dinner battle #1

[rootofnewt]

Tonight's kitchen battle:

explodingcat: an exquisitely prepared crusted catfish fillet
krasota: steamed broccoli with a creamy pumpkin walnut sauce.

While explodingcat wins points for presentation and skill, he made a critical error when he assumed the no-name seasoned salt was generic Old Bay. This rendered the fish nearly inedible.

krasota wins the day with her innovative and quite tasty vegetable dish, full of plump raisins and delicately scented with five-spice powder. It goes quite nicely with the side dish of wild rice.

explodingcat: 0
krasota: 1

Comments

[jurisenpai.livejournal.com]

Would you post the recipe for the pumpkin walnut sauce? It sounds amazing!

[krasota.livejournal.com]

recipe? Oh, dear.

Toss a couple tablespoons of butter into a hot saucepan. Melt and add one small onion, chopped. Stir around, toss in a handful of chopped pecans (did I say walnuts? oops. those would work, too, as would pine nuts).

Ask husband for some raisins, watch him toss in about a quarter cup of sultanas. Stir around a bit, toss in a large forkful of pureed pumpkin. Stir around some more, stir in another forkful or two. Shake in some five-spice. Add a tablespoon of parmesan. Reduce heat, add a quarter cup or so of half and half (or heavy cream), stir around. Toss with steamed broccoli, salt and pepper to taste.

This would also go great on pasta.

[jurisenpai.livejournal.com]

Mmm! Bookmarked and noted. The boyfriend has given his grunt of approval so I think I'll be making it soon!

an evening in the kitchen with sarah and the husband

[digitalodonata.livejournal.com]

the husband: hamburgers with a shitton of mustard and a side of noodles with butter.
sarah: broiled chicken breast marinated with teriyaki sauce, white rice with a touch of curry and sliced apples with cinnamon

the husband doesn't realize that you have to defrost meat before cooking it, saws hamburgers into chunks, which turns burgers to a lovely shade of black outside and still raw on the inside. there were no noodles because he forgot to turn the water on to boil. he goes to mcdonalds again.

while sarah, being a culinary goddess, provides a nice and perfectly edible meal. she snickers at the husbands lack of culinary skills.

***true story*** :P

[lady-lion.livejournal.com]

Actually, boy is somebody else, and not explodingcat. (Read that carefully. Notice where the error is.) Just thought you might wanna know... ;-D

[krasota.livejournal.com]

wow. we didn't catch that at all (boy read this as I posted it).

I'll fix it. Thanks.

[deborahs-corner.livejournal.com]

sounds yum..especially now that it is pecans and not walnuts..*smile*...* am allergic to walnuts. I want to save this to my memory file so I will have the recipe..how do I do that?

[krasota.livejournal.com]

View this post. Clicky on the heart icon at the top of the text. :)

[deborahs-corner.livejournal.com]

Yea rah..I did it...*does happy dance*...thanks

[sophy.livejournal.com]

Wow, here's the general dinner template in our house:

- At some point in the evening Dave wanders into the kitchen, washes a bowl and spoon, and pours himself a bowl of cereal.
- At some point in the evening, I heat up something prepared (lefotvers, a co-op deli meal, canned soup).

I like yours better. :)

[sophy.livejournal.com]

prepared = preprepared.