Friday February 1st:
Cereal,
Leftovers
Scallop potatoes with smoked salmon (my own recipe)
and cauliflower roasted with cumin seed, yogurt and pomegranate
from Smitten Kitchen
Saturday:
Cereal
Bread and cheese and fruit
Tuna casserole re-engineered with artichoke tapenade and lemon zest (winged it.)
Broccolini sauteed with garlic
Sunday:
granola and yogurt
more bread and cheese
Egg and smoked salmon sandwiches with apple salad ... ( I was tired... and it was so tasty!)
I think the key to my happiness in the kitchen is to have some ingredients that I just toss in to make it look like I tried harder.
For gourmet homemade condiments I like:
- candied pecans ( on salads-on top of mashed sweet potatoes-with cocktails..YUM)
- Lime and cumin pepitas (More salads toppings, snacks with beer and popcorn, but great mixed with grain salads as well)
- Reduced orange and rosemary infused balsamic vinegar (drizzled on roasted beets, yummy with beef, instant salad dressing)
I will have all those recipes on here very soon!
Today I made:
I used 5 Meyer lemons from my Mystery Box
and a lot of kosher salt (almost a 1/2 a cup)
Clean lemons and cut off ends and quarter them.
Layer in the jar:
salt- lemons- salt- lemons. Start and end with salt.
(use Kosher or sea salt to avoid any chemicals added to table salt)
Wait for the lemons to juice up. The salt should draw the juice out.
Eventually you want enough juice to cover the lemons.
After a few hours, add extra juice if you need it.
This is what it looked like while I waited. I added juice to cover later.
Now I'm keeping it in a bag in the coolest part of my little kitchen
(all the recipes/ forums said keep it in a dark cool place and refrigerate after a couple of weeks)
and shaking it a couple times a day, tucking down floaters,
to keep all the salts and acids preserving away
Easier than pie and in a couple of weeks of shaking I will have another luxury condiment that will fancy up soups, stews roasts and marinades, basically reinvent tuna salad... not to mention be the basis some of your trendy cocktails.
I'll let you know how it turns out. Tonight I think a potato leek or cream of broccoli soup as we have some Acme sourdough bread and three different dinnertimes to contend with.
Chow!
