Uses for Chicken

Internal Memo

Chicken Broth
Chicken Noodle Soup

Recipe Guild 1 for Chicken Noodle Soup

Recipe Guild for Chicken Noodle Soup

Dehydrated Parsley

Dehydrated Leeks

Boiled Chicken

Chicken Noodle Soup

Egg Noodles - For Soup and/or Spaghetti

Cinnamon Apple Chips

Process Flow Chart

Process Parsley.
Cut Green Tops off Leeks
Assemble Chicken Broth
Dehydrate Parsley

Store Parsley when it is Done Dehydrating

Dehydrate Leek Bottoms

Pull Chicken from Bones from broth 

Set half the chicken aside for soup and store the rest

Make Apple Chips

Finish Broth

Begin Assembling Chicken Noodle Soup

Begin making noodles

Add first batch of noodles to Chicken Noodle Soup

Cook Soup

Finish Noodles

Pull Apple Chips

Eat Soup

Store Dehydrated Leeks

Eat/ Store Apple Chips

Optional: Make Leek Powder if you have spice grinder or mortar and pestle

You can use the Boiled Chicken Meat for...

Pulled Chicken BBQ Sandwich
Chicken Fajitas
Chicken Salad

Epic Cauliflower Roast FAIL Part 2

Well as 5 of you know, Our first attempt at a Simple Cauliflower Roast was just meh. But at least that recipe was semi-edible. This latest one from My Recipes was almost God Awful. I think it would have tasted better without the Lemon Juice. The lemon juice just assaulted my mouth with puckerness. How it got 5 stars I will never know. I am going to try and substitute out the tarragon for Rosemary and Sage and omit the Lemon Juice. 

I had a delicious Cauliflower Roast from a local restaurant but for the life of me I cannot make a decent one of my own. If any of you have recipes or suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. 

Cauliflower Roast FAIL Part 2

Ingredients

• 12 cups cauliflower florets (about 2 heads)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
• 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
• 2 teaspoons chopped fresh tarragon
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated fresh Parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
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Directions

Preheat oven to 450°.

Place cauliflower in a large roasting pan or jelly-roll pan. Drizzle with oil; toss well to coat. Bake at 450° for 20 minutes or until tender and browned, stirring every 5 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley, thyme, tarragon, and garlic. Bake 5 minutes. Combine cauliflower mixture, cheese, and remaining ingredients in a large bowl; toss well to combine.

Conclusion

The first recipe was too simple so I overcompensated. I decided to go big or go home. Well I was already at home but this Recipe got put on the street. I am going to tweak it and maybe the next incarnation will be better. I am open to any suggestions lol. Thanks for reading my dribble. 

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Cauliflower Roast Fail #1

Teriyaki Experiment

Okay This is the Recipe I am going to try first cause it resembles the recipe (which i dont completely know) I saw used while working at a gourmet japanese restaurant. Wish I would have been a cook instead of a dishwaser but I paid a little bit of attention. I will clean this up later and post the results asap.

There are a bunch of methods to prepare this glaze. The way I like to do it is combine soy sauce, mirin, sake, sugar, garlic and ginger in a saucepan and simmer down until half the liquid evaporates. The result is a fragrant, intensely flavored, syrupy liquid, with an undercurrent of garlic and ginger. You can also prepare this sauce without the garlic or ginger, or just use either/or. Here's the recipe:

(Makes about 1/2 a cup)

1/2 cup shoyu (Japanese dark soy sauce)
1/4 cup mirin
1/4 cup sake
3 tablespoons unrefined cane sugar (which imparts a nice molassesy flavor)
1 or 2 cloves of garlic, crushed (optional)
1/2 inch piece of ginger sliced thickly (optional)

Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 20 minutes until the liquid reduces by about half (make sure the surface is bubbling lightly). It's okay if the sauce gets foamy towards the end; just remove from heat for a moment to check how much liquid has cooked off. Once the teriyaki sauce is ready, remove and discard the garlic and/or ginger, if you're using, so it doesn't overpower. Allow the sauce to come to room temperature, and use. Store leftover sauce in a tightly sealed container in the fridge.

Simple Roasted Cauliflower

This recipe was okay. Not real great. Tasty though with minimal ingredients. Going to try this one next from the Food Network and see if it will spice it up a little bit. Will probably play with it myself...hoping to make a Roasted Cauliflower Cheese Bake or something. My wife is more excited about it than I am. But Happy Wife = Happy Life

Simple Roasted Cauliflower

Ingredients

1/4 Cup Olive Oil
Cauliflower
Dash Sea Salt
Dash Pepper

Directions

1. Preheat Oven to 400 degrees F

2. Toss the Cauliflower with the olive oil, pepper on a baking sheet. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and then toss again.

3. Roast until golden and tender around 20 minutes.

4. Transfer to a Bowl and Serve.

Related Topics

Expanded Roasted Cauliflower Recipe (coming soon)
Roasted Cauliflower Cheese Bake (coming soon)

Uses for Cinnamon

Internal Memo

Apple Chips
Apple Sauce
Cinnasugar

Uses for Leeks

Internal Impossible Labs Memo

Bottoms

Leek Powder
Dehydrated Leeks

Green Tops

Chicken Stock 
Turkey Stock

Uses for Apples

Apple Sauce 
Apple Chips
Raw Apples for Snack

Uses for Carrots

Save the Carrot Nubs Top and Bottom for the Broth Bag

Chicken Broth

Vegetable Broth
Turkey Stock

Recipes

1/2 lb Carrots for Basil Carrots

1 Carrot shredded for Spaghetti

Impossible Maple Snickerdoodles or How to Make Maple Sugar Experiment (someday)

Okay I am a huge fan of snickerdoodles. I will probably become diabetic because of them. If I see them then I have to have them. My nana made them for me when I was a kid and they were best. I have never tasted anything like them since. So when I saw these Maple Snickerdoodles I was pumped. But then I saw the price for Maple Sugar...No way in H E double hockey sticks am I paying 20 bucks for a pound of sugar. 

So I am going to learn it the old fashioned way. Then I will go out in the woods with my camping gear and try and replicate the process out there. I am adding acquiring (from nature) my own maple syrup and turning it into maple sugar like the Native Survival Guy onto my Bucket/Mission List.

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons real maple syrup
1 egg
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup maple sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. Set aside.

2. In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and 1 cup of white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and maple syrup. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients until just mixed. In a small dish, mix together the remaining 1/2 cup white sugar and the maple sugar. Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and roll the balls in the sugar mixture. Place cookies 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

3. Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Cookies will be crackly on top and look wet in the middle. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

Italian Wedding Soup Experiment 1

This recipe is by Giada De Laurentiis who is on Everyday Italian via Food Network.com. All credit and copyright is theirs. I am posting this recipe so I don't have to find it again. My wife loves Progresso Italian Wedding Soup so we are going to try and clone it and this recipe will be the first one we try in a progression towards our own Italian Wedding Soup. BTW there is a video on the website for the recipe that you can get to here.

We love the Food Network site in general so if you want recipes then definitely check it out. My wife used to do all the cooking but now she cant see so well so I am trying to learn hence the blog.

So here is the recipe that we will review and mutate towards  a recipe that tastes great or just tastes similar to the Progreso.

Italian Wedding Soup Recipe

Ingredients

Meatballs:

1 small onion, grated
1/3 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
1 large egg
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1 slice fresh white bread, crust trimmed, bread torn into small pieces
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
8 ounces ground beef
8 ounces ground pork
Freshly ground black pepper
Soup:
12 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 pound curly endive, coarsely chopped (1 pound of escarole would be a good substitution)
2 large eggs
2 tablespoon freshly grated Parmesan, plus extra for garnish
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Soup:

12 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 pound curly endive, coarsely chopped (1 pound of escarole would be a good substitution)
2 large eggs
2 tablespoon freshly grated Parmesan, plus extra for garnish
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions

To make the meatballs: Stir the first 6 ingredients in a large bowl to blend. Stir in the cheese, beef and pork. Using 1 1/2 teaspoons for each, shape the meat mixture into 1-inch-diameter meatballs. Place on a baking sheet.

To make the soup: Bring the broth to a boil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the meatballs and curly endive and simmer until the meatballs are cooked through and the curly endive is tender, about 8 minutes. Whisk the eggs and cheese in a medium bowl to blend. Stir the soup in a circular motion. Gradually drizzle the egg mixture into the moving broth, stirring gently with a fork to form thin stands of egg, about 1 minute. Season the soup to taste with salt and pepper.

Experiment: Leek Powder

DIY Leek Powder Experiment SUCCESS

I am proud to say that my experiment to create my own Leek Powder like this one was a monumentally tasty success. It tastes a lot like onion powder except more green oniony. The main difference between mine and the store-bought is that I can make a ton of leek powder with just a 3.50 bundle of leeks.

I can't tell you exactly how much leek powder you would get from a single leek but it would be a lot. If you would like to make your own leek powder I have posted the recipe here. I will update this page with pictures and better info when I do not have a massive migraine. Just getting the infrastructure done right now.

The one thing that I have not achieved from this experiment yet is figuring out what the hockey sticks that I am going to put the leek powder in with the exception of a DIY Instant Veggie Broth and maybe a quick and dirty vichyssoise. My fiance loves Potato soup but I absolutely loathe it.

Related Topics

How to Dehydrate Leeks
Leek Powder Recipe

Experiment: Freezing Leek Greens for Future Use

Upcoming Experiment.

How to Recycle Used but Clean Veggie Parts into a Free Vegetable Broth

Upcoming Experiment...

Does Veggie Wash Prolong the Life of Your Produce?

This will be a future test page for the Veggie Wash Longevity Experiment.

I read a blog article that suggested Veggie Wash was like Viagra for Veggies so I would like to eventually experiment on this later.