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Dinner tonight was kalbi (which Wikipedia tells me is also also called galbi), or Korean short ribs, with sauteed bell peppers and rice. I'm not going to give you a recipe for the short ribs, because I wasn't that happy with how they came out (tough; I cooked the wrong). And I'm not going to give you a recipe for the sauteed peppers, because I just chucked a bag of frozen peppers and onions into a sautee pan. And the rice came from a rice cooker, so, tasty, but not through any fault of my own.

But I really like how the sauce came out, so I'll share that. While it's intended for use with short ribs, I think it would be delicious on any kind of meat, or tofu, or just as a sauce for vegetables or stir fry. It's just plain tasty, as a sauce--spicy, tart, salty, sweet, and savory (not to mention garlicky!), in an excellent balance.

Ob!Disclaimer: While this sauce was inspired by the sauce/marinade that comes with/on kalbi, I make no pretense toward it being authentic in any fashion.

( Sauce/Marinade for Kalbi )

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/463622.html

This was dinner yesterday. Well, half of dinner: I wanted tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, but my nostalgia soup (canned Campbells, and yes, judge me if you want) wasn't in the house. So with some help from Cooks Illustrated and some invention, I came up with this, which was ready in half an hour.

The herb I used was rosemary, because this time of year I have plenty of it. Another time of year I would use basil, or tarragon, or savory. If you're using one of those more delicate herbs, add it with the cream rather than before the heavy simmering.

Not a low-calorie tomato soup, but a lovely, comforting one.

( Tomato Soup )

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/442753.html

I decided not to call this 'pasta e fagioli' because I basically took the idea of 'pasta with beans' and did what I wanted with it.

It's also not properly a recipe because, frankly, the amounts and ingredients don't matter all that much. So I wrote it up in a 'if you have some of this, throw it in, and if you have some of that, throw it in, and then cook it until it smells good' way.

I made this "meat-light" (one slice of bacon for flavor), but it could be easily made meatless, and I included adjustments if you want to go that way. I'm pretty sure, if you do it vegetarian, it's also vegan.

( Pasta with Fresh Beans )

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/436939.html

No pics this time, because, uh, we ate it too fast. Which does say something, I guess!

Fish a la meuniére literally means "fish in the style of the female miller," sometimes interpreted "miller's wife:" simply put, it's fish rolled in flour and then fried in butter, then sauced with butter, lemon and parsley. Named, I guess, on the principle that the miller has plenty of flour. Anyway, it's a simple sauce. As I understand it, it can be made with pretty much any kind of fish, although I would stick to milder-flavored fish as opposed to, say, tuna. We used rainbow trout, partly because it's generally considered to be sustainable.

Anyway, the recipe itself was easy. The difficult part was actually filleting the trout. (I usually buy my fish pre-filleted, but I'm experimenting more with breaking down whole fish.) It took some poking and experimenting, but I got the fish filleted, and only one piece (of four) was noticeably bony. Yay!

( Trout Meuniere )

So I wanted some kind of starch to go with the fish, and we had some red potatoes, so. And then I remembered something I read in Cook's Illustrated (I think), a way of cooking potatoes in water that is ludicrously heavily salted. The potatoes wind up nicely seasoned rather than too salty, and with a very silky, creamy interior. So I tried it. And sure enough, it worked as directed! The potatoes ended up beautifully seasoned without being too salty, and with a smooth and creamy interior that wasn't quite like any other red potatoes I'd ever had. A bit of googling indicates that these are Syracuse Salt Potatoes, and they're very easy and very good.

( Syracuse Salt Potatoes )

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/428860.html

So we got this whole big flat of heirloom tomatoes from the produce box. They are delicious, and we've mostly been eating them by making a salad of sliced tomatoes and a little salt. No other ingredients. Whenever we finish with the salad for the day, I put the bowl back in the fridge; the next day I slice up more tomatoes and toss them in with the leftovers.

Since tomatoes tend to weep liquid, especially when salted, by the end of the week I had a big bowl of tomato juice. So, gazpacho!

This is my 'made-with-what's-in-the-fridge' gazpacho, which accordingly is a bit variant. I had no bell peppers, so I subbed Anaheim peppers. I had no cucumber, so, for crunch, I added tomatillos and radishes instead. It's also more big pieces and less liquid than the gazpachos I've had (ie, it's almost like a very wet salad), although looking at gazpacho pics on Google Images, it looks like the almost-a-salad style is not uncommon either.

This gazpacho recipe, like most, is pretty easy because all it requires is chopping and mixing, and the active time it takes is maybe 15 minutes (although it does need to sit). Being gazpacho it is highly acidic and contains both raw green onions and raw garlic, but it's vegan and, assuming you don't use a gluten-y vinegar, gluten-free.

Anyway, recipe below the cut! This serves two as a meal (alongside bread) or four as an appetizer.

( A picture! )

( Recipe: Ad-Hoc Gazpacho )

(25 bonus points to everyone who understands why I used that icon with this post!)

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/427795.html

This is what I made for dinner tonight. It was a Saturday dinner for a guest, and so it's got some of the "stupidly complex" about some of the steps, but, eh.

The dutch oven chicken is adapted from a Cook's Illustrated recipe, as is the salad. The watermelon is a fairly standard recipe, but the direct inspiration was from Vegetarian Times.

The tomato and etc. salad is vegetarian but not vegan; the minted watermelon is vegan.

( Dutch Oven Lemon-Garlic Chicken )

( Tomato, Cucumber and Etc. Salad )

( Minted Watermelon )

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/420078.html

This is one of those recipes where there's no good reason to make it except that spending a little time messing around in the kitchen sounds fun. That said, if messing around in the kitchen sounds fun, this makes some really very tasty fresh lemony ricotta, and the active time is pretty short. It's also not too difficult, and it's a cheesemaking process that requires no specialized equipment (and no rennet or bacterial cultures), although you do need some cheesecloth or muslin or a clean non-fuzzy dishtowel.

This makes a couple of cups of ricotta, ish, but you can scale it up just fine.

( fresh lemon ricotta )

I'm serving mine crumbled over a fresh tomato and cucumber salad, and if there's any left, I'll drizzle it with honey and serve it alongside the watermelon for dessert.

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/419607.html

...well, fresh except for the roasted red peppers. And no cooking required except for the pasta itself.

Vegetarian; vegan if you leave off the cheese.

( Summer pasta sauce )

Crossposts: http://coraa.livejournal.com/419103.html

Dinner tonight! This was inspired by the fact that a) I had some nice chicken breasts, b) I hadn't used the sous vide in a while, and c) the spinach really, really needed using before it got sad.

( Poached Chicken with Mushroom and Spinach Orichette )

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Entries tagged with recipe: vegetarian

Recipe: Sauce for kalbi-esque short ribs

Recipe: Tomato Soup

Pasta with Fresh Beans

Trout Meuniere and Syracuse Salt Potatoes

Recipe: Ad-Hoc Gazpacho

Recipes! (Chicken, Salad, and Watermelon)

homemade lemon ricotta

Fresh Summer Pasta

Poached Chicken with Mushroom and Spinach Orichette

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