Recent culinary successes
Wow, talk about making a purse out of a pig's ear (note to K: this is not a suggestion, step away from the pig!). I managed to avert total dinner disaster, and make some really yummy yummy foods. Okay, let's do this stepwise:
This afternoon B is going in to work to start his grading. The kids and I will probably go hunting for a few more xmas decorations, maybe some walking shoes for me, boots for Alex, and then it's home to make spice cookies and write our letters to Santa! So far Alex has a fairly specific list: piano lessons, rollerskates, and to be turned into a superhero.
- Utterly fail at making paneer for Palak Paneer. NB: do NOT NOT NOT use ultrapasteurized milk to make paneer. Heck, if possible, do not use ultrapasteurized dairy products at all (unless you really enjoy milk that tastes of chalk-coated cardboard). Anyway, I did not make a lovely chunk of mild, cut-able cheese. Instead, I made something reminiscent of ricotta, but sweeter. So my dinner plans collapsed. What to do?
- Dig through the Thai cookbook that K just loaned me and find three recipes for which we have, more or less, within acceptable tolerances, all the ingredients, mostly. The dishes in question:
- Thai corn fritters
- Sesame Thai egg noodles
- bananas poached in rose-water coconut milk
- Okay, total yum, all of them.
- This morning, I take the "ricotta-esque" mixture, heat it with some cream, honey and (it turns out) a bit too much vanilla. Spread in fresh crepes, top with heated peach preserves.... *swoon*
This afternoon B is going in to work to start his grading. The kids and I will probably go hunting for a few more xmas decorations, maybe some walking shoes for me, boots for Alex, and then it's home to make spice cookies and write our letters to Santa! So far Alex has a fairly specific list: piano lessons, rollerskates, and to be turned into a superhero.