Ham, Potato and Corn Chowder, Chicken Breast Duo and Honeycomb
It's fall time again and with the nip in the air, and my kitchen, I'm planning more substantial cooking projects that will warm me up.
Like this ham, potato and corn chowder I found on someone's blog. The ingredients are similar to a previous soup I've posted, other than using a roux to thicken it up to the consistency of a chowder. You can add whipping or half and half cream if you want to add richness to the dish. And don't mind the extra calories.
In the meantime, however, I thawed out the last of the boneless, skinless chicken breasts from my freezer (1 pound in total) and turned them into chicken and kale pesto spaghetti ...
... and a fast and tasty marinated Middle Eastern dish on skewers called chicken tawook.
Both are dishes I've made before so no recipes.
I recently got a late afternoon craving for something sweet and whipped up this variation on a peanut brittle. Honeycomb is a nut free toffee in which, similar to a brittle, baking soda is added to a caramelized sugar mixture. The sugar used and, most importantly, the amounts of baking soda added vary. The extra baking soda used in the honeycomb creates lots of bubbles resulting in a sponge-like texture that shatters in your mouth as your crunch down on it. I started with a brittle recipe but added an additional teaspoon of baking soda. Next time, I'll make a traditional honeycomb with brown sugar and molasses in place of the white sugar and corn syrup I used.
NOTE: DO NOT disturb your molten sugar mixture once you've poured it out onto your buttered or greased baking pan in order to even it out. You're flattening out all of those lovely bubbles if you do so.
Like this ham, potato and corn chowder I found on someone's blog. The ingredients are similar to a previous soup I've posted, other than using a roux to thicken it up to the consistency of a chowder. You can add whipping or half and half cream if you want to add richness to the dish. And don't mind the extra calories.
In the meantime, however, I thawed out the last of the boneless, skinless chicken breasts from my freezer (1 pound in total) and turned them into chicken and kale pesto spaghetti ...
... and a fast and tasty marinated Middle Eastern dish on skewers called chicken tawook.
Both are dishes I've made before so no recipes.
I recently got a late afternoon craving for something sweet and whipped up this variation on a peanut brittle. Honeycomb is a nut free toffee in which, similar to a brittle, baking soda is added to a caramelized sugar mixture. The sugar used and, most importantly, the amounts of baking soda added vary. The extra baking soda used in the honeycomb creates lots of bubbles resulting in a sponge-like texture that shatters in your mouth as your crunch down on it. I started with a brittle recipe but added an additional teaspoon of baking soda. Next time, I'll make a traditional honeycomb with brown sugar and molasses in place of the white sugar and corn syrup I used.
NOTE: DO NOT disturb your molten sugar mixture once you've poured it out onto your buttered or greased baking pan in order to even it out. You're flattening out all of those lovely bubbles if you do so.