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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 26, 2019 23:12:20 GMT
Friday, 09/27
What’s new in your food/recipe world?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 26, 2019 23:12:36 GMT
I have nothing new with my food or recipes.
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Post by cathygeha on Sept 27, 2019 6:29:31 GMT
Wednesday I tried two recipes. One was quinoa with dried fruit and nuts in it - I have decided I don't like quinoa...would make it again but with rice instead. I also made a peach and tomato panzanella salad that I would make again.
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Post by lani on Sept 27, 2019 15:43:49 GMT
I make a lot of new recipes courtesy of my Clean Eating subscription. They have lately been featuring a lot of "sheet" dinners. You just put everything on a large baking sheet and roast it. So easy. You generally toss the ingredients in oil and spices. Sometimes marinate the protein. The ingredients are vegetables and various protein choices. They just list large choices of appropriate ingredients, and you pick which ones you want to use. Oh, and there's usually a sauce that you make from scratch and drizzle over the finished product. I like to cook and have plenty of time.
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Post by surfgirl on Sept 27, 2019 17:37:32 GMT
cathygeha,I love panzanella, but I always thought putting fruit and tomatoes in a salad was a 'choose one or the other' situation. You didn't find them competing for flavor attention? It looks lovely, BTW! lani, I don't know about sheet dinners but it sounds great for Fall and Winter with all those squashes that are around now. I could see adding some marinated tofu or tempeh to the sheet and tossing over some brown rice, or even some fresh salad for a warm salad. I'll have to try that! bbbearsmom, your cooking posts make me sad! Do you enjoy cooking, or not really? If the latter, no biggie, but if you like to cook and are just not motivated, why not get a good cookbook that speaks to you, and start going through it and making one thing a day, or a week? As for me, I was online yesterday shopping for bulk spices to send to my friends' daughter who just arrived in Cameroon to serve in the Peace Corps. She's following in my footsteps and I dont think she really cooks much at all though her mother is a good cook, so I'm making up a care package with spice mixtures so she can transform food into something tasty over the two years she'll be there. I did find cheese powder to make good old fashioned mac n cheese and she's excited about that so I'll get that, it's actually made from real cheese, who knew?!? But anyway, in searching for her, I found for myself some spices that I can no longer get in the US, and some new ones that I'm anxious to try out and that I think will transform dishes into something new. I must be getting old when finding interesting spices is exciting...! cathygeha, speaking of spices, I was trying to find a good Zatar spice for my friend and was boggled by the options. Do you use it in Lebanon and if so, is it true that it's not 'real' Zatar if it doesn't have Hysop in it? I never knew this until last night. When I was last in Amman, I was taken to an amazing spice shop and I bought a large bag of Zatar that was billed as "Palestinian", as in the oregano was picked from the hillsides of Palestine and is supposedly the best in the world, but I have nothing to compare it to. All I know is it was amazing, and I've run out. So...is the Hysop thing true or can real Zatar have oregano instead of Hysop?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 27, 2019 20:59:33 GMT
surfgirl, I just don't have the cooking bug. I have no food imagination.
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