What did you Bake/Cook Today?!?!?! :)

[prplchknz]

omlette with country ham,kale,shallots,garlic,mushrooms, and butterkase cheese. (i suck at folding omlettes btw, oh a sauted the garlic, shallots, and kale in peppercini infused olive oil [i would've done the mushrooms but all we had were canned] then took those out added a small amount of butter and did the rest of the omlette), fried apples, biscuits, and my mom made the potato pancakes.

 

[EJCC]

Made this for my folks and it turned out amazing:

- 1 box linguine
- 1 large frozen chicken breast, thawed and cut into thin-ish strips
- 1 container Trader Joe's pesto
- 1 sweet onion, sliced
- Tons of fresh spinach
- Tons of parmesan cheese
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Olive oil

I started with the onions and olive oil in a large, deep skillet, then added the chicken, then the spinach (once the chicken was done and the onions were cooked without being too soft) and s&p. Then added the cooked pasta and pesto and drizzled a little extra oil on top. Served with parm on the side so everyone could decide how much they wanted.

 

[BadOctopus]

I'm going to attempt to make this: Orecchiette with Ham and Leeks Recipe : Food Network Kitchen : Food Network

This will be my first time making pasta from scratch. Wish me luck.

 

[Coriolis]

Cranberry pistachio biscotti, for a holiday party:

 

[Redbone]

Cinnamon raisin biscuits--first breakfast of the year!

 

[Redbone]

More cooking...buttermilk fried chicken, black-eyed peas with smoked pig trotters, rice, cornbread--real cornbread, not that sweet cake mess, and Swiss chard (no goddamn decent collards in this place!) and oranges. Need all the good luck we can for 2015.

 

[Showbread]

Homemade crusty French bread to go with the split pea soup my mom with a ham bone we had frozen after Christmas. Mmmmmm.

 

[miss fortune]

chicken chilindron... roasted my own red peppers for it too and it turned out amazingly awesome

also a crusty herb bread to sop up the awesomely peppery broth

and then I baked some cookies with some chocolate chips and left over cranberries and pistachios from christmas baking

and after that made a cup of thai tea for myself

 

[LonestarCowgirl]

Tonight, I cooked old fashioned Quaker oatmeal on the stove with milk. When done, I mixed in a small can of Dole chopped pineapple. It took me about 15 minutes total to think about it and cook it up.

 

[capslock]

baking experiment going on, involving: coconut, almond flour, frozen/thawed and grilled bananas, raw cocoa powder and a few other things - we'll see how it turns out

Edit: it was delicious!

and now i'm cooking a bolognese

 

[prplchknz]

baked ziti:
pic right before going into the oven

also made cucumber salad and my room mate is suppose to make garlic bread

 

[Kullervo]

Black Forest trifle

The addition of fresh cherries makes this a seasonal, festive dish. The cherry season here straddles December and January, and I used some of my own cherries from home to make this last night actually. Everybody seemed quite happy...considering how much fucking tension there is in my family right now.

Here's the recipe btw

Ingredients
500ml tub ready-made chilled custard
100g milk chocolate, broken into pieces
400g chocolate brownies
500g fresh cherries (we have Lapins cherries, but it doesn't really matter)
100ml brandy diluted 1:1
300g tub double cream
200ml tub crème fraîche
grated chocolate, to decorate

Method
1. Put the custard into a pan with the chocolate pieces. Gently heat, stirring, until the chocolate has melted into the custard. Cover with cling film and cool.
2. Chop up the brownies and arrange them in the base of a trifle bowl. Once you have pitted the cherries, scatter them over the brownies. Drizzle over 100ml diluted brandy. Spoon the cooled chocolate custard over and chill while you make the topping.
3. Lightly whip the cream with the crème fraîche until soft peaks form. Chill until ready to serve, then pile on top of the trifle and decorate with grated chocolate.

(FTR: I made a number of adaptations to the original recipe, which for those who are interested, is here Black Forest trifle | BBC Good Food)

 

[EJCC]

Cooked this yesterday:

Soba Noodles with Swiss Chard–Miso Pesto Recipe - CHOW.com

Really yummy. Like miso soup without the soup.

 

[BadOctopus]

Last night I made ginger hoisin pork, with sesame garlic noodles and a vegetable stir-fry. It was really good, and there are lots of left-overs. Yay!

 

[INTP]

Beef was only 10 euros for a kilo

Featuring garlic cream potatoes(which i didnt make myself) and cream sauce with black pepper cream cheese, some extra black pepper and salt.

 

[Evastover]

Food porn

I made blueberry snack cake today.

 

[miss fortune]

yesterday I made red thai curry and also made banana nut bread... sure, they don't go together, but they both tasted good!

 

[Tellenbach]

Attempted to make beef meatballs using a Gordon Ramsay recipe. I used 6 cloves of garlic instead of the recommended 2, figuring these little guys are too tiny to have much of an effect. I also added too much black pepper and not enough sea salt. This is what happens when you don't give specific numbers to an ISTJ. Now I smell of garlic and have about half a pound of meatballs left.

 

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instant coffee

 

[miss fortune]

mark bittman's recipe for short rib with cinnamon pasta sauce that I'd tried from my copy of how to cook everything while I was in college... lost the book during a move and had to look it up again and it was as delicious as I'd remembered

served it with garlic and parsley fettucini and homemade bread and it was a pretty awesome dinner