July 26, 2012
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Home cooking
When I have time, I prefer to make a nice home cooked meal. Now you may think I eat like this every night but I don’t. Sometimes it’s just peanut butter and jam or a quick meal of cereal.
I can’t remember if this is salmon or trout. But I simply put some pesto on it, threw it into the oven and served it on some veggies. The veggies are zucchini and carrots stir fried with garlic, salt & pepper with a dash of soy sauce. It’s simple and fast.
Roasted chicken thigh with asparagus and onions and carrots. I placed the chicken on the onions and carrots. The chicken simply had salt, pepper and some garlic underneath the skin.
This is zucchini, carrots and shrimp stir fried. I added a sauce that J had used for another dish (fried tofu) when I was over at his place for dinner. I took home the extra sauce. I used the sauce in this dish and it worked very nicely. It was like a sweet soy sauce with shallots and other secret spices.
This is the only thing I know how to bake. It’s whole wheat banana walnut muffins. I added a bit of sugar at the top. It was still a bit dry. I’m trying to find the optimum level between a moist muffin and a healthy muffing. I don’t want to dump a lot of butter into it.
This was a lamb chop that I got from the farmer’s market a couple of weekends ago. I simply marinated it in olive oil, garlic, onions and pepper overnight and panfried it. I boiled the potatoes first until they were soft, crushed them a bit to open it up and roasted it with a bit of olive oil, salt, pepper and the onion that I used for marinating the lamb. I added some tomatoes (same size as cherry tomatoes but I think they call these heritage). It was big enough for two meals. But I was hungry and ate it in one seating. I went into a food comatose afterwards.
No more food porn… the well is dry. I have to reload.
Comments (18)
Ohh, soo delicious looking. I wish I was that diligent.
All looks good and easy to make. Thanks
Colorful and yummy. Now you have posted food porn, what other kind of porn you want to post? Lol
Rather than butter, try using vegetable oil instead (canola works and is healthier, but I prefer the flavor of veggie oil to canola). If you need 1 cup butter, you can actually put just a little bit less. If you’re very familiar with the recipe, you can try to find the perfect amount of oil while you’re actually mixing it. I do this substitution often because I find butter horrifically unhealthy…
How many times do I have to tell you … Never post these kind of posts during the evening!
They do sound and look like great recipes to try. Thank you for sharing!
i love pesto. i make my own sometimes. IF i can find basil at the supermarket. we rarely get italian basil here. mostly local ones, which are thai basil. way too strong for my taste in pesto.
You should hang out with Chris. You know, that dude that lives in Bangkok ? He’s into food and fancy restaurants.
I am looking on with envy at that salmon dish. *drool* It’s only 8:30AM too!! gah!!!!
… will work for YOUR cooking.
mmm. These look amazing, Matt.
I am saving this to my documents. And yes, I am still fasting. Dang Matt, this is just to droolicious!
yum! it all looks great! i haven’t taken food porn pics in a while… mostly because i haven’t cooked anything special in a while!
for your muffins, if you want to cut the butter you can substitute apple sauce for it (i think it’s a 1:1 substitution; you can also use canned pumpkin as well). try that next time!
I tell you, pesto is one of those handy sauces that you should never be without. Easy to make, it freezes beautifully and defrosts quickly (thanks to the high oil content). It can be a salad dressing, a marinade, a sauce for pasta or meat – so many options. Plus, basil is easy to grow in a container, so you can make it inexpensively, too.
@beowulf222 - same here. I tend to work late even when I work at home so a lot of times I don’t feel like cooking.
@Fatcat723 - I’m glad you liked it. I only cook simple stuff and that’s pretty well my limitations.
@stevew918 - hahaha… this blog will always be safe for kids. hee hee…
@secade - I prefer canola oil too and will play around with the portions next time.
@kachino - I’m just getting even to all those that post food porn at night. Check out Gary (CurryPuffy), Chris (christao408
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and AzrihaEatsWorld.
@nov_way - thanks for dropping by, these are relatively simple dishes (the limits of my culinary skills).
@rudyhou - I wonder if you can buy basil seeds and just grow them in your backyard or in a pot.
@catstemplar2 - I would love to hang out with Chris.
@bengozen - I got that recipe from one of my cousins. I couldn’t believe it was so simple.
@BenelliMan - hahaha… thanks Dennis.
@ZSA_MD - thanks Zakiah, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I forgot you were still fasting.
@kunhuo42 - I have some canned pumpkin so I’ll give that a try. Thanks for the tip.
@christao408 - I had no idea you could freeze pesto. I just buy those small jars. I just don’t eat enough pesto but I’ll see if I can just get a small plant (which should be enough for me).
@ElusiveWords - that’s what i was trying to do. the problem is, the seeds that are available here are seeds for the local basil, which is the thai basil variety. NOT the italian basil variety.
Your list gives me many creational ideas that I can perhaps use on my web tender too.chef knives