Its Whats For Dinner

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Pepper Chicken Curry Sauce w/ Rice

Chicken Curry w/ Rice

This was, I think, my first white sauce ever. I blended four tablespoons of white flour into half a stick of butter. While doing that, I also simmered 2.5 cups of milk with four whole cloves, two bay leaves and a good pinch of nutmeg. Also at the same time, a finely chopped onion was simmering in the other half stick of butter and a few raisins. After about ten minutes, I poured the milk in with the flour/butter mix through a strainer and cooked it down, constantly stirring. I also added about five tablespoons of curry powder, generous helpings of ground black pepper and some salt to the onions (later I would also add pepper oil for additional kick). Oh, and all this time about 1.2 pounds of chopped chicken breast was steaming and the rice cooker was going. When the sauce had cooked down sufficiently I mixed everything together. It turned out to be not bad on the rice. If it was just me eating it, I’d add more pepper, maybe paprika. Next time I’ll wait to throw the raisins in at the end and maybe try substituting coconut milk for a part of the regular milk or adding it in at the end as well.

Monday, March 13, 2006

flank round roast


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cooked all day in the slow cooker... mmm..

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Pizza and Juice


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Monday, September 12, 2005

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Stark relief

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I'm still experimenting with the optimal settings for taking yummy looking pictures with our digi cam. The light in the kitchen is horrid.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Ready to start the day


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First I had to have a light breakfast. The corned beef hash turned out to be really gross and the cats and dogs each got a share.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

BLTs


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Some days you just get a craving that can't be denied. The golden cherry tomatoes are from our plants and made a nice contrast to the salt on the bacon. Said swine was sliced very thin. I wanted it to be cooked but not get totally crispy so I baked it in the oven at 450. The spicy hot chinese mustard made a nice addition as well.

Monday, August 01, 2005

This little piggy went to market

Again with the roast beef dinner… Last time I put all the veggies in the pot with the roast and baked them in the oven. This time I put the carrots, onions, and celery through the food processor and then reduced them in the pan I used to brown the beef. Then I added the spices and wine and brought it to a boil. After that, I reduced the range setting to about 1.75 and put the roast and boiled solution into a pot with a tight fitting lid and slow cooked it for about four hours. The new red potatoes got steamed separately. This turned out to be a much easier route, the house didn't heat up so much, the beef stayed juicy, and the flavors were more evenly mixed. Next time, though, I'll put in twice the veggies as Thomas has eaten them all up already and there was room in the pot to spare.