That sounds really good. I don’t eat sausage but I like the idea of using vegan sausage.
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CHEATER’S CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS (p. 203)
I really, REALLY need to start reading recipes before I decide I’m going to cook them. This one asks you to use a pressure cooker, an item I don’t own. Oh well. I managed without, and was very happy with the results. I browned some of the seasoned skin-on, bone-in chicken in the pot. Took it out and put it in a bowl with the chicken that wouldn’t fit in the pot with it. Then put in my celery, onion, carrot, bay leaf and garlic and cooked until softened. Next I added chicken stock and put the chicken back in the pot. Cooked this low and slow for a while, probably 30-40 minutes. Let it cool and then took the chicken out and deboned and got rid of the skin. Once this was done I added the chicken back to the broth, brought to a boil and added the packaged gnocchi. Cooked until ready (took 2-3 minutes). A little zap of vinegar is added (I used white wine, she calls for apple cider vinegar) and I sprinkled smoked paprika on top. I loved the second of these, didn’t notice the first. This was a nice, homey, cozy meal on an autumn night, and the gnocchi really does work, although I can’t say I’ve eaten much chicken and dumplings in my life so I don’t have much to compare it to. I would definitely make this again. It would be great to take to a sick friend.
oops, eta: at some point I added the cut up green beans.
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Oh i know we would like this. Bookmarked
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I’ve been so happy with both the soups I’ve made from this book. I’d like to make the chicken gochujang stew, but it is for a slow cooker, and I’m not really sure how to adjust a recipe.
Im sure you could follow the process in a dutch oven just with longer cooking time. Although i would par boil the potatoes for maybe 5 minutes and throw them in 15 minutes before you think the dish is down. You dont want mushy potatoes. Maybe someone else can chime in.
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I feel like the liquid amounts could be different. I really have no frame of reference.
Here are similiar Dakdori Tang recipes from the NYT - the first is stovetop and includes some sauteeing and then low and slow, the other two are identical and dump-and-go with the only difference being that one uses the instant pot, the other the slow cooker.
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Thank you!
This is great
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I like the Tolerant brand red lentil pasta and also the Barilla brand. I usually get the latter because it is in just about every grocery store. Barilla also makes a chickpea version. I prefer the lentil, but their chickpea pasta is better than Banza. For some reason Banza sees fit to put xanthan gum in their chickpea pasta, and it is neither needed nor desirable.
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Let’s get going with some nominations for December!
I’ve made a similar Rachael Ray recipe and I like it - though I use jarred pesto instead of making it, and just throw the cooked gnocchi in the pot. The stew/soup cooks very quickly, as you can see from the recipe!
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If you (anyone reading this) have access to Wegmans, their brand of organic chickpea//lentil pastas are pretty good - I prefer them to Banza.
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I like the idea of pesto, thanks.
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How about putting it in the oven?
I have no idea. Maybe?!
Thanks MelMM and truman for the pasta recommendations!
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This has become a weekend favorite. The meatballs are so nice and tender and the spices are just right.I buy little sub buns and found that after i brush them with the butter garlic mixture I toast them just to the point where they are very light. Then i put in my meatballs and sauce with the cheese on top and only broil till the cheese melts.
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CHILE CRISP TOFU with blistered kale - p. 58
Another sheet pan dish, and another tofu dish. This was better than the previous tofu dish, just because the slabs were thinner and the chile crisp coating was more flavorful. For the coating, you mix chile crisp, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey, garlic, scallion, and cilantro. My chile crisp was homemade from a David Chang recipe. I used chinkiang vinegar instead of balsamic, and a vegan honey. You put your tofu on a sheet pan and coat both sides with this mixture. The tofu is baked for 10 minutes, then you add to the sheet pan some kale that has been tossed with oil, salt, and garlic. Bake everything for another 10 minutes, tossing the kale halfway through that time. Serve with lemon or lime wedges, and more chile crisp.
As a meal, this wasn’t going to cut it on its own, so I made some brown rice to round it it out. With the rice added, the recipe served the two of us with no leftovers (a running theme here). This tofu, while better than the huge slabs in the previous recipe, would still be improved by brining. As written, it was just OK, and not something I would repeat. The kale crisped up better than I expected it to. But Clark really doesn’t seem to put much effort or thought into seasoning her vegetables.
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STUFFED PORTOBELLOS with Creamy, Lemony Chickpeas - p. 43
Another ugly one. Clark says this is based on a Nigel Slater recipe, and I would like to see the original. This is really just portobellos stuffed with hummus, and topped with whole the chickpeas. I cooked chickpeas from dried instead of using canned like she calls for. The hummus is pretty standard, but at the end you blend in quite a lot of sumac and some fresh thyme. The sumac did nothing for looks of the dish - I’m kind of wondering why it wasn’t used more as a finish, which would have been prettier and just as delicious.
You fill the portobellos with the hummus, press the chickpeas into the top, and roast, along with some veg. I used broccoli for the vegetable. The veg are to be drizzled with oil, but she doesn’t mention seasoning them at all. I seasoned with salt and pepper.
This was just OK. I love stuffed mushrooms, but the flavor of the hummus wasn’t really a great match with the steak-like savoriness of mushrooms. Not one we will repeat. Recipe served 2.
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