however, with the combination of being a grad student with approaching deadlines, and having a sick roommate/boyfriend with a mutant strep infection, i was left with little time to actually go outside and enjoy the weather. but i got the chance to do the next best thing...cook! a lot!
here is a glimpse of the adventures i had in our little purple kitchen this weekend:
get-well-soon soup.
i made this on friday. we ate it for dinner that night, lunch on saturday, dinner on sunday, and lunch today. needless to say, i made a lot. and it was delicious.
the best part of this soup was that it was all organic. most of the vegetables i used came from this week's CSA box. perfection!
so baaaasically, i sauteed an onion, some garlic, carrots and celery with some olive oil in the bottom of a large soup pot. i added peeled diced potatoes, a generous amount of black pepper and herbs de provence, and continued to cook until the onions were soft.
then i poured in 2 quarts of vegetable stock and a large can of diced tomatoes. brought everything to a boil, then added some frozen corn, salt, red pepper, more black pepper and herbs de provence and let it simmer until the potatoes were soft. also i added just about a tablespoon of butter to the soup, just 'cause.
finally, i brought another pot of water to a boil and added half a package of egg noodles. they cooked for about 3 1/2 minutes, then i strained them and added them to the soup. served up with some saltine crackers with a little bit of butter (a favorite comfort food of mine introduced to me by my grandmother), this was the perfect remedy to a fever and a sore throat.
amaretto chocolate chip cookies.
i made them this afternoon using semi-sweet chocolate chips this time instead of milk chocolate like i did here. also, i omitted the hazelnuts, but i added amaretto again for two reasons: 1) we don't have vanilla in the house and i needed a substitution 2) i used amaretto before and it was DELICIOUS. if it ain't broke...
i needed to halve the recipe, as we only had one egg left (when the recipe calls for 2). additionally, i broke both my legs and couldn't walk to the store to get more eggs. (the preceding statement is a lie...but in all honesty, i just didn't feel like going allllll thhhheee waayyyyyyy to the store. plus, i didn't want to make a recipe that yielded 4 dozen cookies, because then i would have ended up eating all 4 dozen cookies mostly by myself. not ok.)
results: the cookies were really really good! and math is hard because i had to not only halve the recipe, but i had to figure out how to measure out 3/8 cup of sugar when i only had a 1/3 measuring cup.
puff pancake (FAIL. miserable fail. sad.)
i tried to re-create a breakfast dish i had made once before. here, actually. unfortunately, i think it might have been too long since the last time i made it, because i ended up dumping the entire greasy, burned mess into the garbage can.
it was upsetting. i don't want to talk about it right now.
all was not lost, however, with the invention of tonight's dinner...
pan-seared rockfish with red pepper coulis and coconut rice.
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this afternoon jordan was voluntarily ambulatory for the first time in almost a week! to celebrate, we went to a local orchard to get pumpkins and apple cider, then the fish market to pick up something for dinner because he had an appetite!
we got about a pound of rockfish (filet, not whole). using some really beautiful purple, green and red peppers we had in our CSA box, jordan made a coulis with them, adding plenty of garlic, olive oil, red pepper flakes, balsamic vinegar and sugar. we added some halved grape tomatoes, some corn and a little bit of water to make the sauce less chunky and more, well, saucy.
in a pot i combined 4 cups of coconut milk with 2 cups of jasmine rice. then i cooked it how i would withe regular rice. i was not disappointed with the results.
next, i rinsed the filet then dredged it in some flour mixed with salt, pepper and paprika. jordan heated up some oil in the cast iron skillet and seared the filet until the outside was crispy and the inside was flaky.
i served my filet on a bed of the coconut rice with the coulis spread over the top of the fish. it was absolutely delightful!
boy oh boy. after all this cooking and eating, it is going to be a chore to drag myself to classes next week. why do anything else when there is always food to be prepared and enjoyed?
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