Archive for 'Leftovers'

Jan200922

Roasting Rambler

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Buckwheat Waffles

Breakfast - Buckwheat Waffles

I grew up eating the deep pocketed square waffles that my mother made with buttermilk. They’re delicious with either whipped cream and strawberries or the more traditional maple syrup. Recently my mother gave me a waffle iron; its pockets aren’t as deep and it’s round, but it still makes a delicious waffle, especially using my mother’s recipe. She folds the egg whites into the batter after beating them to hard peaks – this gave me the idea to tryout a waffle recipe that would use up leftover egg whites from my ice cream experiments (see here and here for posted examples). [...]

Jan200917

Roasting Rambler

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Leftover Redux

Bowl of Beef and Barley

While I love to cook for groups of people – friends, family, and sometime coworkers and classmates – I often end up cooking for one. This occasionally presents a bit of a problem in terms of leftover logistics. Such as a craving for roast beef right before Christmas (helped along by a nice sale on chuck roast). I salt and peppered and browned the roast on all sides, and then plopped it into a slow cooker with some tomato sauce, browned onions, more salt and pepper, carrots, a sprig of fresh rosemary, balsamic vinegar, several cloves of garlic, and some water. Cooked on low for hours (at least 5) it was fall apart tender when I loaded my plate for dinner. Then I had some for dinner the next night, and the next, and then I had to leave, so the broth, meat, onions, and remaining carrots went into the freezer. [...]

Oct200822

Roasting Rambler

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Creamy Tomato Soup

As the cold weather settles into Iowa, my cooking turns more to hearty soups and stews. One of my favorite soups is tomato basil bisque, but until recently I had never made it from scratch. Then about a month ago I ended up with about a pound of tomatoes on the verge of going bad – I cubed them and threw them in a pot with some salt, garlic, and pepper, and cooked it all down. After some pureeing, some sieving, and the addition of some cream and basil I sat down to my first batch of homemade tomato basil bisque. [...]