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Showing posts with label foccacia bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foccacia bread. Show all posts

Thursday, January 31, 2013

What I bought at the Dallas Farmer's Market, + recipe

Farmer's Market veggies
 
OK, so I didn't go straight to the sewing machine yesterday.
Instead, I decided to use some of what I bought at the farmer's market.
I purchased,
 1 big bag of spinach $2.00
(shared about half with daughter #2)
1 bunch celery $2.00
1 basket (4) bell peppers $3.00
1 green, 2 red, 1 yellow
(gave daughter #2 1 red)
medium bag brussels sprouts $2.00
 
I made up a couple of "salads" using some of the spinach and peppers, 
for the hubby's lunch.
Sautéed the sprouts in olive oil and fresh squeezed lemon juice,
also for the hubby's lunch.
(Thank you daughter #1 for the fresh lemons).
 
Then I made a casserole/savory bread pudding,
that I adapted from all recipes.com
Here's the recipe if you're interested.

Ingredients:
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 small chopped onion
½ each, chopped green, red, yellow bell peppers
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 or 3 handfuls of spinach, chopped
2 tbsp. crushed dried rosemary
1# sausage (I used hubby's homemade chicken sausage)
9 slices cubed bread
5 oz. hard cheese, shredded (I used Colby jack)
4 eggs
1 cup milk
 
Method:
Heat olive oil in a large skillet. Add the chopped onion, peppers, celery, spinach, rosemary and sausage.
(Hubby's sausage is on the lean side, if you're using purchased sausage you might want to cook it first, drain some of the fat and then add your veggies).
 
  
 
Saute until meat is cooked and veggies are tender. Take off heat.
Mix in the bread cubes.
Spoon into a lightly oiled casserole dish, mix in ½ the cheese.
In a large measuring cup, measure out your 1 cup milk, add the 4 eggs and whisk.
Pour into the casserole dish and top with remaining cheese.
Bake uncovered for about 30 minutes at 350°
Unfortunately I let mine bake at 375° for 40 minutes, (forgot my oven runs hot).
Still tasty though......
 

 
Next time I'll use homemade bread and be more mindful
of the timer:-)
 
 Till next time, happy cooking.
Bonjour


Friday, March 2, 2012

Turkey And Dressing In March? Why Not?

Been mostly puttering around today.
 Finished off a few painting projects, did laundry, housework, read a few blogs,
looked at more decorating ideas at BHG.com
You know...day off stuff.

I've been thinking about making turkey and dressing
 so I decided today is the day.
Now don't misunderstand, I'm not cooking the full blown turkey day meal.
I have some leftover turkey in the freezer,
even found a couple 1/2 pint mason jars of turkey stock,
 so I'm going to improvise.
What I'm going to do is make the dressing and add chopped turkey to it.
Trust me...I've made this before.

The turkey is thawing and the freezer bag of veggie ends
(onion skins, celery ends, garlic peels) are in a pot with water, gently simmering.
Crap.... only found a few slices of bread in the freezer and no cornbread.
Texans need cornbread in their dressing!
OK...
I made some foccacia dough in the bread machine,
whipped up a double batch of cornbread batter and both are in the oven baking.
The extra cornbread will go great with beans and rice
and the extra bread is good all by itself!.

The slightly wilted celery, an onion, a couple of pepperoncini and some garlic
are chopped and waiting to be sautéed.


OK, breads are out of the oven, lets get this done!
(I oiled the foccacia bread and added herbs to the top).

1. Drain the solids off the veggie stock,
add the turkey stock to the veggie stock and set aside.
2. Cube up about 5 cups of the two breads, put in a large bowl and set aside.
(I usually do equal amounts of each bread).
3. Cube the turkey and set aside.
4. Sautee the chopped veggies.

This is where it all comes together.

5. Throw a handful of dried herbs into the bread bowl, your choice.
Add the sautéed veggies and mix.
Add the cubed turkey and mix.
Add the stock to your desired wetness, I like mine on the wet side.
Pour into an oiled 9 x 13 baking dish.
Bake uncovered at 325° for 1 hour.
You could even sprinkle on some grated cheese
in the last 15 minutes of baking, but
I think I'm going to make gravy with the leftover stock.


There you have it, turkey and dressing with very little fuss!

I'm off to Canton Trade Days tomorrow,
I don't need anything but you never know....

Till next time,
Bonjour

Monday, May 2, 2011

Soap, Ear Infection And Tornadoes

So....

Running out of soap.
The last two shows have been great,
but,
the soap supply is running short.
Odd.
We have been doing the soap scene for about seven years now
and the most popular scents have always been the floral.
Now?
Mostly the earthy, spicy scents with the fruity not far behind.
I was caught off guard, so now I'm scrambling to catch up.
What used to be a predominately female demographic (floral)
is now evolving into a unique mix of both the sexes.

Gotta love it.

Anyway....
I won't trouble you too much with my recurring ear infection..
BUT...
I've about had enough.
You would think,
one GP, one ENT and one emergency room visit (ruptured eardrum)
should have fixed this five or so year problem.
NOT...

I'm not kidding!
I have been told I have allergies.
I had about given up.
As a last resort I went to the local clinic and guess what?
I have a fungal infection.
Diagnosed by a PA!

The GP, the ENT and the emergency room blew me off.
I could have had a seizure, lost my hearing, even died....

This PA was appalled, O.M.G. she said.
Needless to say I'm pretty drugged up, and hopefully, on the road to recovery
without too much damage done to my hearing.

OK,

THE TORNADOES!
GEEZ...

Being that I couldn't sleep Monday night due to the storms
I took a vacation day on Tuesday.
I'm laying in the lounger on the deck reading, napping,
when I was awakened by the sound of dog nails clicking on the wooden deck around me.

Lady was circling me, trying to wake me up.
Seems there was a possible tornado about five miles away.
(We call Lady the weather dog because she knows when there's bad weather approaching).
 OK Lady, I'm awake now, what's up?
 I spent a few hours in the closet with her and Red.
The storms moved off to the east towards my mother-in- law's house in Canton, 
passing her but hitting Edam and Ben Wheeler.

Today Sunday, AM started out cloudy with signs of rain that never materialized.
I went out to pick wild blackberries and discovered several more berry patches on the property.
WooHoo, I do love free food.
Later the temps turned cold so we spent the day making soap, canning meat, berries,
 and also doing a little baking.
Also made some ham beans and cornbread.
YUM!

Believe it or not I had to get the winter quilt out of the blanket chest
cause it's cold in this house tonight!

Disclaimer
Any awry statements, typos or incorrect sentences will be blamed on the blog and not the drugs!!!

OK, there's the rain, darn. I have laundry on the line!
OH well....
Till next time.
Bonjour

P.S. For some reason the "blog" decided to bold almost everything, align things incorrectly and not
print most of my text! I swear, it's not the drugs!!! I give up. I'm going to bed!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Soap Show, Cooking And Party

Well....

Things have finally chilled out around here.
We had a show on Saturday and that always makes things kind of helter skelter.
We sold lots of soap, body butters and lip balms, they make great stocking stuffers.
I really like doing the shows, meeting the people, hearing the positive comments on the aroma of the soap, the silkiness of the lip balms, ETC. It makes me feel good about what I am doing and the quality product I am putting out there. And then there's the repeat customers whom I am so grateful for!
 
After the show we went to Roland's b-day party, what a production that was!!! OMG!!
All I can say is,
 AWESOME PARTY ROLAND!!!
.(Roland is my husband Steve's boss)
Band, Tex Mex food, open bar, about 150 people (I was driving so I didn't partake of the bar.)
All in all it was a tiring but fun and successful day.

Sunday was spent bringing in the last of the house plants, unloading the truck and cooking for the week.
We made meat loaf, mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy.
Chili with beans for frito pie.
Pasta with meat/tomato sauce.
We will alternate these three dishes through the week for our lunches at work.
We don't eat a proper dinner/supper just a bowl of cereal or some crackers with peanut butter and home made jelly. Our big meal is at lunch.

YUMMY BREAD!!!
MORE YUMMY BREAD....


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I didn't get an opportunity to make Roland the Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas  for his b-day but I did have time to make him an artisan Foccacia bread last night. (In between doing the show receipts/paperwork.)
I made the dough in the bread machine then baked it in the oven. (I oiled the pizza stone, then sprinkled The Super Nate Spice on, rolled the dough in the spices and VIOLA, yummy herbed bread!!!)
As a matter of fact I am doing that again tonight, yum, I do like my bread!!!
THE SUPER NATE SPICE!!!!
Till next time....
Bonjour