I'll lead with my feeble defense that I believe I can cook. What I can cook is simply limited. Most often dinners are the result of sporadic creativity and curiosity. Now I'd like to learn other ways of preparing ingredients to broaden that fundamental repertoire, answering the question, "What can I do with this?"
Thus, I plan to undertake a learning experiment, selecting one very simple ingredient as the representative of the week and exploring ways of preparing it, learning foods with which to pair it, and cooking recipes that contain it.
I mean very simple ingredients, and my selections are such:
1) Eggs
2) Bread (not baking it, but using it)
3) Lemons
4) Potatoes
5) Beans
So I ask you, what should I do? Do you have a recipe with one of these ingredients? Please, do share and, well, advise!
3 comments:
if you have oil, butter and sugar you could make potato latke with beans and eat it with toast and home-made lemon curd
Check out food blogs---some of my favorite are The Pioneer Woman, Smitten Kitchen, Tartlette, Not So Humble Pie, Simply Recipes, 101 Cookbooks...there are so many great recipes out there!
1. Eggs = a decent omelette, meringue, lemon curd, the perfect hard boiled egg, semifreddo
2. Bread = croutons, homemade stuffing, garlic bread, bruschetta (and seriously, man...you can make bread. =easy).
3. Lemons = Smashed chickpea salad, lemon ice, limoncello, lemon tart, lemon poppyseed muffins
4. Potatoes = soup (goes well with leeks), mashed potatoes, hashbrowns
5. Beans = bean salad, soup
Egg toastie= cut hole out of bread middle, toast bread, fry egg in middle of bread.
Puree beans for a nice bean hummus.
Cut potatoes sliced like an apple. Add spices. bake 450 degrees for 40 minutes for healthy fries
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