Dec
27
So, this is my personal reminder to myself to start posting again. keldscookin.com totally missed out on the beef rib, crimini mushroom, and broccoli that I made the other night and quite a few roasts, like the most recent one with turnips and I’ve learned how to make some unique salads with unique dressings.
It’s time to renew my commitment to posting again. There was even a short period where I was offering a unique multi-course menu on a weekly basis. Each Sunday I would advertise a new menu and then I would go and cook in people’s homes. I had $100 available each month so that people could apply for a personal grant from myself so that they could get free meals cooked in their home. It was a lot of fun.
I guess this is my New Year’s resolution, write more about food :)
Nov
10
This is possibly the most awesome vegetarian breakfast sandwich I have made for myself. I was so sick of meat. Yesterday, I ate probably two pounds of hamburger and I’ve just been feeling sick to my stomach and disgusted and wanting nothing to do with meat. I’ve consumed enough to last me two weeks.
I started this concoction with a craving. I saw bagels sitting on the counter and thought about how appropriate bagels were for breakfast and that, now, it was breakfast time. How auspicious. I needed something more than just a bagel, though. A bagel with grilled onions sounded just divine. Then maybe I should spice it up a bit and use some Tapatio hot sauce. I thought to myself, cheese could really tie together the hot sauce and the grilled onions. While I’m at it, I really like a mix of grilled onions and fresh onions, so I may as well have fresh onions on the sandwich, too.
While grilling the onions, I found some pineapple in the fridge. “Pineapples?”, you ask. Yes, pineapples. Let’s grill those. You know what would go great with pineapple? Green peppers. I sliced them into neat little circles. And you know what else would go great with pineapple? Mole.
That’s right. I made a breakfast sandwich with cheese, grilled onion, fresh onion, green pepper, pineapple and mole with a splash of Tapatio. It was amazingly delicious.
- cheese blend mozzarella, provolone, asiago (italian blend)
- cheddar
- onions
- green pepper
- pineapple
- butter
- mole
- Tapatio hot sauce
- Bagel
Tags: asiago, bagels, butter, cheddar cheese, green peppers, mole, mozzarella, onions, pineapp, provolone, tapatio
May
08
Meatloaf with Mashed potatoes.
The gelatin helps keep the meatloaf more moist and keeps it from splooging out grease onto the pan.
- 1 onion, diced fine
- 2 tsp garlic, minced fine
- 1 tsp dried or 2 tsp fresh thyme
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/4 c steak sauce or 3 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 c dried bread crumbs or crushed crackers
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1 tsp unflavored gelatin (optional)
- salt and freshly-ground pepper to taste
Topping:
- 1/4 c ketchup
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp vinegar
- salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Sauté the onion until translucent and add the garlic and thyme right at the end and cook until fragrant. In a medium bowl, mix the egg, onion mixture, and steak or Worcestershire sauce. Add the breadcrumbs, beef and pork, gelatin salt and pepper and mix until just mixed. Don’t overmix or the meatloaf will get a funky texture.
Place the meat mixture on a cookie sheet and form into a rough square about 2 inches thick.
For the topping, mix all ingredients, and spread over the top of the meatloaf.
Bake for 1 hour.
Tags: bread crumbs, brown sugar, egg, garlic, gelatin, ground beef, ground pork, ketchup, onion, steak sauce, thyme, vinegar, worcestershire sauce
Mar
23
This is a really easy recipe, and despite the name, requires no actual barbecuing or grilling. Chicken leg quarters were 79¢ a pound at the store, so this seemed like a good option.
- 4 chicken leg quarters (drumsticks and thighs attached)
- 1 bottle favorite barbecue sauce
- salt and pepper to taste
- hamburger buns or bread
- garnishes, such as pickles, onion, lettuce, cole slaw, etc.
Preheat oven to 350° F. Arrange chicken on a sheet pan, and add salt and pepper as desired. You can coat the chicken in sauce now, but if you do, I would add some foil so it doesn’t burn. I usually add the sauce at the end, though, because the chicken exudes quite a bit of liquid, and will make the whole thing runny.
Remove the chicken from the oven after about 2 hours, or when it is fall-off-the-bone tender. Let it sit until it is cool enough to handle and remove the meat from the bones and place it in a bowl. Reserve the bones and any leftover liquid for soup stock later.
Shred the chicken with your fingers or 2 forks. Add barbecue sauce to taste and serve.
Mar
01
Maybe “ghetto” is a bad choice of words. “Ghetto” was originally a term that referred to the portion of Venice that Jews were compelled to live during the Middle Ages. Lox, of course, is slices of cured salmon served with cream cheese and bagels that is a staple of an Ashkenazi Jewish diet. Lox also is used to refer to smoked salmon, though this is technically incorrect; lox refers to cured, unsmoked salmon in the strictest sense. But, since this is my dear Jewish mother’s recipe, and she used “lox” to refer to smoked salmon, and Mom always knew best, this is what I am calling it. Mom loved smoked salmon with cream cheese and bagels, but we were too poor to afford the expensive smoked salmon when I was a kid, so this was her ingenious substitute.
- 1 – 15 1/2 oz. can pink salmon, bones and skin picked out (unless you like these)
- 2 packages cream cheese, softened
- 1-2 tsp. liquid smoke
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and spread on toasted bagels.
Here are some additional ingredients that I have added over the years, which I think enhance the experience:
- 2 tsp. lemon juice
- 1 tsp. lemon zest
- 1 tbsp. minced capers
- 1/2 c. grated or finely diced red onion OR diced green onion
- 2 tbsp. minced fresh or 1 tbsp. dried parsley
- salt and black pepper (freshly ground) to taste
Of course, if you want to make a non-ghetto version, use a small fillet of natural smoked salmon.
Es gezunterhayt! (Yiddish for “bon appétit”)
Tags: black pepper, canned salmon, capers, cream cheese, green onions, lemon juice, lemon zest, liquid smoke, parsley, red onions, salmon, salt
Feb
02
I really like this technique for cooking steaks. I picked it up from the Amateur Gourmet. Nice and browned on the outside edges and barely bloody on the inside. Salt and pepper your meat for a minimum of fifteen minutes before cooking. Heat your pan to the highest setting with about one tablespoon of butter for every eight ounces of steak. Try and use a regular stainless steel pan because Teflon is no good for browning. Place another pad of butter on top of the steak and cook covered for two to four minutes. Flip and cook the other side for the same amount of time and you’ll have a medium rare steak in under ten minutes.
- steak
- salt
- black pepper
- butter
To make it like a Dutch Steak, top with the following, and broil. Leave your steak nice and bloody if you plan on adding this topping. It should only need two minutes on each side.
- Mix together the following:
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon sweet hot mustard
- 3 tablespoons Parmesan
Jan
26
Bing goes your kitchen.
Recipe results are pulled from a variety of recipe websites including MyRecipes.com
and Epicurious.com. Each recipe will result will show the source or name of the site, user ratings, and a measure fat and of calories. You can filter recipes by convenience, type of cuisine, occasion, ratings, course and main ingredient. Unfortunately, the recipe feature doesn’t show up for every query. I typed in macaroni and cheese as well as spaghetti and meatballs, I didn’t get the recipe results for either search term.
Techcrunch has an article about a new feature in Bing related to recipes. It looks pretty slick. Originally I wasn’t all that sure about the awesomeness of Bing, but this recent addition is definitely a good reason for me to use Bing other than image, video and travel search. Google hasn’t performed too well when it comes to recipes.
This play on words comes from a recent Microsoft advertising campaign called “Bing goes the internet“.
