Manitoulin test kitchen

[heidih]

We have a topic about the egg and tomato dish here http://forums.egullet.org/topic/135727-egg-and-tomato/

[Anna N]

What are Chinese style eggs? They look good!

http://rasamalaysia.com/tomato-eggs/2/

[Darienne]

Your egg recipe sounds delightful. 

OTOH, I have never understood why I can eat that kind of dish for lunch or supper.  Absolutely adore Egg Foo Yung, made at home.  Can't speak for local restaurants.  And yet I can't even eat an omelette for breakfast.  Absolutely plain eggs or nothing.  I've never even tried Huevos Rancheros in the southwest. 

 

Follow-up to the ketchup remarks of the other day...I love ketchup on Tourtiere and hamburgers.  Oh, and meat loaf which I haven't made in a couple of years.  That's about it.

As Huiray says, it's great on some things.

[Kerry Beal]

 

Breakfast for me this am after my first trip into the ER was a couple of slices of Anna's semolina bread with cheese.  To accompany - 'Wasabi' Pickled Carrots - carrots that nibble back for sure!

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Indeed - I did forget to post our grocery shopping yesterday - got distracted by my attempts to save the Anova from my own stupidity.  Note to self - don't make a tent over the whole thing if it isn't able to heat as high as you'd like - steam isn't good for it!  Having a big bag of rice here was a godsend though.  

 

 

Thinly sliced sirloin cap, maraschino cherries for cocktails, a few asian ingredients to replace what someone had thrown out since our last time up here, asparagus and some whole wheat flour to get some starter going for Forkish breads.  

 

 

Also forgotten last night - banana bread for taking to work today.  

 

 

[Smithy]

Did the Anova survive?

[Anna N]

So the townhouse in Little Current is not immune to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Our dishwasher appears to have packed it in. Before I could actually work in the kitchen this morning there was a boatload of dirty disehes in said machine to be dealt with.

So the mise for Sesame Spinach

Spinach which I have washed, blanched, shocked and wrung out. (Kerry wanted to know what all the groaning was about!). Sesame seeds which I toasted. Garlic, sugar, sesame oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce and Korean pepper flakes. The dressing ingredients are combined and then tossed with the spinach.

It needs time for the ingredients to marry but I think it will be a tasy accompaniment or perhaps even a topping for bibimbap if it was warmed up.

[Kerry Beal]

Did the Anova survive?

Yes thank god!  I was trying to figure out how we could get another one up here if I'd frapped it entirely.

[Anna N]

There is a doctor/handyman in the kitchen looking at the dishwasher and muttering as only doctors do when they have run out of medical options and are forced to call upon a higher power! This does not bode well for our cooking adventures.

[Anna N]

Kerry unfortunately cannot leave the hospital to come home for dinner so I am eating alone. We had already decided to use up the leftover rice, beef and onions and whatever else we could scrounge from the fridge to make fried rice. We have been rather bad in previous years about using up leftovers which eventually clog the fridge and get tossed.

Fried rice with egg omelette, toyomansi beef and onions, asparagus and seasoned with Red Boat fish sauce and oyster sauce. Sides are sesame spinach and tomato, cucumber, red onion salad. A bit of a mismatch but it worked for me.

Just before Kerry was called away I threw together a version of Jamie Oliver's Summer Crumble using the strawberries from the freezer and the ones Kerry picked outside the hospital. I drizzled a little cointreau over the berries and added a smidgen of sugar. It could have used more topping! It is one dessert I just love. A crumble without oats or nuts. It was baked in the combi oven.

[SylviaLovegren]

LOL I had ketchup with leftover mashed potatoes for breakfast the other day........ahhhhhh ketchup.  The breakfast of champions.

 

President Nixon's favorite! 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Yes thank god!  I was trying to figure out how we could get another one up here if I'd frapped it entirely.

 

You are away from home for five weeks and brought only one Anova??

[Kerry Beal]

Strangely yes - last year we had two sous vide units here as I recall.  We are slipping!

[Anna N]

So the dishwasher is out of commission while we await a part for it but it makes a fine draining rack! Breakfast this morning was strawberry crumble, decadent but delicious, followed by a R.C.A.F. favourite-- ketchup on toast. I've spared you photographs.

Last night before bed I made a biga and this morning I've put together the dough for a loaf of ciabbata. Or should it be a slipper of ciabbata?

When Kerry returns from the hospital we shall head out to the "Flea" Market, hit a grocery store and probably the L.C.B.O. to replenish my supply of cheap, boxed wine. Might scan their beer offerings for something interesting but hold out little hope.

It's a beautiful, sunny fresh morning perfect for doing some running around.

[Shelby]

President Nixon's favorite! 

HA!  I didn't know that!  I'm very very distantly related to him....ketchup and taters must run in the family LOL.

 

Anna, don't shy away from showing the ketchup on toast

[MelissaH]

You have my sympathies on the dishwasher's infirmity. But I have friends who only ever use theirs as a drying rack!

 

How do you keep the swtrawberry crumble from getting all watery? When I bake strawberries, they always seem to exude their liquid in an effort to avoid the heat of the oven, and whatever else is in with them becomes intolerably soggy.

[rotuts]

He liked it on cottage cheese  too

 

[Kerry Beal]

Was able to get back to sleep after the 3 am and 4:15 phone calls - but sadly not after the 4:30.  

 

 

But I did get to enjoy this!

 

 

And for breakfast - leftover rice with beef and onions - great breakfast.

[Anna N]

You have my sympathies on the dishwasher's infirmity. But I have friends who only ever use theirs as a drying rack!

 

How do you keep the swtrawberry crumble from getting all watery? When I bake strawberries, they always seem to exude their liquid in an effort to avoid the heat of the oven, and whatever else is in with them becomes intolerably soggy.

These strawberries didn't seem watery even after baking and the crumble topping was still crunchy after a night in the fridge. I was trying to work around the doc who had the dishwasher in pieces all over the kitchen floor and was himself sprawled in front of the sink so I did a poor job of rubbing the butter into the flour/sugar mixture. As a consequence some of the butter separated and formed a bit of a crust overnight. It was easy to avoid when scooping out enough crumble for breakfast.

[Kerry Beal]

After sorting a few things at the hospital this am - we headed out for some retail therapy.

 

 

First stop - LCBO for some wine and of course the latest LCBO magazine.

 

 

Then off to the 'Flee' Market.  I noticed a sign that said "Please be aware, your on camera" - wonder if anyone was watching the camera when I added the 're.

 

 

We decided to check out the food available for lunch at the new store 'The Island Jar' owned by the daughter of one of the clinic nurses.  We were quite surprised to discover the bun that this was on was gluten free.  We shall have to try to obtain the recipe - if we can bake something this nice gluten free - it will be a coup.

 

 

Then off to the grocery store for a few more items.

 

 

Also from the grocery store - plants are of course reduced at this point.  Hope springs eternal!  Last year's fig made it home with barely any leaves thanks to the rug rat next to it on the ride, and didn't survive this year's very cold winter. 

 

 

[Shelby]

My gosh, those tomatoes are so perfectly aligned they almost look fake!

[Porthos]

Is the Combo oven you have mentioned the CSO-300. I don't know anything about them so I am looking up info online. I sometimes think of myself like the robot from the movie Short Circuit, always looking for new info to absorb.

[Anna N]

Is the Combo oven you have mentioned the CSO-300. I don't know anything about them so I am looking up info online. I sometimes think of myself like the robot from the movie Short Circuit, always looking for new info to absorb.

Yes it is. Like you I have a constant need to fill up on new information.

[FauxPas]

Is the Combo oven you have mentioned the CSO-300. I don't know anything about them so I am looking up info online. I sometimes think of myself like the robot from the movie Short Circuit, always looking for new info to absorb.

 

There's a thread here on it:

 

http://forums.egullet.org/topic/146617-cuisinart-combo-steamconvection-oven/?hl=%20cuisinart

[Anna N]

So that is the Flee Market from the outside. The inside and outside are crammed with things useful and useless. Kerry also picked up a metal shelving unit which was outside and now holds our bar much more conveniently than boxes.

I can't let some things go without comment. The gluten free bun we had at lunch was truly amazing in terms of being bread-like but the photo does no justice to the minuscule size of the sandwich which cost $6.50 and had a mere schmear of chicken salad and kimchi that had no real hint that it was indeed kimchi.

The copious amounts of Clearasil from the flee market are not a hint that my teenage acne has broken out again but that I intend to jail break the containers and fill them with liquid hand soap to be used in the hands-free dispenser.

My ciabbata bread was largely a big fail. Not sure why but I intend to try again tomorrow.