wanna share a recipe with me?

i'm bored and stuck at work for another two hours.  so to keep myself busy, i'm thinking about food.  i love food.  but i'm running out of good ideas for dinners lately.  so - i'll share one of our staple recipes here with you - and if you'd like - share one back.  a recipe exchange!  yay!

hubby's pomodoro (we use this sauce for everything from spaghetti and 'meatballs' to lasagne to pizza sauce to chicken parmesan)

Ingredients:

2 28-oz cans of Trader Joe's plum tomatoes without salt (open can and take scissors and chop them all up while they're inside the can)
4 cloves of minced garlic
2 medium or one large onion
sprinkling of fresh rosemary (dried is fine, too, just don't go overboard)
sprinkling of dried oregano (fresh is fine, too)
handful of chopped fresh parsley (dried is fine, too)
big handful of fresh, chopped basil
olive oil - a few glugs to coat bottom of pot

heat oil in a big soup pot.  chop the onion and garlic and add to the pan.  saute until soft, not brown.  add the tomatoes, oregano, rosemary and parsley and simmer for at least an hour on low.  taste the sauce and add salt and pepper to taste.  you will need to add more salt than you think.  when the sauce is ready to be taken off the heat (all the flavors will be intensified and melded together - you'll know when it's done) stir in the chopped basil. 

simple light marinara sauce! 

Comments

[Lilian]

yummy! I'l too lazy to type a recipe right now... sorry :)
(there's a cake recipe a few posts down in my blog, if that counts :)

[Erin O']

This is sort of an easy take on Thai coconut curry soup. I'm pretty sure we got it from "The Maker's Diet" by Jordan Ruben. There are other, more elaborate recipes (with lime leaf and lemon grass, e.g.) which are good, but this one is SOOO easy and fast.

Pour 4 cups of chicken stock (or veggie stock if you're vegetarian) and one can of coconut milk (Thai Kitchen is good) in sauce pan. Turn on the heat (med/med-hot). Add: @1 tbsp. grated ginger; 2 tbsp fish sauce; the juice of one lime (yum!); 1 hot pepper (jalapeno is good -- we don't chop it, just cut it in half with seeds removed).

After about 25 minutes or so, when it's hot and getting flavorful, add chicken -- cut up, or tofu, if you'd like. We either use chicken breast meat or thighs. Make sure the chicken is cooked through (but don't overcooke, it gets tough!) then serve with rice in bowl and cilantro on top.

Optional: I like to add sliced shitake mushrooms; I put them in at the beginning, so they have time to soften in the broth.

When we're really pressed for time we use the chicken/veggie broth from the carton -- Pacific or Imagine are good and organic

Enjoy! Love and covet your backsplash tiles, by the way,
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[Brianna]

What are you in the mood for: tofu, shrimp, or vegetarian? I have one for each. :)

[sarah gilbert]

my favorite go-to recipe is vinegar chicken. the original recipe was from a French bistro cookbook, probably "Bistro Cooking" by Patricia Wells, but I never follow a recipe any more.

Heat some olive oil in a really big skillet and take chicken legs or breast pieces (bone-in only). Salt and pepper them liberally. Brown the chicken pieces on every side, working in batches if you must. Once all your chicken is browned, add in a large can of tomatoes (I usually use trader joe's plum tomatoes) and 1/4 cup of red wine vinegar (apple cider vinegar also works well). If you like, sprinkle in some thyme or other chicken-y herbs. Cover and cook over medium heat, adding water or chicken stock if needed, until chicken is all cooked, 20-40 minutes.

Sometimes I add in garlic or onions or carrots before the vinegar.

[Missy]

I made this tonight and wanted to share it with someone! It's disturbingly tasty. Kind of a cross between tacos, pizza, and chicken-n-dumplings. Serves 4 if you're feeling "bad", 8 if you're feeling "good".

Taco Biscuit Pie

1 lb lean ground turkey
1 small onion
½ red bell pepper
½ 6oz can tomato paste
1 cup beef broth/stock
1 tbsp chili powder
1 tbsp cumin
¼ tsp cayenne pepper
½ tsp salt
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder (optional)
1 tsp oregano
1 can Grands biscuits
1 cup shredded Mexican style cheese
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Brown ground turkey in frying pan. Drain.
3. Add chopped onion and pepper. Cook for a few minutes.
4. Add broth and spices. Once boiling, add tomato paste. Stir, while simmering, until tomato paste is incorporated into mixture.
5. Press biscuits into lightly greased glass casserole pan.
6. Spoon meat mixture onto biscuits.
7. Top with cheese.
8. Bake at 400 for 15 minutes.

[Susan]

Yumm..these all sound good. I admire the folks with the energy to type recipes in comment boxes! I hope you won't think it's hopelessly self-promoting to share a recipe I blogged about last month, Chickpea Cauliflower Soup (http://tinyurl.com/rf8zs)

Also, if you read Ianqui's blog (http://ianqui.blogspot.com/) you can follow a link to a Cool Internet Recipe in the top of her right sidebar. Right now there's a tasty-looking quinoa recipe there.

Your kitchen looks cool, btw.

[PBfish]

okay. I really shouldn't share this, because it's my husband's recipe, but I will anyway. If you put goat cheese (and by that I mean the whole little package of cheese, no skimping)and roasted garlic into mashed potatoes it is possibe to induce orgasm.
Seriously. Yum.

[fishtail]

Pasta Carbonara Laura-style
(adapted from Mark Bittman's How to cook everything)

Take about 4 ounces (or as much as you like really) of bacon. Chop into small bits. Saute in pan until crisp and lovely.

While it's cooking, put on a big pot for the pasta to boil. Once the pasta water is boiling, add 1 lb of pasta. Traditional is spaghetti or fettucine, but shapes work well too.

Also heat your oven to like 200 and put a metal or glass big bowl in there to warm up for a few minutes. You want to still be able to touch it.

Pour out most of the bacon fat in a container to save. Leave about a tablespoon in the pan. Chop some mushrooms, garlic and shallots (or onion) however small or large and however much you like. I go for about the same shape as the bacon. Add the mushrooms and shallots to the bacon and saute. Add a sprinkling of salt and pepper. At the end, add the garlic (so it doesn't burn).

Take the warm bowl out of the oven and mix 2-3 eggs and about 1-1.5c of grated parmesan or romano with a fork so the eggs won't curdle (yet). You can add a bit of the pasta water to thin it out.

Add the sauted mushroom mix and bacon to the eggs-cheese mixture. Also add about 1-2 c. frozen peas, green beans or broccoli straight from the freezer.

Once pasta is done, save about a half cup of the pasta water and then drain. Dump the hot pasta into the warm bowl with all the goodies. Mix well and add more fresh ground black pepper.

Use the extra pasta water if you want to get more sauce. Use the extra bacon fat if you are decadent.

[kenya]

here is a super simple one! take some lentils, add some diced carrot and some barley (same amount as lentils.) add a pinch of butter (the real stuff) and boil till the barley is soft. This is phenomenal, easy, and healthy (well, some may question the butter, but i defend my southern-ness! butter for all!!!) it also has this comfort-food quality while maintaining the "i would feed this to my kid" integrity. haha!