Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[Seni]

We have had some simple meals over last days, probably will do for Christmas as well, as no kids here. It will be New Year when we celebrate BIL's birthday and burn the effigy of 2025.

Anyway, yesterday made grilled tuna steaks, rice (long, whole grain), steamed baby carrots, arracacha which translates as Peruvian carrot, bit like a cross between sweet potato and swede, onions, before a brief oven session with cream and parsley.

Tomato and basil salad.

Today I made fried rice with the leftover rice, sesame oil, more onion, almonds and sesame seeds.

Plus briefly steamed cauliflower, then cooked in the oven in a sauce of sour cream, harissa, peanut butter, some cilantro.

Big green salad as my husband thought I overdid the harissa.

 

[iamshadow21]

It's midnight, and I'm making Peppermint Brownies. Using my tried and tested brownie recipe with peppermint essence, and tomorrow I'm planning on drizzling the top with different coloured chocolate and sprinkling it with smashed candy cane.

It's partly because we suddenly have six people to cater for rather than four for our Christmas dinner on Boxing Day, but mostly because I wanted them. Partner helped make them and approved of the peppermint level. I just got them out of the oven and they smell great. As of midnight, we've officially been a couple for 25 years! And we have brownies. That's pretty awesome.

(Fortunately, mum was able to go out and buy a leg of lamb this close to Christmas because the chicken we had would not have stretched to six. So we'll slow roast the lamb the day before, and do the chicken the day of, because that will give us time and oven space to to it all right.)

 

[ilovewings]

It's midnight, and I'm making Peppermint Brownies. Using my tried and tested brownie recipe with peppermint essence, and tomorrow I'm planning on drizzling the top with different coloured chocolate and sprinkling it with smashed candy cane.

It's partly because we suddenly have six people to cater for rather than four for our Christmas dinner on Boxing Day, but mostly because I wanted them. Partner helped make them and approved of the peppermint level. I just got them out of the oven and they smell great. As of midnight, we've officially been a couple for 25 years! And we have brownies. That's pretty awesome.

(Fortunately, mum was able to go out and buy a leg of lamb this close to Christmas because the chicken we had would not have stretched to six. So we'll slow roast the lamb the day before, and do the chicken the day of, because that will give us time and oven space to to it all right.)

Congrats of 25 years!!!!! your brownies sound delish--- I love lamb but never cook it---
Merry Xmas

 

[iamshadow21]

Congrats of 25 years!!!!! your brownies sound delish--- I love lamb but never cook it---
Merry Xmas

Thank you!

I hope they taste as good as they smell. I think I overcooked them a little, but them being a bit more cakey isn't a deal breaker for me.

It's an Australian institution. I don't have it all the time, but it does slow roast very well and feeds a crowd.

 

[PayrollNerd]

It's midnight, and I'm making Peppermint Brownies. Using my tried and tested brownie recipe with peppermint essence, and tomorrow I'm planning on drizzling the top with different coloured chocolate and sprinkling it with smashed candy cane.

It's partly because we suddenly have six people to cater for rather than four for our Christmas dinner on Boxing Day, but mostly because I wanted them. Partner helped make them and approved of the peppermint level. I just got them out of the oven and they smell great. As of midnight, we've officially been a couple for 25 years! And we have brownies. That's pretty awesome.

(Fortunately, mum was able to go out and buy a leg of lamb this close to Christmas because the chicken we had would not have stretched to six. So we'll slow roast the lamb the day before, and do the chicken the day of, because that will give us time and oven space to to it all right.)

Congratulations on 25 years! That’s quite an accomplishment these days. Your meal sounds delicious too! I’m not a fan of peppermint but that actually sounds pretty tasty.

 

[iamshadow21]

Congratulations on 25 years! That’s quite an accomplishment these days. Your meal sounds delicious too! I’m not a fan of peppermint but that actually sounds pretty tasty.

Thank you! We became friends at seventeen, a couple at nineteen. We've been together ever since.

Most mint I'm not a fan of either, especially common mint and spearmint, but I do like peppermint hard candies and peppermint with chocolate.

 

[iamshadow21]

I used so many bowls. So many spatulas. Remarkably, there is not a rainbow of chocolate on every surface of the kitchen.

Here it is, before I cut it and destroy the Jackson Pollock image of decadence it is right now.

I used eighty grams each of milk, white, and dark, with a sprinkling of crushed candy cane after each.

The milk seized on me immediately, and I used a little cream and boiling water to get it back. The white and dark were no problem. I used the microwave method to melt it, which has always worked well for me.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I used so many bowls. So many spatulas. Remarkably, there is not a rainbow of chocolate on every surface of the kitchen.

Here it is, before I cut it and destroy the Jackson Pollock image of decadence it is right now.

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I used eighty grams each of milk, white, and dark, with a sprinkling of crushed candy cane after each.

The milk seized on me immediately, and I used a little cream and boiling water to get it back. The white and dark were no problem. I used the microwave method to melt it, which has always worked well for me.

Happy Christmas to you and yours! It's Christmas Eve morning here in Michigan. Looking forward to dinner at our favorite Picano's, after which we'll watch A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott (1984). Best ever version of the Dickens' classic!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

For Texas bakery, the traditional holiday fruitcake is no joke

Collin Street Bakery in Texas makes 20,000 desserts a day.

www.nbcnews.com

CORSICANA, Texas — In a holiday full of classic confections — candy canes, gingerbread and sugarplums — there's one that's showing up less often: fruitcake.

The treat's been on fewer and fewer dessert tables in recent decades. That may be thanks in part to Johnny Carson's declaration years ago: “The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”

But fruitcake has been at historic events for centuries, including Princess Diana and King Charles’ wedding and a trip to the moon on Apollo 11...

Think I'll order one of these fruitcakes next Christmas

 

[iamshadow21]

For Texas bakery, the traditional holiday fruitcake is no joke

Collin Street Bakery in Texas makes 20,000 desserts a day.

www.nbcnews.com

CORSICANA, Texas — In a holiday full of classic confections — candy canes, gingerbread and sugarplums — there's one that's showing up less often: fruitcake.

The treat's been on fewer and fewer dessert tables in recent decades. That may be thanks in part to Johnny Carson's declaration years ago: “The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”

But fruitcake has been at historic events for centuries, including Princess Diana and King Charles’ wedding and a trip to the moon on Apollo 11...

Think I'll order one of these fruitcakes next Christmas

I love fruitcake, but I'm aware I'm in the minority. I didn't as a kid, but as an adult I discovered you could get ones without those horrible red and green glace cherries.