I am making orange glazed salmon and mashed yams tonight. While Jan is on her soft food diet this dish will be too hard for her to eat, however, Eilene wants something besides baby food for dinner.
Karl’s Carolina Coleslaw
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Jan’s Blueberry Kale Smoothie
Jan is still on a blended food diet, so she has been making a lot of smoothies. The blueberries help a lot in disguising the dark green of the kale, so today’s smoothie looked quite presentable and tasty. Jan thought it was delicious.
Jan’s Blueberry Kale Smoothie
Filed under Breakfast, Main Dishes, Vegetarian MD
Karl’s Scallop Soup with Bacon
Jan has had oral surgery, so she is still eating only cool blended foods at the moment. By now she is getting tired of smoothies, so I thought I would make her some vichyssoise. This is a fancy name for a potato and leek soup that can be served either hot or cold.
Karl’s Scallop Soup with Bacon
Filed under Main Dishes, Pork, Seafood
Jan’s Pomegranate Pond Scum Smoothie
Jan is still on a soft food diet so she has been making smoothies. Last night’s had kale, strawberries and banana, but she does not remember what else she put into it. It looked a bit like chocolate milk. While it tasted nice, you wanted to drink it in the dark. Today’s smoothie looked a bit nicer, but any drink with a lot of ground up kale is going to have presentation issues.
Jan’s Pomegranate Pond Scum Smoothie
Filed under Main Dishes, Vegetarian MD
Jan’s Orange Custard
Jan had oral surgery yesterday so she is on a soft food diet for the next few days. She decided to make herself some custard. She decided that she totally disagreed with the one she found in Bittman’s, so she made it from the memory from what her mother taught her fifty years ago. She did make one major change from her mother’s recipe, which was to use my orange infused sugar.
Jan’s Orange Custard
Filed under Desserts & Treats, Treats
Karl’s Hungarian Porkolt (pork stew)
When Jan came back from Disneyland, she asked me to make the crackers she had refused before she had left. Normally, with something like fresh crackers I would serve a “deli-dinner,” a selection of cheeses, cold cuts, and deli-salads. Jan decided that that was not what she wanted, because she had been eating “deli-food” for three days.
Karl’s Hungarian Porkolt (pork stew)
Filed under Main Dishes, Pork, Stews
Karl’s Sesame Crackers (or Karl don’t make these crackers II)
About a year ago. I made some fresh crackers that Jan named “Karl Don’t Make These Crackers.” This was not because they were so bad, but because they were so good. These crackers were just too tasty and addicting to just leave laying around tempting you to eat them. Because of this, I have really made these crackers only a few times in the past year. Once you eat a fresh cracker you will wonder why you ever eat the things out of a box.
Karl’s Sesame Crackers
Filed under bread, Side Dishes
Karl’s Wise Sage Stew
Adapted from a recipe on The Hobbit
Eilene and her friends are still watching the Tolkien Ring Trilogy. For lunch I served them sausage, raw carrots, and lembas bread. Eilene is tied of beef, so I am making a pork stew for dinner. They have also requested more lembas bread (yes, it was that good).
Karl’s Wise Sage Stew
Filed under Main Dishes, Pork, Stews
Fellowship of the Ring Feast
Eilene is having a bunch of friends over for a New Year’s marathon of Fellowship of the Rings. The first meal I made for them is a traveling lunch: sausage, lembas bread and raw heirloom carrot sticks. It is truly amazing how much teenage girls can put away.
Fellowship of the Ring Feast
Filed under Main Dishes, Pork
Karl’s Lembas Bread
Adapted from a recipe by Derek C.
Lembas Bread is travel bread; it should be nourishing, compact and sturdy. In quick breads the point is to knead the dough as little as possible, so that your bread soft and crumbly. For travel bread you want just the opposite. You want to knead the bread as much as you can to create the gluten that will make the bread tough, dense, and transportable without falling apart.
Karl’s Lembas Bread
Filed under bread, Side Dishes
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