Wednesday, November 26, 2014

November 22nd dinner

Menu:


  • Curried sweet potato with Spinach : Boiled and mashed sweet potatoes w chopped cooked spinach, mixed with tomato curry sauce.
  • Baked fish w mushroom sauce: Pollock baked on a bed of onions. Mushroom sauce: Rehydrated shitake mushrooms + ginger + chili + soy sauce + BBQ sauce. Reduced over medium heat.
  • Grilled Asparagus w Sriracha salt
  • Porcini and goat cheese risotto: Parboiled rice, with rehydrated porcini (soaking water + finely chopped mushrooms), Bouillon cube. Add goat cheese when almost done.
  • Falooda surprise : Falooda from mix on a bed of lady finger cookies, bananas and grapes. Topped with whipped cream

Baby Shower food experiments

November 15, 2014

Menu:


  • Sweet potato medallions with spinach-yogurt and seaweed topping - Pressure cooked sweet potatoes cut into thick discs and then seared in a pan. Topped with a mix of sauteed copped spinach and home-made yogurt, on a square of seaweed, with a seaweed flag for garnish.
  • Crackers with Wisconsin cheese curds and Berg's BBQ chicken - Chicken breast diced and marinated in Berg's BBQ sauce and ketchup, then cooked in a cast-iron pan. Triscuits topped with cheese curds, then the diced chicken, and baked in the oven to melt.
  • Mango Lassi - Canned Alfonso mangoes + yogurt + Cardamom. Poured in glasses and topped with crushed pistacios