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[personal profile] mific2023-10-25 02:14 pm

Adventures with rice cookers: Rice, beans and sausage

I decided to get adventurous and try using my rice cooker like a slow cooker or instant pot. It turned out well! This is a red beans and rice recipe adapted to whatever I had at hand.

Prep Time: 20 minutes | Cook Time: 2 hr | 4 servings

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[personal profile] panisdead2023-10-24 02:35 pm

Recipe: Oven-Baked Steelhead Trout

This is less a recipe than a cooking method for oven-baked fish, although I am including a recipe as well. I believe the oven times and temperatures come from (but probably aren't unique to) my former neighbors.

Ingredients:

1 lb to 1 1/2 lb steelhead trout or salmon fillet

1 to 2 Tbsp mayonnaise, depending on the size of the fillet
tsp lemon juice
2 tsp squeeze-bottle garlic, or 2-3 cloves chopped
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 to 1 tsp smoked paprika

Oven-Baked Steelhead Trout )
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[personal profile] runpunkrun2023-10-19 09:52 am

Recipe: Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze from The Bojon Gourmet

This Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze from The Bojon Gourmet bakes up properly tall like a regular quick bread, which was shocking enough, but it also has a lovely moist crumb and slices well. It's also dairy-free, nut-free, and gum-free!

I followed the instructions exactly...except I didn't sift the dry ingredients because in my experience when you sift oat flour it just clumps up again on the other side. Instead I mixed the dry ingredients together in one bowl and the wet in another and then mixed them together and it was fine. But if you follow the instructions, this only take one bowl.

I used Libby's canned pumpkin. Word on the street is that different brands have different liquid contents, and organic canned pumpkin puree can sometimes be more liquidy than conventional and might throw off a recipe developed for a thicker puree. It sounds like Taylor-Tobin used an organic, but thick, puree, and the Libby's worked well here. I used a glass 9 x 5 inch loaf pan and cooked the bread for a full hour. It rose to lofty heights, browned a bit, and developed some rustic cracks along the top.

Contrary to the instructions, which I followed remember, the loaf needs to cool more than an hour before it's ready to glaze. Mine was still warm at that point and the glaze started to melt. Next time I'll give it more like three hours to cool completely. If you don't have that kind of time, or want a loaf that's less sweet, it's perfectly tasty without the glaze. I also left out the turmeric because while that golden color is seductive, I didn't want to risk being able to taste it, but I'm sensitive to flavors. Others might not notice it. I also, for reasons, had to leave out the cinnamon, and I imagine this is even better with it, but it's still very good without.

In short, this is an easy recipe that doesn't take a lot of time or special skills to put together and has great results. I highly recommend it.
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[personal profile] runpunkrun2023-10-12 08:58 am

Product Review: Trader Joe's Gluten Free Madeleine Cookies

Trader Joe's Gluten Free Madeleine Cookies: These tender little cakes are moist without being greasy and dense without being heavy. Plump and light with that distinct madeleine shape, including the bump on the back, these are as good as any madeleine I've ever had from a package. They're also dairy free, but still taste buttery and rich. There is a slightly starchy aftertaste/mouthfeel, but it's barely enough to mention. I'll buy these again.

Individually wrapped. Labeled gluten free, but not certified GF. Made in France.
Current Ingredients: egg, sunflower oil, sugar, rice flour, water, potato starch, glycerin, dried glucose syrup, corn flour, glucose syrup, guar gum, rice starch, rapeseed lecithin, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), sea salt, natural flavors, xanthan gum, mixed tocopherols (to preserve).

May contain almond, hazelnut.
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Product Review: Abilyn Gluten-Free Ice Cream Cake

 I have only found these products in one small town Hannaford store, in their own gluten-free freezer (by the deli, not by the other freezers) so I don't know how widely they are distributed. But they must be available wider since they are in this store. Looking at the website, it seems that only certain chains of grocery stores will carry them and in my area, it is Hannaford. But Wegmans and Whole Foods also apparently carries them. 

They are Abilyn Frozen Bakery Gluten Free Ice Cream Cakes and I've tried the Cookies & Cream and the Vanilla & Chocolate. 

The Cookies & Cream were the first one I tried and it was very mixed. I don't know if the cake had been in the freezer a long time, but the frosting was horrible. It had hardened to solid and I could chip it off the ice cream in sections. Once I removed the frosting, the ice cream was decent, and it was the first gluten free cookies and cream ice cream that I had found. 

I just picked up the Vanilla & Chocolate a few days ago, and it is great! I love ice cream cake, and this is as good as any ice cream cake that I've had in the past. The frosting is smooth and creamy, the ice cream is tasty and good and the chocolate crumbles in the middle are crunchy. 

I'm super happy I gave them another try because now I can have ice cream cake that's good! I think the main thing would be to check the best by date since they may have been in the freezer for a bit. 
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[personal profile] nerakrose2023-10-02 11:05 pm

lamb stew with cinnamon and garlic

this recipe has been on my mind for a few days because I'm hankering for autumn (it's unseasonably warm where I am) and this is one of my favourite autumn/winter stews. the recipe comes from a cookbook I've since lost, I have a vague memory of it being labelled as a 'Greek lamb stew'.

lamb stew with cinnamon and garlic )
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Frozen Fish for One in the Microwave

Easy, quick high protein meal. My microwave is 1600 watts; see notes below on adjust timing for your microwave’s power.

Tools
  • Covered glass dish
  • Fork
Ingredients
  • approximately 120g (1/4 lb) frozen fish fillet (I use tilapia)
  • 15ml (1 Tbs) tart liquid: tamari or vinegar or lemon juice or white wine
  • 15ml (1 Tbs) fat: sesame oil or olive oil or butter

zap and snack )

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[personal profile] mific2023-09-24 06:49 pm

Blackberry & Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

For this recipe, I experimented with the cottage cheese ice cream recipe that went viral on tiktok.
GF, can be keto-friendly, gum-free

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[personal profile] mific2023-09-23 02:34 pm

Gum-free Ice Cream: Keto Ice Cream - Blueberry Cream Cheese Yoghurt

Continuing my small series of gum-free ice cream recipes. This one doesn't need an ice cream machine.
GF, keto-friendly.
Servings: 10 (1 scoop per serve)
Source: ketoserts

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[personal profile] mific2023-09-22 09:39 pm

Gum-free ice cream - Mango Passionfruit Vegan Ice Cream

Ice creams, both commercial and many home made recipes, often have gums in them, so I'll be posting three that don't. This one is best made with an ice cream maker, but the next two don't need that. Treat all the flavourings as pretty much interchangeable between the recipes.

GF, Vegan, gum-free, dairy-free
Serves: 10 (1 scoop per serve)
Source - Gaz Oakley

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Improved Chickpea and Mango Curry

While in Geneva I figured out that Jack Monroe's Peach and Chickpea curry, if made with mango, sort of approximates the sweet chicken and mango curry that was the first Indian dish I actually liked and which is really hard to find. Jack's recipe, while a good workhorse, is definitely on the bland anglo curry side of things. Having obtained a jar of long-life mango slices recently, and being in the midst of making a multi-curry bonanza, I spliced Jack's recipe together with Madhur Jaffrey's "Chickpeas in a simple northern style".

Diet and access notes )

What you need and what you do with it )

I served this tonight with a red lentil and tomato dahl, a stir-fry of zuchhini and broccoli in a mildly spicy yoghurt sauce, and a not-particularly-good batch of Becky Excell's gluten-free naan bread, but i've eaten variations on the Jack Monroe one as a main dish (in which case, I often chuck green string beans in to round out the one-pot meal).

Becky Excell's gluten-free "speedy naan"

This doesn't come out exactly like naan - looking at my Madhur Jaffery Vegetarian India cookbook which I've recently reclaimed, the texture might be closer to roti. Nevertheless it's delicious - not just because it's the first flatbread other than big shelf-stable lebanese breads or soft tacos that I've been able to eat for many years. My partner, who has a stack of frozen ready-to-heat roti in the freezer, will eat this instead.

I present to you an annotated & slightly tweaked recipe:

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What you need and what you do with it )

These are tasty but don't keep well. I suspect the wet dough keeps fine, though, so you could make a double batch and reserve more dough for later use.

Becky Excell is a white londoner with a Malaysian-English husband, so I'm very excited by "Quick and Easy Gluten-Free"'s prospects of offering me recipes that are made on things I can obtain in Sydney, use supermarket GF staples where sensible, and might actually cover some of the Aus-standard Asian restaurant and home cooking staples I can no longer eat. So far, however, I have just made naan several times.
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[personal profile] mific2023-07-27 12:23 pm

Spinach Lentil Curry

GF, low GI and lowish carb, Vegetarian, Vegan. Serves 4 if eaten with other dishes like rice, roti, naan or salad, or serves 2 if eaten by itself.

Ingredients:
Initial lentil cooking:
3/4 Cup Red Lentils (140g)
3.5 Cups water (800ml)
1 Teaspoon Turmeric
1/2 Teaspoon salt Read more... )

Big pot of yellow red green curry.

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[personal profile] mific2023-07-05 06:55 pm

Veggie dinner

A couple of veggie recipes I just had for dinner. These are portions for one, so expand as needed.

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[personal profile] mific2023-06-18 01:12 pm

Keto noodles - konjac or shiratake

There are loads of bread alternatives out there for people eating keto, but what about noodles? I'm talking about noodles for Asian cooking, or for spaghetti, beef stroganoff, whatever.

So this is about konjac (also called shiratake) noodles - noodles made from the naturally occurring konjac yam (also called Devil's Tongue and you can see why!)

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[personal profile] runpunkrun2023-06-09 11:56 am

Product Review: Simple Truth Dairy Free Sweet Caramel Frozen Dessert Bars

Simple Truth Dairy Free Sweet Caramel Frozen Dessert Bars: These bars are a Kroger house brand and delicious. The caramel ice cream is smooth and sweet and creamy and has a hint of coconut to it that melds really well with the caramel, which tastes absolutely real and not at all like "caramel flavor." There's a little caramel swirl in the ice cream that you can't really appreciate until the chocolate shell snaps off in huge sheets, which, let's be real, it will. Though the shell is made of actual chocolate, it can be a bit greasy if you get too much of it in your mouth at once, but it's thin enough to bite into easily and the toffee bits embedded in it are crunchy and good. I'd buy these again.
Current Ingredients: Caramel Frozen Dessert: Water, Sugar, Coconut Oil, Soluble Maize Fiber, Coconut Cream (Coconut Extract, Water), Pea Protein, Inulin, Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (Emulsifier), Stabilizers (Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum), Natural Flavors, Caramelized Sugar Syrup, Beta Carotene (Color), Caramel Flavored Sauce: Sugar, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Water, Caramelized Sugar, Salt, Pectin (Gelling Agent), Sodium Citrate (Acidity Regulator), Natural Flavor, Sweet Chocolate and Vegetable Fat Coating: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Lecithin (Emulsifier), Natural Vanilla Flavoring, Caramelized Sugar Pieces: Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar, Sodium Bicarbonate.
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[personal profile] mific2023-06-07 11:50 am

Banana ice cream (lower carb)

I made this recently. It isn't keto but it's lower carb than regular ice cream, and doesn't cause gaseous eruptions like keto ice creams tend to, as they're made with high doses of "fake sugar" sweeteners that mess with your gut.

serves 2-4, depending how much they like ice cream and whether it's on its own as a dessert. If making a larger amount, do it in two lots, as it's hard work for your food processor.

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Versatile Cranberry Ketchup

This is a sweeter variation of my Rhubarb Ketchup recipe. It's delicious on fried things and also pancakes.

Makes 2 cups/48 dl in 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 330 g cranberries (doesn't matter if frozen or fresh) 
  • 60 g white sugar
  • 1/8 tsp allspice
  • 3/4 tsp ginger powder
  • 60 ml port
  • 60 ml apple cider vinegar
  • 3 tsp cornstarch
  • 1/2 tsp cold water
  • 1/2 tsp balsamic vinegar

Tools

  • Large bowl
  • Medium saucepan
  • Immersion blender
  • Non-reactive vessel to blend in

Let's Cook! )

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[personal profile] runpunkrun2023-05-30 11:01 am

Product Review: So Delicious Dairy Free S'mores Oatmilk Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert

So Delicious S'mores Oatmilk Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert: Mmm, non-dairy frozen dessert, but for reals, this stuff tastes like the real thing as far as I can remember. I actually felt a little suspicious while I was eating it, like, are you surrrre there's no dairy in here? But there isn't! No soy either, and the only nut ingredient is the coconut, which isn't technically a tree nut. The carton does warn it may contain tree nuts and its derivatives as this product is manufactured in a facility that also processes tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, and soy, but this tub is certified gluten free and So Delicious claims to have a "rigorous allergen testing program and apply strict quality control measures in an effort to prevent contamination by undeclared food allergens."

Anyway, this is delicious, true to its name. The ice cream is creamy and smooth, not gritty or icy at all, and tastes exactly like a graham cracker. The chocolate is in lovely little bittersweet drops and isn't waxy or greasy. The marshmallow is represented by swirls of vanilla CocoWhip topping and the texture is pleasing, silky and fluffy, though the swirls aren't really big enough to make them stand out from the ice cream, but that's probably for the best as they're quite sweet.

All in all a really successful dairy-free ice cream with no detectable coconut flavor. I'm excited to try their other products.
Current Ingredients: Oatmilk (Filtered Water, Whole Oat Flour), Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Tapioca Syrup, Cane Sugar, Cocoa, Pea Protein, Apple Juice Concentrate (for Color), Chocolate Liquor, Natural Flavor, Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum, Sea Salt, Sunflower Lecithin, Xanthan Gum.
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[personal profile] mific2023-05-27 01:33 pm

Stewed Tamarillos

It’s Autumn in NZ and tamarillo season - my favourite stewed fruit. They came from South America and when I was a kid we called them tree tomatoes but later they were rebranded to sound classier. They grow well here and are cheap - not sure how common they are elsewhere?
This is how I make stewed tamarillos. It's a bit fussy but totally worth it. For the following I used 3 bags with about 6-8 per bag, so about 20 tamarillos.

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Delicious with ice cream or Greek yoghurt.