What's Cooking EDF? #3

[El Diablo]

Roasted chicken breast. Frozen chicken breast in the oven at 325 for about 40 minutes. After about 30 minutes put on some BBQ sauce, then melted a slice of cheddar cheese on top at the end.

Sweet potato spears and red bell pepper. Tossed them in a little olive oil/salt/pepper/garlic powder. Roasted in oven with chicken. After the chicken was done cranked up the heat to 450 for another 10 minutes or so.

[Zeno]

Looks tasty. Wine?

-Zeno

[El Diablo]

Zeno,

Lime sparkling water.

[centaurmyth]

Diablo, that meal is looking good...

Do you find that spending a little extra time 'plating' your creations can add to the enjoyment of your meal?

Also, do you find any comparisons in bringing awareness to plating a meal with the zen art and practice of serving tea?

or is a cigar just a cigar? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] in any case, enjoy. those sweet potato fries are looking tasty, any spices?

[Spanaway Vin]

A couple weekend dishes:

I'm not really sure what to call these. They were originally supposed to be kind of like spring rolls, but I decided to just fold over spring roll wrapper squares to make triangles.

The filling: sauteed chopped leeks, chopped cabbage, minced garlic, diced onions, and diced carrots until it was all soft. Added this to a pound of ground turkey. Seasoned with salt and pepper. Filled this in spring roll wrappers (I'm pretty sure this is just phyllo) and sealed with a brush and egg wash.

The dipping sauce is a soy sauce, wine vinegar, and sesame oil mixture.




Reuben & Beet Salad

I didn't make the beet salad. I did, however, make the reuben.

Pastrami from the deli at Central Market, as thinly sliced as you can get it. Put this on rye bread with thousand island (actually, mine was a garlic & parmesan dressing that I added a bit of ketchup to. I don't like thousand island), provolone, and sauerkraut. Toasted on a griddle.




Mini Turkey Burgers

Sauteed onion and garlic until translucent. Added this to 2 lbs of turkey burger, one egg, some bread crumbs, chopped parsley, salt, pepper, a tablespoon of A-1 steak sauce, and a touch of cayenne.

I portioned them out into about 1.5 ounce mini patties.




I plated one up (because I'm a nerd with nothing better to do) by toasting some rye bread and then cutting out two rounds with the top of a shot glass. A tiny slice of swiss, a tiny piece of lettuce, and a bit of tomato to finish it off. Hershey's kiss for size reference.

[Dids]

Last night (after some slothery while I was on a Didscation)

Baby Back Ribs.

[jkkkk]

Yesterday:



T-Bone steak with a Danish blue cheese butter sauce, delic.

[SL__72]

That looks delicious, especially the peppers!

[fluffpop62]

It all looks really good, although El D, did your message end up greasy? It looks shiny!

[El Diablo]

fluff,

Not greasy at all. Just bad flash photography. The sweet potatoes and peppers were tossed with a tablespoon of olive oil before being put in the oven.