tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85005736716836647172024-02-18T22:35:21.642-08:00Eat Well, Play WellLoving Life and FoodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-10610280015229773522012-09-29T10:49:00.000-07:002013-04-08T20:51:36.157-07:00Featuring FreezeWell PlayWell<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000;">With all that life has in store for us, the everyday planning and preparing of dinner can seem like a tiring chore. At the end of your long day, imagine coming home to a home cooked meal for your family that is both affordable and nutritious.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000;">We do all the shopping, prep and packaging. You simply take the meal out of your freezer a day or two before you would like to serve it and follow the simple heating directions. You now have a meal which you feel good about eating and serving to your family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We start with the freshest ingredients and create healthy, wholesome dishes for you to enjoy straight out of your kitchen.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">This is one of our classic dishes, chicken lettuce wraps.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">This is a batch of our Sweet Potato Mash, served complete with poached eggs. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">What a great way to start your busy day!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">This is our Italian Wedding Soup with homemade turkey meatballs. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">We will be bringing this soup back soon, as our clients couldn't get enough. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;"> Here we have Herbes de Provence</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">Here we have the filling to our coveted Paleo Pot Pie. This dish is made with almond flour, almond oil and coconut milk. An amazing way to have a comfort food while staying on track.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;"> This is an assemly line of Paleo Pot Pies cooling after baking in the ovens.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">Up front, you will see a shredded Kale saute, this was served alongside a flavorful chicken dish.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">We put in a hard days work, and you have dinner all week long. all for you and your taste buds.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Eat Well Play Well is excited to cook for you. You will be pleased when you have a freezer full of premade, homemade options to choose from.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">What a great excuse to have a party. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Grab a few close friends and walk into our assembly night. This is a casual and fun atmosphere filled with appetizers, drinks and good friends. You assemble your meals at your chosen stations, adding or deleting ingredients as you choose. </span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: #38761d;">The best part about this night is the days following. Your freezer has nutritious and easy to serve meals in it. This will no doubt, remove some stress from your busy evening.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">We don't use your kitchen, we just use your counter space and when we leave we don't leave a trace of evidence that we were there.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="color: #38761d;">What's for dinner? So many options!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;">This is a fully stocked freezer after a few hours of cooking at FreezeWell PlayWell. We'd love to share our treasures with you!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please note, that in order to connect directly with only those who are interested, all of our notifications regarding Cook to Order Dates and Party Dates are done directly to email subscribers only. Shoot us a quick email, so you can be added to that list. We only send a couple emails a month. </span><a href="mailto:eatwellplaywell@verizon.net"><span style="font-size: large;">eatwellplaywell@verizon.net</span></a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-79028732147623962822012-09-11T18:05:00.000-07:002012-09-11T18:05:00.243-07:00Night Market Little Saigon<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a hard working weekend, we needed a quick escape. Sunday night at 7pm we found ourselves at the last night of the Little Saigon Summer Night Market, in Westminster. We wandered around exploring and as we left we discussed how glad we were that we went. It is only 10 minutes tops from our house and it felt like a whole other world. I first read about this in the trusty AAA Magazine, in the beginning of summer, and put it in my Cozi family Organization App under the category of "fun things to do." I came a crossed the dates recently and marked my calendar for last day, hoping we'd find time. Sometimes, you have to schedule fun or else you'll never get there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In all honesty, my first instinct was to crawl up into a ball and sleep but I have a hard time doing that because I'm a pretty "antsy" person. I can't imagine why I was tired by Sunday evening: I'm carrying a watermelon in my belly and I did a "shop and cook" all day Saturday and an "office organization and tail end of a cook on Sunday."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided that running ragged is more satisfying then being on the couch, and we set out to our mini adventure. Besides, I did have some couch time Saturday in the pm, while my hubby recovered from his two day tournament by hibernating (picture sleeping bear) on the couch for a few hours. We now have access on our TV to Amazon Prime movies/shows, as well as Netflix streaming. With this, I have newly discovered watching TV series' on these apparatuses. With summertime series scheduling, when I do turn on the TV I find myself not having a clue what to watch. I'm a DVR creature of habit and pretty bad at channel surfing. Anyways, this is my new solution. I've been watching Parenthood Series 3 as my first series. Between the ipad and the TV, I am getting through the series in a few weeks. I feel so accomplished, just kidding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a food faire extravaganza with a row of vendors for shopping in the middle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do wish I had taken more photos, but 1) I didn't bring my camera and only had my phone and 2) I didn't want to look like too much of a tourist, we already stood out quite a bit. So apologies, maybe more photos next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My husband quickly showed his adventurous eating side and was tasting grilled oysters. It was massive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bonus - the prices of food was fantastic. When you go to some of these faires or food truck events, you leave hungry and broke. Not the case here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next we shared (well, I think I got about 20%) a pork skewer, which had been roasted on the open flame bbq. It was tasty and he commented on how he loved the sweet tasting marinade that they use. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did a lap around and settled back in the front where it was crowded, by the live music. Here we ordered: Bo Bia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bo Bia, (I am missing some accent marks) which is Carrot & Jicama Roll w Vietnamese Sausage. At first glance, I said, "Oooh Spring Rolls." This very nice lady in front of us said, this one is actually Jicama with Vietnamese Sausage and Basil. We got talking a little and she explained a couple things to us. She was also pregnant, turns out she is delivering this Thursday so we wished her congratulations and best of luck to her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was fun to watch the lady make the rolls because I have made spring rolls a few times and she of course was a speedy pro, in comparison. I was wondering about the pink tray that she was making them on. It appears that it is just a plastic tray with holes on it, which helps it not to stick after a quick dunk in hot water. You can barely see in my photo but to her right (our left) she had an electric skillet going and a pot which was has a split in middle. Half was for her hot water and in the other half she had the jicama, carrots, and sausage piled up. After dipping the wrap in the water, placing it on the pink tray and filling it with the fillings, she would turn to her left and grab some basil, and then add the hoison sauce and a spicy sauce, and roll it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I originally took this photo because I have a good friend named Mai, who would also appreciate this event. (Hi Mai~) But it gives a good image of the booths where were ordering from. Talk about some hard working women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There was one line that was extra long, which of course intrigued me. A 'you know a restaurant is good by the long wait outside,' type of feeling came over me. It turns out it was for Sweet Tofu. They had one option at this booth and it was Sweet tofu in three sizes. So naturally, I ordered sweet Tofu, in a medium. I was second in line when the huge pot of tofu ran out, I had flash backs to a couple funny fast food stories I have that have to do with pregnancy cravings and not being able to get the desired foods, but that is another story. We (The people in front of me and behind me) got comfortable and consoled each other with laughs. The new pot would be here in 5 minutes. It, and another full pot, came in less than 5 minutes and we were back in business. They must have brought it from their restaurant down the street. They open this very very large pot and it is one big piece of tofu. They very methodically scoop small pieces off into your bowl and pass it down the line to the next server who adds the sweet. It was (from what I could figure out) condensed milk, boba, candied ginger and a sweet syrupy sauce. It was tasty, however I think it is a bit of an acquired taste. The candied ginger pieces were extremely potent when you bit into them. I ended up taking it home and enjoying it when we got home while I could sit down. Did I mention tired feet that weekend? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I was waiting in line for my tofu, the hubby explored his options. He definitely took the "When in Rome" approach. He said he tasted Coconut Escargot (which they gal gave him for free) and came back with a bowl of snail looking items also. I don't know the exact name, but he said they were good. I watched with a semi intrigued face but did not partake in the sucking from the shells process. He said all the (not to be taken wrong) "old ladies" were in line for these. Probably because they are more traditional and have enjoyed them for many years. He fit in like a charm, I'm sure....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The details of this great expanding venture are on the next few tabs of this blog, take a look. We are cooking this weekend and are excited about this month's menu, which is sure to please many hungry appetites. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Placed in a beautiful baking dish and baked as per directions and you feel good about what you are serving yourself and your family. Have you checked the sodium content on commercial frozen meals lately?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here I added some brussel sprouts, you could add whichever side you please or simply eat it alone. (There is spinach in this dish, so you can count that as your greens if you'd like :) )</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This "Mexican Casserole" browned up nicely. You wouldn't know it by tasting it, but this dish was made with cottage cheese to keep it light and healthy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana;">Assembly parties do not require any cooking in your kitchen and when the party's over we leave your area just as we found it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana;">Have a great day and Eat Well and Play Well~</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-20549077076228740642012-08-16T21:32:00.003-07:002012-08-16T21:32:33.837-07:00Camping<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are headed out camping tomorrow for the weekend after an almost full day of work for the both of us. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little Friday to Sunday trip to Leo Carrillo State Beach, which is in Malibu about an hour and a half north of us, we are hoping for the traffic fairies to fly our way. We've never been to this campsite but the reviews and recommendations that I've gotten say it's a great spot.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I made these reservations over 6 months ago, I'm pretty sure it was before I knew I was pregnant, but it should be a good time, round belly and all. We are upgrading from our normal camping mattress to our full-on queen size air mattress, which we use when we have extra guests in the house. Yes, we have a converter to blow it up directly from our Granola Hippy Car. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am hoping for some relaxing time in the sand, under a mellow sun, while felling cool ocean breeze. It has been so hot here the last couple weeks, that I am dreaming of the days of sweaters and blankets. Actually in all honesty, last night I had nightmares about my child birthing trip to the hospital, but I'm sure it's just the hormones, the reading I did at lunch yesterday, and the realization that I am in my third trimester and that the 3 month count down has begun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clockwise from the top we have bread for our tuna sandwiches kit (low mercury tuna from Sprouts). I made up a little mayonnaise mix which has curry and salt/pepper, I also packed some hummus and I have some shredded veggies which will go in the tuna as well. On the side, we have some red pepper sticks to dip in the extra hummus. Below that bag we have our dutch oven Stew Kit. There are beef chunks in there, they are just hiding. At the 6 o'clock position we have a dutch oven pizza kit. I read you can place an aluminum pie tin in the dutch oven and cook the crust in that. Then layer on your toppings and cook some more and you have a yummy pizza. They only thing I had to purchase for this was the crust and the sausage. I decided to go with sausage because pepperoni has nitrates in it, and apparently nitrates aren't that great when you are pregnant. At Sprouts they have amazing homemade chicken sausages (the price is pretty good too, I think I paid $2.00 for these two full size, braut size sausages.) and I snatched up a spicy one for the hubby and a regular one for me. I figure we'll grill them up, use half for the pizza and half as a side to the pizza. More protein for a carb based meal. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Hopefully it works out and we have the patience for everything to cook. We actually have a portable stove with pots and pans but all this dutch oven cooking seems so exciting. Not pictured is a carton of egg substitute and some bacon that we will cook up on our stove one morning. The other morning we will probably have yogurt, granola, watermelon and/or store bought smoothies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A fun quote from the Washington Post:</span> "<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">She had an incredible work ethic; she loved a good joke; her work is, perhaps, more relevant than ever; even longtime chefs were thrilled when she complimented their dishes; any extra effort that it took to see her in person or on television was worth it; it’s okay to make mistakes as long as you learn how to fix what went wrong; cooking is fun." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-we-can-eat/post/what-they-learned-from-julia-child/2012/08/14/167f6c0e-e581-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_blog.html">Washington Post Julia Child</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">Have a great day and Eat Well and Play Well ~</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-49487823528908250292012-08-06T22:03:00.000-07:002012-08-07T09:17:05.122-07:00A Quick-Fix and A Throw Together Lunch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had just returned from a store called the HB Farmer's market, which has a deli of fresh hummus, tzatziki, and baba ghanoush. Don't mind if I do. Shopping makes you hungry, so it was quickly snack time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It reminds me that this was a Sunday afternoon, the day after our anniversary. I see part of the gift that I got for my husband which was this mini portable ping pong set. (5 year gift tradition is wood, which was difficult to adhere to) We had a nice little rally that day set up on the kitchen table, a little playfulness goes a long way. You can see he is patiently waiting for me to snap the photo before he eats the meal he (mostly) just prepared. Good thing he has that beer in hand, to buy me a few seconds. You can see my camera lens cover on the table, which shows my haste in "Wait, let me take a quick picture of this gorgeous food."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a bustling breakfast/lunch joint. You walk up to the counter and place your order with the cooks. The line wrapped two fold in this long narrow cafe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now there a few things that I usually don't order for breakfast and French Toast is one of them, they just usually seem too indulgent. However, this day I went for it, figuring hey I am indulging a pregnancy craving and we are on vacation, aka our "Baby Moon." Yes, we are expecting our first baby in November, so mama is 5 months pregnant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My fruit on top came late, but it was worth the wait. With the butter and a little bit of syrup, my belly and mouth were smiling ear to ear. The meal was not lacking on flavor, by any means, and I can definitely see why it was so crowded. (I had searched out breakfast places before we came, knowing that we may be stranded without our room, and this was one of the top listed places)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We walked around a lot of Boston that day, poked our heads into the Quincey Market which is a food site to see. Think - food court extravaganza. We walked down by the water, and eventually we ended up jumping on a tour bus towards the end of the day and we were able to spend an hour or so visiting the U.S.S. Constitution. It was great to see the city as a whole as they whisked us around their tour loop. We had him dump us off in China town in the late afternoon and decided to seek out a tasty place for a light "second meal." It was basically our lunch, but it was a very late lunch. We stumbled upon Winsor Dim Sum Cafe, which turned out to be a treat. I let my husband order on this one and we ended up with a great little spread. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After regrouping back at the hotel room and putting on our evening attire, we decided that our one night in Boston should be spend exploring the North End of Boston or "Little Italy." We took the T or the Train Subway system to the North End, boy can it be confusing for newbies but we made it. I really felt like it was an important piece of the Boston adventure, I may have been alone on this thought, but we were glad we did it. Once in Little Italy, we picked a place that was off the main drag, but looked busy. We ended up heading out and eating late but they were still going strong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We hopped in a taxi in order to get back to our hotel, as it was approaching 11:30 or so. At the last minute we decided to have him drop us off at Cheers, the Original Cheers. There is a Cheers down by Quincy Market, but the other one right below Beacon Hill is distinguished as the original Cheers. The outside was used in the show whenever they shot the outside. The inside was much smaller and laid out nothing like the bar on the show. It turns out they just expanded upstairs by making a replica bar of the show's bar for tourist. This was special to my husband because his dad loved the show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Hampshire features no sales tax, and they have 2 big state run liquor stores so that you can stock up when you drive by. We stopped and got a couple items to bring for our Maine house hosts and a bottle of wine to drink during the trip. Our friends from Maine reccommended we waited on getting any beer because they have local beer and boy were they right, their beer is very tastey, or so I heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived in Boston Friday evening and were happy to see our friends and hosts. We were quickly whisked away by our friends to a local brewery because it was closing soon for the evening. This brewery had only been around for about a year and it was on tap at practically every establishment that we saw throughout the weekend. Oxbow Beer, and word is that it is tasty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may or may not know but Maine has an abundance of fresh oysters and boy did my hubby taste them. This was a sampler plate that he and the only other brave soul of the group (not I) shared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After that tasting, we found ourselves at a great little restaurant, The boat house bistro. The menu had a great array of tapas and we had fun exploring it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shopping local is a special treat in this area. They live in Edgecomb with a neighboring town of Darimiscotta. They belong to a local farm, where they buy in a share and get crops delivered to them. They also belong to a fishery, where they get a share of the catch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the record, Maine has amazing local ice cream as well. Their milk is so fresh and clean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After dinner, when the wind died down, we moved out closer to the water and ended up sitting on the picnic tables and watching a fireworks show that we luckily stumbled a crossed. They were coming from a gorgeous house acrossed the cove.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has an amazing garden going on their property, this is only a portion. Fresh and organic was not in low demand. It has actually inspired us, we are growing some of our own items now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A peek at what awaited us when we woke up. This was local goat's milk yogurt, tasty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday we decided to head south and explore some of their favorite spots and towns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was the gelato spot that I mentioned earlier. There was a line, but they didn't care how many flavors you tried. And boy was it hard to choose, luckily they'll split your order into a few different flavors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived in Portland in the late afternoon and begin tasting our way through the town. Portland, ME is a bit of a foodie town, I hear that chefs will often open up restaurants here before taking on an adventure in Boston.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of our first stops was an underground dungeon like watering hole which had an extreme selection of beverages. Novare Res </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you can see, they had an array of infused vodka and tequila. If it has chiles and says spicy, believe them, right hunny?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We traveled home with and added carry on of 24 fresh oysters on ice and goat salami, non edible additions of a lobster cookie cutter, a cheers glass mug, some mini lobster socks for the kids of the dad who shuffled us to and from the airport, and a last minute purchase of a mini 6 mos. T-Shirt with a Maine lobster on it, for our new addition. Found at the cutest general store, that I have ever seen. </span><a href="http://www.ebgs.us/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.ebgs.us/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently stumbled upon this product and I may be addicted. This popcorn brings memories flooding back from my elementary school days when we used to make baked dill oyster crackers. There is just enough flavor on this popcorn to make your taste buds sing and it is not greasey, heavy or buttery. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been taking my own popcorn to the theater for a couple years now, and this yummy bag will definetly be on my pack list the next time I hit a theater.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good news is, popcorn is high in fiber and if you find the right product, it is a healthy portable snack...</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana;">I know I have not done a lot of posting the last month or so, however I have been doing a lot of cooking and have managed to squeeze in some photo shots here and there. My Freeze Well Eat Well business partner and I have been running around like chickens with our heads cut off; cooking chicken, food processing chicken, stuffing chicken in rolled lasagna, playing chicken on the freeway, etc. The fun just never ends... </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana;">We decided to take this weekend off, and we stuck to it for the most part except for a couple hours of test cooking here and there. We made our newest burger and I tested steel cut oat pancakes and assembled some Mexican Lasagnas. As far as the pancakes go, let's just say that I added them immediately to the current menu; those puppies will make your Monday-Friday brighter. (Well, ours this week, as it was a "test" cook.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With summer slowly making it's entrance, I have been embracing fruit with open arms, the last couple weeks. Here in Huntington Beach, it was not much of a sunny weekend, but that's ok, as I had plenty to do and I would only have been hoping to squeeze in an hour of layout time by the pool, had it been gorgeous out. I went out on a limb and bought a flat of nectarines at Costco last weekend, which we all know can be hard to get through sometimes if you don't have a big family eating it. I was able to utilize about 5 or 6 of them during the "weekend of bbq's" (A.K.A. last weekend), by making them a hearty part of a fruit salad. And then we (mostly I) happily munched on the rest throughout the week. Kiwi is a fun treat too and it is high in potassium. Potassium has been my new "pay attention to eating project" the last couple of weeks. I have figitty legs and we recently read that this (undiagnosed, restless legs syndrome, which I share with a few of my family members) could be partially alleviated by extra potassium. Hey, I'm willing to give it a try and my couch partner is rooting the experiment on; if I'll sit still while sitting next to him he'd probably serve me liver. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana;">Can you believe it is June already? I am planning to "hold on to my hats and glasses, because this (month) here, is going to be the wildest ride in the wilderness." (Quote from a Disneyland ride, of course) </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana;">I am taking on a few new roles at work with the rollbacks, first task being a 401k audit, I have already started training my backups who will cover me while we go on a trip in the middle of June, I have appointment mania this week and next, and of course Freeze Well is taking off like wild fire which threatens to keep any spare moment filled. Every month thsi year won't be like this, so I am going to hit this one running. </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana;"> Have a great begining of the week. I have a feeling this Summer will be an action packed, busy, productive, and joyous season in our home. Here's to a girl wishing and hopefully getting her wish.~</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana;">Just a side note, I am squeezing in some computer time while my hubby cooks up a Sunday supper built around the red snapper which he caught over the weekend on a boys fishing trip. They did a one night overnighter from Long Beach to the Channel Islands. He tied for the most fish caught on the boat, 14! Yes, he cooks and hunts. Can't wait until Lobster season, maybe we'll have a Lobster bisque on the fall menu. </span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ROMANTIC DINNER FOR TWO</span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I popped them in the oven at a high temp for about 30 minutes until soft and charred. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See tips here </span><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-red-peppers-recipe/index.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Roasted Red Peppers How To</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pop them into plastic baggies for about 15 minutes. I was working on a couple other food projects so I had plenty to do to keep me busy, but I understand sometimes it might be hard to let the time pass without getting your fingers on them. This process makes for an easier peel.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana;">We are headed out tomorrow morning, at the crack of dawn, to catch a plain to Oklahoma City. We will be visiting Stillwater, OK and attending my lil brother's college graduation.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana;">What have you eaten lately that doesn't have preservatives? Some examples that come to mind for me are: a homemade soup or some homemade almond butter. That just happens to be what I am eating today for lunch. We played a game of clean out the fridge and pantry last night and came up with a big pot of yummy soup. I was so happy to be able to package some up for the week. It turned out to be kind of a veggie, chicken broth, tomatoes and spaghetti noodles soup. It is pretty tasty. I also made homemade almond butter with honey and sea salt, which has been a big hit in the office this morning. I was wondering how long it would keep in the fridge, but I have a feeling we won't need to test it because it is being gobbled up pretty well. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both my husband and I have been on some great vacations, both seperatly before we met and together after we met. Separate or together we have been to Africa, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Greece, American Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Fiji, Cancun, Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas, Zihuatanejo, as well as other Mexico areas. Additionally, Hawaii & Alaska, and a handful of the other American States. I am sure that there are some that I am forgetting, but these are the destinations that I can think of, off the top of my head. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are so greatful to have had these wonderful opportunities and hope to have many more adventures in our future. I have been eyeballing Costa Rica, and my husband would go back to Australia in a heart beat. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our travels have slowed down over the last few years for many reasons; work, family, school, etc., but we love to do local travel. A big shot out to my hubby whom finished his Thesis this week with... drum roll please... Straight A's. He will be receiving his Master's Degree after 2 years of hard work and plans to walk in July. Now on to coaching at the State Championships Swim Meet this weekend, go Pirates!~</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This summer, so far; we are planning to go to (starting next week) Oklahoma- for my little Brother's College Graduation, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Havasu, (both of which are my havens for the same and separate reasons) camping at Leo Carillo State Beach, camping at Doheny State Beach, and we are in the planning stage of taking a trip to Boston and Maine in June. There's a couple reasons that this trip should happen and I'll explain that on another day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leo Carillo State Beach: </span><a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=616"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=616</span></a><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> we haven't been yet, but I have heard that it is a great spot. At only an hour and a half from our house, it is a jewel I am happy to find. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial;">Have a great rest of your week and weekend. We have had some Thunder showers here last night and today, but it is suppossed to clear up and be beautiful and around 75-80 degrees this weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial;">Play Well while you are Eating Well~</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial;">P.S. While writing this post I am lunching on left over tomato/basil pasta and a Turkey Stuffed Red Bell Pepper which my new Business Partner made as a trial run for a new feature on our Menu. Both hit the spot and allowed me to stay at my desk and write this piece. </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial;">Visit my new pages on this site, to get a piece of the action, which is Freeze Well, Eat Well. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-36091441013782465412012-04-19T12:37:00.000-07:002012-04-19T12:37:00.865-07:00Strawberry Lemon Curd Trifle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All You MARCH 2012 </span></div>
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<li class="servings"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Yield:</strong> Serves 12</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cook time:</strong>10 Minutes </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Prep time:</strong>30 Minutes </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chill:</strong>6 Hours </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Total:</strong>6 Hours, 40 Minutes </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Make sauce: Hull and slice berries. Mix 1 cup berries with lemon juice and 2 Tbsp. sugar in a large bowl. Using a fork, mash berries into a chunky pulp. Combine another 1 cup berries and 2 Tbsp. sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, until the berries start to give off liquid, about 2 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high and cook, stirring often, until mixture is thick and pulpy, about 5 minutes longer. Stir cooked berries into mashed berries. Cool slightly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Make filling: Put lemon curd in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, beat cream, yogurt and sugar with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Stir about a quarter of whipped cream mixture into lemon curd, then gently fold in remaining cream mixture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Assemble trifle: Trim and discard both ends of cake. Cut cake crosswise into approximately 1/3-inch-thick slices. Spread each slice thinly with jam. Pour 1/2 cup lemon filling in bottom of a 14-cup trifle bowl or other large glass bowl. Spread evenly. Top with cake slices, jam sides up, trimming cake slices as necessary to make a flat layer. Pour about 1/2 cup strawberry sauce over, distributing fruit as evenly as possible over cake layer. Spread 1/3 of remaining sliced berries over sauce. Build two more layers with remaining filling, cake, sauce and sliced strawberries, arranging layers so they're even and visible through the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 6 hours or overnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't sleep early one Sunday morning, (which is a rare occassion but it did happen) so I found myself on the internet for recipes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was still laying in bed with the hubby and the puppy next to me, whom were both sleeping . (Again, rare occurance, but funnier things have happenned.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This recipe was calling my name, and I happenned to have the zuchinni to prove it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just like you do with frozen spinach, squeeze out all of the water. I was surprised at how much water these puppies were holding.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now your zuchinni has had it's towel time and is ready for some cooking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bread crumbs. Now, oddly enough I had been drying up some what looks to be sourdough bread already, so I had the makings for breadcrumbs. This mortar and pestal put my early morning arms to work... Again, thinking food processor but who's counting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worked hard and got my breadcrumbs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am glaring down down and hoping that they are crushed enough. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then the zuchinni.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>A very cute lil breakfast<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A tasty way to eat zucchini. They smell like tater tots when they are in the oven.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingredients </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 cup Zucchini, Grated </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 Egg </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">¼ whole Yellow Onion, Diced Or Grated </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">¼ cups Cheese (cheddar Or Parmesan Work Best) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">¼ cups Italian Style Bread Crumbs </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Salt And Pepper </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Preparation Instructions:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Preheat oven to 400ºF. Spray a mini-muffin tin with nonstick spray, set aside. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Grate the zucchini and then place it in a dish towel and squeeze out the excess water, like you would do with frozen spinach. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. In a bowl combine, the egg, onion, cheese, bread crumbs, zucchini, salt and pepper. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Using a spoon or a cookie scoop, fill the muffin cups to the top. Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the top is browned and set. Note: you can saute the onions before adding it to the mix if you want a milder flavor. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am thinking about making these and selling them to coworkers, what do you think?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recipe From Tastey Kitchen (Original recipe for Zucchini Bites from The Naptime Chef.)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great Day~</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-49533892623525202812012-04-03T12:57:00.001-07:002012-04-03T12:57:53.310-07:00Super Super Foods<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I am a big believer in Whole Foods (The items, not meaning the store) and along with that comes the intake of certian foods that are doted as "Super Foods" or foods that you should try to incorporate into your diet on a routine basis. Once you get into it, you won't really have to try because you will crave these healthy items. Yesterday I was craving a Sweet Potatoe (Or some say yam) because I saw Bethenny Frankel eating one and I remembered that I hadn't had one in a while. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The amazing proof: Researchers from the Federal University of Vicosa found that people burned about 70 more calories per day when their A.M. meal contained soy protein versus other types of protein. Cool beans!</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sweet Potatoes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Slimming superpowers: These spuds have RS, the same carbs found in lentils that may turn up the body's fat-scorching furnace. RS may also increase production of peptide hormone compounds that signal the brain to stop eating.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Research from Self Magazine and WebMd</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-25969365524606768732012-03-26T12:39:00.000-07:002012-03-26T12:39:00.371-07:00Quinoa Beet & Blood Orange Salad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Sunday was a cook-fest for us, one of those where we were jockeying for position in the kitchen because we both wanted to be in there. It ended by feeding a small group of friends whom quickly become very full and happy, so that worked out well. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will say that if/when I make this again, I may leave out the green onions they threw the taste off a little, in my opinion. I also could not find Kumquats at two stores I was at so those got omitted. Additionally I did not put avocado in, as I was a little hesitant there was too much going on. Maybe next time I will put them in. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Green onions, chopped. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we have the zest of blood orange. You will soon see where these oranges get their names. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quinoa, most definetly good for you. I think next time I am going to buy nire red quinoa because it is full of iron. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simple Lemon Squeeze</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Trader Joe's they have some frozen herbs, here we have Cilantro. Much easier then letting cilantro rot in your fridge because you only used half on your tacos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can we all say blood oranges together. "Blood Oranges, oh yes."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little labor intensive, but get to peeling. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then to chopping. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we have such a beautiful mortar and pestal. We recieved such amazing gifts for our wedding. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now once you get all of this together you start hearing "aaaaah" sounds in your head. It is so pretty, right?</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/4 cup finely chopped green onions</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 teaspoons grated blood orange rind</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 teaspoon grated lemon rind</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 tablespoons blood orange juice</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 teaspoons finely chopped cilantro</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon salt</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon ground coriander</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon ground cumin</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon paprika</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 3/4 cups water</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/2 teaspoon salt, divided</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 cup blood orange sections, chopped (about 4 medium)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 cup diced peeled avocado</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 whole kumquats, seeded and sliced</span></li>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Technically, a sweet potatoe is not a yam, but so many of us call the below a sweet potato, so I will stick to that on today's show)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I have done here is washed the sweet potatoe, poked it with a fork a few times and placed in the oven or toaster oven if you have one for about 45 minutes. Temp can be somewhere over 425 degrees.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This recipe comes from Jenna at <a href="http://www.eatliverun.com/coconut-curried-sweet-potato-soup/">Eat Live Run</a></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whom is abloggess...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must tell you this is the first time I have cooked beets before peeling them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the ticket, I think I was doing it all wrong before. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The magic trio: salt, pepper and extra virgin virgin olive oil...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't this amazing! It was a heart shaped beet! And the color was to die for. This was a golden beet. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aah such a cute lil heart. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rinse your beans after soaking them for about 8 hours or overnight. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here, I am prepping my ingredients while the beans cook.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once the beans are approaching done, you can start to saute some onions, garlic and olive oil. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I cut the onions an hour or so back to get the task out of the way. I am a crier when it comes to cutting onions. I wore my husbands wrap around sunglasses and went for it. There were still many tears, I guess I am just that way...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By WindLass on December 23, 2009</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"I wasn't willing to trust the bean soup seasoning packet to be vegetarian so this is the seasonings I came up with. I'm a "pinch here, pinch there" cook so you may need to adjust the seasonings to your taste. When cooking the beans, make sure they are tender before adding any acidic ingredients like tomatoes or lemon juice." </span></div>
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<li sizcache="12" sizset="1"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1 <sup>7</sup>⁄<sub>8</sub>; lbs 15 bean soup mix (29 oz. Bob's Red Mill 13 bean soup mix bag is at most grocery stores or I had just purchased the soup from the bulk aisle) </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="2"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1 quart low sodium vegetable broth </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="3"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1 tablespoon olive oil </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="4"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1 large onions, chopped </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="5"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1 garlic cloves, chopped </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="6"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2 celery ribs, thinly sliced </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="7"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2 carrots, thinly sliced </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="8"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1 (15 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, undrained </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="9"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">8 tablespoons lemon juice ( about 2 lemons worth) </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="10"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2 bay leaves </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="11"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">3 dashes Tabasco sauce </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="12"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1 tablespoon oregano </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="13"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2 teaspoons chili powder </span></li>
<li sizcache="12" sizset="14"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2 teaspoons ground thyme </span></li>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Serving Size: 1 (117 g)</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Servings Per Recipe: 8</span><br />
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<dt class="cals nutrition"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Calories 48.8 </span></dt>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Yesterday we had my sister-in-law and brother-in-law over at the house so that we could take care of some loose ends, cleaning out a storage unit, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">For lunch we had sandwiches from a "gourmet old fashioned" deli sandwich shop down the street. The group ordered two meatball sandwiches, one pastrami, and one corned beef sandwich. The menu was so exquisite you felt obliged to order more than just a turkey sandwich. It was a feast eaten on our front lawn while going through boxes. Good food and good company during not so pleasant chores.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Today's blog is a little shot out to Men Who Cook. I happen to have a handfull of them around me. My hubs is great cook, our brother-in-law is too and rocked this meal below, my dad can make a mean meal, and last but certianly not least my hubs dad (who is in heaven now) was a great cook. We found his binder of collected recipes and a journal of handwritten recipes yesterday, which was to be celebrated as it was pretty much top priority of things we hoped to find in the collection of boxes. The four of us decided that it would be an amazing thing to have published in his honor, donating portions of the proceeds to Machular Degeneration. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">After we were done with our tasks we took a long awaited trip to dog beach for a walk on the sand and a moment with the sunset. It was the perfect treat after an emotional day. Nalu's (our dog) cousin, Casey experienced his second trip to dog beach and I'm pretty sure that he thought he was on vacation or in heaven. It didn't take more then a few seconds before he was galavanting through the cold waves of the ocean. It was warm yesterday and very little wind, which made for a gorgeous walk. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">After we got the muts dried off and settled at the house we took a group trip to the store. The two men were quickly ahead of us in the vegetable section of the market. The hubs grabbed some asparagus and the bro-in-law was planning a mushroom, avocado, tomato salad of which we had all of the ingredients from, with the homegrown avocadoes that they brought over. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The two girls looked at each other and kind of giggled saying, isn't this nice that we don't really have to think about what's for dinner, they are just handling it. The men were quickly off to the meat section hunting for the perfect catch. They settled on a packet of 3 ribeyes that was majorly on sale and 12 head on shrimps. The head on are cheaper but take few minutes of manual labor. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">They seasoned and oven roasted the asparagus(on a cookie sheet), steamed the spinach, dressed the salad with dressing from the fridge and salt and pepper, seasoned and grilled the shrimp. The shrimp were seasoned with salt, lime juice and sweet chili sauce and were an amazing little treat. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The chicken breast was marinaded in teriyaki sauce that was in the fridge and the meat had 2 different kind of rubs. Two were rubbed in a delicous meat rub and the remaining one (a trial) was rubbed in espresso roast coffee, new mexican chili powder, ancho chili powder, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Timed perfectly and allowing time for the meat to rest under tin foil, they were of course both a success.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The two gals in the group's only task were washing and stemming the spinach, pulling out the chicken breast and asking the boys to cook it, opening the wine and setting the table. I don't think we can can complain there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was a great meal, with great people whom we are happy to have as family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Those of you who have friended EWPW on facebook may have heard me relish about a good onion cry. Well the truth is I was starting to dread the onion cry and have started wearing wrap around sunglasses to avoid the cry, which was still unsuccesful. Last week, I asked my hubs if he would cut an onion for me so that I didn't have to do it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This morning, while my hubby heard me say oh no the recipe calls for a chopped onion, here comes the tears. (Recipe in process was Zuchini Tots, a success and coming soon) He was gracious enough to join me in the kitchen and said, "I will cut it for you if... you pay attention and watch what I do." I finally agreed to take the onion chopping lesson and when we were done, I asked why didn't you teach me this before. His comment was, because you didn't want to listen to it, gotta love hub/wife banter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I think at this moment I stopped him and said, where did you learn this "technique" from and he said a very good cook. Turns out it was his house host while he played waterpolo in Australia, she taught him a few things about cooking, I do belive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Notice the root side is to the left and you take the knife and cut a slice through the middle of the half. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Taking great care to leave about 1/2 inch before you get to the root end, so not cutting it all the way through. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Then you put your left hand on the top of the onion sort of holding it together and start to slice in rows. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Using the proper cutting technique of curling those finger tips in to protect them. We don't want onion and fingertips. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">a beautiful and tear free chopped onion!</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I think he's getting into this blog life because he called me from the computer and said I think you better take a photo of this. I said wow it looks delicious, can I have some? He said of course, we can share. I said, oh Greek style/family style (which is a preferred method of his from when he saw it in Greece, particularly with the Greek or Village Salad) and he said yep. And then I continued the fantasy and said, like we're in the Greek Isles and we can eat on the veranda and proceeded to embrace him, grabbed his opposite hand and danced around in the kitchen to make believe music and ocean breeze, for a couple minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How would you like to pull this out of your oven and serve to whomever happens to be in your home??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only is this beauty gorgeous, it is delicous too!~</span><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tip: Don't bother making the pastry, we did not. Safeway/Vons has a refrigerated pie crust which will do the trick in a heartbeat. Grab a couple, they last a few months in your fridge. You can use them for dessert treats too.</span><br />
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<b>Zucchini and Ricotta Galette</b><br />
Crust adapted from Williams-Sonoma, filling adapted from a Cook’s Illustrated tart<br />
I might be tempted to double the cheese filling next time I make this; it puffed beautifully in the oven but then deflated a bit. Then again, at their current levels, the zucchini and cheese balance each other nicely. There’s something to be said for not fixing what ain’t broken, right?<br />
Since I oohed and aahed over this crust, for those that like to dissect recipes as I do, I thought I’d note that funnily enough, it’s an almost-match for <a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/11/pie-crust-102-all-butter-really-flaky-pie-dough/">my favorite pie dough</a>, in technique as well, save two ingredients which apparently make all of the difference: 1/4 cup sour cream and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. What this makes is an even flakier, softer pastry, the kind that leaves croissant crumbs everywhere. I know the next obvious question is “so, can I use this for a pie dough?” but I don’t advise it. It is too soft. It will get soaked and deflated under all of that heavy baked fruit. It is at its best when it is free form, just like this.<br />
Serves 6<br />
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1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, chilled in the freezer for 30 minutes<br />
1/4 teaspoon salt<br />
8 tablespoons (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces and chill again<br />
1/4 cup sour cream<br />
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice<br />
1/4 cup ice water<br />
<u>Filling:</u><br />
1 large or 2 small zucchinis, sliced into 1/4 inch thick rounds<br />
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon olive oil<br />
1 medium garlic clove, minced (about 1 teaspoon)<br />
1/2 cup ricotta cheese<br />
1/2 cup (about 1 ounce) grated Parmesan cheese<br />
1/4 cup (1 ounce) shredded mozzarella<br />
1 tablespoon slivered basil leaves<br />
<u>Glaze:</u><br />
1 egg yolk beaten with 1 teaspoon water<br />
<u>Make dough:</u> Whisk together the flour and salt in a large bowl. Sprinkle bits of butter over dough and using a pastry blender, cut it in until the mixture resembles coarse meal, with the biggest pieces of butter the size of tiny peas. In a small bowl, whisk together the sour cream, lemon juice and water and add this to the butter-flour mixture. With your fingertips or a wooden spoon, mix in the liquid until large lumps form. Pat the lumps into a ball; do not overwork the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.<br />
<u>Make filling:</u> Spread the zucchini out over several layers of paper towels. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt and let drain for 30 minutes; gently blot the tops of the zucchini dry with paper towels before using. In a small bowl, whisk the olive oil and the garlic together; set aside. In a separate bowl, mix the ricotta, Parmesan, mozzarella, and 1 teaspoon of the garlicky olive oil together and season with salt and pepper to taste.<br />
<u>Prepare galette:</u> Preheat oven to 400 degrees. On a floured work surface, roll the dough out into a 12-inch round. Transfer to an ungreased baking sheet (though if you line it with parchment paper, it will be easier to transfer it to a plate later). Spread the ricotta mixture evenly over the bottom of the galette dough, leaving a 2-inch border. Shingle the zucchini attractively on top of the ricotta in concentric circles, starting at the outside edge. Drizzle the remaining tablespoon of the garlic and olive oil mixture evenly over the zucchini. Fold the border over the filling, pleating the edge to make it fit. The center will be open. Brush crust with egg yolk glaze.<br />
Bake the galette until the cheese is puffed, the zucchini is slightly wilted and the galette is golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from the oven, sprinkle with basil, let stand for 5 minutes, then slide the galette onto a serving plate. Cut into wedges and serve hot, warm or at room temperature. <br />
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Recipe Adapted from Smitten Kitchen<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755631185066968840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500573671683664717.post-48199205455899326512012-02-28T12:00:00.000-08:002012-02-28T12:00:06.744-08:00Steamy<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a fun quick meal. Pair it with an Asian soup or some rice and you have yourself a meal. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial;">(Wow those last 5 words remind me of a very funny long story joke that has been told a few times in my prescence. Anybody know the joke?)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial;">Tip: The (pork) buns come with little papers on the bottoms, leave those on as they are there so that the bun doesn't stick to the bamboo. Sticky buns is not the goal here. </span></div>
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