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KitchenKatalog: Blog 245
Friday, December 12, 2014, 01:34 PM
I made soy-chorizo and cabbage tacos. I cut up a 1/4 head of cabbage and stir-fried it (in the cast iron), then added about 1.5 servings of soy chorizo. Added a bit of spices and then again, made it with tacos and pressed it (see the photo below). This was pretty good and really easy. Plus it made a lot of food. Maybe a bit high in points (6 for soy chorizo, 6 for tortillas and 3 for oil). Still, a good thrown-together lunch
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Original WP Post ID: 9352
Original WP Pub Date: 2014-12-12_133403
Thursday, December 11, 2014, 06:30 PM
We threw together black bean tacos. We sautéd the beans with some peppers and added seasoning including lots of cumin. I then pressed the tacos with a heated pan on top and then the heat on the bottom (it works, not great)
The tacos were pretty good. Light and fast. Not the most flavorful and a bit dry but not bad.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 9348, 2014-12-11_183034
Thursday, December 11, 2014, 01:30 PM
I made a quick lunch stir-fry. It was just a quarter head of cabbage, lots of chopped peppers and about 5 oz of frozen rotisserie chicken.
I again tried it on the cast-iron dutch oven. This worked out a lot better than last time. I think the pan was hotter, cabbage has less water and I didn't crowd the pan. I used the orange sauce from last time and it was much better today
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 9345, 2014-12-11_133012
Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 06:30 PM
A quick and light meal since it is weigh-in day the next day. We used defrosted cod and just sautéd it with some fox-point. It was a bit too hot as you can see; the spices are burned. But other than that, it was fine. We served it on arugula
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 9342, 2014-12-10_183056
Monday, December 08, 2014, 06:30 PM
We wanted a really quick dinner so we made omelets with onions, harissa (in the egg), feta cheese (on mine, not Meredith's), capers (on Meredith's, not mine) and peppers. It was quick, easy, and good enough for a quick meal.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 9339, 2014-12-08_183043
Saturday, December 06, 2014, 10:10 PM
I was in the mood for lots of food but not a lot of calories so I made a stir-fry with Wegmans fake chicken. The stir-fry was mostly broccoli, yellow squash and I think peppers.
I did it in the cast iron and at one point added some water to help cook the broccoli. It was not a lot of water but between that and the insane amount of water released by the veggies (much more than expected) and the fact that I overfilled the pan (probably biggest culprit), it was basically boiled/steamed veggies. The sauce was an Orange Chicken sauce from Wegmans. It was surprisingly only 2Tbsp/1point. (I used probably 2-3 points worth).
Really, this was just disappointing. I think I need to be careful not to over-fill the pot.
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Original WP Post ID: 9330
Original WP Pub Date: 2014-12-06_221044
Friday, December 05, 2014, 09:10 PM
I was on my own so I made steak and roasted kabocha squash (30 minutes at 400, flipped half way). The steak was supposedly a NY strip steak but I am not sure.
And I had lots of issues cooking it. Something about the way it was cut, the fat line that is usually down the side was only half there. When I cooked the steak on one side, something about that caused it to essentially bubble. I had to trim off this protruding steak so I could cook the rest. Actually, it came out pretty good but that was super strange!
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 9325, 2014-12-05_211021
Friday, December 05, 2014, 12:10 PM
I am very much behind and catching up. This was a stir-fry with my balsamic stir-fry recipe.
I do not know if it was the induction burner, the wok or both but it basically stopped working well so I finished this off in a cast-iron dutch oven
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 9322, 2014-12-05_121057