***Snippets and snails and little boy tales.

Well maybe not the snails...

Lyndsey Cooking Snippets:

Milder hot peppers for green-tongues: the slightly smoky, sexy poblano

****Chorizo Shrooms, Peanut noodles and Cajun Chicken burgers

NOTE: start working on Garlic lover's pasta salad from Co-opt and also reworking the peanut noodles.
Appetizers:

Chorizo and goat cheese stuffed shrooms (see cookbook)
chorizo, goat cheese, mushrooms, balsamic vinegar, honey, breadcrumbs
Marinade (see recipes)
Toss shrooms in the marinade. Preheat oven to 375. Cook shrooms for 5-10 minutes while you saute the chorizo, garlic and stems. Let cool briefly, remove shrooms from oven. Mix chorizo and goat cheese with some bread crumbs and spoon into the mushrooms. Reduce the vinegar and honey while the mushrooms finish cooking (also cook the burgers- maybe in oven?)

Peanut noodles
dressing:
1/2 c peanut butter
1/4 (plus 1-2 TB to taste) soy sauce
sesame oil
2 TB (?) wt. wine or rice vinegar (maybe just one of each)
2 TB (?) lime juice
1/2 TB sriracha* (or red pepper flakes)
1-2 TB ginger, grated (or 1 tsp pwdr)
several cloves garlic
2 -3 tsp brown sugar or honey?
opt. 2 TB sesame seeds
water by the TB, to thin as necessary

for 3/4 lb noodles
sweet peppers
gr. onions, diced
carrots, shredded
cucumbers, julienne
Mix sauce together, cook noodles, toss with sauce and veggies! Serve chilled or warm.
Make this ahead.


Main dish:
Cajun Chicken burgers
Seasonings: 1/2- 1 tsp of each
blk pepper-paprika-garlic pwdr-onion pwdr-wt pepper-sea salt
fresh
1 TB fresh thyme
2 tsp oregano

TB (or so) spicy brown mustard
1/4 c green onions
1/4 c sweet peppers
several cloves garlic
some feta (to stuff inside)

Make burgers several hours ahead so all you need to do at the last minute is mushrooms and then cooking burgers while mushrooms finish up.


Ingredients from co-opt garlic pasta salad include: Garlic, peas, lemon juice, veganaise, parmesan cheese pieces, oregano and that's about it other than noodles.

**Vichyssoise

Yum, best thing ever!
A fancy name for an easy and hopefully tasty soup

2 cups 1 1/2 inch cubes raw potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
3 cloves garlic
about 1 1/2 cup leeks, cleaned and cut into 1 inch pieces
*3 cups chicken stock
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshy ground black pepper
pinch white pepper
*1-1 1/2 c half and half or just milk?

Notes:
1. Saute leeks in butter, add broth and simmer for 25 minutes, meanwhile potatoes should be boiling off while the leeks simmer.

2. Blend everything together, let cool and add milky stuffs (carefully, a bit at a time, testing; it barely needs it, could easily be veganized)

3. Serve with crumbled bacon, stir

Julia Child's tips/recipe:
equal parts potato and leeks
cream is not totally necessary, but a nice touch
mix everything together, simmer 25-30 minutes partially covered

Can't recall what route I took- I basically synergized two different recipes and styles of cooking because it's a very simple recipe that requires no tampering. The question is, cook the potatoes and leeks together or seperately, I believe I went with separate but I'm not totally sure...whoops.

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Daily Post

Today I'm working on a Gumbo recipe and maybe some enchilasagna. Also gardening.

Electric Skillet Meatloaf

Tonight is meatloaf night! Yay. Unfortunately we're going to des moines for the weekend so I don't want to get too much yummy foods. Ah well. I'll figure it out.

Electric Skillet Meatloaf!

1 lb ground beef

1 small carrot

1 small bell pepper

1 small or 1/2 a large onion

4 cloves garlic

1/2 c tomato sauce or diced tomatoes, blendered

1/2 c catsup

1/2 c panko

thyme, chili powder, worcestershire, soy sauce, pepper

1 egg

Blend veggies in blender, mix with beef, then seasonings, wet stuff and finally bread crumbs

Shape into 4 tiny loaves and cook at 300 for about 30 minutes or 2 hours for a big loaf.

Gardening for realsies.

Oh, my am I getting excited. So here are some herbs I am thinking definitely yes to planting- can not go too crazy this year because I am restricted to containers.

Add eggshells to containers...also compost (start mincing things)

Lemon balm and oregano I would really enjoy. They are also both in the mint family (nother thing I'd like to plant) so they would do well I think in containers.

I was also thinking zucchini, and maybe cuke but I'd like to try something new, maybe peas. I'll need to construct some ladders though. I think for this spring equinox I will do a big purge and get rid of a bunch of shit that I truly do not need.

Veg: zucchini, cuke, peas?, tomato, lettuce

Herbs: oregano, lemon balm, mint, parsley, chamomile, rosemary, basil

Plant chamomile next to lavendar

Maybe pull dying pepper from thyme planter and add sage there?

1 large square container (could potentially make another LARGE container)

3 med. large (5 gall. containers)

3 (maybe) small herb cont.

2 rather small herb cont.

Deadly plants:
Digitalis and Aconite
datura, wolf's bane, digitalis (aka foxglove), and monkshood (aka aconite)

New Recipes

Enchilada lasagna synergy! Add other veggies? Beans?

Sauce: ancho cream sauce?

Mushroom and spinach saute filling

Noodles or tortillas?