What I've been eating lately
- Alton Brown's Savory Polenta
- Haven't eaten too much polenta before but this went along fairly well with a few other things. Used turkey broth instead of chicken broth, though I doubt that had much of a flavour impact. Any regular-polenta-eaters out there who can suggest how to fry up leftover polenta without it sticking to the pan too much?
- Ultimate Cheater Pulled Pork
- Didn't make any pulled pork but used the rub ingredients there and threw it with some very-much-not-boneless ribs in a slow cooker. Was pretty tasty. I'd been looking for a use for my liquid smoke - think I might have to try this with a larger chunk of meat in the future.
- Eggs in purgatory
- I'm still not quite sure what to make of the combination of eggs and tomato sauce. Think next time I might made more of a bell-pepper / chili tomato sauce.
- Boerenkool Stamppot (Kale Hash)
- Just grabbed a random recipe for this sort of thing - I didn't bother trying to follow it. I've discovered that the key to this sort of dish is dairy - without it, you might as well scrape the contents of the pan straight into the garbage but with dairy it's not bad.
- Slow Cooker Bolognese
- This has become somewhat of a regular thing to make - basically since I normally have everything needed to make this in the house already.
- Risotto of Almost Anything
- I've made more paella than risotto in the past as, though they're fairly similar in many ways, paella you don't need to stir whereas risotto you do. Realized when I was going to start making this that I didn't have some of the ingredients and didn't really know what to pair pumpkin with so a quick consult of The Flavor Bible turned this into a pumpkin-sage risotto. The sage worked out quite well. I may take some advice from Mark Bittman and try a brown-rice risotto in the not-so-distant future.