Recipe Swap!
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neadodsOne of the New Year's Resolutions I've written down is to do the "cookbook project" - basically, to wrest from the chaos of my cookbooks three shelves of tried-and-true cookbooks (with marked pages) and make a personal cookbook only of recipes I make and like. (My previous one was "recipes I thought sounded good" which... bad idea. Really bad idea.)
One of the New Year's Resolutions I haven't written down is to lose weight and to eat more healthily, because I don't want to get into the insanity of trying to lose x weight in y time. The ultimate goal is to drop 60 pounds. I got halfway once and kept it off for three years. Bettering that will be enough.
Since the news out of England is that a diet which is heavy on fish, vegetables, fruit, garlic, almonds, and dark chocolate is Good For You, that's what I'm going to try to spin my eating towards. 'Cause this is a diet I can thoroughly enjoy (at least until I die of mercury poisoning...) Chicken is also good, as is a little pork.
So - who's got a recipe that they want to share? I'm looking for homecooking/comfort food, not the fancy stuff. Fancy stuff gets its own cookbook.
I'll kick off with something that proved immensely popular while I was home for Christmas:
APPLESAUCE PORK WITH WILTED GREENS
Ingredients: pork tenderlion, applesauce, fresh spinach, olive oil, 1+ cloves of garlic.
Drop the tenderloin in a small casserole dish and completely bury it in applesauce. Shove in the oven at 350 and roast until done.
About 10 minutes before the pork is finished, drizzle approximately 1 1-1/2 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet. Peel at least one clove of garlic and drop it in the oil. Bring to sizzling heat. Remove the garlic and drop in the spinach, quickly pan-frying it until it is wilted and the oil has been distributed evenly through it. A quick dusting of garlic powder wouldn't be amiss but isn't required.
Serve the pork sliced with the hot applesauce over it and the spinach on the side. Rice is an optional starch, but we avoided it. If you use unsweetened applesauce, this isn't even all that caloriffic.
One of the New Year's Resolutions I haven't written down is to lose weight and to eat more healthily, because I don't want to get into the insanity of trying to lose x weight in y time. The ultimate goal is to drop 60 pounds. I got halfway once and kept it off for three years. Bettering that will be enough.
Since the news out of England is that a diet which is heavy on fish, vegetables, fruit, garlic, almonds, and dark chocolate is Good For You, that's what I'm going to try to spin my eating towards. 'Cause this is a diet I can thoroughly enjoy (at least until I die of mercury poisoning...) Chicken is also good, as is a little pork.
So - who's got a recipe that they want to share? I'm looking for homecooking/comfort food, not the fancy stuff. Fancy stuff gets its own cookbook.
I'll kick off with something that proved immensely popular while I was home for Christmas:
APPLESAUCE PORK WITH WILTED GREENS
Ingredients: pork tenderlion, applesauce, fresh spinach, olive oil, 1+ cloves of garlic.
Drop the tenderloin in a small casserole dish and completely bury it in applesauce. Shove in the oven at 350 and roast until done.
About 10 minutes before the pork is finished, drizzle approximately 1 1-1/2 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet. Peel at least one clove of garlic and drop it in the oil. Bring to sizzling heat. Remove the garlic and drop in the spinach, quickly pan-frying it until it is wilted and the oil has been distributed evenly through it. A quick dusting of garlic powder wouldn't be amiss but isn't required.
Serve the pork sliced with the hot applesauce over it and the spinach on the side. Rice is an optional starch, but we avoided it. If you use unsweetened applesauce, this isn't even all that caloriffic.
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Here's one!
Date: 2004-12-30 03:46 pm (UTC)From “The All American Cowboy Cookbook”
(Available for purchase at the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum website, http://www.royrogers.com)
Tortilla Pinwheels
8 ounces cream cheese, softened to room temperature
8 ounces sour cream
4 ounces mild green chilies, chopped
4 ounces black olives, chopped
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
½ cup chopped onions
½ teaspoon garlic salt
5 10-inch flour tortillas
Mild Salsa
Mix all ingredients except tortillas and salsa. Chill slightly. Spread on tortillas (do not spread to one edge of each tortilla). Roll up and cover with a damp towel. Chill until ready to serve. Cut into 1-inch pieces. Serve with mild salsa.
Makes 50 pinwheels.
Dorothy and Lavon Shearer
Western Dakota Ranch Vacations
Wall, South Dakota
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Date: 2004-12-30 09:08 pm (UTC)4 chicken breasts w/bones & skin
1 pkg. smoked summer sausage
1 large yellow onion
1 red bell pepper
1 jalapeño pepper
1 29-oz. can tomato sauce
1 6-oz. can tomato paste
2 bay leaves
1 tsp. sugar (optional)
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Spices to taste:
Basil
Black pepper
Garlic salt
Red pepper or Cajun spice
Tabasco sauce
Thyme
Cook chicken breasts and fresh garlic in water to cover, in large stock pot on medium-high heat, skimming fat as necessary. Dice sausage, onion, red pepper; mince jalapeño. When chicken is done, remove from pot. Add chopped sausage & vegetables and remaining ingredients to pot. Remove skin from chicken; strip meat from bones and return to pot in bite-size pieces. Reduce heat to medium; simmer for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Serve hot over plain white rice.
Notes:
Other meats can be substituted, as long as the total volume of meat is about the same. If you like shrimp, that would fit well with your diet plans.
This dish should be prepared at least 6 hours in advance, and overnight is better. The flavor really improves when it's sat for a while.
You end up with a huge pot of this, but it freezes well in individual portions. We usually make up extra rice and freeze it in with the jambalaya so that we don't have to bother with cooking more when we get out the frozen servings.
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Date: 2005-01-02 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-02 04:50 pm (UTC)I spent NY having a slumber/Lord of the Rings party - we watched all extended versions plus The Librarian.