Anything from mundane to magical - let us know what you’re eating this week!
I prepped and froze a bunch of smash burger patties last week so we’ll be having burgers at some point. I like bacon and blue cheese on mine. Might do some tater tots on the side.
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It’s not a dish but I love making garlic puree as mise en place and I did that today :) it’s super convenient to have a soft, non pungent garlic that practically doesn’t spoil. I can’t recommend it enough! And definitely will keep doing it even though no one asked!
Recipe
Requirements
- peeled garlic (I don’t mind doing it myself but buying it pre- peeled will save you a lot of time)
- your choice of neutral cooking oil
- immersion blender
- small pot or saucepan with a lid
- optional sieve
I like to use about 8 bulbs of garlic on ~0.4L of oil and that lasts me about 2 months in a 2 person household.
Steps
- Put garlic into a pot and add oil until almost covered. The oil expands during heating so use a little less than you think you need.
- Heat up the oil on low-medium until you see bubbling.
- Cover the pot and turn the heat to low. Let it cook for about 45 mins or until your garlic is golden brown and completely soft (try with a fork).
- Drain the oil from the pot into it’s own container. Congrats you got yourself some bonus garlic oil that you can use to fry stuff in :)
- Puree your garlic with your immersion blender.
- Wait for everything to cool down before covering and refrigerating. This prevents condensed water dripping into your garlic which forms kinda gross grayish spots.
I remember reading that homemade garlic and oil can cause botulism! It may have just been when made with olive oil, but be careful!
Wow I didn’t know about that. It shouldn’t really be an issue though as long as you heat everything enough to pasteurise it 🤔
I just made some glazed salmon tonight. It was pretty good.
trying to pickle cabbage today, hope will not die of poisoning ;)
Tried yesterday the eggplant saganaki recipe of Akis. Very good!
Today I had lentils, rice, olives, sardines, and some bread. Oh, and some tea.
Did some hot sauce sunday.
I have some watercress in the fridge to do a pie, but it’s too warm at the moment
What kind of hot sauce? I’ve thought about making my own but never tried it
undefined> What kind of hot sauce? I’ve thought about making my own but never tried it
Basically, here is what I’ve done. Diced roughly 2 tomatoes, Diced roughly 5 small thai chilli, added a carrot which was aging in my fridge, some vegetable stock, garlic and parsley (would be even better with cilantro) pre-cook everything in a pan, I put in a blender and added vinegar.
Like a home-made industrial hot-sauce that you can eat with nachos, nuggets, nems, fries or whatever
Nice, that sounds like something I could do. Gonna have to give it a try soon
bought 3L of gazpacho for the morning and some shrimps for the evening
I made Sabich Sandwiches and Zhug for dinner this evening. It turned out really well.
Both of these look amazing! Definitely going to have to give it go
Still working on this week’s menu but last week was pretty eventful:
- grilled individual pizzas
- zucchini slice (sorta a crustless quiche)
- buffalo chicken Nachos and queso
- prosciutto and Fig Sandwiches w/lemon artichoke quinoa salad
- beef dragon noodles w/roasted broccoli and almond salad
I made a thai vegetable curry the other day with chickpeas that was so good. There’s a thai restaurant in town that does a curry dish that is topped with raw red onion, and I’ve been super into doing that and tons of lime when I make it too
I’ve never had curry but I like onion and lime! Is it hard to make?
It’s an absolutely scorching 26 degrees here on the West coast of Scotland and it’s an obscene heat for here and I am currently struggling to think of things to make that are suitable for this weather.
I made slow cooker chilli on Saturday as that didn’t require slaving over the cooker, so didn’t mind. Next night was 5 spice chicken salad and then BLTs last night, which went down a treat.
Pasta / potato salads are nice when it’s too hot to eat anything warm
It was 26 here yesterday and let me tell you, I have never regretted my decisions more than I did 20 minutes after putting that pasta bake in the oven.
It’s 29 today and I WAS thinking of soup :/
Cannot survive cooking indoors so I’m going to BBQ something or other and try not to start any wildfires.
Made some chili yesterday but it’s honestly not great. I’ll try a different recipe next time.
What didn’t you like about it? I have vague plans to meal prep some chili soon.
The amount of turkey in the recipe was not enough and the flavor isn’t super strong. I’m gonna try a different recipe next time and add some more spices.
Today was my turn to cook for my family on vacation. I made a vaguely Thai-inspired curry with local veggies:
- Three kohlrabi, peeled and cut into slices
- Leaves from the above, deveined, chunked
- 1" young turnips cut into pieces no more than 1/4" wide
- Leaves from the above, chunked
- Ginger, garlic, shallot, chopped
- Cooked shrimp, peeled
- Coconut milk
- Curry paste
I sauteed all the veggies, then heated up the paste and coconut milk, and mixed everything all together. Served with rice. Really good!
That sounds good - what type of curry paste did you use for it?
Green, but other varieties would work fine.
