Weekly Cooking (and related issues) Thread

[Yaelle]

The LA times tried to trick me. In the paper version (subscribe only because mom must read a paper every morning) there was a wonderful recipe on Saturday for a blood orange tart. Must make. But it called for a rhubarb blood orange cream. Recipe found only online. Ok, went online to their site. Well damn if you don’t have to subscribe and not for free to get the cream to go inside the blood orange tart. Bleep that. I found plenty of orange creams online. Not seeing the necessity for the rhubarb, since I am already combing the stores for rhubarb to make the first pie anyway.

I make a raw cranberry orange chutney, Miss m, and not only do I love tamarind but I have a jar right now in my fridge that I need to use up soon. Great idea. I love the cranberry chutney to use on even just chicken breasts. Can you share your recipe in order for me to know how much chutney to add to how much cranberry? I make mine without a recipe. Is it a tablespoon, or more, to say, one bag of cranberries?

Have you ever tried the Mexican street snack (here sold in gas stations etc) of tamarind with chilis? Fun to eat while driving but you must have something to put the seeds in...

[Yaelle]

For years I never found orange oranges in the shops in Switzerland. Maybe tangerines at Christmas. But almost all the oranges were blood oranges. I got used to them being oranges.

[Liz]

For us only---true lemon lovers---Martha's crisp cookies are perfect. Lemon in the cookie, lemon in the glaze.

GLAZED LEMON COOKIES / makes 24

ING 2 c flour, 1/2 ts ea b/soda, salt, tb lemon zest, 2 tb l/juice, 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp, cup sugar, lge egg, tsp vanilla

BATTER whisk flour, b/soda, salt, lemon zest. Separately, elec/mixer butter and sugar light and fluffy. Add egg, vanilla, lemon juice and beat/combine. W/ mixer on low, beat in flour mixture.

FINAL Drop heaping tbl dough, inch apart, on two baking sheets. Bake 350 deg til edges are golden, 15 to 20 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Let cool 2 min on sheetpans, then wire rack to cool completely. Glaze and let set an hour.

LEMON GLAZE lemon zest, conf, lemon juice.

[pugmama]

That was the rumor I also heard re Vincent Price..... and that he and his wife had an arranged marriage. I can’t recall if Paul Lynde had a wife.

[Liz]

A wonderful Lenten dish. Pepin's mom used to make a version of Eggplant Tempura in her Lyon
restaurant but without the wonderful sesame mayo seen here. France being a Catholic country, the
Pepin's assuredly observed all of the Lenten religious requirements. No meat at all during Lent.

Eggplant Tempura/ Sesame Mayonnaise

PREP Cut 2 med eggplants into 1/2cm slices, sprinkle with salt; steep in colander 30 min.

SESAME MAYO Combine cup mayo, 1 1/2 tb sesame oil, tb ea wholegrain mustard, seasoned rice wine vinegar, 1/2 c chp scallions. Meld flavors a bit before serving.

ASSEMBLY Rinse eggplant; p/towel dry. Dip eggplant in batter; batch fry golden in hot peanut oil 1-2 min; drain. Plate.

SERVE w/ Sesame Mayo.

BATTER Combine 115g tempura flour, small egg yolk and 135ml water (do not over mix, lumps are fine); add salt. Heat peanut oil in deep fryer pan on high.

[Yaelle]

A lot of them were forced to have wives by the studios. I doubt people believed their marriages were real. Paul Lynde with a woman is unimaginable.

[pugmama]

National Enquirer did an expose of Paul Lynde some time ago. It was quite brutal.

[Yaelle]

What was exposed about Lynde? Must be more than just being gay. Did he mess with younger guys, or was he a raging bitch to work with (could imagine that)?

[pugmama]

https://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/paul-lynde-hollywood-square-stars-sickest-secrets/

[Yaelle]

Interesting. Even his outer persona was of a bitter, critical bitch. Guess the inner matched the outer.

[boatbums]

Oh yeah!

[MomwithHope]

I think maybe you were the one that gave the san marano easy sauce recipe with the olive oil. I looked it up on the internet too. We grow our own san marzanos but I have a large can sitting in the pantry. Would love o make that sauce. I found a recipe with olive oil, basil and garlic.

[boatbums]

Peanut oil is GREAT for frying. I use it exclusively for fried shrimp, fish or chicken.

[Liz]

Peanut oil is the best.

My choice everytime for frying.

It lends a great flavor to anything you fry in it.

[Liz]

I just love these sesame noodles with layers and layers of flavors.
Nice b/c you make it early, cover, set on counter, then serve it later at room temp.

Peanut Sesame Noodles / Serves 2-3 as an appetizer or side dish

ING 4 oz thin wheat noodles (linguine works) 2 tb ea sesame oil chopped peanuts; peanut oil tb minced gingerroot 2 minced garlic cloves,1/2 medium-sized yellow onion, thinly sliced 1/2 medium-sized bell pepper, thinly sliced 4 tb soy sauce 2 tb honey tb lime juice 2-3 tsp chili-garlic sauce (according to spiciness desired) 2 tb peanut butter 3 tb water s/p

METHOD Cook noodles tender but a bit firm. Drain, return to pot, mix in tb ea sesame oil, peanuts.

Heat peanut oil, tb sesame oil over medium-low heat. Add ginger and garlic; stir 30 seconds til fragrant. Add onions, then bell peppers, and sauté for 2-3 minutes.

Mix in soy sauce, honey, lime/lemon juice, and chili-garlic sauce. Stir in peanut butter and adjust the consistency w/ water.

Reduce heat to low and add the noodles; s/p. Can make ahead to here. Cover/set on counter.

Serve warm or at room temperature garnished w/ chp peanuts.

[lizma2]

Molly Katzen’s “Moosewood Cookbook” was the first cookbook I ever bought!

[Jamestown1630]

‘Enchanted Broccoli Forest’ wasn’t my first, but one of them, and one of my favorites.