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Tuesday`s dinner

31 Tuesday Aug 2010

Posted by Jane's Adventures in Dinner in chocolate and sea salt cookies, pulled pork sandwiches, sour cream coffee cake

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Last night’s dinner

The chicken took two minutes to put in the slow cooker and was a real treat. There is even enough for Stephen to have for lunch tomorrow.

I even had enough time to make a cake for dessert.

This recipe is quick to do up and always works well. I sometimes put half the batter in a bundt pan and then add a layer of cinnamon and sugar for a streusal cake but it is lovely if you add fruit to it (blueberries or raspberries especially).

Cream together; 1 1/2 cups of sugar, 1/2 cup cream cheese and 10 T. of butter.

Add; 2 eggs, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 2 cups flour and 1 cup of sour cream.

Bake at 330 for approx. 30 minutes.

Tonight’s dinner

It is book club tonight but I need to spend a even more time getting ready to meat the architect and I want to have everything cleaned-up before everyone gets here so we`re having pulled pork sandwiches.

All you do is place in the slowcooker (shocker); a pork shoulder roast, 2 cups of brown sugar, 2 tsp. chili powder, 2 garlic cloves chopped, half a cup of cider vinegar plus a bit of salt and pepper. Let it cook all day from frozen and serve with a nice cole slaw.

As mentioned it is book club tonight (but the architect prep is even more scary) and we always have lots of treats. I thought I would give these great sounding cookies a try.

http://www.culinarymuse.com/2005/01/recipe_chocolat.html

Chocolate and Sea Salt Cookies yield: 30

3 cups chocolate chips or your favorite premium dark chocolate chopped into small chunks

¼ c (2 oz) unsalted butter, room temperature

¾ c brown sugar

2 eggs

1 ½ tsp vanilla extract

½ c flour

¼ tsp baking powder

1 ½ c chopped walnuts

Maldon Sea Salt (fleur de sel)

1.Place 1 1/3 cups of chocolate chunks in a bowl and melt in microwave or over a double boiler.

2. Meanwhile, whisk together eggs and vanilla extract. Set aside. Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside.

3. Once chocolate has melted, stir in butter until completely incorporated. Add brown sugar, egg and vanilla mixture, mixing well. Add the flour mixture, mixing until smooth.

4. Stir in remaining chocolate chunks and chopped walnuts. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight.

5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using a small ice cream scoop (capacity about a heaping tablespoon), scoop on to a greased baking sheet. Flatten with the palm of your hand. Sprinkle generously with fleur de sel then pat in gently. Bake on middle rack of oven for 13-14 minutes. Remove from oven. Rest on cookie sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer to rack to cool.

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Monday’s dinner

30 Monday Aug 2010

Posted by Jane's Adventures in Dinner in chicken paprikash

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Last week’s dinner

Salmon

Rotolo (recipe to come)

Cabbage rolls

Well! Back at it again.

Pioneer week was lots of fun but I have found myself jonesing to blog. The laundry soap is terrific and so is the counter cleaner. The counter cleaner is particularly nice as I use this stuff by the bucketful and have a bit of an addiction to Mrs. Meyers which is stupidly expensive.

Tonight it is stinking hot again so the slowcooker is being pulled out. To be honest as well, I’m a little blue and need something comforting.

We had to have our beloved cat Trudi put down last week and this week I head back to work and leave my little girl for the longest period of time I have since she was born. I have a great job and work with terrific people but I will still be missing a lot.

2 medium onions, quartered
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 tablespoon paprika
1 garlic clove, peeled and halved
5 chicken legs
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup chicken stock or low-sodium chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon dried dill

Cook from frozen in the slowcooker for 6.5 hours.

Add just before serving
1/4 cup sour cream
Fresh dill, chopped, for garnish

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Monday’s dinner

23 Monday Aug 2010

Posted by Jane's Adventures in Dinner in cabbage rolls, cornish pasties

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My sister took many terrific pictures of my mom’s birthday blowout on Saturday but I didn’t even think of doing the same. She will be sending them to me though and I will post them when I get them. In lue of this I am posting a bobo picture taken by my friend Michelle.

So this week is Pioneer Week. This idea was suggested by the fabulous Deanna Duke over at “Crunchy Chicken”. I’m cheating today by using my computer but didn’t have a chance to post this entry yesterday.

I’m going to do a few things differently this week that I hope will continue well after this week.

A) From

http://hannaqueen.blogspot.com/2010/01/laundry-soap-for-less-than-penny-per.html

“HOW YOU MAKE THE SOAP:
1. Put 6 cups of water in a pan and put on medium heat. While its heating up, shred your bar of soap using a cheese grater. Add the soap and mix until completely dissolved. You do not want chunks so this is a very important note. Once
2. Have a gallon of water aside and ready. This is why a milk jug is handy.
3. Add 1/2 cup of washing soda and 1/2 cup of borax to the soap water mixture. Mix till completely dissolved.
4. Put 4 cups of hot water to the bucket.
5. Pour hot soap mixture into the bucket and whisk till dissolved.
6. Add one gallon of water you had set aside plus 6 more cups of hot water. Mix till completely dissolved.
7. Let soap sit for 24 hours and it will gel up.
8. Use 1/2 cup for standard washers and 1/4 cup for HE washers.
DONE!”

B) From this month’s “Natural Home”

Antibacterial spray:
In a spray bottle mix; 1 cup vinegar, 3 c. water, 10 drops tea tree oil, 1 tsp. liquid soap and 20 drops of lavendar essential oil.

C) Charging my phone etc.
I’ve had this for awhile and have honestly been too lazy to learn how to use it.

http://www.hymini.com/

D) I’m going to walk as many places as I can-including the Nepean Museum which is only a few block away, free and embarrassingly I have never gone too.

E) I’m going to cut some quilt pieces for a project that I intend to make over the next while for Madison. She has been given some really special pieces of clothing that I just can’t part with and I intend to cut squares out of them and make a crazy quilt out of it for when she eventually gets a “big girl” bed.

F) I am going to try to finish a stocking hat that I started to knit awhile ago for Michelle to use in her amazing photos.

G) I will have my godkids over for badminton and some board games.

H) Mainly though, I am going to use everything in the house that we have as I know for certain that my great-great-grandmother would not have travelled several hours by horse to pick-up something for that meal. Our farm was and is in the middle of nowhere in the Ottawa Valley and my grandmother used to even salt her own pork when I was little.

Monday: Cabbage rolls
I’m using; 2 cups leftover pork roast (chopped), 2 tsp dill, 2 cloves of garlic, half a chopped onion, 1/2 cup chopped dried fruit, salt and pepper. I then wrap these in cabbage leaves and place in a 9×11 pan that half a 1/2 inch of tomato sauce in it. Bake for 40 minutes covered in foil.

Tuesday: Tempah with coconut sauce (not really like a pioneer but I have eveerything in the house for it).

Wednesday: Salmon wrapped in prosciutto that has been sprinkled with wasabi and baked until the salmon is firm.

Thursday: I’m going to take a roast of lamb and bake it in the oven with some of my rhubarb chutney that I made earlier this summer.

Friday: I have a leftover roast in the freezer and will be making

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2226,152179-232201,00.html

LEFTOVER ROAST BEEF CORNISH PASTIES

leftover roast beef, finely chopped
leftover cooked vegetables from roast (onion, carrots, potatoes – finely chopped)
1/2 small onion (raw), very finely chopped
salt and black pepper, to taste
poultry seasoning to taste
leftover gravy, warmed
pie pastry, mix or home made
large cookie sheet or jelly roll pan, lightly floured

Using large bowl combine all of the meat and vegetables which have been finely chopped as well as the finely chopped fresh onion. Mix all together, adding enough of the gravy to make it relatively moist.
Prepare the pastry and using small amount, form a light ball and with rolling pin roll out on your floured counter to make an 8″ or so circle.

Put a large spoonful onto the circle and fold over, sealing and crimping the edges. Use a sharp knife to put small slashes into the top of the pastie (careful not to cut all the way through to the bottom).

Using a metal spatula lift the pastie onto the pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Put as many as will fit onto the pan and bake at 350°F for 45 minutes or so – until they are lightly browned. Remove from pan and cool on cookie racks and refrigerate OR serve immediately with a salad and crusty bread.

These little guys are really good cold in your lunch pail with some brown bread or cole slaw

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Friday’s dinner

20 Friday Aug 2010

Posted by Jane's Adventures in Dinner in sarah's torta

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Last night’s dinner

The pork was terrific and I just put green beans on the top of the roast for the last half an hour and we were set to go.

Dessert ended-up being another recipe from Jamie Oliver’s book-Sarah’s Torta.

In a bowl mix 4 eggs with 1 T. of yeast and 1 cup of melted butter. Add; zest of one lemon and the juice. Beat in 2 cups of sugar and then 3 1/2 cups of flour.

Pour into a springform pan(9 inch) and top with 1 cup of pine nuts (you could really do this with any nut or even dried fruit). Bake at 330 for approx. 20 or until a knife comes out clean. Serve with a bit of fresh fruit.

Tonight’s dinner is in Toronto with my sister but I am bringing an appetizer for my mom’s 70th birthday. I’m just taking a piece of french stick, spreading on a bit of goat cheese, layering on prosciutto and then a chunk of fresh fig. Finally I will be drizzling it with honey and fresh cracked pepper. Yum.

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