A steam tray looks like this and you place it in a pan (or pot) above a bit of boiling water. Steaming is a healthy and delicious cooking method. It allows vegetables to remain fairly crisp and retain their flavor, while being lower fat than lightly sauteeing them would be. There are some cool looking silicone steam trays. Silicone is the new black.
rebeccafrog sounds like an excellent mentor for you as a cook. You did a great job of substituting ingredients.
Ok, padawan, I have much advice based on this post. Some of this I already said in the car on the way home, but since I don't entirely know what I did and didn't say, I'll respond in its entirety, as things occur to me. First off, kudos again for noticing which veggies are in season. A cook is only as good as his or her ingredients. I can work a fair amount of magic with inferior ingredients, but high-quality ingredients are the key in making other people think you've done magic, even if you haven't
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All excellent advice, thank you. I was about to use something very close to your method for cooking the broccoli, then got nervous and added more water.
Oooh, now I'm excited to try more salads. Wine, lemon juice, feta, beds of spinach... Mmmmmm. I'm very curious whether the beer would have worked; I believe I'll grab more vegetables and try that with the Fat Tire I still have on hand.
It did occur to me while making the risotto that I could probably do this again with whatever ingredients I desired, nearly with my eyes closed. It is really simple. Good to know about the cheese.
It also works just fine to use a whole pan of boiling water, but you need to watch it more carefully. Broccoli goes surprisingly quickly from crisp to mushy. If you're really on top of things (in a way that I almost never am), you can reserve the water from cooking the veggies, and use it as the water for your broth.
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rebeccafrog sounds like an excellent mentor for you as a cook. You did a great job of substituting ingredients.
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Oooh, now I'm excited to try more salads. Wine, lemon juice, feta, beds of spinach... Mmmmmm. I'm very curious whether the beer would have worked; I believe I'll grab more vegetables and try that with the Fat Tire I still have on hand.
It did occur to me while making the risotto that I could probably do this again with whatever ingredients I desired, nearly with my eyes closed. It is really simple. Good to know about the cheese.
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