8 posts tagged “food”

What's your favorite thing to drink when it's cold outside?

Irish Coffee

Pint of Stout Beer

Hmmm...red wine, irish coffee, bailiey's and coffee, spiked cider, dark beer, bailiey's and hot chocolate, hot tea.  (this really should have been a voxhunt).

Course, i generally make it about once a week.  Today's was beef, but last week's was chicken.  It's quite tasty, cheap, lasts all week for meals and really low fat/low salt (I don't use the low sodium broth, I don't think it has a lot of flavor) but it's still less than any canned soup has.  This has also been posted to Bookishbiker's blog where she has another recipe for chicken soup that sounds fabu.

Chicken Soup
3 breasts of chicken, skinned and cut into bite sized chunks. (You can also substitute chicken "tenders" though they tend to have too much silver skin and tendon in them) I have no idea how many pounds, I generally eyeball.
olive oil for browning
garlic powder
1 yellow onion cut into bite sized chunks
4-6 cloves of garlic, rough chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, rough chopped
2 large bags of mixed frozen veggies of your choice (I generally use the broccoli, cauliflower, carrot mix or the corn, peas, carrots mix.)
1 large can red beans, mostly drained
2 boxes of chicken broth

Heat a large soup pot over medium high heat and add olive oil. Put the garlic powder to taste into the oil and let it heat up. Add the chicken and let it brown a bit, stirring frequently. Add onions, garlic and peppers and cook until onions are barely tender (about 5 mins). Add the vegetables and the beans. Stir frequently until they're warmed through and have released some of the liquid. Add 1/4 of 1 box of chicken broth to deglaze the bottom of the pot by scraping the good bits off into the broth. Add the rest of the broth (it might take less than the 2 full boxes, it's your call) and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionaly.
At this point, I generally shut the stove off and let it sit for about an hour before separating into single serving containers and putting in the fridge. I've also been known to put cooked rice or leftover plain pasta into this one right after I put the stock in.

Beef Vegetable
1 package (I have no idea how much) beef for stir fry. Cut into bite size chunks.
olive oil for browning
garlic powder to taste
red pepper powder to taste
paprika powder to taste
1 red onion cut into bite sized chunks
6-8 cloves of garlic, rough chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, rough chopped
2 large bags of mixed frozen veggies of your choice (I generally use the broccoli, cauliflower, carrot mix or the corn, peas, carrots mix.)
1 large can northern white beans, mostly drained
1 can diced tomatoes with green chilis
1/2 bottle of dark beer
2 boxes of beef broth

Generally, follow the same instructions as for the chicken soup above. However, I generally reduce about a cup of the beef broth and the beer in a separate pan and deglaze with that. Tends to cut the alcohol flavor of the beer and concentrates part of the beef stock. I add the can of tomatoes to that to heat through before I put it in with the rest of the ingredients and then pour the rest of the broth in.

What is your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table?
Submitted by Kadeeae.  

Depends who I'm with.  ;) 
Oh, wait, you were talking about the food?  Oh, in that case, I love turkey with a really good gravy. 

But, honestly?  I'm not a fan of Thanksgiving and would rather just skip the holiday completely.  More on that in another post though.

what makes it different from a hamburger or salsbury steak?  I'm watching Rachael Ray make mini meatloaves by cooking them in a skillet instead of the oven.  I'm not sure if they still qualify as meatloaf.

flash on the raindrops

It's pouring here.  I love it.  Lots of thunder and lightning.  Course, the dogs really need to go out and won't go out in the rain.  Looking at the photos, I can't imagine why.  ;)

I'm feeling better from a bout of what I'm pretty sure is stomach flu.  And am a bit antsy sitting in the house.  So I've been taking photos, watching TV and reading.  woo hoo for an exciting day!

1. What types of physical activity do you get on a daily basis?
   Besides sex?  I walk the dogs most days, spend my days in a building as long as a football field where my desk is at one end and the loo is at the other; I used to bicycle fairly frequently (though not recently), and I get out on my rollerblades occasionally.
   
2. Do you take any kind of vitamin supplement?
   Occasionally a multi, often a cranberry pill, occasionally a C and an E.
   
3. What is your favorite healthy snack?
   I have no idea. 
   
4. What is the one food you feel guilty eating?
   I don't.  There's little I feel guilty about in my life at all.  Why would I feel guilty about food?
   
5. Show us something taken care of.
   Can't.  He's swimmin wit da fishes.
   

1. What is your favorite food?
   hmmm....I have no answer for this....favourite changes often
   
2. What is your favorite drink?
   right now?  a slippery nipple.  or good beer
   
3. Do you prefer to cook or order out?
   I'd rather eat at a restaurant, but if I'm home, I'd rather cook.
   
4. Dessert, or no dessert.
   depends...
   
5. Show us a dish.
   
   

   Pier1dishes
   
   
   

I just had a Lee's Hoagie for dinner.  Turkey & provolone with oil & onions (they didn't remember the hot peppers, oh well, it's a long commute back to get them).
Your first question should be how did I get a Lee's Hoagie - a Philadelphia-only chain of hoagie places - in Florida?  Well, thanks to a co-worker who went to Philadelphia for the weekend and asked me what I wanted him to bring back, I got a hoagie.  And it was good - not as good as completely fresh, but still an Amaroso roll, and the special oil that only Lee's uses.  Mmmmmm.

I rarely drink soda.  Actually, I drink soda once in a blue moon.  But I had a really crappy afternoon at work and at linner, I needed something really bad for me.  So I had a Pepsi.  Now the carbonation is repeating on me and the caffeine is going to keep me up all night.

Sigh.