Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in garlic
butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of garlic Naans,
cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi Chhole and Gongura Dal.
The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the Gongura. Very nice on a cold, rainy
night.



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

Fresh pea soup with butter dumplings. A real harbinger of spring! The
quart of shelled peas cost $8 at the farm stand, but well worth it to
save me from shelling 4 pounds of peas......

The peas are simmered, then pureed with white wine, salt & pepper.
Thickened with a roux. That's it. Then to make it something really
special, it gets buttery dumpings. I made them teeny-tiny. The recipe
came from The Vegetarian Epicure.

(It's warm, but stormy and grey and rainy, so still good soup weather.
Especially for a springy light soup like this one. Wish I could afford
to make it more often!)

Alongside we had a sautee of lightly carmelized onions, jarred roasted
red pepper strips, corn, hominy, garlic and cumin seed. This came out
reallt well. The remainder will go into quesadillas tomorrow, with some
guac.

We also had King's Hawaaiin Sweet Rolls, and a fresh fruit salad of
oranges, papaya, mango, and toasted coconut.

I love spring!

LucasP wrote:
Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in garlic
butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of garlic Naans,
cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi Chhole and Gongura Dal.
The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the Gongura. Very nice on a cold, rainy
night.


Sounds pretty good for slap-dashing it.

Slap and dash some over this way!

L.

Linda H wrote in
:

LucasP wrote:
Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in
garlic butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of garlic
Naans, cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi Chhole and
Gongura Dal. The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the Gongura. Very nice
on a cold, rainy night.


Sounds pretty good for slap-dashing it.

Slap and dash some over this way!



Leftovers are in the mail as we speak :-)



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

"Jude" wrote in news:1147741523.898596.127160
@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Fresh pea soup with butter dumplings. A real harbinger of spring! The
quart of shelled peas cost $8 at the farm stand, but well worth it to
save me from shelling 4 pounds of peas......

The peas are simmered, then pureed with white wine, salt & pepper.
Thickened with a roux. That's it.


This is how you eat pea soup!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

"Jude" wrote in news:1147741523.898596.127160
@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

The recipe
came from The Vegetarian Epicure.



Here's one from a non-vegetarian source :-)

http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s874061.htm



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

In article ,
LucasP wrote:

Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in garlic
butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of garlic Naans,
cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi Chhole and Gongura Dal.
The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the Gongura. Very nice on a cold, rainy
night.

Sounds interesting.
I'm going to have to go googling to ID some of that stuff. lol
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
-- Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote in
:

In article ,
LucasP wrote:

Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in
garlic butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of garlic
Naans, cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi Chhole and
Gongura Dal. The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the Gongura. Very nice
on a cold, rainy night.

Sounds interesting.
I'm going to have to go googling to ID some of that stuff. lol


Opps!! Screwed up on the spices. It's a blend of Bush Spices with
Mountain Pepper.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

"LucasP" wrote in message
...
OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote in
:

In article ,
LucasP wrote:

Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in
garlic butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of garlic
Naans, cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi Chhole and
Gongura Dal. The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the Gongura. Very nice
on a cold, rainy night.

Sounds interesting.
I'm going to have to go googling to ID some of that stuff. lol


Opps!! Screwed up on the spices. It's a blend of Bush Spices with
Mountain Pepper.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

Was watching a Anthony Bourdain program where he asks his usual question:
what is the last meal that you would request. It was a program on Puerto
Rico.
The male chef answered: Wild Rice, Fried Egg and small baby bananas.
I googled Wild Rice+Puerto Rico+recipe, but didn't come up with anything
that would denote that Puerto Rico had any sort of special recipe for wild
rice.
Any comment from Puerto Rico?
Thanks,
Dee Dee

"Dee Randall" wrote in
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"LucasP" wrote in message
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OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote in
:

In article ,
LucasP wrote:

Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in
garlic butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of
garlic Naans, cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi
Chhole and Gongura Dal. The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the
Gongura. Very nice on a cold, rainy night.

Sounds interesting.
I'm going to have to go googling to ID some of that stuff. lol


Opps!! Screwed up on the spices. It's a blend of Bush Spices with
Mountain Pepper.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

Was watching a Anthony Bourdain program where he asks his usual
question: what is the last meal that you would request. It was a
program on Puerto Rico.
The male chef answered: Wild Rice, Fried Egg and small baby bananas.
I googled Wild Rice+Puerto Rico+recipe, but didn't come up with
anything that would denote that Puerto Rico had any sort of special
recipe for wild rice.
Any comment from Puerto Rico?

Not from PR, but Brisbane........

I think you might find that it was the guest chefs nominated items. Wild
Rice can be bought anywhere, and just cooked as one does normal rice. But,
it is a lot more expensive.

http://www.brownielocks.com/wildrice.html



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

I have 1/2 bottle of champagne left over from Mother's Day. I'm going
to make chicken with champagne (and mushroom) sauce.
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On 16 May 2006 00:15:56 GMT, LucasP wrote:

Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in garlic
butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of garlic Naans,
cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi Chhole and Gongura Dal.
The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the Gongura. Very nice on a cold, rainy
night.

--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

sf wrote in
:

I have 1/2 bottle of champagne left over from Mother's Day. I'm going
to make chicken with champagne (and mushroom) sauce.

YUM!!

That used to be my favourite back when I was working for a computer
company, and they fed us.

Tonight it's going to be some nice, tender rump steaks (3/4" thick),
seared over an open wood fire (grill), a mescalun and rocket salad with
some Reggianno (Parmesan) shaved into it....... along with some
mandarin, sugar snap peas, lebo cues, and Roma tomatos......... and
maybe a bottle of red or 2. It's been a shit of a week :-/


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On 16 May 2006 00:15:56 GMT, LucasP wrote:

Bit of a slap dash affair.......

Had two chicken thigh fillets left in the fridge so cooked them in
garlic butter with Mountain bush spices. Heated up a couple of
garlic Naans, cooked some wild rice mix, and we had some Punjabi
Chhole and Gongura Dal. The SO liked the Chhole, I liked the
Gongura. Very nice on a cold, rainy night.




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

LucasP wrote:
"Jude" wrote in news:1147741523.898596.127160
@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

The recipe
came from The Vegetarian Epicure.



Here's one from a non-vegetarian source :-)

http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s874061.htm

Split pea soup has a whole different flavor from fresh green pea soup
(English peas, ot MayPeas as they are called in Virginia). I think of
it as more of a winter dish.



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

projectile vomit chick wrote:
On 15 May 2006 18:05:24 -0700, in rec.food.cooking, "Jude"
hit the crackpipe and declared:
Fresh pea soup with butter dumplings. A real harbinger of spring! The
quart of shelled peas cost $8 at the farm stand, but well worth it to
save me from shelling 4 pounds of peas......

You'd rather pay such an exhorbinant amount of money than do 15
minutes of work? What a fat lazy **** you are.


You can shell4 pounds of peas in an hour? You're hired.

The peas are simmered, then pureed with white wine, salt & pepper.
Thickened with a roux. That's it. Then to make it something really
special, it gets buttery dumpings. I made them teeny-tiny. The recipe
came from The Vegetarian Epicure.

How is butter vegetarian?

How is butter NOT vegetarian????



(It's warm, but stormy and grey and rainy, so still good soup weather.
Especially for a springy light soup like this one. Wish I could afford
to make it more often!)

Yeah, it's so hard to make an old fashioned, economical soup like
split pea soup when you're too ****ing fat and lazy to bother growing
your own peas, or look for some peas somewhere other than a
cockgobbling farmer that is charging 8 bucks a quart for ****ing peas.


Obvoiusly, you don't know the difference between split peas and fresh
peas in the pod. Pity for you. Split peas are cheap; fresh farmstand
peas are not. And none of the grocery stores carry fresh peas or many
of the other local produce items the farmstand gets.Clearly you're the
type who does all their shopping at the A&P. Have you ever seen a
farmstand?


Alongside we had a sautee of lightly carmelized onions, jarred roasted
red pepper strips, corn, hominy, garlic and cumin seed. This came out
reallt well. The remainder will go into quesadillas tomorrow, with some
guac.

We also had King's Hawaaiin Sweet Rolls, and a fresh fruit salad of
oranges, papaya, mango, and toasted coconut.

I love spring!

Spring hates you.

No, I think that's you, not spring.