Journal

2019 - Week 46 Cooking Results

Chickpea Pot Pie er to much dairy fat Chicken Pot Pie, Modified

So I’ve been trying to make one really worthwhile dish a week. And this was it. I was going to shorten some steps (mainly the strengthening of the stock) but I ended up following the recipe fully. I will state that I do like that they had weights in it, as I have a scale and it does make things easier to replicate. It really turned out out delicious. I’m still uncertain about the biscuits, even if they tasted good. I’m not quite sure I got the texture right, or if there is a shortcut method to easily integrate butter into the flour mixture.

Light and Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes

When you think yeah, that’ll be good, we haven’t had pancakes in a while, then when starting to execute you see whisking to stiff peaks, then you shrug and just continue as normal. Still good, no egg separation or whisking (beyond the mixing). Still good. I skipped adding butter to mine and added just a bit of syrup (bourbon barrel aged).

Southwest Chicken Casserole

I planned to make this Friday. Work ran over quite a bit (left work 2 hours after I intended to). So this’ll have to be delayed or rethought.

Pumpkin and Yellow Split Pea Soup

I uh…missed the part where this will take 4 hours. This is a weekend thing. I already had my Saturday selected one to go, maybe Sunday?

Taco Salad

Good quick, used bison.

Fish

Some tuna steaks, a little over done in the oven (trying a new recipe). I’ll have to try again.

Sloppy Bison

In the random levels of the ingredients that I use for this, it was pretty good. Do you loose something with out having as much pork or beef fat, sure, but the tomatoes and other spices make up for it I think. I went ahead and ordered some bison from an Iowa herd (this set was from CostCo) from the Iowa Food Coop. Surprisingly, it was a very similar price to my local grocery store. More bison will make the way into things.