On Wednesday I made Callaloo, a dish from Trinidad & Tobago where one of my friends originates from. It is meant to be a soup but often eaten like a side dish with rice. It is named after a green leafy vegetable that is similar to spinach and can by replaced by spinach if you can’t get a hold of actual fresh callaloo.
My friend gave me some pointers but alas I could not get all of the vegetables I should have used in time. It still tasted great and we ate this over two days with the second day making the flavours stronger, as it happens so often. 👌🏻
I started with making Caribbean green seasoning (consisting of many fresh herbs and garlic and some other optional items like a deseeded Habanero pepper) as close to the original as I could. After that I cooked the callaloo (using crab meat, spinach, coconut milk and more). When that was almost done I made basmati rice and added some frozen king prawns to my callaloo on low to medium heat to get them to a perfect consistency.
We also added some of my friend‘s truly homemade hot sauce and everything worked so well together that I‘m sure this wasn’t my last callaloo. 😋
On Tuesday we had this dish that consisted of miso butter wafu (Japanese style) pasta with cabbage and Chinese style three cup tofu.
The pasta dish recipe can easily made to be vegan by using tofu, so I thought I try this promising looking Chinese tofu dish with it and yes, it worked. 😋 My tofu had been frozen twice und defrosted before cooking to make it soak up even more sauce.
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It's rhubarb season in that part of northern North America where we live. A family favorite turns waste into wine (OK, syrup). If you're of the rhubarb-peeling persuasion, put the peels in water, bring to a boil, then turn of the heat. After steeping for 30-60 minutes, remove the peels and press as much juice from them as possible. Add an unreasonable amount of sugar and heat again until fully dissolved. Enjoy homemade soda, a cocktail or an ice cream sundae!
It’s that time again, I was craving deep fried something in beer batter. I decided to use tofu that had been frozen and it worked beautifully. With this we had a Napa cabbage salad, tonkatsu sauce, rice and furikake. I dealt with the tofu, my husband with everything else 😁
Tonight is #cooking and #StarTrek night!
It's the night where me and my buddy get together and cook dinner (either eastern European Mama's cooking or Midwest Mama's cooking) and then watch 2 episodes of #TNG.
Today, Riker's gonna go undercover as an alien in episode 1 and Q is gonna show up for episode 2
I tried something new today and my fellow eaters and I were very fond of it. We had Twice Cooked Pork from the thewoksoflife.com website. 😋🤩
You need a slab of pork belly and Pixian Doubanjiang (spicy fermented bean paste), a leek, hot green peppers, and some other seasonings. If you can’t get shaoxing wine, replace it with dry sherry.
It took me about an hour as the pork needs to boiled first but during that time you can prepare all the other ingredients and start cooking your rice. After that it’s basically some quick stir-frying and you are done. (I also deglazed the wok with some of the pork broth and added a little more seasoning to get some sauce, but that’s not part of the recipe. 😅)
Now I need to think about what to do with the two litres of pork broth still left over.
Third attempt at making soup tonight was a definite improvement on previous week's. Still a little bit watery but less bland as I added some mixed herbs (and lower in salt and ultra processed ingredients, which is the goal). Also I knew the discounters were cheaper than supermarkets but Lidl is currently about 50-60% the price of Tesco and Asda.