Something Delicious

[TheMerryFairy]

Originally Posted by Sun

Jenn I am not a big fan of pumpkin but the soup looks great.

Today I learned that one of my dearest friends is getting married in July. While we were chatting on the phone she asked me if I would be interested in catering her wedding. Of course I said yes. They are going to do an outdoor event. Cant wait. It is special events such as this that really make cooking fun. Now I cant wait to plan the menu with them. This will be my first Butch Femme wedding to cater. Bring it on Marriage Equality! I will have to get her to drop into this thread and chat about food with us.

I am so cold today that it is truly bizarre. Well, I am not a cold weather person, hence the chosen name.

What are yall cooking or eating today?

If I ever have a wedding, I would gladly offer my catering to be done by you and a couple of others who post quite a bit on this thread. It would probably be outside, someplace warm or at the very least someplace green friendly.
For breakfast I had cereal with soy milk. Lunch was a Thai chicken salad with mandarin orange pieces & for supper I'm trying to get out of the fried bologne sandwich on white bread my husband has apparently made for me.

[Sun]

Originally Posted by TheMerryFairy

I think it's a safe bet to place on you having Nutcracker tea.

Originally Posted by TheMerryFairy

If I ever have a wedding, I would gladly offer my catering to be done by you and a couple of others who post quite a bit on this thread. It would probably be outside, someplace warm or at the very least someplace green friendly.
For breakfast I had cereal with soy milk. Lunch was a Thai chicken salad with mandarin orange pieces & for supper I'm trying to get out of the fried bologne sandwich on white bread my husband has apparently made for me.

Thai Chicken salad sounds great. Experiment with a soup!

[TheMerryFairy]

Originally Posted by Sun

Thai Chicken salad sounds great. Experiment with a soup!

I'd love to play around with more soups but I'm usually pressed for time. Do you have any suggestions for something quick, easy & delicious?

[Sun]

Originally Posted by TheMerryFairy

I'd love to play around with more soups but I'm usually pressed for time. Do you have any suggestions for something quick, easy & delicious?

A quick technique that I teach when I do cooking workshops is to have some stock or broth on hand for a soup or sauce on the fly. You can either use stock that is:

1. Boxed and easy to use one portion at a time (if you use canned broth and have extra broth you can freeze it in an ice cube tray, put the frozen cubes in a ziploc bag, and have small portions of stock to use as needed)

2. Frozen stock or broth.

Take some leftover cooked vegetables and add them to the stock or broth in a blender. Season as you go.

Here is an example:

Chicken broth - one can
Cooked broccoli 1/2 cup
Cooked potato 1/2 large or one medium

Blend in blender on medium speed.

Pour into small saucepan. Heat up. Add seasonings.

This is a quick alternative to a canned soup. I usually start a quick soup off with sauteed vegetables like garlic, onions, spinach or whatever I am in the mood for. Often I will make soups that are infused with the flavors of garlic, ginger, jalepeno, soy sauce, using vegetable broth or chicken broth, I fill the soup up with fresh vegetables such as baby bok choi, spinach, collards, chard, whatever greens appeal to me. I may add some chinese cabbage or eggplant. Perhaps some roasted or grilled protein. Splash it with hot sauce before serving. Make some rice to have on the side.

Soups are liquid flavor so it can be fun and educational to experiment with them.

[JustLovelyJenn]

Originally Posted by Sun

A quick technique that I teach when I do cooking workshops is to have some stock or broth on hand for a soup or sauce on the fly. You can either use stock that is:

1. Boxed and easy to use one portion at a time (if you use canned broth and have extra broth you can freeze it in an ice cube tray, put the frozen cubes in a ziploc bag, and have small portions of stock to use as needed)

2. Frozen stock or broth.

Take some leftover cooked vegetables and add them to the stock or broth in a blender. Season as you go.

Here is an example:

Chicken broth - one can
Cooked broccoli 1/2 cup
Cooked potato 1/2 large or one medium

Blend in blender on medium speed.

Pour into small saucepan. Heat up. Add seasonings.

This is a quick alternative to a canned soup. I usually start a quick soup off with sauteed vegetables like garlic, onions, spinach or whatever I am in the mood for. Often I will make soups that are infused with the flavors of garlic, ginger, jalepeno, soy sauce, using vegetable broth or chicken broth, I fill the soup up with fresh vegetables such as baby bok choi, spinach, collards, chard, whatever greens appeal to me. I may add some chinese cabbage or eggplant. Perhaps some roasted or grilled protein. Splash it with hot sauce before serving. Make some rice to have on the side.

Soups are liquid flavor so it can be fun and educational to experiment with them.

I have never thought of freezing extra broth in an icecube tray, I have no idea why. I usually buy boxed broth to stock in the cupboard... but if someone else does the shopping, theres no telling what I might get. I will have to keep this in mind.

[TheMerryFairy]

Originally Posted by JustLovelyJenn

I have never thought of freezing extra broth in an icecube tray, I have no idea why. I usually buy boxed broth to stock in the cupboard... but if someone else does the shopping, theres no telling what I might get. I will have to keep this in mind.

The ice cube tray is a great idea. It works really well in a pinch.

[BoDy*ShOt]

Something Delicious: my mom's gorgeous Split Pea Soup. my freezer is full of it.. along with her Goulash and sausage gravy for biscuits and gravy. *heart eyes*

for this evening: the soup. NOMNOMNOM!!

[Sun]

Originally Posted by BoDy*ShOt

Something Delicious: my mom's gorgeous Split Pea Soup. my freezer is full of it.. along with her Goulash and sausage gravy for biscuits and gravy. *heart eyes*

for this evening: the soup. NOMNOMNOM!!

Welcome to the Delicious thread! You are now a Delicioustarian. girl dee made that one up. Love it.

Split pea soup would be awesome right now. I really should have made some because I had a big ole maple sugar cured smoked ham bone left over from Christmas. Looking forward to getting back to my normal way of life and actually cooking at home again!

Do you have any of your Mom's split pea soup tips to share?

I dont think that I ever had Goulash.

[easygoingfemme]

Oh I love split pea soup so much I could write songs about it.
mmmmm soup.

True story:
I play with spoonerisms with my daughter (http://www.fun-with-words.com/spoon_example.html) and mix up words for her to figure out and sometimes we just talk that way... yeah we are a little weird. If you don't want to click the link, spoonerisms are just some letter place switching when putting together sentences, like if I want to say go take a shower, it's go shake a tower, or stop giggling is gob stiggling

So one day I was pouring her a nice bowl of split pea soup and I told her to come eat her sea poop. She rolled her eyes and asked me how I made it and I said it was squished sea horses. Apparently I went too far. Now she won't eat split pea soup anymore. I think she's starting to pull out of it, it's been a couple of years since the incident but it's still no more than a couple of bites. My poor kid.

[Greyson]

Originally Posted by TheMerryFairy

I'm trying to get out of the fried bologne sandwich on white bread my husband has apparently made for me.

People still eat this? I have not seen a fried bologne sandwhich since I was a child living in the projects on the westside of L.A.

[TheMerryFairy]

Originally Posted by Greyson

People still eat this? I have not seen a fried bologne sandwhich since I was a child living in the projects on the westside of L.A.

Unfortunately for me, yes. If it's your thing I don't mean to sound snobby. but the idea of fried processed bologne, white bread and an inch of ketchup isn't my prime meal of choice.

[Sun]

Originally Posted by Greyson

People still eat this? I have not seen a fried bologne sandwhich since I was a child living in the projects on the westside of L.A.

Welcome Greyson,

The thing that I find about childhood foods is that many of us cling to them for life. That could be a potato chip, slice of bologna, peanut butter, tamale, pasta, rice with soy sauce, hot dogs, mac n cheese, ..you get the picture. Those early foods make an impression on us. I recall being very young and watching my Mom open a can of Spam. I had never seen this before. She told me something about how when she was young she was fed this and she liked to fry it and have it with eggs once in a while. Well once in a while meant like once a year. Never thought a thing about it until Spam became the name for garbage that we want to throw out online. Then I tool a closer look and saw that my immigrant family living in NYC after WWII had to struggle for a to put food on the table so some of those cheaper meat related products (not sure how to classify Spam!) were helpful.

Funny thing is that one of my buddies is from Austria and they love a good "cold cut" such as bologna or liverwurst, great dried sausages and so on. In Europe folks use the scraps of meats and fat to make sausages or pate's, terrines, or gallantines. Nothing really gets wasted. Bones and gristle become stock.

For me there is not much difference between bologna and a pate'. Both seem to be consumed with a white flour bread product. Interesting huh?