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KitchenKatalog: Blog 116
Friday, February 28, 2020, 04:03 PM
The theme for this week's "Gluttonfest" was "Soups, Salads, and Sandwiches" so Meredith made a PB&J Cake. She used the recipe from Cakes by Courtney (LOCAL -- including a PDF of the site and the video).
Her notes (so far):
So far my only note is that yesterday it creaming the PB and butter together seemed like it would have worked better if I did the butter first and then added the PB. So I did that today for the frosting. Worked well. Less critical for the cake than the frosting.
Also I think she went a little heavy in the jelly between layers because it’s a bit wobbly.
The end result was pretty dry and, despite using a lot of jelly, the jelly flavor was kind of lost in the cake. We will not likely use this cake recipe again though the peanut butter frosting was very well received.
Friday, February 28, 2020, 12:26 PM
Meredith made a faster version of our Soy Chorizo Ragu also using spaghetti squash instead of zucchini. The basic idea was that she used simple jarred pizza sauce in place of making out own.
She said it worked really well and was very good. Seems like a nice, easy, quick meal.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 08:35 PM
I made what is now becoming our standard Lamb and pistachio patties with sumac yogurt sauce with the normal changes of poultry (chicken this time) and, for this one, also using walnuts like last time (leftover from the same thing).
The biggest note is that I read the recipe a bit differently and added the chicken right to the food processor. That was certainly easier though I think it gave it a bit of a "green mush" texture and appearance. Much less pretty.
I also baked them a bit longer under the broiler which gave them some more color. That was nice!
Served with green beans tossed in Fox Point and baked at 400° with the patties for about 10 min. Also served with ciabatta rolls.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 08:43 PM
Meredith made Spaghetti Squash Carbonara. Like last time, she used The Kitchn for the main recipe and Love & Lemons for how to make the squash.
It was, again, very good! And also smelled really good too!
Friday, February 21, 2020, 09:07 PM
Meredith made an Almond Mardi Gras King Cake using the Joy The Baker recipe used a few times before. She really picked from a few different recipes. The frosting from King Arthur Flour (LOCAL) replacing the vanilla with almond extract. Inspiration for almond paste from Serious Eats1. The only part of that recipe was the filling using
beaten together in the mixer until smooth.
One batch of filling filled one rope of dough, so she ended up making a second batch but had to use marzipan since that’s what we had. Turns out the almond paste mixture spread better than the marzipan one.
It rose slowly but did eventually rise. And she followed her own advice from the sticky buns to use a thermometer. Still, the very, very inside was a bit undercooked but really not very much.
It was very popular. In fact, the entire thing went!
No local copy since it really was just the filling and there wasn't much to it. ↩
Thursday, February 20, 2020, 09:56 PM
Meredith made Spinach Banana and Oat Muffins from Inspiralized (LOCAL). Her notes:
We don’t have flax, so I subbed whole chia seeds and ended up cooking these for about 30 min with the canneles pan.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 09:55 PM
This meal was a mess! It suffered numerous issues, though, in the end, it worked out okay.
The original plan was to grill chicken to go on the pizza but (a) we didn't really have the time and (b) Meredith didn't really want chicken on the pizza.
So I flattened the chicken, oiled it, and used Adobo Powder. But, it turns out, the grill was out of propane (I must have left it on at some point). This was our backup tank though I remembered there was another tank on the trailer. Turns out, that too was empty.
So I had to use a grill-pan and a cast-iron pan.
For the pizza, I really struggled to lay it out. And then we were out of parchment. I usually use an Air-Bake tray as a makeshift pizza peel so I figured I could just flour it and then slide it into the oven. Nope! It wouldn't budge and any attempt to make it messed up the pizza more. So we cooked the pizza on the air-bake tray rather than on the pizza steel. Basically the exact opposite of what you want.
Still, at the end of the day, it all came out okay. The pizza texture was fine, though not as good as the steel. And the chicken tasted okay, though was more work. I think I prefer Montreal Chicken Seasoning to Adobo on it.
Monday, February 17, 2020, 07:25 PM
Meredith made Soy Chorizo Ragu. We again did not do the wine since it wasn't in the recipe, but I later added it as optional.
Meredith also skipped the crushed red pepper in case Caroline wanted some, but it turns out that the soy chorizo is spicy itself so we didn't give her any.
It was delicious as usual!