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KitchenKatalog: Blog 323
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 12:55 PM
We made the standard taco stew but I don't think we let it cook long enough. It was a bit watery and less flavorful. So, next time we need to let it cook a bit longer. We also made the standard roasted brussel sprouts. They were also not as good as usual. They were a bit old. Also, I think I overcrowded them on the tray.
So, this meal was good but not as much success as we have had with the same items.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1458, 2011-10-13_125558
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 09:48 AM
We needed a really easy meal that was also rather light. This is about as light as you can get with homemade tomato sauce on butternutspaghetti squash. Really nothing to it. Kind of bland but overall, it was pretty good.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1455, 2011-10-11_094824
Monday, October 10, 2011, 02:27 PM
We made Moussaka with the recipe from here (which I have updated). It was extremely good. We did the normal changes listed on the recipe page. It was so incredibly good. We always really like it but it was just really, really flavorful today. Perfect amount of saltiness with all of the other flavors showing through very nicely. As usual, it had lots of leftovers. It easily makes 6-8 servings...or 4 if they are very big. I calculated the Points plus here to be less than 38 for all of it. So good!
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1449, 2011-10-10_142738
Saturday, October 08, 2011, 02:22 PM
The intention of this meal was carb-loading before the Tour Du Port. We sautéd onions, added some frozen corn,peas and then fresh spinach. We then added whole wheat pasta and sprinkled some cheese on top (I forget the type of cheese).
We also had artichokes (not pictures). They were pretty old but good. I think it was my first time eating them not canned. We used a fat free ranch made with ranch powder a greek yogurt (beats the extra sweet bottled stuff) and a truffle-salt and garlic greek yogurt dip. The ranch was good. We didn't love the other very much.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1446, 2011-10-08_142200
Thursday, October 06, 2011, 04:18 PM
We made lentil soup following the same recipe as last time(in the comments). We did make a few changes including using three (instead of two) stalks of celery and carrots to make up for the fact that we were about 1/4 cup short on the lentils. Also we put a good amount of beef Better Than Bouillon in to give it a beef base. We used chicken last time. Finally, we used apple cider vinegar instead of plain white. Because we had to be somewhere, we let it simmer on the stover for a very long time which probably increased all of the flavors.
it was very good though I think I liked it more the last time (but that was almost exactly a year ago so who knows). I don't know why the color is so different from the two pictures. Note that we used regular brown lentils for both. The nutritional information is very different for different lentil types (at least that is what I remember last time I looked).
Other than the simmer time, this is an extremely easy meal. And it is enough for a meal without anything else! We will probably do this again soon!
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1441, 2011-10-06_161857
Wednesday, October 05, 2011, 04:14 PM
Meredith basically made this meal so I do not know too many details, but we followed our standard shepherds pie. The mashed potatoes were with red-bliss potatoes and made with non-fat greek yogurt, fake butter, etc to make them rather healthy. This was our first time using a potato masher instead of a fork which worked very well. It certainly made it easier. The beef was 95% lean beef with some frozen corn and peas. Meredith put a lot of seasonings in, including garlic and onion powder and oregano. We do not really know why but it came out rather wet today. It could be the different potatoes or that we cooked it covered for the first half. I do not really know but it was certainly delish.
We also had swiss chard sautéd with garlic.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1438, 2011-10-05_161420
Monday, October 03, 2011, 04:10 PM
We made Asian Lettuce Wraps following the same recipe from last time1 except we made a bit more. Also, we added a good amount of bean sprouts to give it crunch and more volume. Overall, it was fairly easy and pretty good. The cellophane noodles are strange but they worked fine for this. I wonder how it would be with some other noodle combination.
We also had steamed asparagus. I do not know why but the asparagus was extremely flavorful. We literally just steamed it. Must have just gotten lucky.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1435, 2011-10-03_161046
2016-05-07: Changed the link to the actual page ↩
Sunday, October 02, 2011, 10:36 PM
We needed something fast and fairly light so we grilled the really light hot-dogs and following my normal issue with crappy break, used whole grain baguettes. They were a bit large and it was a lot of bread but I guess not too bad. We filled them with a mixture of stuff including horseradish mustard and hot peppers
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 1430, 2011-10-02_223626