recipe Friday
Something I cooked recently: I cooked up a nice big pot of one of my favorites, mung bean and coconut milk stew. Lately I've taken to adding a half teaspoon or so of shrimp paste to the dish as the beans are coming to a simmer. It adds another dimension to the flavor. And this time I used palm sugar rather than regular sugar, since I had some on hand, and added both pork and a few shrimp.
Something I have solid plans to cook soon: Well, as usual at this time on a Friday, I have bread about to go into the oven. This week it's the four-grain pot boule from Kneadlessly Simple, which combines regular wheat flour with a little cornmeal, rolled oats, and rye flour to make a lovely deep-flavored loaf.
Later I will probably stir-fry some green beans with some ((storebought) baked flavored bean curd.
Apart from that I don't know. I should go to the store today and get some more vegetables.
Something I'm idly thinking about cooking in the future: I'd like to cook up some posole or green chile pork stew, or perhaps a green chile stew with posole in it, which while highly inauthentic sounds like the epitome of yum. And I still want pork vindaloo. Why does pork shoulder never seem to go on sale?
I'm craving oden, a slow-simmered Japanese stew of fish products and bean curd, but the ingredients are really expensive so I probably shouldn't.
And I want to bake a polenta, almond and lemon cake from a recipe in one of Nigella Lawson's books. I need to see how much almond meal costs, though.
(Champagne taste and a beer budget, that's me. Or more like beer taste and a Kool-Aid budget, since it's not like I'm wishing for caviar with blinis, and lobster to follow. Though that would be nice too . . . )
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Something I have solid plans to cook soon: Well, as usual at this time on a Friday, I have bread about to go into the oven. This week it's the four-grain pot boule from Kneadlessly Simple, which combines regular wheat flour with a little cornmeal, rolled oats, and rye flour to make a lovely deep-flavored loaf.
Later I will probably stir-fry some green beans with some ((storebought) baked flavored bean curd.
Apart from that I don't know. I should go to the store today and get some more vegetables.
Something I'm idly thinking about cooking in the future: I'd like to cook up some posole or green chile pork stew, or perhaps a green chile stew with posole in it, which while highly inauthentic sounds like the epitome of yum. And I still want pork vindaloo. Why does pork shoulder never seem to go on sale?
I'm craving oden, a slow-simmered Japanese stew of fish products and bean curd, but the ingredients are really expensive so I probably shouldn't.
And I want to bake a polenta, almond and lemon cake from a recipe in one of Nigella Lawson's books. I need to see how much almond meal costs, though.
(Champagne taste and a beer budget, that's me. Or more like beer taste and a Kool-Aid budget, since it's not like I'm wishing for caviar with blinis, and lobster to follow. Though that would be nice too . . . )
Crossposted at Dreamwidth (
comments); you can comment here or there.