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Category: Grandpa’s Use Only
These recipes are for Grandpa and his family. This category includes recipes from magazines, TV shows, newspapers, and other sources where I don’t have permission to republish the recipes, but still feels they are recipes that he may want to cook for himself at a later time.
Mini Meat Pies – Video
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How to Dry Age a Steak
- Get meat that is just as fresh as possible
- Meat should be hanging or placed on a wire rack for maximum air circulation
- Eventually you will discard the outside, so make it much thicker than you eventually want it
- Put in a refrigerator that is nearly constantly 33-34 degrees – Circulating air is also good
- It will be done after 3-4 weeks.
- Cut off the aged dry part, and the inside with be flavorful and delicate
Chopped Wrap
Ingredients
- 1/3 C chicken (chopped)
- 1/3 C lamb (chopped)
- 1/4 C iceberg lettuce (rough chopped)
- 1/3 C rice
- Toss with white ranch dressing
- Wrap in a large pita or tortilla
- Optional: Add Sriracha
Fish Taco
- Mix flour, oregano, dijon mustard, salt, pepper, beer and corn starch in a dredging bowl – Mix gently
- Preheat soft corn tortillas
- Shred cabbage
- Mix cabbage with oil, vinegar, oregano, chili, sugar
- Batter and fry halibut or cod at 365º
- Serve with Mexican crema, guacamole, salsa, onion and jalapeño
Winter Borscht
- 2 LB beef chuck (large pieces)
- 2 Beef marrow bones
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 cloves chopped garlic
- 2 medium sized beets (or 1 can)
- 1 can chicken broth
- Distilled water
- 1/2 head cabbage
- 1 large can tomatoes
- 2 medium diced onions
- zest and juice from one lemon
- 1 TBL sugar (or to taste)
- 1 tsp salt (or to taste)
- Place meat, bones, bay leaves, fresh beets, onions, garlic, chicken stock, and a 1/2 tsp salt in a deep pot.
– If using canned beats, add them at the end – juice and all - Add distilled water to cover
- Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour
- Add tomatoes, shredded cabbage and cook 1/2 hour more
- Add lemon, sugar and salt
– add in increments, and taste as you go for sweet/sour balance - Cool on counter
- Remove pieces of meat and the bones
- Cover and refrigerate overnight
- Skim solidified fat
- Serve cold with sour cream and dill and pieces of meat added back in.
Things to Research
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[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophrastus”]Theoprastus[/popup] – 400 BC
– [popup url=”http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Theophrastus”]New World Encyclopedia[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Plantarum_%28Theophrastus%29″]Natural History of Plants[/popup]
About the Reasons for Vegetable Growth
[popup url=”http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Science/en/Theophrastus.html”]READ MORE HERE[/popup]
The Natural History of Plants, (περὶ φυτικῶν ἱστοριῶν α’-θ’ ) a nine books work (with the following topics):
1. The anatomy of plants
2 – 5. Wooden plants
6. Herbaceous perennial plants
7. Vegetables and their cultivation
8. Cereals
9. Saps and medicine
About the Reasons of Vegetable Growth (περὶ φυτικῶν αἰτιῶν α’-ς’) (6 books)
See: [popup url=”http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e01/01a.htm”]Hamburg University[/popup]
Theophrastus in contrast to Aristotle believed that the animals are capable of reasoning. He considered that as the animals are above the plants it is not ethical to eat meat. For this reason he was a vegetarian.
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydomonas”]Chlamydomonas[/popup] – [popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvox”]Volvox[/popup] – [popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelp”]Kelp[/popup]
[popup url=”http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/nehemiah-grews-anatomy-of-plants-1680/”]Grew’s Anatomy of Plants[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Jakob_Camerarius”]Rudolph Camerarius[/popup]
Plant Sexuality
Corn – Self polinating
Sunflower – Males and Females – No seeds? No polination
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek”]Anton van Leeuwenhock[/popup]
invented single lens microscope
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke”]Robert Hooke[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel”]Gregor Mendel[/popup] – Czech Republic
Plant inheritence
[popup url=”http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Selective_breeding.aspx”]Laws of Selective Breeding[/popup]
[popup url=”https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_la3H4GVn8MC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Experiments+on+Plant+Hybrids&ots=DrwCiWP8Z1&sig=RonvAl9NkzULXBTraE4fUBWwtfM#v=onepage&q=Experiments%20on%20Plant%20Hybrids&f=false”]Experiments on Plant Hybrids[/popup] – 1865
[popup url=”https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Genetic+Dominance+via+%22Allele%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio-PL4xqrLAhUX6GMKHR4nC-MQgQMIGjAA”]Genetic Dominance via “Allele”[/popup]
Five Fathers of Modern Science
Mendel, Mendeleyev, Newton, Darwin, Einstein
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation”]Nitrogen Fixing[/popup] – Peas
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiotic_bacteria”]Symbiotic with Bacteria[/popup]
[popup url=”http://extension.psu.edu/agronomy-guide/cm/sec2/sec28″]Soluble Nitrogen[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Priestley”]Joseph Priestly[/popup] – Photosynthesis
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Calvin”]Melvin Calvin[/popup] – Carbon 14
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-independent_reactions#Calvin_Cycle”]Calvin-Benson Cycle[/popup] – Photosynthesis
ATP – necessary for all life – [popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate”]Adenisene Triphosphate[/popup]
[popup url=”http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/02/468887190/u-s-announces-hack-the-pentagon-bug-bounty-program”]”Hack the Pentagon” contest[/popup]
Hard boiled eggs in oven at 350º for 30 minutes
Attitude – Intelligence – Loyalty – Communication – Music
Chicken Parmesan
Set up your breading plates
- 1/4 C flour, 1 TBL corn starch, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp pepper
- Two beaten eggs
- 1/2 C Panko bread crumbs
- Preheat oven-safe pan to about 350º
- Dip in flour
- Dip in eggs – hold up for most of it to drain back into the bowl.
- Cover in Panko bread crumbs
- Cook 2 minutes on each side
- Remove from heat
- Cover with tomato sauce
- Layer top with mozzarella, provalone, or fontina cheese
- Bake in oven until cheese starts to brown
- Top with basil chiffonade
- Serve over cooked spaghetti
Puffed Rice
- To make your own puffed rice, preheat 1 TBL canola oil in a heavy pot
- Toss in 1/2 C any type of rice
- Stir rice to coat
- Heat rice – No need to cover
- When the grains burst open to reveal the light brown interior, they are done
GZ’s Cucumber Ginger Fizz
- Muddled together
- 3 mint leaves
- 1/2 tsp fresh ginger
– Then add - 1 C cucumber
- 1/4 C Lime juice
- 2 C Cucumber juice
- Shake
- Fill iced glass half way
- Fill up with ginger beer
Palak Paneer
- Palak paneer is one of the most popular Indian paneer recipes.
- Palak paneer is basically soft paneer or cottage cheese or tofu cubes cooked in a smooth spinach curry.
- This recipe is from www.vegrecipesofindia.com.
- This goes very well with naan or pita
Ingredients to feed 4 people
For the Palak Puree
For the Garnish
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For the Palak Curry
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Step by Step
- Rinse the palak or spinach leaves very well in running water. Discard the stems.
- Boil 3 cups water with 1/4 C salt.
- Put spinach leaves into the hot water.
Close with a lid and let the leaves sit in the water for 2-3 mins. - Strain the leaves.
- Immediately plunge the leaves into a bowl containing ice cold water. This helps preserve the green color of the spinach.
- After 60 seconds, drain the cold water.
- Add the spinach to a blender with chopped ginger, garlic and green chilies.
- Blend into a smooth palak puree. No need to add water. Set aside.
- Heat 1 TBL olive oil in a large pan.
- Add the cumin and the bay leaf. Let them splutter.
- Add the finely chopped onions. Saute till the onions become golden.
- Then add the finely chopped garlic. Saute till the raw aroma of garlic goes away. No need to brown the garlic.
- Add the chopped tomatoes. Stir and saute the tomatoes till they soften.
- Once the tomatoes are softened and you see fat releasing from the sides of the mixture., add the turmeric powder, red chili powder and sumac
- Stir very well, then add the palak puree.
- Stir well, then add 1/2 cup water
- Stir again, then simmer for 6-7 minutes or until the spinach is cooked.
- Season with salt.
- The gravy or sauce will also thicken by now.
- Stir and add garam masala powder.
- Stir again and then add the paneer or tofu or cottage cheese cubes.
- Stir gently and simmer on a low flame till the cubes become soft and succulent – about 1 to 2 minutes.
- Lastly add cream.
- Stir gently again so that the cream gets incorporated in the palak paneer gravy uniformly.
- Switch off the flame.
- Stir and serve the palak paneer hot with some naan or pita.
- You can top the palak paneer with some butter or cream also while serving.
- Drizzle a few drops of lime or lemon juice on top along with ginger julienne.
Oh, one more thing…
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The paneer or tofu cubes can be also be lightly fried and then added to the curry.
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If this case, you don’t need to cook the paneer or tofu in the gravy as when frying they are already cooked.
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La Tur Cheese
Show Stopper Deviled Eggs
Ingredients
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Yolk Mixture
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Step by Step
- Cut six hard boiled eggs in half
- Remove yolks
- Put yolks in a bowl and set aside.
- Dip the halved whites in egg, then flour, then egg, then Panko bread crumbs
– let them rest for about two minutes before frying so that crumbs will stay on the egg better during the fry process. - Put in hot canola oil – about 360º – Done when brown (about 3-5 minutes)
- Crush the yolks with a fork in a mixing bowl, then add Yolk Mixture ingredients from above
– You can add all at once, and then mix to incorporate - Put yolk mixture into piping bag (I use a baggie with the tip cut off of it)
- Pipe mixture into fried egg whites
- Sprinkle with paprika
Above is my take on the recipe video shown above.
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Valentine Scrambled Eggs
Using shaved ham, prepare a rose bowl in which to put sauteed mushrooms
Slice Banana Ginger bread for the starch
Cook scrambled eggs in preheated skillet (350º) with two pads of COLD butter for very fluffy and creamy scrambled eggs. Butter has built-in emulsifiers.
Top the ‘shrooms and eggs with shredded Parmesan cheese
Serve with Robert’s Jalapeño-Cayenne Ketchup
Alton Brown gave a new method using a carbon steel skillet
- Put skillet in the oven and turn on to 350º
- Put bacon in the pan and when the bacon is done, remove the pan and set on the stovetop.
- Mix in a bowl: 3 eggs, 2 tsp mayonnaise, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp water
- Alton uses 1/2 tsp Marissa paste, but you can use a sprinkle of Thunder Powder instead if you’d like
- Whisk well
- Remove pan from oven and put over medium heat on the oven
- Add 1 tsp butter
- Pour eggs in the pan and count 10 seconds
- Stir and count for another 10 seconds
- Stir and count 5 seconds
- Stir well and count 5 seconds again
- Plate while still having a slight glisten
- Serve with toast
“They they are cooked in the pan, they are overcooked on the plate.”
Buttermilk Baked Chicken
- 1 C buttermilk
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 onion – minced
- 3 sprigs thyme
- 1/2 lemon – juice and zest
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 TBL cayenne pepper sauce
- 8 chicken legs ( drumsticks )
- Toss all of the above ingredients together and put into a zip lock bag
- Refrigerate for three hours – agitating occasionally
- Meanwhile prepare breading as follows:
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 C crushed corn flakes
- 1/2 C grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp chili powder
- Shake, but don’t wipe, buttermilk from the chicken legs
- Place chicken in paper bag with breading
- Shake and press together – coating the chicken as thoroughly as possible
- Spray the rack on your baking sheet
- Bake at 400º for 45-50 minutes
Rustic Cheese Bread
- Take a home made loaf, and rather than slicing it all the way through, just slice it nearly through – cross hatching a dozen or so times.
- Stuff the slices with cheese
- Bake at 350º for about 15 minutes
- Let people rip off their own pieces
Especially good with maranara dishes.