Text 28088, 76 rader
Skriven 2009-08-30 18:27:18 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 28019 av Carol Shenkenberger (2011.cooks)
Ärende: curry
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Hi Carol,

 > Yes but we need to sort of keep an eye on the cholesterol numbers.
 > Nothing seriou but the potential is there for problems if we're not
 > careful.

 CS> Thats my main problem with Paula Deen's food.  As a specialty, I've
 CS> had many of her southern dishes made that way, but she overdoes it.
 CS> I'm not saying they wouldnt taste good, but i can't live on that sort
 CS> of stuff!


None of us could eat that way all the time.  We try to temper times of
eating that kind of cooking with longer stretches of leaner, less
cholesterol building foods. If we're at a pot luck or buffet, I might
take a small piece of fried chicken and load the plate with other
alternatives

 CS> Conversely today was an odd one.  I am somewhat outa-stuff just now
 CS> but not major levels.  I am out of rice (dang, how did that last load
 CS> of 25 lbs go that fast!).  I had chinese celery and baby bok choy for
 CS> greens.  Shrug, blanched them together with some sesame oil and they
 CS> were mighty good eats!

Sometimes the best meals come out of the "out of all this but have that"
situations. It's a challenge to the cook's creativity but usually
something good tasting comes of it.  I tried a recipe for lamb kebabs
(from a flyer I got at Lowe's Foods) last night.  It called for about
12oz of regular eggplant, peeled and cubed. I had some Japanese eggplant
but only about half of what was needed so we picked up some mushrooms.
The eggplant was ok but the mushrooms were better.  They also had cherry
tomatoes; we'll see what else we can try with them. The recipe also
called for a boneless leg to be cut up; we subbed a shoulder roast.
Next time we'll use a leg but have enough scraps and bone for the start
of a stew.

 CS> Then walked with Charlotte the 3/4 or so mile to the local chinese
 CS> place (need to walk more, back getting wonky due to not doing enough)
 CS> and got some eggrolls (I've had 5 star ones and thats good but this is
 CS> local, hot, and a reasonable 3.5 for 1.10 each).  I got Don his
 CS> favored Chicken dish (Egg phoo chicken I guess, I forgot the name,
 CS> comes in brown sauce and is a egg coated chicken that is a bit like
 CS> chicken fried chicken steak).  I tried the pork and cabbage and it's
 CS> decent.  I'd get it again.  HUGE servings for 4.95 lunch.

You usually do get a lot of decent food for a low cost at Asian places.
We miss the little hole in the wall Korean places that seemed to be
everywhere in HI.

 CS> So now, I'm looking both at dinner and work lunches.  I'll need to
 CS> make more bread but have enough for next 3 days or so (a chewy texture
 CS> french).  I'm looking at 2 red bell peppers, some defrosted ground
 CS> turkey, and some
 CS> meatloaf recipes of which Sean's wife Maura's seems to win just now.
 CS> Posted last note or so, it's simple and looks easy to adapt from.  The
 CS> main adaption is i dont have any tomato sauce.  I got spagetti sauce
 CS> though and Jufran. Humm ;-)  Might use ketchup as i dont want to open
 CS> the big jar for that.

 CS> Humm, got almost enough salsa to do that.

 CS> Wish me luck!

I saw that note; I'd go with either the salsa or spaghetti sauce.
Depends on if I wanted to put an Italian or Mexican spin on it.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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