food

[cellio]

To steal a phrase from mamadeb, I am parallel-processing woman tonight.

Tonight I made:
- honey chicken for tomorrow night
- barbeque chicken for Shabbat
- gefilte fish
- "pineapple" kugel (except I didn't have pineapple so I used mandarins instead), recipe via cahwyguy
- three honey cakes
- two dozen hard-boiled eggs (don't need 'em until Yom Kippur break-fast, but as long as I was cooking anyway...)
- tonight's dinner (baked fish and roasted corn)

Not bad for two hours' work. (Well, plus baking time at the end, but I didn't have to participate.)

I made stewed veggies Sunday, and I'll make salads at the last minute. I might roast some veggies for Shabbat; today's visit to the farmer's market resulted in some good options there. And I have fruit, of course, including the obligatory apples and honey.

Yup, I think I'm just about ready culinarily.

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Let us know how the recipe comes out. We've never tried it with mandarins before.

[kayre]

Any chance you'll share the honey chicken recipe? After the holy days, if not now? :)

[murmur311.livejournal.com]

My goodness you're productive. I'm lucky if I can throw together one night's dinner in two hours if I'm cooking from scratch.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

We haven't even started thinking about tomorrow night's dinner. I think we have some chicken breasts in the fridge. I'll probably throw something together when I get home before we go to services (we have late services, at 8:45 )

[goljerp]

Wow, you're on top of things, food wise!

I made a sweet kugel tonight, and a bean salad during my lunch break (helps to work from home before a holiday).

The "Sweet" Kugel has pineapple, apples, and apricots, but is non-dairy. Tomorrow I need to make Tzimmis, buy a bunch more challahs, get some grape juice and other drinks, and get stuff for a salad. Oh, and make a kugel for Shabbat. Oh, and buy and make chicken.

And decide what, if anything, to do with the zucchini that was left over from last Friday's farmers market. It's still good...

And clean my place at some point.

But first I need to go to sleep, or I'll be a zombie tomorrow...

[cellio]

It's a new recipe, so let me find out if it's any good first. :-)

[cellio]

I'm going to the early services (6:00), so I really had to figure out tonight what I was doing. But the evening started with taking the chicken out of the fridge and thinking about what to do with it while prepping the water for the gefilte fish. I knew I could do something with chicken (two different somethings, in this case), but didn't know what until two minutes before I started.

[cellio]

The sweet kugel sounds yummy. Recipe? (Later is fine.)

And decide what, if anything, to do with the zucchini that was left over from last Friday's farmers market. It's still good...

Roasting with herbs is one option. Stewing in tomato sauce (with some sauteed onions) is an old standard. Add some curry powder to the pot for a nice little zing.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

We'll probably do my famous honey-mustard chicken, which is an easy dish. In a skillet pan (for which you have a good heavy lid, like a scanpan), brown some onions (finely chopped) and garlic. Throw in the chicken to brown. Once brown, spoon dijon mustard onto the chicken and top with honey. Pour over about ¼ to ½ cup of white wine, immediately cover and turn down the heat to low. After about 20 min, turn the chicken. After 20 minutes, turn again. Thicken the sauce, as necessary, with cornstarch. Serve over rice.

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[cellio]

Implementation note: The various times and durations are too much to keep in-memory with this much parallel processing. (I mean things like "boil for one hour", "baste after 20 minutes", etc -- all with staggered start times, of course.) So I kept a list, in time order, of when I had to do what to what -- 8:45 turn off rice, 8:50 baste BBQ chicken, 9:05 baste honey chicken, etc. Just like tracking initiative for multi-round actions in D&D. :-)

[goljerp]

I was thinking about the tomato sauce option. The thing that I didn't make clear is that this is just one, medium-sized zucchini. Zucchina? So I wasn't sure if it was worth it just for a little bit o' food.

Although now that I've gotten a bit of sleep, I'm thinking that there's nothing to prevent me from buying more, so that it is worth it...

The Kugel recipe is easy for me to give you; it's already in electronic format. My commentary is in ()s, because I'm feeling too lazy to play with tags. The recipe itself is pretty simple, at least for me, because I've done it alot.

1 lb cooked broad egg noodles (extra-broad is fine too)
1/4 lb margarine (1/8th lb also works)
2 cups peeled apple, cut up.
1 number 2 can crushed pineapple & juice
1 cup apricots, cut up (I usually use canned apricots, although dried apricots will work also.)
3 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup sugar (I usually use between 1/4 and 1/2 cup)

Combine all ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 1/2 hours or less. (If you put the pineapple into the baking pan first, then put the cut apple in with it, the pineapple juice will prevent the apple from getting brown. And it helps if you add the hot noodles last so you can distribute the margarine evenly while mixing.)

[cellio]

Timing is really all about staging, so that you don't have moments of idleness and other moments where you need to be doing three things at once. This means you have to develop a sense of how long things take -- not just what's spelled out in the recipe, but, e.g., how long it will take to get the pot of boiling water you need as a starting point. It also helps to include some things that aren't fussy -- it doesn't really matter if the gefilte fish boils an extra five minutes, for example.

[cellio]

Zucchini: or, if you don't feel like buying more, just slice it (raw) and eat with hummus. This only helps if you already have hummus, of course. :-)

"Zucchini" is one of those words that looks like it's already plural, isn't it?

Thanks for the kugel recipe! Sounds yummy. What's a #2 can?

[cellio]

That chicken sounds tasty. Thanks!

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[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

What's nice is that basic way of chicken works with almost any non-dairy based salad dressing. Simply use the dressing instead of the honey and mustard.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

> "Zucchini" is one of those words that looks like it's already plural, isn't it?

It *is*. Singular is "zucchino" but nobody ever uses it, because zukes never come in quantities of just one. Remember, for another week it is still unsafe to leave your car doors unlocked out in the country. ;->

-Dave/Evan (in his Italian language geek hat)

[cellio]

Singular is "zucchino" but nobody ever uses it, because zukes never come in quantities of just one.

Or rarely do, anyway. :-) Thanks for the info!

(Yeah, I know about the unlocked-car problem. The urban version involves sharing the bounty of one's garden with coworkers. :-) )