Cooking log
Mar. 8th, 2010 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sapotelunchMade yesterday:
- Mini-claufoutis in muffin cups and one big claufouti, using this recipe: (Smitten Kitchen). Fruits were grape (red, seedless, about to go bad), banana, apple, and one quarter-bar of dark chocolate left over from something in my cupboard. So far I haven't tried these cold; hot, the grapes were really nice.
- Calzones, using the Laurel's Bread Book pizza dough recipe, filled with the tofu-spinach-ricotta mix from Cohabitation Lasagna with about 2 cups of shredded mozzarella and a can of pizza sauce. The crust is basically your standard 6-cups-of-whole-wheat-flour bread recipe; next time I think I'm going to add butter and maybe eggs for richness and lightness, knead longer (I was in a hurry), and work really hard on rolling the dough as thin as possible, which will be more possible if the gluten is super-developed. As is it's kind of like gnawing on a bread loaf with a cheesy spinach center.
- Roasted beets in parchment paper, as per that pasta recipe. I was just doing these to stick them in with the calzones for thirty minutes, and then I turned the oven off and left them overnight, which worked fine except that 1) there was one beet that was grapefruit-sized instead of orange-sized, and it is still plenty crunchy in the middle 2) I hadn't thought about how hard it was going to be to skin roasted beets first thing in the morning. My cohabitant, who is off work today, has inherited a kitchen that looks like it was the site of a horrifying beet catastrophe. I am hoping the deliciousness will outweigh the mess?
- Also boring-ass broccoli cooked by dumping the remainder of the boiling water from coffee over it in a metal bowl. It was very nice warm, but now that it's been in a lunch box for a couple of hours, I'm thinking next time I want some dip or something.
- Mini-claufoutis in muffin cups and one big claufouti, using this recipe: (Smitten Kitchen). Fruits were grape (red, seedless, about to go bad), banana, apple, and one quarter-bar of dark chocolate left over from something in my cupboard. So far I haven't tried these cold; hot, the grapes were really nice.
- Calzones, using the Laurel's Bread Book pizza dough recipe, filled with the tofu-spinach-ricotta mix from Cohabitation Lasagna with about 2 cups of shredded mozzarella and a can of pizza sauce. The crust is basically your standard 6-cups-of-whole-wheat-flour bread recipe; next time I think I'm going to add butter and maybe eggs for richness and lightness, knead longer (I was in a hurry), and work really hard on rolling the dough as thin as possible, which will be more possible if the gluten is super-developed. As is it's kind of like gnawing on a bread loaf with a cheesy spinach center.
- Roasted beets in parchment paper, as per that pasta recipe. I was just doing these to stick them in with the calzones for thirty minutes, and then I turned the oven off and left them overnight, which worked fine except that 1) there was one beet that was grapefruit-sized instead of orange-sized, and it is still plenty crunchy in the middle 2) I hadn't thought about how hard it was going to be to skin roasted beets first thing in the morning. My cohabitant, who is off work today, has inherited a kitchen that looks like it was the site of a horrifying beet catastrophe. I am hoping the deliciousness will outweigh the mess?
- Also boring-ass broccoli cooked by dumping the remainder of the boiling water from coffee over it in a metal bowl. It was very nice warm, but now that it's been in a lunch box for a couple of hours, I'm thinking next time I want some dip or something.
