Whatcha Cooking today?

[Sue_CT]

Spent over 2 hours making 11 ten inch flour tortillas. They are certainly more labor intensive than the corn tortillas because the dough has to rest longer and each tortilla needs to be rolled out very thin with a rolling pin instead of using a press, which is much quicker. HOWEVER, lol, I currently like them much better! I keep going back and forth on this and reserve the right to change my mind agan as I get better at the corn tortillas. The white corn tortillas that puffed nicely fore me were good, I have since tried a batch of yellow corn tortillas, which did not, and predictably were no where near as good. The previous flour tortillas were quite good but did not fully puff. Todays puffed pretty nicely! I had 11 and had to eat one of course, still warm, with my cup of coffee to make sure they were ok. I I am finding the thinner I make them the better they turn out.

Thinking about maybe a Quesadilla for dinner.

My tortillas:
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Dinner! Chicken, onion, bell pepper Quesadilla with homemade flour tortilla!:

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[Danny]

Tonight, still trying to shake whatever I managed to catch, dashi broth and udon noodles. Comfort food.

[Sue_CT]

Feel better soon!

[worth1]

Don't know how they do it but the hand made flour tortillas at the store up the road are like boot leather.
You literally can't hardly tear them apart.
Seems like almost every convenience store in Texas makes tacos now.
I don't eat any of them.

[karstopography]

The tortilla is perhaps the most important part of a taco. A tough old dry prepackaged sitting on the shelf for days tortilla will certainly bring down an otherwise nice taco. HEB makes their own flour tortillas in each store and the package is often still hot from the press when I get them. We’ve also gotten the refrigerated ones that aren’t cooked but formed and then cook them ourselves. We always toast them a bit to warm them up even if they are fully cooked.

[Sue_CT]

Wish I had any store that did that around here! That sounds great.

[Tormahto]

Too tired to cook, and saw a pizza at WalMart on clearance at half price. A jalapeno popper, bacon, chive, three cheese, cream cheese sauce pizza. I tossed the jalapenos before baking. The last thing I want is heartburn, as it's difficult enough to get to sleep already.

[Sue_CT]

Found a single servng of homemade chili from 2019 at the bottom of the freezer. It was delicious.

[pepperhead212]

That thing about the millets a couple of days ago made me think of something I've done often with millet - cooked it with jasmine rice, to give some nutrition to it. Amazingly, the flavor of the millet is incredibly mild, so the jasmine flavor is still strong. And I often do this with Thai curries - something I don't make as often as I used to. But I still had about 3/4 of red curry paste in the freezer.

For cooking the millet and jasmine rice together, I soak the millet for a few hours, drain, then add about 1½ c water per cup, and 1:1 water to rice, and use the RICE mode in the Instant Pot, and it comes out perfectly.
Dry roasted foxtail millet - did not brown much, but mixes well with rice. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Millet mixed with jasmine rice, 2 to one, but the jasmine still tastes incredible. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Thai red curry, with the chicken and bok choy stems added for the last few minutes of cooking. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Finished Thai curry, with eggplant, onion, bok choy, and chicken added, served on the millet/rice mix. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

[Sue_CT]

Noticed today that my fingernail tips were discolored and brown on my left hand, How embarassing. Looked like the nails of the elderly dementia patients found playing in their own poop at home and no matter how hard much we washed and how hard we tried, we could not get the staining out. I trimmed off what I could and tried looking up some of what can cause it, expecting a medication or something. Guess what one of things is? Exposure to heat. Then I remembered making those tortillas and turning them like Rosana did with her fingers and how painfully hot that pan was. I cooked my fingernails. In a saute pan. I might stick to the spatula in the future.

[Sue_CT]

Breakfast burrito for dinner, and it was delicious! I just cooked up some frozen home fries mix generously seasoned with S&P, put it on the homemade tortilla, topped it with a couple of scrambled eggs, a bit of jalanpeno chedder, some salsa and rolled it up. after cooking it, I added some Gator Drool hot sauce and enhaled the entire thing, lol. I am so full but I want more just because it tasted so good, lol.

[worth1]

Speaking of home fries I call them bratkartoffeln.
And that's what I had for supper.
The meat was bacon ends and pieces and corned beef.
Other select ingredients were two large yellow onions and 5 cloves of garlic.
Seasonings.
Black pepper.
Knorr beef bullion powder.
Chili powder.

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[Sue_CT]

Really, is there anyone that does not like potatoes!?!?

[karstopography]

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Italian bronze cut Chitarra with meatballs and tomato sauce. I never make this exactly the same way twice. Sauce was a couple of large thawed out Kellogg’s breakfast tomatoes plus several of last season’s red tomatoes also from the freezer. A little Olive oil, cooked some Shallots in that, along with garlic, thyme, oregano, put in a little of a really good Oregon pinot noir with the peeled tomatoes and herbs, added a little dried cayenne flakes. Everything got reduced down for about an hour to sweet yum. I poured off most the clear tomato liquid from thawing prior to cooking, but even that clear liquid was delicious. These tomatoes were so sweet it was like eating tomato candy.

Meatballs, grass fed beef, pecorino romano, seasoned bread crumbs, an egg, garlic, garden parsley, baked in the oven on parchment paper. Almost all the grease and oil from the meat and cheese remains on the parchment paper. Cannot stand greasy tomato sauce, one of those inexplicable things.

[Tormahto]

Found a single servng of homemade chili from 2019 at the bottom of the freezer. It was delicious.

The chili, or the bottom of the freezer?

[pepperhead212]

I made a creole type dish today, including some bell peppers I had to use, plus some mushrooms, and some ham, from the freezer. I made the tomato sauce, and simmered it briefly, then stirred in the leftover millet/rice mix I had with the Thai curry. I let it sit about 5 minutes, to absorb some of the liquid. Almost the same as jambalaya, w/o shrimp.
The creole type dish, with some mushrooms and ham, before mixing in the millet and rice mix. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Finished creole dish, after mixing in the leftover millet/rice mix, and letting it sit for 5 minutes. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

[karstopography]

Wife made chicken and rice soup last night, we are going to have it again tonight. We used celery from the garden. I spent $2 total on the celery growing out there, seven plants, but have cut stalks off multiple of times for a variety of recipes. A bunch of celery costs $1.50 or so now at HEB, but might be good for one or two recipes max before it goes soft. Celery is a home run cool season garden vegetable. Nothing bothers it either. No pest control measures necessary. Survived 18° weather to boot.

[PlainJane]

I will have to try celery next winter @karstopography. Which variety did you grow?

[worth1]

More bratkartoffeln but a different version.
Just potatoes and bacon.

[karstopography]

I will have to try celery next winter @karstopography. Which variety did you grow?

Pascal giant.