuts
- 3 Cups Whole ground flaxseed meal
16 RyVita Light rye whole gran crisp breads2 13/5 oz cans trader joes light organic cocnut milk - 15% less fat than regular cocnut milk- 30 Raisins - big fruity ones, too.
1 lb. Organic quinoa- 1 box (6oz) safeway cornbread stffing mix - microwaveable
8 oz (by weight) Rice stik pasta15 oz can low fat split pea soup20 oz pineaple chunks in unsweetened pineapple juice- 2/3 of a bottle blue corn atole (gruel)
Shitload of "falafel"- One betty crocker pie crust
- Some popcorn, about one movie night's worth for two people.
Hang on, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
