So Sunday I spent mostly in the kitchen, making things for the coming week and for Sunday night dinner. First I made my quick and easy lentil salad that I've told you about before, which is just cooked green lentils tossed with some olive oil, white wine vinegar, thyme, dried basil, and chopped sun-dried tomatoes (the kind that comes in a jar and is packed in oil.) It's very yummy served over some basmati rice with crumbled feta on top (do you say feta cheese or just feta, by the way? I guess it's one of those tuna/tuna fish sorta things. Me I never say tuna fish, but almost always say feta cheese.)
Then I made a Scheherazade Casserol from one of the early Moosewood Collective cookbooks. (Scheherazade, of course, was the fictional narrator of The Arabian Nights, whose husband agreed to let her live as long as she told an amusing story every night!) I adapt their recipe a bit and give it a bit more flavour. It's composed mostly of pureéd soybeans, bulgar (bulgar wheat? LOL), tomatoes, onions, green pepper, and a lot of feta cheese and garlic. Very yummy, too. Take a look:
Then I made dessert for the evening, cinnamon rolls, which is a recipe adapted from a famous fishing lodge here in the province. It is decadent, to say the least. You roll out a biscuit-type dough, slather it in soft butter, then add liberal amounts of brown sugar and cinnamon. I threw in a few pecans and some cardamon, too. Then you roll it up jelly-roll style and cut it into slices. You place the slices into a baking pan that contains 1 and a half cups whipping cream, a teaspoon of vanilla (Mexican if you have it) and a cup of brown sugar. Then bake for about about 50 minutes:
And the end result (tastes better than it looks, actually:)
For dinner, we had mussles in tomato and white wine sauce, baked potato and baked salmon in a dijon/maple syrup glaze, and steamed asparagus with hollandaise sauce. There were no complaints:
6 comments:
All of that sounds soooo good! I'm going to make that lentil salad. (I say feta cheese and tuna, like you) The casserole sounds like something I'd enjoy, too. I'm glad you tell how you made the dishes and provide photos of them. It makes me want to cook.
My boyfriend recently tried a recipe he was given (well, someone told him) and it was pretty much like your cinnamon rolls. Cook some butternut, mash it and let it cool. Add sugar and butter to the mixture. Spread it over the pastry, roll it, slice it and place it in a pan, pour a cream and sugar mix over it and bake. We used puff pastry but perhaps short-crust would have been better, as it flopped. Tasty though. Your's looked amazing!
I'll post the full recipe for the casserole soon, Joy :)
The dough for the cinnamon rolls was 3 cups of flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup of shortening (cut into flour as for a pie crust), and a cup of milk. The squash mixture sounds intriguing, Tristan. Perhaps that might be one way for me to get Brad to eat it. Squash is one of the few things he can't stand! :)
What, no baking powder?
Oh gory, yes! Sorry about that! 5 teaspoons of baking powder.
That squash mixture does sound good. How would brown sugar be in it for the sugar?
Thanks, Jeff! :-)
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