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serindeI have been working like a very working thing today, incl. vacuuming the stairs and other esoterica. For a change, I stopped to begin dinner preparation before I reached Condition: KILL KILL KILL.
1) Main course: I took the three chix breasts that needed eating, and put them in a baking dish with some white wine. Meantime, sautee'd 3 garlic cloves, 2 small onions, and an orange pepper in olive oil. When it was right, I blopped it on top of the chicken and put it in the oven to bake at 375 'til done. I'm not sure this qualifies as "experimental", since I've done not dissimilar things before, but I was winging it all, so.
2) Side dish: The problem was that there was an awful lot of leftover ziti, that is, cooked but sauceless. I didn't want a tomato sauce with the above, so took butter, sliced many garlic awfully thin, and let it slowly cook (my Italian cookbook calls this "insaporire"), added salt and pepper, and then grated romano. (Canned, alas. You go to war with the cheese you have.) I let this cook on a low heat for a pretty long time, so that things got sort of crusty--not unlike the top of a really good mac'n'cheese.
3) Cookies: For the first time, I winged a baking recipe entirely. It's a basic drop cookie, using whole wheat flour, light brown sugar (I KNOW I bought dark, but I can't find it), and the tail end of a bunch of things that I wanted to use up before the flitty moths found them: dried cherries, pecans, & raisins chiefly. Also flavored with cinnamon, ginger, clove, and a tiny wee bit of secret spice. They're not bad, but not quite what I wanted.
1) Main course: I took the three chix breasts that needed eating, and put them in a baking dish with some white wine. Meantime, sautee'd 3 garlic cloves, 2 small onions, and an orange pepper in olive oil. When it was right, I blopped it on top of the chicken and put it in the oven to bake at 375 'til done. I'm not sure this qualifies as "experimental", since I've done not dissimilar things before, but I was winging it all, so.
2) Side dish: The problem was that there was an awful lot of leftover ziti, that is, cooked but sauceless. I didn't want a tomato sauce with the above, so took butter, sliced many garlic awfully thin, and let it slowly cook (my Italian cookbook calls this "insaporire"), added salt and pepper, and then grated romano. (Canned, alas. You go to war with the cheese you have.) I let this cook on a low heat for a pretty long time, so that things got sort of crusty--not unlike the top of a really good mac'n'cheese.
3) Cookies: For the first time, I winged a baking recipe entirely. It's a basic drop cookie, using whole wheat flour, light brown sugar (I KNOW I bought dark, but I can't find it), and the tail end of a bunch of things that I wanted to use up before the flitty moths found them: dried cherries, pecans, & raisins chiefly. Also flavored with cinnamon, ginger, clove, and a tiny wee bit of secret spice. They're not bad, but not quite what I wanted.
