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kindkit ([personal profile] kindkit) wrote2014-01-17 11:55 am
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recipe Friday

Doing my bit to make recipe Friday a thing, because [personal profile] st_aurafina said so. A lot of my cooking doesn't involve recipes, unless it's a dish I'm unfamiliar with, but I'll try.


Something I've cooked recently:

Calling it cooking may be an exaggeration, but I tried this recipe for coconut-ginger "tea" and liked it a lot. I didn't have honey so I just used regular sugar and a bit of turmeric (it colors the tea, which is a ghostly white otherwise). Nicely coconutty and gingery. Next time I think I may add a crushed green cardamom pod to the infusion.


Something I've got concrete plans to cook soon:

Today, once my bread (a yeasted cornbread) is out of the oven (or more specifically out of the pot I bake it in, which I'll need for the soup), I'm going to cook a chicken soup vaguely based on this one for white chicken chili with quinoa. By "vaguely based" I mean "I'll add quinoa to the Mexican-style chicken soup I was planning to make anyway, but I'll use chickpeas instead of white beans, chipotles in adobo instead of jalapenos, and no salsa verde since I don't have any, and also omit the tortilla chips since I don't have those either." Instead I'll put lime peel and orange peel into the soup for a nice citrus kick and eat the soup with some cornbread. I may top it with the avocado that I bought on one of those bizarre "it was so cheap" impulses (I like avocado, but avocado does not like me--I think I have oral allergies to a couple of foods and avocado makes my throat feel all ooky and weird).

Also, at some point this week, [personal profile] skud's kimchi pancakes. I've cooked them before, substituting preserved vegetable for the kimchee, and they were yummy, but now I have actual kimchee and I'm looking forward to trying them again.


Something I'm idly thinking of cooking in the future:

I want to get back into cooking Indian food regularly. It's a bit tricky because a lot of Indian food is complicated to cook, and I just don't seem to have a lot of energy these days. Most Indian dishes aren't difficult in a technical sense, but they require a lot of steps and a lot of time, not to mention dirtying a lot of dishes. Well, I guess that's what weekends are for. Maybe I'll cook a pork vindaloo, which is simple and has the meaty heartiness I've been craving in this cold weather.
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[personal profile] st_aurafina 2014-01-19 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, recipe Friday! Oh, wow, the kimchi pancakes look amazing. Do you think they'd freeze and reheat well?