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KitchenKatalog: Blog 61
Friday, June 18, 2021, 05:16 PM
This was for the Friday Potlucks. Meredith made Liege Waffle French Toast Casserole (where "French Toast Casserole" basically means bread pudding but sounds fancier).
The waffles were a mix from yesterday and from New Years (which were frozen).
She used this Food52 recipe for inspiration but really, just used it for the basis. Her notes:
It was certainly good but not as decadent or amazing as we expected. I think if we were going to go through the effort to make waffles just for this, I would just have the waffles instead.
Thursday, June 17, 2021, 08:43 PM
Meredith made the a spinach frittata from The Kitchn (LOCAL) and we made truffle-tots.
For the frittata, she used regular (previous diced) onions instead of shallots. I also think she skipped the broiler step.
For the tots, Meredith baked them for about 40+ minutes. We then tossed them with black truffle oil and parmesean cheese. I do not know if it was the oil (being black truffle? or in general) or if it was something else but they were not as good as we had hoped. They just didn't have the strong truffle flavor we'd expect. I'd try it again with a different oil though.
Thursday, June 17, 2021, 08:40 PM
Meredith made Liege Waffles as part of another project. She decided to try the recipe from Spoon Fork Bacon (LOCAL)
Changes to liege waffles: 3/4 cup AP flour, 1/2 cup whole wheat. Granulated sugar instead of brown (didn’t want to open a new bag for such a tiny amount). Also, it took about 4 min per waffle. I did them 1 at a time instead of trying to fit 1/3 cup of batter into each quarter.
I wasn’t thrilled working with the batter. It was super sticky, and extremely easily deflated. The end result wasn’t as chewy as I’d like in a liege waffle. I thought I could have kneaded it a bit longer with the mixer, but the recipe may also need a little work.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 08:48 PM
Meredith made English Jacket Potatoes from Cup of Jo (LOCAL). They are basically just baked potatoes but done in a way to make the skin really crispy (which worked well!).
We served them with sour cream, greek yogurt, canned chili, and green onion.
Also just a very easy meal!
Monday, June 14, 2021, 08:33 AM
Meredith made an Apple Pie Smoothie with the recipe from Liz Moody via Instagram (LOCAL)
Her notes:
A few minor changes: added a scoop of collagen protein, did 1/2 the hemp seeds, and about half the nut butter (I used cashew).
It was really good! Really did taste like apple pie!
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 09:06 AM
Emily had sent this idea to Meredith. It is like pesto eggs but using crispy chili sauce (this is was the Trader Joes one).
Meredith didn't like it as much. The chili or garlic burned a bit and was bitter. But it was fun to try something new
Friday, June 11, 2021, 06:22 PM
Meredith made tiramisu for Friday Night Potluck. She used her normal recipe which she finally let me copy it. The recipe is from Cibo 360 for tiramisu and zabaione (LOCAL translated, and PDFs)
Unfortunately, she didn't let me copy it sooner and it likely changed. She followed, or even went a little light, the amount of marsala but it was too much. The older version of the recipe had you do about half an egg-shell's worth per egg. She would go back to that too.
Also, as noted on that recipe, she uses butter biscuits (or Petit-Beurre) instead of lady-fingers. This is because when she was in Italy for study abroad, she asked a local friend for the best tiramisu. Instead of pointing her to it, she gave Meredith an ingredient list, included butter biscuits but not lady fingers, and made her some. It was really good so now that is Meredith's major change now too.
It was well received and we liked it. Just less marsala next time.
Wednesday, June 09, 2021, 01:19 PM
Meredith made a healthier pesto chicken salad. It was Costco Rotisserie Chicken Breast (we had frozen from a while ago). She then used a little bit of mayo, greek yogurt, and Kirkland pesto.
It was very good and healthier with the greek yogurt