Roasted Whole Chicken with Soy Sauce with Maple-Glazed Carrots

The chicken was not a burn victim, but our soy sauce/honey glaze may have been. doctors were able to graft most of the flavor back onto the chicken, luckily.


The chunks of scallions and ginger burnt. The soy sauce in the pan burnt. Set off the smoke detector. Good to know it works.


The chicken:

• 1 whole chicken

The flavor:

• soy sauce, honey, garlic, ginger, scallion

Bittman recipe p. 645.


Maple-Glazed Carrots, Bittman p. 277

• Carrots, evoo, maple syrup.
  

Drumstick/thigh combo, obviously. Carrots were delicious. Nice and sweet. Good chicken recipe. Won't burn flavors off next time, though.

Roasted Whole Chicken with Balsamic-Glazed carrots

I roasted a whole chicken, with a soy sauce and honey glaze, with did some balsamic glazed carrots. no pictures, though.

Here's what a similar chicken looked like before I cooked mine, courtesy of someone else.

Baked Fettucine with Spinach

Got us some whole wheat fresh pasta, some sort goat cheese, threw in bag of spinach, minus the bag. Used this recipe, but not in the food.

Lemon Meringue Pie- Dairy Free- For Beccer's Birthday!

A crazy time was had by all. Too many cooks in the kitchen on this one.

Braised Tofu in Caramel Sauce

Found this recipe for braised tofu in caramel sauce in the NY Times Magazine. we totally f'ed up the caramel the first two times. bring chunky white chunks of sweet sweet garbage. But it eventually came out nice and sweet and scalliony and quite good.




Here's the tofu, served with celery root and radish, and curry squash, from previous post.


And in case you're interested, here's the photo from the NY Times site.

some veggie experiments: curry squash and celery root and radish

Chanukah party!

Here's the menu (served 13; no triskaidekaphobia we!)

Appetizer

1. Beet and goat cheese and arugula salad
2. Carrot and parsnip soup

Entree

Potato Latkes

with

1. homemade baked apple sauce
2. lox, sour cream, chives, olives, lemon juice...
3. sweet and sour brisket

Dessert

1. Sufganiyot (jelly donuts)

this is the 7 lbs of brisket, maybe

with a little sufganiyot to knosh?

Sirloin Steak- but maybe Lamb (we're not sure anymore), Acorn Squash, Zuccini Pancakes

and

zuccini pancakes!!

i think i didn't squeeze out enough liquid. so they took a while and made me frustrated. but they tasted like onions. mostly because i used onions.
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broiled curry tofu, broccoli, roasted beets

uh, some broccoli thing, roasted beets, broiled curry tofu. or something




and another

Lamb Curry and Kale with Yogurt

it's been a while, food fans.

here's some lamb curry with kale and yogurt from a while back. tasted delicious, doesn't look so hot.

Balsamic-Glazed Carrots with Garlic, and Sauteed Kale with Raisins and Walnuts

Balsamic-Glazed Carrots with Garlic (Bittman p. 277)

• carrots, balsamic vinegar, whole garlic cloves,

Sauteed Kale with Raisins and Walnuts (recipe here)

• Kale, raisins, walnuts, balsamic vinegar

The kale was delicious. Best kale recipe yet. Even with thorough cooking, kale retains a bit of tough and bitter, though of course a rich green flavor. Raisins- soft and sweet- really balance it out. And toasted walnuts are yum.

Probably used too wide a pan for carrots, leaving them unsubmerged, so cooking time to tenderness much longer than expected, leading to longer soaking time. Perhaps even too balsamicky, as a result, if such a thing is possible, which it is. But very tasty nonetheless.

Did some sauteed tofu for protein. Same old way.

Often tofu doesn't quite fill me up. I ended up eating a whole bag of popcorn. Substantial, that.

Also, here's a picture of a turtle and a shark from our trip to the aquarium today.