Outside the Brown Bag - Taking my Kitchen Toys to Work

[Kerry Beal]

Shiritaki fettucini with peanut sauce

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

Found this nice 'T-bone Roast' (which I'd be inclined to call a porterhouse steak) at Metro last week. Brought it sous vided to work and browned it in butter. Ate a few nice slices for my dinner with some steamed flat beans.

[Kerry Beal]

Here's what I managed to squeeze in between all those annoying patients who keep interfering with what I'm baking!

 

 

wondered if stabbing the loaf would prevent the delamination of the cinnamon raisin bread

 

 

 

oops - forgot to slash it

 

 

tin in foil to prevent darkening should be added later.

 

 

berkshire pork loin chop 

[hongda]

This video reminded me of this thread

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Couple of loaves of second chance sourdough and osso bucco

 

 

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Cinnamon raisin swirl 

 

Red Thai curry with lychee and pineapple 

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Chicken rice soup 

 

[Kerry Beal]

At work yesterday I made 'butter quorn' and naan for the gang for lunch - fit in around a whole crap load of patients. Forgot to grab a picture.

 

For my dinner I fried up

some rice. Had enough minutes to take a picture of that.

 

[Kerry Beal]

I'm lucky to find a few minutes to cook - haven't had as much time to post - between flu season and people figuring out what a nice quick ER we are.

 

 

Nice drive in this morning - really miserable drive home tonight between rain and pea soup fog.

 

 

Nice little pork chop that I sous v'ed yesterday.

 

 

French lean bread baked in CSO.

[curls]

Kerry, such a beautiful sunrise, thanks for the photo!

 

Glad you’re eating well at work. What did you do for meals before you brought all your toys in? Are you’re coworkers cooking at work too?

[Kerry Beal]

8 hours ago, curls said:

Kerry, such a beautiful sunrise, thanks for the photo!

 

Glad you’re eating well at work. What did you do for meals before you brought all your toys in? Are you’re coworkers cooking at work too?

I wasn't working the 24 hour shifts initially - so I would just take what I took. 

 

I think I'm the only one cooking there - but the nurses have used me to convince the paramedic students that they are expected to bake at home and bring it in for them. Some are pretty good at it!

[Kerry Beal]

 

"Kicked up Cornbread" - half the batch. I'll make the other half for my second 12 hours today. 

 

It didn't last long.

[Kerry Beal]

French lean cut into chunks and rolled around with cheese. Reassembled in pan.

 

 

 

They claim it's the best I've made so far

 

 

[FauxPas]

On 2/21/2018 at 11:22 AM, Kerry Beal said:

 

"Kicked up Cornbread" - half the batch. I'll make the other half for my second 12 hours today. 

 

It didn't last long.

 

What went into this, Kerry? It looks delicious!

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

43 minutes ago, FauxPas said:

 

What went into this, Kerry? It looks delicious!

 

 

Here you go

[lindag]

On 2/21/2018 at 11:22 AM, Kerry Beal said:

 

 

"Kicked up Cornbread" - half the batch. I'll make the other half for my second 12 hours today. 

 

It didn't last long.

 

I am SO making this!!!

[chromedome]

When I looked at that post a couple of hours ago, for some reason my eyes saw "ketchup cornbread." This makes a lot more sense. 

 

(Didn't sleep much last night because of strep throat, so I'm a bit loopy)

[lindag]

On 2/21/2018 at 11:22 AM, Kerry Beal said:

 

 

"Kicked up Cornbread" - half the batch. I'll make the other half for my second 12 hours today. 

 

It didn't last long.

 

I made this cornbread today, it's almost cool enough to try!

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

chashu and eggs in Instant pot

 

 

couple of small loaves 

[Kerry Beal]

 

Pain Brié de Calvados

 

 

Sous vide rib steak - with some sautéed mushrooms. 

 

 

Vanilla cake (made with hot water) and topped with the almonds that someone here on eG suggested on another topic. 

[KennethT]

@Kerry Beal I am constantly amazed at the food you make while at work.  I do have a question about logistics though - what do you do if something comes up in the middle of making something that is time sensitive?  Like, when baking bread (with a bake time of say 45 min.), what happens if an emergency comes in at min. 30?  Do you have someone else to take it out of the oven?

[Kerry Beal]

26 minutes ago, KennethT said:

@Kerry Beal I am constantly amazed at the food you make while at work.  I do have a question about logistics though - what do you do if something comes up in the middle of making something that is time sensitive?  Like, when baking bread (with a bake time of say 45 min.), what happens if an emergency comes in at min. 30?  Do you have someone else to take it out of the oven?

The Cuisinart steam oven turns itself off at the end of the baking time. For the second loaf I baked yesterday - it was about an hour later before I got back to it. Ditto the second cake I baked. Sous vide is really forgiving too. And the Instant Pot has the keep warm.

 

Yesterday was a miserable day in the ER - I went pretty much steady from 8 am to 6 pm with just enough time to run down the room and put the dough together, another trip to knead it, another to shape etc.

 

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

 

Cheesy Chive Spoonbread

[Kerry Beal]

Brisket in IP

 

 

 

Nice and fatty

 

 

[Smithy]

11 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

Brisket in IP

 

 

 

Nice and fatty

 

 

 

What settings and seasonings did you use? Was the final texture tight, or falling apart?