Burritos at home. I bet everyone has a recipe for it. but, before I got this recipe I made burritos as a don't know what to make dish. Now they are part of my favorites list.
here is what I do:
If only there were purple sweet potatoes on the mainland. Are there? If you can get purple sweet potatoes they are the best for this dish. But if not....
Ingredients list:
1 potato cut into cubes, kind of small
1 can of black beans or 1 and 1/2 cup black beans
vegatables. Tonight I used a combo of a carrot, some broccoli (about 6 small head bunches), cauliflower (about 2 small head bunches), onion (1/4 of one), and zucchini (about 1/4 of a stalk). Sometimes I use corn. Just a mix.
2 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of chili powder
1 teaspoon of cumin
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/4 teaspoon oregano
salt and pepper
heat oven to 450 and put potato on a baking sheet with oil, salt, and pepper. bake 10 minutes on both sides. reduce heat to 350.
on oven cook onion until you like it. (I like mine clear). then add carrot and harder veggies. cook a few more minutes, about 3. add soft veggies and beans and spices and then potatoes. heat it all up.
in a casserole dish layer the bottom with salsa. fill up tortillas with mix and optional cheese. I like the mozzarella in this. pour salsa on top with leftover mix that didn't fit into tortillas. tonight instead of topping with with salsa (although I did put salsa on the bottom) I put a taco powder mix mixed with (about a cup of) water- add water until it doesn't taste too strong to you, and heated a little- and I poured that over the top. The boys like that better than the normal burritos with salsa on top. I also put cheese over the top, just a little, and foil
bake in 350 oven for 20 minutes. yum. sour cream. yummier.
I couldn't be a vegan. I mean, I could buy fake all that stuff I guess, but I am sure addicted to the dairy.
who else has a good burrito recipe?
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
stroganoff
ah, this week was not the best for food. tests, papers, sick, clyde working = eating like crap.
but tonight I feel normal again. new recipe.
I saw in the vegetarian times magazine this stroganoff recipe, and it had tempeh in it so I decided to make it. Here is what went down:
Ingredient list:
8 oz. mushrooms
8 oz tempeh
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup potato starch
(OR 1 cup reg. flour)
1 tea dried mustard
1/4 tea nutmeg
1 and 1/2 cup onion
1/2 cup apple juice (but you can use vinegar)
1 cup chard
2 cup sour cream
4 cups veg broth
(but I suggest cutting the liquids in half, it was really soupy. I also would put corn starch in to thicken it, it was runny)
salt and pepper
noodles
(this is cooked over fettuccine or egg noodles, your choice, so keep noodle cooking time in mind when making this)
8 oz mushrooms (I used portabello)
8 oz tempeh (I used the smoked kind, I can't compare it to the others cause I don't know what it tastes like
1/4 cup soy sauce
Let the mushrooms and tempeh sit in the soy for 10 minutes
heres where the choices are: this was in a glucose free section of veg. times so they suggested
1/2 cup potato starch
1/2 cup brown rice flour
(but that was all too expensive for me to buy so I just used a cup of all purpose unbleached)
1 teaspoon dried mustard
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
mix the starch, flour, and spices in a resealable bag. shake the tempeh and mushrooms in it and saute them for 8 minutes. take off heat and put into a bowl
In that pan put in:
1 and 1/2 cup onion
saute until you like
take out onions and put with tempeh mix
turn heat up to med. high and add:
1/2 cup apple juice
use to deglaze the pan for three minutes
then add
1 cup chard
(chard is hard to come by in Hawaii, its like 5 dollars a bunch, so I used spinach. I would not suggest this. Chard is probably good though)
Cook 2 minutes, then add the onion, tempeh, mushrooms mix back in and turn down heat about mid and add:
4 cups veg broth
2 cups sour cream
Heat and put on noodles
but tonight I feel normal again. new recipe.
I saw in the vegetarian times magazine this stroganoff recipe, and it had tempeh in it so I decided to make it. Here is what went down:
Ingredient list:
8 oz. mushrooms
8 oz tempeh
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup potato starch
(OR 1 cup reg. flour)
1 tea dried mustard
1/4 tea nutmeg
1 and 1/2 cup onion
1/2 cup apple juice (but you can use vinegar)
1 cup chard
2 cup sour cream
4 cups veg broth
(but I suggest cutting the liquids in half, it was really soupy. I also would put corn starch in to thicken it, it was runny)
salt and pepper
noodles
(this is cooked over fettuccine or egg noodles, your choice, so keep noodle cooking time in mind when making this)
8 oz mushrooms (I used portabello)
8 oz tempeh (I used the smoked kind, I can't compare it to the others cause I don't know what it tastes like
1/4 cup soy sauce
Let the mushrooms and tempeh sit in the soy for 10 minutes
heres where the choices are: this was in a glucose free section of veg. times so they suggested
1/2 cup potato starch
1/2 cup brown rice flour
(but that was all too expensive for me to buy so I just used a cup of all purpose unbleached)
1 teaspoon dried mustard
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
mix the starch, flour, and spices in a resealable bag. shake the tempeh and mushrooms in it and saute them for 8 minutes. take off heat and put into a bowl
In that pan put in:
1 and 1/2 cup onion
saute until you like
take out onions and put with tempeh mix
turn heat up to med. high and add:
1/2 cup apple juice
use to deglaze the pan for three minutes
then add
1 cup chard
(chard is hard to come by in Hawaii, its like 5 dollars a bunch, so I used spinach. I would not suggest this. Chard is probably good though)
Cook 2 minutes, then add the onion, tempeh, mushrooms mix back in and turn down heat about mid and add:
4 cups veg broth
2 cups sour cream
Heat and put on noodles
Monday, September 17, 2007
I'm sick
It is true, I got a head cold in the summer in hawaii. I don't know how, but it sucks. or blows (literally).My nose is running like crazy. but whatever, I still gotta eat. Soup? No, I didn't think about it until just now. For breakfast I tried to get some of everything, so I had the usual egg with clyde bread, grapes and bananas and rice milk. Lunch I had leftover from last night. recap on the weekend:
saturday, sick started, clyde talked me into walking to borders for activity, we ate at maui taco in the mall. we got our usual black bean and rice burrito covered in enchalata sauce. yum.
Sunday, sick, and the grocery store was out of food. crazy. not completely out, but out of most of the things on my ingredient list for what I was going to cook (but I will not talk about that until I get to cook it, I am so excited about it). So I made a weekday back up item on this weeks menu: Caribbean beans and rice. I made it about a year ago and both rubbo and clyde liked it. I think I used instant rice last time, and this time I found basmati rice in the freezer and decided to use it. last time it was like curry, cause you cook the beans and rice together in a mix of coconut milk and veggie broth, and the spices are all spice and thyme. This time it absorbed all the liquid and all i had left was beans and rice. I put some curry spices in it, because I just got some more cardamom from the store, but it overpowered it.
digression
today: super sick and busy. very busy. two tests and a literature review are due this week, and I have to serve on a committee for student conduct this week I just found out. So no time to make dinner really. The house has been warned. Tonight I put potatoes in the oven right before class, and when I came home PRESTO they were done. I love potatoes. clyde and I met sharon at jamba juice/starbucks for studying, so I had this beverage called the coldbuster with a shot of immunity. I hope tomorrow I can function again, and make my surprise dinner.
saturday, sick started, clyde talked me into walking to borders for activity, we ate at maui taco in the mall. we got our usual black bean and rice burrito covered in enchalata sauce. yum.
Sunday, sick, and the grocery store was out of food. crazy. not completely out, but out of most of the things on my ingredient list for what I was going to cook (but I will not talk about that until I get to cook it, I am so excited about it). So I made a weekday back up item on this weeks menu: Caribbean beans and rice. I made it about a year ago and both rubbo and clyde liked it. I think I used instant rice last time, and this time I found basmati rice in the freezer and decided to use it. last time it was like curry, cause you cook the beans and rice together in a mix of coconut milk and veggie broth, and the spices are all spice and thyme. This time it absorbed all the liquid and all i had left was beans and rice. I put some curry spices in it, because I just got some more cardamom from the store, but it overpowered it.
digression
today: super sick and busy. very busy. two tests and a literature review are due this week, and I have to serve on a committee for student conduct this week I just found out. So no time to make dinner really. The house has been warned. Tonight I put potatoes in the oven right before class, and when I came home PRESTO they were done. I love potatoes. clyde and I met sharon at jamba juice/starbucks for studying, so I had this beverage called the coldbuster with a shot of immunity. I hope tomorrow I can function again, and make my surprise dinner.
Friday, September 14, 2007
fake meatball night
ahh fake meatballs. always satisfying. I had all of that left over tofu from ravioli the other night, which used a surprisingly small amount of tofu. So I had all of this tofu mashed up with what was once frozen spinach and mushrooms. I weighed it, and it was a pound. This is good, cause thats how much I needed for my fake meatball recipe. Everyone said it was better than normal because the tofu had been sitting in flavor this week from the spinach, mushrooms, and then the salt, pepper, garlic sauce, and small amount of tomato sauce. This is how it went down:
1 pound tofu mixed with spinach and mushrooms *but usually I just do tofu
1/2 cup wheat germ
about 1/8 cup dried parsley
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon redpepper flakes
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
Mix that all together with your hands.
Usually I have to really press the tofu for some times before I make this for it to taste good, cause if there is a little water you will taste it. I don't know why. Maybe you wont, but I do. So press first.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
put 2 tablespoons of oil on a baking sheet
roll these guys into balls, the suggested ball is 1 and 1/2 inch. I keep them small, but not too small. about 3 fit on my subroll. Then I stick them into the oven and flip them every ten minutes. They cook a total of 30 minutes.
This is what I do with them:
I put them into subs. with tomato sauce. Tonight I forgot we ate the left over sauce for lunch and had to make some real quick. I did this:
pureed the can of chopped tomatos.
added 2 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
shook in basil and parsley and pepper
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
This tasted like too sweet crap. I called clyde in. He suggested it needed to cook off. So I shut the lid and let it cook for 10 minutes. It tasted fine.
I cut up my sub buns (I used to make french bread for this but there was too much bread involved, go subroll unless you want mostly bread) put my sauce and balls and cheese on there and baked until crusty.
Usually I will put cut up vegetables on it, but were out of everything but carrots and cabbage. This was a generally good food day. I started clyde and I on multi-vitamins today. Since we have been writing down everything we eat AND I got that book that tells me the nutritional content of everything we eat I see we are not getting enough B12. protein yes. Zinc yes. B6 yes. B12 no. So I had no choice. We'll see how it goes.
1 pound tofu mixed with spinach and mushrooms *but usually I just do tofu
1/2 cup wheat germ
about 1/8 cup dried parsley
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon redpepper flakes
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
Mix that all together with your hands.
Usually I have to really press the tofu for some times before I make this for it to taste good, cause if there is a little water you will taste it. I don't know why. Maybe you wont, but I do. So press first.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
put 2 tablespoons of oil on a baking sheet
roll these guys into balls, the suggested ball is 1 and 1/2 inch. I keep them small, but not too small. about 3 fit on my subroll. Then I stick them into the oven and flip them every ten minutes. They cook a total of 30 minutes.
This is what I do with them:
I put them into subs. with tomato sauce. Tonight I forgot we ate the left over sauce for lunch and had to make some real quick. I did this:
pureed the can of chopped tomatos.
added 2 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
shook in basil and parsley and pepper
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
This tasted like too sweet crap. I called clyde in. He suggested it needed to cook off. So I shut the lid and let it cook for 10 minutes. It tasted fine.
I cut up my sub buns (I used to make french bread for this but there was too much bread involved, go subroll unless you want mostly bread) put my sauce and balls and cheese on there and baked until crusty.
Usually I will put cut up vegetables on it, but were out of everything but carrots and cabbage. This was a generally good food day. I started clyde and I on multi-vitamins today. Since we have been writing down everything we eat AND I got that book that tells me the nutritional content of everything we eat I see we are not getting enough B12. protein yes. Zinc yes. B6 yes. B12 no. So I had no choice. We'll see how it goes.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
biscuits
If I do have biscuits in here I cannot find it
Here is the recipe:
biscuits:
1/2 cup of butter ( I use melted, I can't tell the difference when cutting it in with a pastry cutter)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 table spoons flax meal
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
3/4 cup milk
mix dry ingrediants
mix in butter and make coarse meal
mix in milk
roll out and cut biscuits
cook on 425 for about 12-15 minutes
Here is the recipe:
biscuits:
1/2 cup of butter ( I use melted, I can't tell the difference when cutting it in with a pastry cutter)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 table spoons flax meal
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
3/4 cup milk
mix dry ingrediants
mix in butter and make coarse meal
mix in milk
roll out and cut biscuits
cook on 425 for about 12-15 minutes
Chowder
OK, I have been slack, but you a haven't missed much. Last night I cooked ravioli again, and the recipe is already on here. This one wasn't as good though, because I didn't magic bullet the tomatoes enough for the sauce and it was chunky, which I don't care for. The good news is that I found a frozen spinach that is acceptable. Its the leaf kind, its not all stringy and hard like the other kind. Leaf, birds eye, its not stringy.
Tonight I made the chowder clyde likes. I haven't made it in awhile, so it was exciting. I meant to measure out the spices to put on here, but forgot, so these are an estimate, add more or less to your taste
Chowder
1/4 cup butter
1/4 flour
a bulk of vegetables. I used a potato, a carrot, some broccoli, some of a zucchini, a can of corn, a can of black beans, and some green cabbage.
2 cloves of garlic
1 and 1/2 cup milk (I use rice)
1 and 1/2 cup water or veg broth (tonight I used broth, yum)
melt the butter in a soup pot
add flour and stir together, cook some
add the garlic and stir for about thirty seconds
add the vegetables and broth and milk and stir.
(Tonight I thought the zucchini was too mushy though, so I am going to future add that later. Also wait to add beans until right before its done)
This is where I add spices. salt and pepper, and sweet spices.
I usually use about a 1/2 to a teaspoon of marjoram, basil, parsley, dill (this is important, because a lot of the good flavor of the soup comes from the dill) thyme, and then some spice from red pepper flakes and some coriander.
I cook this until the potatoes are soft. I know your not supposed to boil milk, but I do it anyway and it tastes fine to me.
I make this with my biscuits. mmmm. buttery. (biscuits are in another post)
This is kind of a lot of butter with the biscuits and all, so its up to you. I rationalize it thinking I am putting the omega 3 flax in the biscuits too and that we don't eat meat, but still, its a lot of butter
So...if anyone makes this and can figure out how to use less butter and things to put in it let me know
Tonight I made the chowder clyde likes. I haven't made it in awhile, so it was exciting. I meant to measure out the spices to put on here, but forgot, so these are an estimate, add more or less to your taste
Chowder
1/4 cup butter
1/4 flour
a bulk of vegetables. I used a potato, a carrot, some broccoli, some of a zucchini, a can of corn, a can of black beans, and some green cabbage.
2 cloves of garlic
1 and 1/2 cup milk (I use rice)
1 and 1/2 cup water or veg broth (tonight I used broth, yum)
melt the butter in a soup pot
add flour and stir together, cook some
add the garlic and stir for about thirty seconds
add the vegetables and broth and milk and stir.
(Tonight I thought the zucchini was too mushy though, so I am going to future add that later. Also wait to add beans until right before its done)
This is where I add spices. salt and pepper, and sweet spices.
I usually use about a 1/2 to a teaspoon of marjoram, basil, parsley, dill (this is important, because a lot of the good flavor of the soup comes from the dill) thyme, and then some spice from red pepper flakes and some coriander.
I cook this until the potatoes are soft. I know your not supposed to boil milk, but I do it anyway and it tastes fine to me.
I make this with my biscuits. mmmm. buttery. (biscuits are in another post)
This is kind of a lot of butter with the biscuits and all, so its up to you. I rationalize it thinking I am putting the omega 3 flax in the biscuits too and that we don't eat meat, but still, its a lot of butter
So...if anyone makes this and can figure out how to use less butter and things to put in it let me know
Saturday, September 8, 2007
bad pot luck dish
I really want to make a satisfying beans and rice dish that isn't Mexican. All I know how to make are Mexican and Italian foods. There has to be more the vegetarianism than that. Tonight i tried this recipe from my new cookbook that I kind of knew was going to suck, but I am desperate. It was a Turkish new potato casserole. Yeah. Potatoes are old. Clyde said it tasted like a pot luck dish. That you don't want to eat. He added he wouldn't order it in a restaurant. Like there are even vegetarian options in restaurants besides veggie burgers around here. So the recipe was onions, eggplants, potatoes, broccoli, black and green beans, and red pepper. I cooked the onions, then added the rest to saute for a few minutes. Then the spices. weak. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon paprika. I put a teaspoon in of all for good measure. Then I put in 3/4 cup of veggie broth and covered it with tomato puree and pieces mixed with garlic. This was baked in an increasingly hotter over (because the potatoes wouldn't cook I kept turning up the heat) until the potatoes cooked.
It was as bland as it sounds. But not bad. Just bland.
I made brown rice with veggie broth and cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, ginger, and garlic. It was tasty.
This morning I tried french toast. I have never made french toast before. It was pretty good. Clyde said it was the best french toast he has ever had because it was savory. I did this:
Put in 2 eggs beat with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon into a big bowl.
Mixed in 1 cup of rice milk
mixed in 1/2 teaspoon of rum (but you can use sugar)
mixed in 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
put this in flat pan and cut bread pieces from clydes fabulous 6 grain bread and let them soak on each side for a few minutes, then I fried those bitches up. with maple syrup, it was good. but filling.
It was as bland as it sounds. But not bad. Just bland.
I made brown rice with veggie broth and cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, ginger, and garlic. It was tasty.
This morning I tried french toast. I have never made french toast before. It was pretty good. Clyde said it was the best french toast he has ever had because it was savory. I did this:
Put in 2 eggs beat with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon into a big bowl.
Mixed in 1 cup of rice milk
mixed in 1/2 teaspoon of rum (but you can use sugar)
mixed in 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
put this in flat pan and cut bread pieces from clydes fabulous 6 grain bread and let them soak on each side for a few minutes, then I fried those bitches up. with maple syrup, it was good. but filling.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
food quiz
I had clyde and self start a food journal. I realize I am bad at writing down things I should not be eating. Figures. When Lydia was here we were talking about formulating a diet based off of what nutrients we might not be getting from habit foods. Habit foods being things I always buy and eat, such as I always get certain vegetables and beans, etc. Clyde and I don't get enough B12. I thought it would be zinc, but its more the 12. So food journal to see what we need to be getting.
Tonight I ordered pizza. It ALWAYS makes my stomach hurt, but I still order it. I am such a chump. Its like Shoneys, or worse, KFC. Man, I want fried chicken in the worst way, I mean I'm from Georgia. But KFC always makes me feel sick, its the grease, but every couple of months I can't take it anymore and I sneak down there and get some chicken and some remorse. As soon as I walked in the house tonight I thought: "pizza" and rubbo said " I was thinking about pizza and I was going to ask you to make it". funny, I wasn't going to suggest I make it. I ordered it. Pizza isn't one of those put together dinners, you have to feel like making pizza to make it. The dough isn't bad, but slightly time consuming. Plus making the sauce since I am not using canned (they all have high fructose corn syrup in them except the pricy ones) etc. nope, I'll pay for someone elses to make me sick. But I think of pizza and calzone as the same thing (clyde says) and calzone doesn't make my stomach hurt. But calzone is always lacking what feels like a main ingredient. I have used all kinds of things right down to fake sausage. I need a filling filler.
So this week I have been thinking of food quiz questions for fun. Answer at will.
1. What is my (your) favorite thing to cook?
Anything I know all of the ingredients to and have made so many times that I can safely improvise
2. What is your favorite non-essential cooking tool (lets skip the ovens and can openers)
The magic bullet of course. I can't believe I ever had to live without one. I can't wait for a kitchen tractor though.
3. What is the fall back easy meal in the house?
Pasta with olive oil and seasonings, tacos, mega-nachos, eggs
4. Who is your favorite cooking show host?
Giada de laurentes
5. Other than meat, what is a good calzone filling?
insert idea.
Tonight I ordered pizza. It ALWAYS makes my stomach hurt, but I still order it. I am such a chump. Its like Shoneys, or worse, KFC. Man, I want fried chicken in the worst way, I mean I'm from Georgia. But KFC always makes me feel sick, its the grease, but every couple of months I can't take it anymore and I sneak down there and get some chicken and some remorse. As soon as I walked in the house tonight I thought: "pizza" and rubbo said " I was thinking about pizza and I was going to ask you to make it". funny, I wasn't going to suggest I make it. I ordered it. Pizza isn't one of those put together dinners, you have to feel like making pizza to make it. The dough isn't bad, but slightly time consuming. Plus making the sauce since I am not using canned (they all have high fructose corn syrup in them except the pricy ones) etc. nope, I'll pay for someone elses to make me sick. But I think of pizza and calzone as the same thing (clyde says) and calzone doesn't make my stomach hurt. But calzone is always lacking what feels like a main ingredient. I have used all kinds of things right down to fake sausage. I need a filling filler.
So this week I have been thinking of food quiz questions for fun. Answer at will.
1. What is my (your) favorite thing to cook?
Anything I know all of the ingredients to and have made so many times that I can safely improvise
2. What is your favorite non-essential cooking tool (lets skip the ovens and can openers)
The magic bullet of course. I can't believe I ever had to live without one. I can't wait for a kitchen tractor though.
3. What is the fall back easy meal in the house?
Pasta with olive oil and seasonings, tacos, mega-nachos, eggs
4. Who is your favorite cooking show host?
Giada de laurentes
5. Other than meat, what is a good calzone filling?
insert idea.
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