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KitchenKatalog: Blog 217
Sunday, January 31, 2016, 12:00 AM
Meredith made chicken salads for lunch. It was a buffalo chicken salad and a curry chicken salad. Both were made with rotisserie chicken breast and greek (and maybe regular) yogurt.
This was a long time ago so we do not recall all of the details. But on the buffalo she also used cabbage for bulk.
The Indian one is based on The Cozy Apron (local). We do not recall all of the changes but she (with everything doubled or tripled):
Again, this was a bit ago so we do not remember it all.
Curry Chicken Salad (from The Cozy Apron)
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 09:34 PM
Note: This was moved into My Recipe Book
Meredith did most of this making our usual Chicken Pot Pie with the same usual changes from 2015-11-09
We had a few without any topping it with the biscuits. I had some on mine and they were undercooked since I did it from frozen.
Again, this is such an easy but also really good meal!
Monday, January 25, 2016, 12:00 AM
We made a quick meal. Just roasted cauliflower (but for less time) and then we tossed it with soy chorizo, capers (and the liquid) and a little bit of jalapeños. We used a different type of soy chorizo. It tasted about the same as the Trader Joes
Sunday, January 24, 2016, 02:11 PM
We were again trying to cool with the same restrictions as 2016-01-22 so we came up with falafels.
I made my regular dough, roughly doubled, but with great norther beans and I made lentil flour (food processor). I used about 2/3 cup of the flour to try to counter the wetter beans. I also did most of the spices only roughly. And, I used some dried parsley instead.
I tried to waffle them but they failed. It stuck too much. Not sure what the root cause was, but it wasn't pretty. So, for the rest, I baked like regular falafel. This worked well. Of course, the bottom got much browner than the top. I wonder if I could sandwich trays to try to cook the top? I will look into that... (You can't really see it in the picture because of how I placed them on the plate but what is up was the bottom of the tray)
We served the with fried eggs and a quick dip made from greek yogurt with za'tar and salt.
Failed Waffles:
Saturday, January 23, 2016, 12:00 AM
Despite having made it two other times in the same week, we again made a Huevos Rancheros(ish) thing. We wanted to use up leftovers so we used the leftover cauliflower plus some spinach. And we used a green chili sauce for the main liquid.
Simple, fast, and effective at using leftovers
Friday, January 22, 2016, 08:00 PM
We had a family friend visiting with a very restrictive diet but we decided to see what we could do. Here is the full list:
No soy, grains, bananas, coffee, chickpeas, peanuts, peas, tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant, potatoes (sweets are ok), beta-glucan, mastic gum, gum arabic. Plus, [is a] vegetarian (no fish).
Add on that Meredith and I are trying to eat much more healthily and this becomes quite a challenge. We decided on Indian but this was also hard as tomatoes seem to be everywhere!!! I mean, we had to search through tons of recipes for ones that didn't call for them in the first place.
But, we ended up with:
I'll get to the saag panner soon, but first just the paneer. We wanted to make it low fat since otherwise, it is like eating cheese and that is a ton of points. By the way, in the future, we could do tofu in place of paneer and save a ton of calories and ease. But no soy for this meal.
I read a bunch of recipes but went with this "Food for 7 Stages of life" recipe (Local1). I liked that they went through all of the different options for curdling the milk and made it pretty clear that skim was ok.
However, we went with 1% (hence the really low fat but not quite fat free). We made some other changes as we went including:
The thing that really amazed me was low little it made. As you can see in the photos below, it made all of 7.25 ounces out for 1/2 gallon 1% milk (73 oz.). That is insane! You can see how much whey is left too (we saved some for other uses).
Oh, next time, I will use a larger pan. Once the milk started to boil, it made a huge mess!
How to make [Organic and Fat Free] Paneer at home? (from Food for 7 Stages of life)
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Again, we really struggled to find a recipe that didn’t call for (and seem to rely on) tomatoes. But eventually went with Vegetarian Times (Local).
We followed the recipe pretty closely except:
It worked out ok. Mostly tasted like sautéed spinach with a strong flavor of ginger and coriander. Essentially, like Indian sautéed spinach but not saag paneer. I think this is one of the recipes that really do benefit from heavy cream, etc. I do not know if I would attempt saag paneer again unless I am willing to use the cream.
Saag Paneer (from Vegetarian Times)
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We again struggled with the tomatoes, but eventually ended up with this Food.com recipe (Local) recipe. Actually, this was doubly difficult since we struggled to find vegetable (or vegetarian chicken) broth without tomatoes (see the photo below).
On the soup, we also stayed pretty true to the recipe except that we
We used all of the regular broth and half of the low sodium. It was pretty simple. Maybe a bit mushy but not bad. I think if we made this one again, we would go light on the cardamom. That flavor was a bit too strong.
Indian Lentil Soup (Dal Shorva) (from Food.com)
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We did our regular Curry Roasted Cauliflower Recipe again with the Tandoor Chicken Masala (same as used on 2015-11-11). We made a ton of it. Probably 2.5 heads worth. It was so much that, for the first time, I didn't finish what was left.
Also, I do not know if we didn't need it before or used it and forgot to note it, but we didn't add salt and it was missed. Good otherwise. Nice char and, as usual, lots of flavor
The original site has a good bit of useful pictures. Therefor, I also included a link to the PDF printout on the local page ↩
Friday, January 22, 2016, 04:07 PM
We were hungry and hadn't eaten lunch so we quickly threw together Huevos Rancheros. The only interesting thing we did is use leftover eggplant from the other day instead of beans (also saved calories). Not much else to it.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 08:00 PM
We made our now-regular lasagna soup. We again used the low-cal vodka sauce from Delallo first used 2015-10-09.
We also tried to make it even lighter by using
The potatoes worked really well. It saved us a good amount of points, required less processed food, and was just all-together good.
I still wish that we had a good way to make the sauce ourselves. This vodka sauce is really good and low points. I wonder if we could recreate it acceptably?
We also just had roasted eggplant.
2016-05-18 Update: Recipe moved to its own page