second night of pinteresting dishes and we had tilapia piccata with parmesan cous-cous and garlicky buttered and oven toasted baguette. Slightly butter heavy supper made healthier with a generous scattering of parsley. I mean really. Anyhow, the whole thing took twenty minutes to assemble, preheat the oven and cook. And everything tastes so bright with lemon, white wine and capers. The recipe for this comes from Melissa D’Arabian and was pinned from foodnetwork.com. I love how piccata comes together with a gentle swirl to emulsify the sauce. If you like quick and easy fish dishes, this is for you.
Two for two.
Category: home cooking
pin-luck
a week or two ago we had a semi-spontaneous (I say spontaneous because who does this?) Pinterest Potluck in our department at work. Each of us bringing in items we had pinned for a potluck that turned out to be fairly well rounded and included but was not limited to, two kinds of black bean soup, miniature bread bowls filled with spinach dip, buffalo chicken dip, veggie pizza, cake batter brownies, cookie pretzel brownies and my contribution, pumpkin strudel. Two tables fully laden and a seriously wide variety led me to peruse my ‘that looks good’ board for items I can make this week for supper. I have chosen six would be entrees based on nothing more than I want to eat them. These items will stretch all the way to my vacation and with any luck should make the coming week a little more interesting and hopefully more fun. Tonight’s offering, straight from the Soup Nazi and the Pioneer Woman and brought to my attention via a co-worker on Facebook – so it is double-dipped out of social media. Mulligatawny – which I had never heard of a month ago, is definitely one of my new favorites. We made it tonight from PW’s recipe, found here. I’m not really sure what I thought it was before I saw the post by the Pioneer Woman, I think something made by Native Americans that had corn in it. Why? I actually have no idea. But honestly, it is amazing. We used a British Hot Curry Powder by Sharwoods and while I was dubious to include the granny smith apple, it give a perfect hit of tart sweetness against the heat of the curry powder. A little chicken adds protein and a touch of milk gives some body. We served with a bit of basmati rice for bulk and some oven toasted na’an. This is fairly easy and a great way to dip your toes in the pool of curry.
fall salad
inspired by chef Bruno, Bobby Flay and cooler temps here in Florida. My longing for fall reared it’s lovely head with a salad out of Bar Americain by Bobby Flay. Slightly rustically altered by leaving the veg in the lentils instead of leaving them whole and fishing them out the rest of the salad is his. Roasted beets, warm lentils and cool goat cheese on a bed of honey sherry vinaigrette dressed greens. Did I say lovely?
po’ boy
baked popcorn shrimp tossed in a bowl with just enough remoulade to coat (probably 1/4 cup for 2 servings) and smothered in shredded lettuce on a hoagie roll. Great quick supper.
what’s that weird lump on the side you ask? Z made spicy dill deep fried pickles. I pickled the pickles over the summer and he made a quick batter a la minute – 1 egg, 1 cup ice water and 1 cup flour. They were good although we have a few ideas to make them better.
bolognese balls
second in The Meatball Shop offering, the bolognese balls (recipe there). I was a little hesitant as one of the ingredients is diced mortadella – you know that crazy bologna with huge creamy white hunks of fat. I had planned on Z making them so I didn’t have to be too involved. But last night when I got home and Z was mowing the yard so the job fell to me to make supper. I diced carrots, onion, celery and mortadella to combine with beef and binders like fine bread crumbs and eggs. The bolognese flavor pushed a little further with the addition of diced tomato and cream. Cooked to 165 they caramelized around the edges to a toasty brown and served on pasta. We plan on sliders with bakery made Parker house rolls for lunch tomorrow. Not my fave but tasty. Sometimes I can’t get out of my head.
My Urban Pantry 