It’s been a while since I’ve had this dish. My mum found it in a book titled “The Cost Conscious Cook Book” (I cannot find it on Amazon, otherwise I’d link to it). It’s a really simple dish, but rather tasty…
No, they’re bad… Now they’re good again…
I am of course talking about eggs. And now I turn you over to Lewis Black.
This evenings experiment was steak with mushroom and red wine sauce. Original idea was from Good Housekeeping, but had some tweaks. For example, couldn’t find port, so just went with a red wine. Cut down the amount of mushrooms to just 8oz, because that’s all I could fit in the pan.
I browned the steaks (well, it was one giant slab of steak I cut in half), roughly 2 minutes on each side. Then put the pan, with steaks, in the oven at 375 for about 15 minutes until medium rare. Remember, meat will continue to cook, even after removed from the heat. I took them out the oven, and wrapped the two steaks in foil so I could get the pan back for the rest of the cooking.
I served it with green beans, and bowtie pasta. Some things could be done differently. For example, once cooked in the red wine, you really cannot tell the difference between the different mushrooms, so your garden variety white mushrooms would probably work just fine instead of mixing. Also, the shallots, tasted just like normal onions, if not a little sweeter. They could easily be substituted for a small red onion.
Now all I need to do is cook food when I’m not hungry, so I can take photos of it.
I upgraded one of our kitchen toys this weekend… Got a new knife set, now I can look like a real chef, even if I cannot quite cook like one. Maybe I’ll start going to courses, or just grab a few books, and randomly pick recipes to try.
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Why do Bill and Theresa rock? Because they found me these, and sent them down from Connecticut. They’re very similar to Jaffa Cakes, and quite tasty. They’ll be receiving the real things in September when I get back…
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So this evening, I took it upon myself to construct dinner. Steph didn’t fancy the usual meal, so we popped to the store, and picked some stuff up. We ended up cooking Stuffed Chicken breast with greenbeans and rice. Chicken breast was stuffed with cream cheese, and a variety of herbs (that’s with an H). Then the chicken breast was wrapped in bacon.
I really need to get some decent lenses, and start taking some food photos as I’m cooking.
I recently wrote about being on a creativity kick, and I’ve been reading a lot of food blogs recently, one such is The Culinary Chase. Today they have an interesting looking recipe for beef stew which I think I might try. Anybody got any other recipes they really enjoy? Or have been wanting to try? I’m thinking of giving this one a shot next weekend.
Not sure why, but the last few weeks, I’ve been on a bit of a creativity kick. More specifically with food. Not entirely sure why. I’ve watched more Food Network in the last 2 weeks than I have since I split up with my ex, who used to watch it religiously.
Chicken
On Thursday night, I got creative, and made a chicken dish from scraps in the cupboard. I should have taken some pics. It turned out quite tasty. So much so that Stephanie wants it again. It’s really simple too. Here is what I did:
Not sure where the last one came from, but I found it in my cupboard. I’d imagine you can use any seasoning you want. To cook, simple trim off the “interesting” bits off of the chicken breast, such as any fat. Put seasoning on one side. Heat a pan, I used an iron skillet, with a small drizzle of Olive oil, and put in the chicken, seasoned side down. Now season the top side. Every few minutes, flip.
When the chicken nearly cooked, pour the mushroom soup/milk into the pan with the chicken. Around this time, start cooking the rice, and green beans. While the rice and beans are cooking, flip the chicken, and make sure it is coated in mushroom soup. The soup should start to thicken.
When rice and beans are cooked, server onto a plate, and put the chicken on top of the rice. Add some of the cooked soup from the pan. If you are using an iron skillet like I did, I found that some of the soup had thickened more at the bottom, and tasted a lot like turkey gravy.
Banana Bread
Today, I got creative again. We have a couple of banana’s left from a bunch. They were getting to the “throw away” stage where they were just a little too ripe to eat, so I decided to make banana bread. This was an easy one. I found this recipe which I based it off of.
Pre-heat oven to 350F. Add bananas, and butter into a bowl, and mix. Then add the egg, sugar, vanilla, salt and mix. When nicely mixed, add the flour. If you are using a mixing machine, rather than a spoon, add the flour a bit at a time so it doesn’t spray up. I ended up tweaking it a little as I thought the mix was a little runny, so I added a little more flour. When all suitably mixed, add to a pan. The recipe I found said to use a 4×8 loaf pan, however after I started making this, I realized I didn’t have one of those, so I used a 9×13. The recipe calls for an hour in the oven, however because I’m using a larger dish, the bread spread a lot thinner, so it ended up only being about 35 minutes. To test, simply take a fork, or a knife, and pierce the top. If the fork comes out clean, it’s done. Should look a little like this.
Enjoy.
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