The idea of making our own cheesecake was actually planted a week ago. At some point in the evening I had turned on the TV and flipped through our half-dozen channels to see if there was anything interesting on. Ling had me stop at a show that was demonstrating how to make a cheescake. It looked simple, Ling loves cheescake and wants to learn how to bake, so she immediately decided to try.
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It turns out that all the advice I received is true – portobello mushrooms do make a decent substitute for steak on a barbeque.
Marinate for a couple of hours in a mixture of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Grill for 10 minutes (yes that is longer than it takes to do a steak to medium rare).
Ling and I ate them – Tim insisted he was having steak.
Vegetarian or not, Tim’s eating that way until I’m done!Three bean chilli:
Mix it all together in the crock pot, and let sit for a day. With about an hour left, add 1 cup of frozen corn. Next time I think we’re going to try a pound of ground beef in there too, and maybe some extra water (it was really, really, thick). Another variation to attempt will be using dry beans instead of canned, soaked overnight.
Tim has survived a whole week of my cooking now! In return, I have managed to come up with vegetarian options for a week straight. I think I have about 4 days of ideas left in me, after that who knows…
Thursday
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Start with a bed of lettuce, place a pile of spinach in the middle. Sprinkle liberally with dried blueberries, then ring with croutons and cashews. Carefully place two chunks of goat cheese on top, and two slices of french bread on the side. Top with a honey-mustard dressing. Although it seems strange to have a “salad” for dinner that made it quite filling!
Should I enroll in Iron Chef yet?
One aspect of Ling being overseas is I take over all the meal cooking duties. Now that’s not necessarily a disaster – those who’ve known me for a long time know I wasn’t too bad at taking care of myself – but in all honesty I’m really rusty. It’s been seven years since I’ve put together meals with any kind of regularity and, aside from inviting family over once every three months, I’ve only ever cooked for myself.
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I can’t believe this wasn’t up already, its time to record this for the new season!
Barbecue Ribs
Ingredients
Dry Rub:
Method
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Second recipe, very successful! Everybody went for seconds and packed lunch for tomorrow.
Ingredients
Sauce
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Our first attempt at cooking in the crock pot! I’ll let you know how it turns out…
Ingredients:
Kim sent me this recipe some while ago. This was the recipe for the waffles we had in WebCT. They were absolutely delicious!
Toast Master Waffles
1 3/4 cup flour
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
3 eggs (seperated)
7 tbsp vegetable oil
1 1/2 cup milk
Directions:
1. Sift dry ingredients
2. Seperate eggs and beat egg whites
3. Add wet ingredients and egg yolk to dry
4. Mix with beater until no lumps
5. Fold in egg whites
Ok guess at this stuff.. but here goes
Fruit Sauce:
Some frozen fruit (strawberries, blueberries, whatever you fancy)
About 1/4 amount for juice as frozen fruit (orange will do, but I like pineapple)
Sugar to taste
cornstach to thicken
Directions:
Boil all (except corn starch) until fruit is soft and is thicker. Add cornstarch to thicken, remember to mix with juice before adding, or else you get clumps
