Monday, February 22, 2010

March 2010 Dinner Plans

Note: Until I make the meal I'm going to link to the site where I got the recipe/idea from. I'll post my version and/or comments after I've made the meal.


Crockpot Chicken "Makhini"- the Endo Diet Modified Version
Crockpot Jamaican Pumpkin Soup (with an Coconut Milk to make it Endo Diet friendly)
Spaghetti Squash with Ground Turkey
Shrimp Primavera
Grecian Chicken with Pasta
Vegetable Ratatouille with Beans (and Beef for my husband)



Steelhead Trout with Rosemary, Lemon, and Garlic

We had this meal for Ash Wednesday.  It was ok, but not fabulous.  It's from Recipezaar.

1 lb steelhead trout fillet
1 clove garlic, peeled
1 1/2 tbsp chopped rosemary
juice of 1 lemon
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Line a baking dish with foil and rub with olive oil.  Preheat broiler.

Grind garlic, rosemary and lemon in food processor.  Rub spice paste over fillet.  Place fish skin-down in baking dish.

Broil on second rack from heat for 5 minutes, watching to make sure that herbs don't burn.  Turn oven to 325 degrees and bake for an additional 10 minutes or until fish is cooked through.

Serves 3-4

Crockpot Thai Chicken

Another flop.  I tried to modify a Thai curry taking out the curry paste, but the result was too bland.  Go to A Year of Slow Cooking and make the real recipe, it's not worth me posting the recipe I used.

Crockpot Lasagna

I started doing the Endo Diet, so I used gluten-free noodles for this.  This isn't completely Endo Diet compatible since it has cheese, but I was working my way in.  This recipe is from A Year of Slow Cooking.  I wasn't very impressed with how this turned out.  I don't know if it was just the crockpot cooking or the rice noodles (Crockpot Lady used the same though).

I'm just going to link to her recipe.  Hopefully it works better for others.  I'll make lasagna again in the oven with rice noodles using my regular lasagna recipe.

Crockpot Azorean Beef Stew

This is another A Year of Slow Cooking recipe.  It was pretty good and the only change I made was using half the cinnamon and no red pepper flakes.  This stew was good and had a different taste than just plain beef stew.

1 lb beef chuck stew meat
5-6 cloves of garlic, smashed and chopped
2 potatoes, chopped in 1 inch chunks
3 green onions, chopped
3 cups beef stock
1 cup baby tomatoes, cut in quarters, or 2 large chopped tomatoes
1 cup baby carrots, or 3 carrots, peeled and chopped
2 T kosher salt 
1 tsp all spice
1 bay leaf
1 tsp cumin
1 cinnamon stick



Put the meat in the crockpot.  Add the broth.  Chop the vegetables and add to crockpot.  Stir in the salt, all spice and cumin.  Add the cinnamon stick and bay leaf.  Cook on low for 8-10 hours or on high for 6.  As the Crockpot Lady says, stew tastes better when you cook it longer and slow (at a lower temperature).


Serves 6-8.

Friday, February 5, 2010

February 2010 Dinners

Note: Until I make the meal I'm going to link to the site where I got the recipe/idea from. I'll post my version and/or comments after I've made the meal.


Azorean Beef Stew
Lasagna with Ground Turkey
Thai Chicken 
Steelhead Trout with Rosemary, Lemon, and Garlic
Red Beans and Rice
Enchiladas
Shepherd's Pie