Food Catchup, December 2017
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tuftearsMore pictures of food!
Thanksgiving was at a cousin's place. I brought the sugar snap peas with Chinese sausage (top left); from there we have some green beans with tofu, my cousin made roast beef, then there's potatoes au gratin, some sort of noodles that I have entirely forgotten what it was, someone made bread, and in the center is what I vaguely recall as a casserole of some sort with a pie crust topping. It wasn't bad but not real awesome.
I was pressured into making sausage biscuits as an appetizer, not pictured. I pretty much failed on making these -- I need to remember for future reference that biscuits need to be generously sized, not teeny-tiny, or else they dry up into uselessness.
I made applesauce carrot cupcakes again, this time with cut-up apples in them! They were good but stuck too much to the muffin wrappers. I should try making them again but this time just directly in the cupcake pans, no wrappers. I bet they'll taste super-good that way.
In the throes of the Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to make some turkey potpie as well. This isn't from leftover turkey, since there was no turkey involved; I bought some turkey breasts, cut them up, and slow-cooked them with carrots and zucchini. I rolled out some Trader Joe's pie dough and cut them into square-shaped quarters so I could have one pie-topping in each container of pot pie.
There's rice on the bottom which is rather hidden in this picture. When I bake these, the rice crisps up nicely on the bottom, but it tends to stick to aluminum foil. I have one left, so I'll try heating it directly in a pie pan or baking tray or something that will be sturdier and easier to prise baked rice from.
I shanghai'ddracosphynx out for some Impossible Burgers. This is the 1/2 pound size. ... On reflection, I think I should stick with 1/3 pound. This was just too much food. Also the ginger soy vinaigrette does not really do a good job of approximating teriyaki sauce.
I grew annoyed of having this bag of Trader Joe's Crispy Orange Chicken just sitting around in my freezer and cooked it up along with some from-scratch beef stirfry. Tasty! I should estimate for future purr-poses that you get three servings per bag of orange chicken though, not the promised four, the servings seemed small.
Continuing my plan of making more veggie gravy, here we have a meatloaf burger with veggie gravy on top, a blend of caramelized onions, carrots, and celery. It was actually pretty peppery, I should probably reduce the amount of pepper in the gravy. And maybe thin the veggie gravy out so it flows and sits more like an actual gravy than like a semisolid. Still, it did taste good.
Thanksgiving was at a cousin's place. I brought the sugar snap peas with Chinese sausage (top left); from there we have some green beans with tofu, my cousin made roast beef, then there's potatoes au gratin, some sort of noodles that I have entirely forgotten what it was, someone made bread, and in the center is what I vaguely recall as a casserole of some sort with a pie crust topping. It wasn't bad but not real awesome.
I was pressured into making sausage biscuits as an appetizer, not pictured. I pretty much failed on making these -- I need to remember for future reference that biscuits need to be generously sized, not teeny-tiny, or else they dry up into uselessness.
I made applesauce carrot cupcakes again, this time with cut-up apples in them! They were good but stuck too much to the muffin wrappers. I should try making them again but this time just directly in the cupcake pans, no wrappers. I bet they'll taste super-good that way.
In the throes of the Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to make some turkey potpie as well. This isn't from leftover turkey, since there was no turkey involved; I bought some turkey breasts, cut them up, and slow-cooked them with carrots and zucchini. I rolled out some Trader Joe's pie dough and cut them into square-shaped quarters so I could have one pie-topping in each container of pot pie.
There's rice on the bottom which is rather hidden in this picture. When I bake these, the rice crisps up nicely on the bottom, but it tends to stick to aluminum foil. I have one left, so I'll try heating it directly in a pie pan or baking tray or something that will be sturdier and easier to prise baked rice from.
I shanghai'd
dracosphynx out for some Impossible Burgers. This is the 1/2 pound size. ... On reflection, I think I should stick with 1/3 pound. This was just too much food. Also the ginger soy vinaigrette does not really do a good job of approximating teriyaki sauce.I grew annoyed of having this bag of Trader Joe's Crispy Orange Chicken just sitting around in my freezer and cooked it up along with some from-scratch beef stirfry. Tasty! I should estimate for future purr-poses that you get three servings per bag of orange chicken though, not the promised four, the servings seemed small.
Continuing my plan of making more veggie gravy, here we have a meatloaf burger with veggie gravy on top, a blend of caramelized onions, carrots, and celery. It was actually pretty peppery, I should probably reduce the amount of pepper in the gravy. And maybe thin the veggie gravy out so it flows and sits more like an actual gravy than like a semisolid. Still, it did taste good.
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Date: 2017-12-26 12:29 am (UTC)(+) It looks like much deliciousness was had! ^..^
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