Significant firsts in the kitchen

[Tropicalsenior]

I bought a beautiful bunch of Basil yesterday. Do you have a recipe?

[Darienne]

26 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

I bought a beautiful bunch of Basil yesterday. Do you have a recipe?

Yes, I'll PM it to you.  

 

[MaryIsobel]

4 hours ago, Darienne said:

Two more significant firsts today...well, no doubt no big deal for others... but important firsts for me.  Corn Chowder and Tomato Basil Soups.  The Corn Chowder is good, but the Tomato soup is out of this world.  

Hope you will share your recipe for the "out of this world tomato soup!" I've made it a lot of times, but never found one that said "this is the only tomato soup I will make from now on!"

[Tropicalsenior]

12 minutes ago, MaryIsobel said:

but never found one that said "this is the only tomato soup I will make from now on!"

If you do see it don't trust it! I saw one the other day that said this and it was a can of diced tomatoes and a can of pizza sauce. Obviously they've never had good tomato soup.

[Darienne]

Here's  the website for the Mediterranean Dish recipe for the tomato soup recipe.  

 

https://www.themediterraneandish.com/vegan-roasted-tomato-basil-soup/#wprm-recipe-container-31232

[Porthos]

The frozen pie shell I was going to use for my queice (sp) tonight was in pieces. After a failed attempt to buy another I, for the first time, made butter and flour pie dough, even rubbing the flour into the butter.  It's only the second time I've rubbed flour into butter;that was for a biscuit recipe. 

[Darienne]

This topic just popped up in the 'Similar Content' section and this is quite fortuitous.  Peeled my first tomato (Kumato, thanks @ElsieD) for lunch today.  Martha Stewart is always there to give useful advice.  Bacon and tomato sandwich...yum...

[Margaret Pilgrim]

6 hours ago, Darienne said:

Peeled my first tomato... for lunch today.

Using a peeler (and if so, what kind) or boiling water?

[Darienne]

40 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

Using a peeler (and if so, what kind) or boiling water?

Martha Stewart's instructions: 

 

[Wolf]

This thread brought up a particular memory. Back in college days I invited a very dear high school frend for a dinner, picked her up, cooked baked creppes filled with smoked chicken breast and some hungarian cheese (the cheese was in red cling film with a picture of camel on it) in front of her. We had a most memorale evening incl. she suggesting they should be rolled like stuffed cabbage rolls, which I have never done in my life so she taught me to do it and helped me with it. Of course, the dessert was leftover creppes with whatever filling we found- we had both chocolate syrup bought for the occassion and homemade plum jam.

 

Did I mention that I had never cooked a single dish prior to that? Or that I have never tasted, or even heard of such a dish in my life (or since)? I had concocted is thinking it would be something she'd like (and she said she did- out of politeness or really I don't know, but I did like them and I'm fussy about food). And then I never cooked a single thing for almost a quarter of the century.

[Darienne]

10 hours ago, Wolf said:

This thread brought up a particular memory. Back in college days I invited a very dear high school frend for a dinner, picked her up, cooked baked creppes filled with smoked chicken breast and some hungarian cheese (the cheese was in red cling film with a picture of camel on it) in front of her. We had a most memorale evening incl. she suggesting they should be rolled like stuffed cabbage rolls, which I have never done in my life so she taught me to do it and helped me with it. Of course, the dessert was leftover creppes with whatever filling we found- we had both chocolate syrup bought for the occassion and homemade plum jam.

 

Did I mention that I had never cooked a single dish prior to that? Or that I have never tasted, or even heard of such a dish in my life (or since)? I had concocted is thinking it would be something she'd like (and she said she did- out of politeness or really I don't know, but I did like them and I'm fussy about food). And then I never cooked a single thing for almost a quarter of the century.

Good heavens!!!

[Darienne]

Well, I finally did it.  Made French Fries in the air fryer which I have now owned for at least a quarter of a year without using.  Even our son Ken used the air fryer which he was here last summer.  

 

So this morning, I bit the bullet and in they went.  And so disappointing they were.  No crisp at all.  Until I realized that the air fryer was tripping the circuit breaker.  

 

Moved the machine.  Plugged it in again.  Reset the controls.  Etc.  And voilà ...  French Fries...and for breakfast too.  ❤️

 

* Oh, make that at least half a year owned and not used.  

Edited December 30, 2023 by Darienne (log)