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By mlb, on May 9th, 2009%
This was super good. The original recipe was adapted from Eating Well magazine. I added orange juice to the sauce, more garlic and instead of zucchini with the fish, I made asparagus. Oh and I decreased the almonds a bit.
The sauce is the star here. It’s kind of like a Spanish romesco sauce and I envision making this all summer long, it was so tasty. As a veggie dip, sauce for all kinds of grilled fish, chicken, just eating with a spoon, etc…
You can use jarred roasted red peppers, but please don’t. Really. They are so easy to do yourself, and (to me, at least) the jarred ones always taste way too vinegary. I can never even taste the red pepper. Just roast your own. Cheaper too and it’ll only take you 10-15 minutes time total. It’s totally worth it!
I marinaded my salmon just because I had . . . → Read More: Grilled Salmon with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
By mlb, on April 26th, 2009%
So, this was an experiment of meaty, epic proportions — and it was pretty good too! I was a little concerned about the shrimp being overcooked, but it wasn’t at all. Good job, paella recipe from the cookbook I forgot I had!
I changed a few things — I added garlic, red bell pepper, fennel and oranges. I used sweet Italian sausage instead of chorizo, mainly because I had sweet Italian sausage in the freezer and I didn’t have any chorizo. If you do this, you may want to add a few red pepper flakes for a bit of spice. Also, since the sausage I used was uncooked, I had to cook it longer in the beginning. You know, because it was raw.
On the side: a salad of sliced mangos, sweet onion and cilantro with a dressing of olive oil (3 tbsp), honey (2 tbsp) and lemon (2 tbsp). . . . → Read More: Sunday Night Paella, Italian Style
By mlb, on March 24th, 2009%
I look for any excuse to use my smoked paprika. I love smoked paprika. Get yourself some and you will never be sorry. Here’s a good resource for your smoked paprika needs.
We had this chicken with a bunch of pan roasted asparagus (olive oil + heat + salt + pepper = tasty) on the side and also some orzo that I cooked in spinach-y chicken broth (add broth and handfuls of spinach to a food processor, and *whir* *whir* to combine. It’s green!), with some tomatoes and Parmesan cheese. A great weekend meal. And, since there are only two of us, we got about three meals out of this. Always a good thing.
The original recipe called for 500 degrees F at 30 minutes, however, I doubted my oven’s cleanliness to handle that high of a temperature. I decreased it to 475 and added on a few minutes. Worked . . . → Read More: Paprika Roast Chicken with Sweet Onions
By mlb, on January 16th, 2009%
Usually, I cook on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, but lately, Thursday nights have become have a glass of wine and make soup night. Last week it was Mushroom and Barley, last night, Potato Soup with Fried Almonds & Garlic. This wonderful recipe is from one of my new favorite cookbooks, The New Spanish Table by Anya von Bremzen and I have to say, this soup is really, really good. So go make some!
The stock I used was from the chicken bones leftover from the most recent meal of Spanish Lemon Chicken with Honey and Saffron, which I can’t recommend enough. Make the chicken, save all the bones afterward, make stock and then make this soup. I had made the stock about a month ago and then stored it in the freezer. Defrosted it about a day and a half before I made the soup.
I added a little . . . → Read More: Spanish Potato Soup with Fried Almonds & Garlic
By mlb, on January 7th, 2009%
I have been craving soups lately. This was one I made a couple of weeks ago when, to my delight, I realized I had almost all the ingredients required, minus the kale. S’okay. I walked to the store and got kale!
The original recipe (from the defunct, “Cooking Live” on Food Network) called for dried beans and 3 chorizo sausages. I used canned beans and a 2:1 ratio of turkey sausage to pork chorizo. My turkey sausage was raw, so I cooked that in link form and then sliced up (to avoid the casing shrinkage). My chorizo was cooked already, so I just chopped and browned that. Then, I started the soup in all the sausage drippings. Oh yeah, I added a couple of potatoes too.
The paprika, saffron and sherry vinegar totally rock this soup (and the spices give it a very pretty color!)
White Bean, Kale and Chorizo . . . → Read More: White Bean, Kale and Chorizo Soup
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About Me I like to cook. I like to eat. I like to take photos. I live in SE Portland with my husband jwa and a grumpy, old lady cat named Chelsea. That is all.
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